Publishing ethics & policy
The Journal of Applied Engineering Science (JAES) is an international journal dedicated to the improvement and dissemination of the results of research and the application of methods, techniques, and technologies within mechanical engineering, transportation, and civil engineering. JAES follows new trends and progress proven practice in listed fields, thus creating a unique forum (platform) for interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary dialog.
The Journal of Applied Engineering Science was launched in June 2003 under the name “Istraživanja i projektovanja za privredu“. Since 2011, Journal starts to be published exclusively in English, and has been supported by alternative (parallel) title „Journal of Applied Engineering Science”.
The Journal of Applied Engineering Science - JAES is an Open Access journal.
The Journal of Applied Engineering Science - JAES publishes original
scientific and professional papers that have not been published previously.
Reviewing papers will be published by invitation only.
Contributions to journal shall be submitted only in English.
The Journal is issued quarterly
The Journal is indexed in: SCOPUS DOAJ CNKI Google Scholar SCIndeks Kobson
PUBLICATION ETHICS
The Journal of Applied Engineering Science - JAES follows ethics norms accepted by international scientific community. It makes all efforts to prevent any infringements of the norms. This publication ethics statement, based on guidelines and standards developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), includes respective responsibilities of authors, reviewers, and editors.
ADVISORY BOARD RESPONSIBILITIES
The Advisory board provides guidance and advice to the editorial board and journal publisher. The advisory board consists of recognized experts in these fields. Their task is to propose strategic directions for the development of the journal, suggest new topics for special issues or sections, or help identify potential authors and reviewers.
EDITORIAL BOARD RESPONSIBILITIES
The Editorial board is responsible for overseeing the editorial process of the journal, including managing the peer-review process, making decisions on which articles to publish, and ensuring the journal's content meets the standards of the journal's scope and mission. The Editorial board is composed of subject matter experts in the field, including the Editor-in-chief, who are responsible for specific areas of the journal within their expertise.
EDITOR IN CHIEF RESPONSIBILITIES
The Editor-in-Chief is responsible for deciding which articles
submitted to JAES will be published. The Editor-in-Chief is guided by the
Editorial Policy and constrained by legal requirements in force regarding
libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism.
The Editor-in-Chief reserves the right to decide not to publish
submitted manuscripts in case it is found that they do not meet relevant
standards concerning the content and formal aspects. The Editorial Staff will
inform the authors whether the manuscript is accepted for publication within
six months from the date of the manuscript submission.
The Editor-in-Chief shall evaluate manuscripts for their
intellectual content free from any racial, gender, sexual, religious, ethnic,
or political bias.
The Editor-in-Chief must hold no conflict of interest with
regard to the articles they consider for publication. If an Editor feels that
there is likely to be a perception of a conflict of interest in relation to
their handling of a submission, the selection of reviewers and all decisions on
the paper shall be made by the Editorial Board. In case one or more members of
the Editorial Board hold a conflict of interest regarding a submitted
manuscript, these members of the Editorial Board shall withdraw from the selection
of reviewers and all decisions related to the manuscript.
The Editor and the Editorial Staff must not use unpublished
materials disclosed in submitted manuscripts without the express written
consent of the authors. The information and ideas presented in submitted
manuscripts shall be kept confidential and must not be used for personal gain.
The Editor in Chief and the Editorial Staff shall take all
reasonable measures to ensure that the reviewers remain anonymous to the
authors before, during and after the evaluation process and the authors remain
anonymous to reviewers until the end of the review procedure.
PEER REVIEW
The submitted papers are subject to a peer review process (double-blind peer review), where original scientific papers are subject to external peer review. The purpose of peer review is to assist the Editor in making editorial decisions. Through the editorial communications with the author it may also assist the author in improving the paper.
The reviewers must not have conflict of interest with respect to the research, the authors or the funding sources for the research.
If such conflicts exist, the reviewers must report them to the Editor without delay. Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the Editor without delay.
The reviews must be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. The reviewers should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.
Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents.
All of the reviewers of a paper act independently and they are not aware of each other's identities. If the decisions of the two reviewers are not the same (accept/reject), the Editor may assign additional reviewers. The Editorial board shall ensure reasonable quality control for the reviews. With respect to reviewers whose reviews are convincingly questioned by authors, special attention will be paid to ensure that the reviews are objective and high in academic standard. When there is any doubt with regard to the objectivity of the reviews or quality of the review, additional reviewers will be assigned.
AUTHORS’ RESPONSIBILITIES
Authors warrant that their manuscript is their original work, that it has not been published before and are not under consideration for publication elsewhere. Parallel submission of the same paper to another journal constitutes misconduct and eliminates the manuscript from consideration by JAES.
