Materialwissenschaft und Werkstofftechnik

Author Resources

Materials Science and Engineering Technology provides scientific, fundamental and practical information for those concerned with materials research, development, manufacture, and testing. Scientific, technical and economic aspects are taken into consideration in order to facilitate choosing the material that best suits the purpose at hand.
Review articles summarize new developments and offer fresh insight into the various aspects of the discipline.
Recent results regarding material selection, characterization, use, assembly and testing are described in original articles, which also deal with failure treatment and investigation.

SECTIONS

1. Submission Requirements
2. Preparing the Submission
3. Editorial Policies and Ethical Considerations
4. Author Licensing
5. After Acceptance
6. Guides and Templates

1. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Once the submission materials have been prepared in accordance with the author guidelines, new submissions should be made online via the Research Exchange submission portal: https://wiley.atyponrex.com/journal/MAWE.

You may check the status of your submission at any time by logging on to submission.wiley.com and clicking the "My Submissions" button. For technical help with the submission system, please review Wiley’s Research Exchange Author Help Documents or contact [email protected].

Authors will receive immediate acknowledgement of receipt of their manuscript. All contributions are subject to refereeing and assessment by the editors and the international advisory board.

Language accepted: English or German

For details on manuscript preparation and file upload see Section 2

Authors are asked to make their manuscripts suitable for a heterogeneous readership. Please use a simple, clear style, and avoid jargon. Both American English and British English are acceptable, but the usage must remain consistent throughout the manuscript. 

Article Preparation Support

Wiley Editing Services offers expert help with English Language Editing, as well as translation, manuscript formatting, figure illustration, figure formatting, and graphical abstract design – so you can submit your manuscript with confidence.
Also, check out our resources for Preparing Your Article for general guidance about writing and preparing your manuscript. In particular, authors may benefit from referring to Wiley's best practice tips on Writing for Search Engine Optimization.

Note that when multiple files are uploaded (e.g., "Main Document" and "Figure"), the system generates a single PDF file.

Co-Authors: Please ensure you have added all your co-authors’ names and e-mail addresses. If your co-authors do not already have an account, please enter their details to register them as a new author. Co-authors are being notified about the submission of the manuscript and the final decision.

All queries regarding manuscripts or the online submission process should be addressed to the journal's Managing Editor:

Dr.-Ing. Jörg Ellermeier
Materials Science and Engineering Technology
Grafenstraße 2
64283 Darmstadt, Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 61 51 – 16 24340
E-mail: [email protected]

Data Protection
By submitting a manuscript to or reviewing for this publication, your name, email address, affiliation, and other contact details the publication might require, will be used for the regular operations of the publication, including, when necessary, sharing with the publisher (Wiley) and partners for production and publication. The publication and the publisher recognize the importance of protecting the personal information collected from users in the operation of these services, and have practices in place to ensure that steps are taken to maintain the security, integrity, and privacy of the personal data collected and processed. You can learn more at Data Protection Policy.

Open Access
This journal offers authors an open access option to have their article immediately freely available to everyone, including those who don’t subscribe.
To cover the cost of publishing with open access, authors pay an article publication charge (APC). The APC for this journal can be found on Wiley’s Pricing page. Some organizations pay APCs for their authors via a Wiley Open Access Account. You can read more about APCs and whether you may be eligible for waivers or discounts, through your institution, funder, or a country waiver.

Preprint Policy
Materials Science and Engineering Technology accepts articles previously published on preprint servers.
The journal will consider for review articles previously available as preprints. You may also post the submitted version of a manuscript to a preprint server at any time. You are requested to update any pre-publication versions with a link to the final published article.
Please find the Wiley preprint policy here.

Data Sharing and Data Availability
This journal expects that data supporting the results in the paper will be archived in an appropriate public repository. Authors are required to provide a Data Availability Statement (DAS) to describe the availability or the absence of shared data. When data have been shared, authors are required to include in their Data Availability Statement a link to the repository they have used, and to cite the data they have shared. Whenever possible the scripts and other artefacts used to generate the analyses presented in the paper should also be publicly archived. If sharing data compromises ethical standards or legal requirements then authors are not expected to share it.

The DAS must be included during submission, in Step Details & Comments - “Data Availability Statement” and preferably also in the Manuscript before the Reference section.
NOTE: If no research data are shared, the DAS will simply state “Research data are not shared.”

Review Wiley’s Data Sharing policy where you will be able to see and select the data availability statement that is right for your submission.

Data Citation
Please review Wiley’s Data Citation policy.

Funding
You should list all funding sources in the Acknowledgments section. You are responsible for the accuracy of their funder designation. If in doubt, please check the Open Funder Registry for the correct nomenclature.

Authorship
All listed authors should have contributed to the manuscript substantially and have agreed to the final submitted version. Review editorial standards and scroll down for a description of authorship criteria.

ORCID
This journal requires ORCID. Please refer to Wiley’s resources on ORCID.

