Author Guidelines

The following duties outlined for authors are based on the Committee on Publication Ethics:

COPE Core Practices

Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).

  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF or PDF document file format.

  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.

  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.

  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

  • If excerpts from other copyrighted works are included in your article, you must obtain written permission from the copyright owners and credit the source(s) within your article.

Content of Paper

Papers submitted to JSE should be complete and clear. Carefully proofreading is suggested before submission. All papers are expected to have theoretical and practical values. The innovation of a paper should be on the basis of clearly analyses of their predecessors.

Papers are suggested to follow the outlines below:

  • Title (100 characters or less)

  • Authors Information

  • Abstract (300 words or less)

  • Keywords (three to five)

  • Introduction

  • Related Works

  • Method

  • Experimental Results

  • Conclusion

  • Acknowledgment

  • References

Please follow the JSE LaTeX Templates jse-dc.zip and jse-sc.zip to meet the detailed requirements for formatting JSE papers. Note that the double-column publication template jse-dc.zip is only used for preparing the final presentation form of the paper after acception. Before that, please utilize the single-column submission template jse-sc.zip during preparation, submission and revision if necessary.

Submission Procedure

JSE submission website: https://sub.ifspress.hk/index.php/jse/submission

Authors should register and log in first. Next, click the “Dashboard” button to enter the author dashboard. Then, click the “New Submission” button to follow the guideline of submission and upload your manuscript.

Please keep your source files safe until the final preparation stage where JSE will require them. In addition, please make sure that the size of each file is less than the requirement in the JSE submission website.

After submission, authors can return the author dashboard to confirm the current status of the manuscript.

Review Procedure

After submission, the chief editor of JSE checks the paper first. If the paper meets the basic requirement of JSE, the chief editor will assign a suitable action editor for it.

Then, the action editor selects more than two reviewers to review the paper. JSE follows the single blind review principle, i.e., reviewers know authors while authors don’t know reviewers. JSE believes that the single blind review can help reviewers evaluate the academic background of the paper. The time of reviewing is varying, which depends to the length and complexity of the paper, the efficiencies of reviewers, and so on. JSE strive for the adequate and quick review procedure. If some of reviewers are overloaded, the action editor will reselect replacers for them.

Once enough review suggestions are collected, the action editor will make the final decision, i.e., Acceptance, Minor Revision, Major Revision, or Rejection. An email notification will be sent to the mail of corresponding author, which includes the final decision and review suggestions.

Authors who wish to appeal the editorial decision for their manuscript may submit a formal appeal request in accordance with the procedure outlined in ifspress’s Appeal Policy. Only one appeal per submission will be considered and the appeal decision will be final.

Our editors are not involved in making decisions about papers which:

  • they have written themselves.

  • have been written by family members or colleagues.

  • relate to products or services in which they have an interest.

Any such submissions will be subject to the journal's usual procedures and peer review will be handled independently of the editor involved and their research group.

Publication Procedure

Once a paper obtains the final Acceptance decision, authors will need to sign a copyright agreement to allows for electronic and paper publication in JSE. Authors will retain copyright alongside scholarly usage rights and ifspress will be granted publishing rights. All articles published will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download, copy and distribute. We currently offer the following license for this journal:

Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)

Allows users to: distribute and copy the article; create extracts, abstracts, and other revised versions, adaptations or derivative works of or from an article (such as a translation); include in a collective work (such as an anthology); and text or data mine the article. These uses are permitted even for commercial purposes, provided the user: gives appropriate credit to the author(s) (with a link to the formal publication through the relevant DOI); includes a link to the license; indicates if changes were made; and does not represent the author(s) as endorsing the adaptation of the article or modify the article in such a way as to damage the authors' honor or reputation.

The copyright agreement will be sent to the mail of corresponding author. If you have not received the copyright agreement after Acceptance, please connect the action editor as soon as possible.

Then, the paper enters the final preparation stage. In this stage, the email interactions between the action editor and corresponding author can repeat several times.

  • First, authors are required to provide all of the source files of the paper under the double-column publication template, which should be editable and compileable.

  • Next, the action editor returns a proofreading PDF file of the paper. Authors indicate the errors in the proofreading PDF file via highlighting and annotations. Note that only small errors can be revised in this step, such as typo and grammar errors. Revisions shaking the logic foundation of the paper cannot be accepted. If authors want to modify the paper greatly at that time, it is a reasonable option to cancel the publication and submit the modified version from scratch.

  • Then, after the proofreading PDF file is approved by authors, the final presentation form no longer incurs an Article Publishing Charge (APC). Instead, every paper is published online free of charge after acceptance. A “page-fee” is only levied if the paper exceeds seven pages in the double-column publication template: the first seven pages are free, and every additional page costs 280 USD. For example, a paper that occupies nine pages in the double-column template will be charged 2 × 280 = 560 USD. Authors should note that, in practice, the page count in the double-column template is roughly half of that in the single-column submission template. Nevertheless, papers that are too short may still risk rejection for insufficient content, so adequate length is advised.

After Publication

We encourage you to share and promote your article to give additional visibility to your work, enabling your paper to contribute to scientific progress and foster the exchange of scientific developments within your field.