The Authors also warrant that the manuscript is not and will not
be published elsewhere (after the publication in JAES) in any language without
the consent of the copyright holder (Publisher).
In case a submitted manuscript is a result of a research
project, or its previous version has been presented at a conference in the form
of an oral presentation (under the same or similar title), detailed information
about the project, the conference, etc. shall be provided in Acknowledgement at
the end of manuscript, before References.
A paper that has already been published in another journal cannot be reprinted in JAES.
It is the responsibility of each author to ensure that papers submitted to JAES are written with ethical standards in mind. Authors affirm that the article contains no unfounded or unlawful statements and does not violate the rights of third parties. The Publisher will not be held legally responsible should there be any claims for compensation.
To ensure the integrity of the blind peer-review before manuscript submission to the JAES, it is necessary for authors to have deleted their names from the text and replace it with "Author" in used references and footnotes, also. Author identification should also be removed from the properties of the Microsoft Office documents.
Reporting standards
A submitted manuscript should contain
sufficient detail and references to permit reviewers and, subsequently, readers
to verify the claims presented in it. The deliberate presentation of false
claims is a violation of ethical standards. Book reviews and technical papers
should be accurate and they should present an objective perspective.
Authors wishing to include figures, tables or other materials
that have already been published elsewhere are required to obtain permission
from the copyright holder(s). Any material received without such evidence will
be assumed to originate from the authors.
Authors are exclusively responsible for the contents of their
submissions and must make sure that they have permission from all involved
parties to make the data public. The Editorial Staff can ask authors to submit
a written consent of the copyright holders for all materials (eg,
illustrations) that are sent (to include evidence that such permission has been
granted when submitting their papers) or a signed statement that they have
obtained such consent.
Authorship
Authors must make sure that all and only
contributors who have significantly contributed to the submission are listed as
authors . If persons other than authors were involved in important aspects of
the research project and the preparation of the manuscript, their contribution
should be acknowledged in the Acknowledgments section.
Acknowledgment of Sources
Authors are required to properly cite
sources that have significantly influenced their research and their manuscript.
Information received in a private conversation or correspondence with third
parties, in reviewing project applications, manuscripts and similar materials,
must not be used without the express written consent of the information source.
Plagiarism
Plagiarism, where someone assumes another's
ideas, words, or other creative expression as one's own, is a clear violation
of scientific ethics. Plagiarism may also involve a violation of copyright law,
punishable by legal action.
Plagiarism includes the following:
Word for word, or almost word for word
copying, or purposely paraphrasing portions of another author's work without
clearly indicating the source or marking the copied fragment (for example,
using quotation marks);
Copying equations, figures or tables from
someone else's paper without properly citing the source and/or without permission
from the original author or the copyright holder.
Please note that all submissions are thoroughly checked for
plagiarism with iThenticate tools. Any paper which shows obvious signs of
plagiarism will be automatically rejected and the authors will be temporary
(one year) forbidden to publish in the Journal.
In case plagiarism is discovered in a paper
that has already been published by the journal, it will be retracted in
accordance with the procedure described below under Retraction policy, and authors
will be permanently forbidden to publish in the Journal.
Conflict of interest
Authors should disclose in their manuscript
any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that might have
influenced the presented results or their interpretation.
Fundamental errors in published works
When an author discovers a significant
error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s
obligation to promptly notify the journal Editor or publisher and cooperate
with the Editor to retract or correct the paper.
COPYRIGHTS
Authors retain copyright of the published article under the - Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY) licence. Full bibliographic information (authors, article title, journal title, volume, issue, pages) about the original publication must be provided and a link must be made to the article's DOI.
Third parties who wish use the article in a way not covered by the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY) licence must obtain a written consent of the publisher. This license allows others to download the paper and share it with others as long as they credit the journal, but they cannot change it in any way or use it commercially.
Authors grant to the publisher the right to publish the article, to be cited as its original publisher in case of reuse, and to distribute it in all forms and media.
JOURNAL ARCHIVING POLICY
Paper and electronic versions of all published volumes are delivered to the Repository of the National Library of Serbia. The aim of volumes deposit is permanent preservation and use of published articles.
DISCLAIMER
The views expressed in the published works do not express the
views of the Editors and Editorial Staff. The authors take legal and moral
responsibility for the ideas expressed in the articles. Publisher shall have no
liability in the event of issuance of any claims for damages. The Publisher
will not be held legally responsible should there be any claims for
compensation.
By submitting a manuscript the authors agree to abide by the JAES Editorial Policies.