1. Coverage
JSCUT publishes up-to-date innovative and significant scientific achievements attained in SCUT and elsewhere in the following fields: civil engineering, architecture, machinery, electric power, chemical industry, light industry, electronic communication, automation, computer science, transportation, materials science and engineering, Food Science and Technology, environmental science and engineering, biology, mathematics, physics, chemistry, etc.
2. Contributions
Manuscripts are selected for publication based on the editorial assessment and the evaluation by independent reviewers. As a rule, each paper is to be sent to two or more experts for double-blind peer review. Once a paper is accepted, the editor will edit it with regard to its accuracy, clarity and length. It is requested that the manuscripts submitted to this journal must be original and have not been published and will not be simultaneously submitted or published elsewhere in its substantially similar form in any language.
3. Copyright
The copyright of any paper published in JSCUT belongs to its Editorial Department. Submission of a paper for publication implies the transfer of the copyright from the author to the Editorial Department.
4. Specification of writing a manuscript
(1) Title The title should be specific, concise and appropriate and accurately represents the tenets of the article. Big and sweeping titles should be avoided. Normally, the Title consists of no more than 20 words; a subtitle can be added if necessary. Non-conventional abbreviations, characters, code, symbols, and trade names are not allowed and mathematical and chemical formulas should be avoided in the title.
(2) Authorship Those who have in effect participated in the research are entitled to authorship. A word space should be left between the authors’ names. If the authors’ units are different, an Arabic numeral should be used after the author’s name as superscript.
(3) Author’s unit The primary and the secondary unit names, city name and zip code are placed in parentheses below the author’s names. Two or more than two units are marked with the serial number in accordance with the superscript of the author’s names using a semicolon in between.
(4) Abstract Abstract should be written as a separate and self-evident text, with no more than 400 words. It should cover research objectives, research method, experimental results, findings, and conclusions, etc. For an article written in English, a Chinese abstract is required.
(5) Key words 3 to 8 key words should be given. The key words should indicate the main theme of the paper. It is preferable not to use English abbreviations as key words, and a semicolon should be used to separate the key words.
(6) Foundation item Foundation item is placed at the foot of the first page. Multiple fund projects are listed in sequential order and separate by a semicolon.
(7) Biography The first author’s name, year of birth, gender, academic title or rank, degree, his or her main research area, and E-mail address are placed at the foot of the first page.
(8) Text The text usually contains the following sections: Introduction, Theoretical background, Methodology or Experiment, Results and Discussion. The contents must be authentic, objective, accurate and complete, pertaining to engineering practice. It should be written in a logical, well-structured, concise, and reader-friendly style. Introduction and Theoretical background can be put in one section. The Introduction section should clearly cover the present research purposes and motivations, and the relationship to the current development of the chosen field. The text should make clear distinctions between physical variables, mathematical symbols, units of measurement, abbreviations, chemical formulas, etc. Any usage of more than two complete sentences or 30 words in the same logical sequence from the literature has to be clearly labeled and referenced. Self-citation of previously published literature is usually limited to 10 sentences except for the Introduction, Methodology and Experiment sections, in which the amount of self-citation should not exceed 1/3.
Hierarchical heading Hierarchical headings should be numbered consecutively using Arabic numerals. Preferably, the hierarchical heading consists of 3 or 4 levels at most. The first level headings are represented in the form of 1,2,3, etc. The second level headings are in the form of 1.1, 1.2, 2.1,2.2, etc. The third level headings are written in the form of 1.1.1,1.1.2, 2.1.1,2.1.2, etc. Introduction is not numbered, with no heading. The hierarchical headings should be as brief as possible, written in no more than 15 words with no punctuation marks.
Tables Tables should be clear and self-explanatory, with a width of 8 cm or 17 cm, unmounted and untrimmed. Each table must have a brief caption that describes its contents. The caption of the table should be self-evident with no need of reference to the text. All tables must be mentioned in the text in consecutive order and must be sequenced with Arabic numbers, and each table must be placed in the text following the paragraph in which it is first mentioned. Tables should be cited in the text using the following format: see Table 1, see Tables 1 and 2, or see Tables1~3. The lettering, symbols and data in the tables should be consistent with those in the text. Details such as explanatory material, specific entries, and definitions of non-standard abbreviations that are used in each table should be put in table footnote not under the caption. Table footnotes are placed below the table using the following symbols in this sequence: 1), 2), etc.
Illustrations Figures should be clear and self-explanatory, with a width of 8 cm or 17 cm, unmounted and untrimmed. Each figure must have a brief caption that describes its contents. The caption placed under the figure should be clearly presented with no need of reference to the text. All figures must be mentioned in the text in consecutive order and must be sequenced with Arabic numerals, and each figure must be placed in the text following the paragraph in which it is first mentioned. Figures should be cited in the text using the following format: see Fig.1, see Fig.1 and 2, or see Fig.1~3. The lettering, symbols and data in the figures should be consistent with those in the text. Details such as explanatory material, specific entries, and definitions of non-standard abbreviations that are used in each figure should be put in legends not in the captions. The legend is placed below the figure caption.
