Submissions

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Submission 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 neither been previously published nor it is under review in another journal (or an explanation about the issue has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The layout of the manuscript follows the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the given journal template.
  • The submission file is in the pdf format (Portable Document Format).

Author Guidelines

Topicality, novelty and responsibility

Manuscripts must be about topics belonging to the focus of the journal  and the topic should have either scientific or industrial relevance. Manuscripts must include new  scientific knowledge. In engineering sciences, the boarders inbetween scientific research, industrial development and product design are, due to the nature of the field, often vacillating, but the main emphasis of manuscripts should be in scientific research. The Journal of Structural Mechanics is committed to Responsible Conduct of Research Guidelines published by the Finnish National Board of Research Integrity (TENK). 

Peer-review and publication policy

Manuscripts chosen for a review process will be single blind peer-reviewed by at least two experts in addition to the Editor-in-Chief (or Editor), performed in line with the quality and ethical criteria imposed by the scientific community.

The journal takes issues of copyright violation, plagiarism or any other breaches of publication practices seriously. Submitted articles may be checked with a plagiarism prevention software.

Submission to Journal of Structural Mechanics indicates that authors accept that their article, in case of acceptance, will be published on the journal web page.   

Authors are not charged for manuscript submission or article publication.

Layout

Regarding layout, manuscripts should follow the given templates: the class file rmstyle.cls for LaTeX-users writing in english with instructions.tex or instructions.pdf (dated 7 August 2015); for Word users instructions.doc (dated 11 May 2017).

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