Reproduction of Copyright Material
If excerpts from copyrighted works owned by third parties are included, credit must be shown in the contribution. It is the author’s responsibility to also obtain written permission for reproduction from the copyright owners.

The corresponding author is responsible for obtaining written permission to reproduce the material "in print and other media" from the publisher of the original source, and for supplying Wiley with that permission upon submission. You can contact the respective journal directly but many publishers use RightsLink. The access to RightsLink usually can be found on the article page under “Request Permission” or similar links.
Permissions should be uploaded as "Supporting Information Not for Review". For more information visit Wiley’s Copyright Terms & Conditions FAQ.

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2. PREPARING THE SUBMISSION 

Manuscripts should be typed with double spacing 12 pt Arial. Avoid using any special characters from non-standard, region-specific character fonts! Greek letters or other symbols must be inserted by using the MS Word “Symbol” option in the “Insert” tab. Do not use the character font “Symbol”.

The first names, other initials, and surnames of all authors should be given along with the authors’ institution and its full postal address. The correspondence author should be designated by a star (*) and assigned with a valid e-mail address.

Figures and tables should not be incorporated into the text of the article but be placed at the end, after the references. Figures are to be uploaded separately (refer to “Figures and Tables”).

Title, abstract, keywords and captions should be provided in English and German (if possible), Table 1.

Table 1. Specification of manuscript elements in English and German.

Keywords: Five keywords should be given at the top of the manuscript.

Abstract: Should be approximately 15 lines in length.

Abbreviations:  (e.g. PVC, PTFE, PE, SEM, EDX, etc.) should not be used. The appropriate words should be spelled out instead.

Chemical symbols or elements and compounds (e.g., HCl, Fe, Si, Al2O3) should not be used in the text. Instead, the full names (hydrochloric acid, iron, silicon, aluminum oxide) should be given.

Trade names should be used only once, giving composition and type of material, respectively, and then be replaced by more general terms (e.g., Hastelloy B = NiMo alloy, Teflon = PTFE).

Formulas and equations should be written on separate lines and numbered, numbers in round brackets (1), separated by one single tab between them. Equations must be generated using an equation editor. Do not embed equations as graphics, do not embed equations in a table.

Terminology: Due attention should be paid to applicable standards (e. g., ISO, CEN, DIN, BS, ASTM).

Structure

A typical manuscript main document should contain the following elements:

1. Graphical Table of Contents;
2. A brief informative title (up to 150 characters) containing the major key words. The title should not contain abbreviations (see Wiley's best practice SEO tips);
3. Full names of the authors with institutional affiliations where the work was conducted, with a footnote for the author’s present address if different from where the work was conducted;
4. Abstract (about 15 lines);
5. Keywords (five);
6. Main text: 1 Introduction, 2 State of the art, 3 Aim of the investigation, 4 Materials and experimental details, 5 Results, 6 Discussion of Results, 7 Summary and Outlook
7. Funding/Acknowledgments;
8. Data Availability Statement;
9. References (numbered in the order of appearance in the text);
10. Tables with captions;
11. Figure captions

The chapter "Discussion of Results" is particularly emphasized by the reviewers to assess the scientific level of a manuscript!

Figures and Tables
Figures should be marked individually and clearly with the figure number. They should be numbered sequentially as they appear in the text. Composite figures with several parts are permitted only if the parts are closely related either experimentally or logically. The different parts of composite figures must be marked clearly with a, b, c. Figures are printed at half-page width or full-page width. The figure width should be adapted to 8.5 cm for printing on half page width and to 17.5 cm for printing on full page width. Numbers, letters, and symbols used must be large enough to be still 1.5 mm high after the figure has been reduced to the printing format. Photographs of structures or work pieces should be accompanied by a clearly visible scale bar (e.g., 1 mm).

Upload each figure as a separate file in either TIFF or JPG format. Compound figures, e.g., Figure 1a, 1b, 1c should be uploaded as single file (Figure 1.jpg, and not schematicdesign.jpg). Tints are not acceptable. Where a key to symbols is required, please include this in the artwork itself, not in the figure legend. Avoid unnecessary decorative elements that do not add scientific value, such as rounded edges with irrelevant shadows in micrographs or displaying 2D plots in a non-informative 3D shape.
All illustrations must be uploaded at the correct resolution:

• Black and white and color photos: 300 dpi minimum
• Graphs, drawings, etc.: 800 dpi preferred; 600 dpi minimum
• Combinations of photos and drawings (black and white and color): 500 dpi minimum

Note: Do not place figures and tables in the text but at the end of the manuscript, after references. Please put captions under the Figures and head-lines over tables.

Tables are numbered sequentially as they appear in the text with Table 1, Table 2, etc.