All lines and lettering in the line graphs must be legible after reduction to column size. All coordinate lines and auxiliary lines should be at least 0.125 mm wide, and data lines should be at least 0.25 mm wide. Vector graphics containing fonts must have the fonts embedded in the files.
Halftones (Photographs, drawings, or paintings with fine shading, etc.) should have a minimum resolution of 300 dpi. If any magnification is used in the photographs, indicate this by using scale bars within the figures themselves.
Variables and formulas Authors should use italic and boldface to identify physical or mathematical variables. Variables, regardless of the context (formula, figure or table), should be in italics (e.g., x1); if a variable represents a vector, tensor, or a matrix, it should be in italics & bold (e.g., x1). Mathematical expressions and Greek or other symbols should be clearly identified.
Each important equation or formula re-mentioned later in the paper should be sequenced in the order with Arabic numerals placed in parentheses on the right-hand margin. If the formula holds more than one line, it should be switched after the relation symbols (such as “=”, “≈ ”, “,” “<”, “>”) or after the operational symbols (such as "+","-","×","÷").
All mathematical operator abbreviations/acronyms are set lower-case regular Roman font, except O (on the order of), which is set italic: O(102), sin, cos, tan, tanh, cov, Pr (for probability; note same as Prandtl number), const (for constant), c.c. (complex conjugate).
Units International system of units (SI) should be used throughout the text. Words and symbols should not be mixed; in general, symbols should be used only when preceded by a number. Unit symbols are not punctuated, i.e., they are not treated as abbreviation; the same symbol is used for both singular and plural. Abbreviation should be avoided, especially of organizations and acronyms should be identified with the first use. The other items not mentioned here should be dealt with according to the worldwide conventional rules.
Units should be metric and follow SI convention: M→mol/L, rpm→r/min, etc.
Some units such as ppb, ppm, ?, wt%, mol% are not SI ones and need to change into SI format: ppm→10?6, ?→0.1 nm, etc.
Short forms: 30 minutes→30 min, 2 hours→2 h, 10 days→10 d, etc.
Put a space between a numeral and its unit of measure (exceptions: no space between a number and the percent “%%”, degree “°”, angular minute “′” or angular second “″”).
Abbreviations Use only standard abbreviations. The full term for which an abbreviation stands should precede its first use in the text unless it is a standard unit of measurement. Do not use abbreviations in the title or abstract and limit their use in the text.
Footnotes Footnotes other than those which refer to the title, should be numbered successively and placed at the foot of the page to which they refer (not at the end of the paper). The authors are requested to reduce the use of footnotes to a minimum.
(9) Reference Only essential references (formally published journals, monographs, dissertations, reports, proceedings, standards, patents, and/or electronic publications) cited in the text can be listed and must be numbered consecutively by Arabic numerals, which should be listed in the same order as cited in the text. The internal data, symposium which are not published (except dissertation), etc. can not be used as reference documents to be cited, but can be put at the footnote of the page where they appear (their writing formats are the same with references). There should be at least ten references. References with more than 3 authors must list the first 3 authors, followed by “et al”. For a reference published other than in English, the language used should be noted at the end of the reference list (see Ref. [1]), e.g. (in Chinese).
Reference list examples:
For journal papers
[1] ZHU Hai-ting, Ding Wei, Lin Rong-rong. Network clock synchronization based on ring topology [J]. Journal of South China University of Technology: Natural Science Edition, 2008, 36(4): 80-85. (in Chinese)
For proceedings
[2] KIM J,YANG S, SHIN Y. A two-step search scheme for rapid and reliable UWB signal acquisition in multi-path channels [C]//Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Ultra Wideband. Zurich:IEEE, 2005:355-360.
For whole books/monographs or chapters in edited books
[3] VAPNIK V N. Statistical learning theory [M]. New York: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1998.
[4] PROAKIS J G. Digital communications [M]. 4th ed. Beijing: Publishing House of Electronics Industry, 2001:42-45.
For theses
[5] CHONG C W. A formulation of a new class of continuous orthogonal moment invariants, and the analysis of their computational aspects [D]. Kuala Lumpur: Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya, 2003.
For reports
[6] HARPAZ R, HARALICK R. The EM algorithm as a lower bound optimization technique [R]. New York: City University of New York’s Graduate Center,2006.
For a standard
[7] Federal Communication Committee. Ultra wideband operations FCC report and order [S]. 2002-04-22.
For a patent
[8] ZIMMERMAN M L, PASKE J, GIACOBAZZI J. Antenna system: US, 2002/0135524A1 [P]. 2002-09-26.
For a Website
[9] PELCKMANS K, SUYKENS J A K, GESTEL T V, et al. LS SVM software [CP/OL]. (2003-02-25).
http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/sista/lssvmlab/.
For e-publication:
[10] Nominum,Inc.Nominum CNS administration [EB/OL]. (2006-10-12) [2008-02-07].
http://www.nominum.com/services/nominum_cns_administration.php.