Referencing to Figures and Tables must be placed at the end of a sentence, with a structure that is not identical to the caption. The sentence must be complete and grammatically correct within the context of the corresponding flow text. Following are some correct and incorrect examples:

• This is an example on how the referencing should be written, Figure 1. (correct)
• The captions, as shown in Table 2, should not be repeated in the text itself. (incorrect)
• The same is valid for referencing literatures, Figures 2, 3 and Table 1 [1, 3–5]. (correct)
• Reference correctly placed at the end of the sentence, but in the same wording as the caption itself, leaving the sentence grammatically incomplete, Figure 4. (incorrect)

Color artwork is reproduced in the online version at no cost. The extra costs associated with printing are expected to be met by the author. The author will be advised of the costs on acceptance of the manuscript for publication.

References
References should be numbered sequentially as they appear in the text and placed at the end of the sentence in square brackets [1–6]. Direct referencing should be avoided, the authors of the referred literature should not be mentioned in the text. Only papers that are published or in press should be referenced. The footnote or endnote option provided by many text programs should not be used. Journal titles must be abbreviated according to the Chemical Abstracts Service Source Index (CASSI). The correct abbreviation for “Materials Science and Engineering Technology” is "Materialwiss. Werkstofftech.". If using Citavi as reference manager, authors are advised to use the downloadable citation style “Materials Science and Engineering Technology”.
In citing the literature, the format below must be followed:

Journals
[1] A. Author, B. Author, C. Author, Journalname (Abbreviation), Year, Volume(issue no if applicable), First Page.
[2] A. Leng, H. Streckel, M. Stratmann, Corr. Sci. 1999, 41, 547.
[3] P. Colomban, J. Mater. Res. 1998, 13, 803.

Patents
[4] B. R. Ezzel, W. P. Carl, W. A. Mod, US Patent 4 330 654, 1982.

Conferences
[5] B. Elsener, M. Büchler, H. Böhni, presented at EUROCORR'99, Aachen, Germany, 29 August – 2 September 9, 1999, pp. 1-6.

Theses
[6] E. B. Samone, Ph.D. Thesis, RWTH Aachen, Germany, 1978.

Books
[7] P. T. Kolepp, Modern Engineering, Harbour Scientific Press, London, Tokyo 1991.

Acknowledgments
Contributions from anyone who does not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed, with permission from the contributor, in an Acknowledgments section. Financial and material support should also be mentioned. Thanks to anonymous reviewers are not appropriate.

Conflict of Interest Statement
Authors are required to provide a conflict of interest statement during the submission process. For details on what to include in this section, see the 'Conflict of Interest' section in the Editorial Policies and Ethical Considerations section below. Submitting authors should ensure they liaise with all co-authors to confirm agreement with the final statement.

Appendices
Appendices will be published after the references. For submission they should be supplied as separate files but referred to in the text.

Graphical Table of Contents
Articles are published with a short descriptive text and an image in the print and online Table of Contents. The text (up to 400 characters) should be formulated to evoke interest in your article. Repetition or a paraphrase of the title and presentation of experimental details should be avoided.

The image should be eye-catching as it is meant to attract the readers’ attention. It will be published in color free of any charge (in contrast to all other graphic items). It could be a formula, a figure, or part of a figure of your manuscript - or a newly created figure based on the content of the article. The graphic should be of sufficient resolution and prepared to fit the final reproduction size with a width of 50 mm, a height of up to 60 mm, and no additional figure caption. If applicable, please ensure an appropriate lettering size and avoid unnecessary details or too small items within the graphic.

The image – if newly designed – should be uploaded separately.

Please include your Graphical Abstract image and text at the beginning of your main document. ATTENTION: You must hold the copyright of the figure, and it should not be reproduced from an external source without permission.

3. EDITORIAL POLICIES AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS

Peer Review
This journal operates under a single-blind peer review model. Papers will only be sent to review if the Editor determines that the paper meets the appropriate quality and relevance requirements.

All contributions will be evaluated according to the standard procedures of peer review, usually by two referees.
Wiley's policy on the confidentiality of the review process is available here.

Refer and Transfer Program
Wiley believes that no valuable research should go unshared. This journal participates in Wiley’s Refer & Transfer program. If your manuscript is not accepted, you may receive a recommendation to transfer your manuscript to another suitable Wiley journal, either through a referral from the journal’s editor or through Wiley’s Transfer Desk Assistant.

Guidelines on Publishing and Research Ethics in Journal Articles
The journal requires that you include in the manuscript details IRB approvals, ethical treatment of human and animal research participants, and gathering of informed consent, as appropriate. You will be expected to declare all conflicts of interest, or none, on submission. Please review Wiley’s policies surrounding human studies, animal studies, clinical trial registration, biosecurity, and research reporting guidelines.

The journal follows the core practices of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and handles cases of research and publication misconduct accordingly (https://publicationethics.org/core-practices).
This journal uses iThenticate’s CrossCheck software to detect instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted manuscripts.
Read Wiley’s Top 10 Publishing Ethics Tips for Authors and Wiley’s Publication Ethics Guidelines.

Conflict of Interest
The journal requires that all authors disclose any potential sources of conflict of interest. Any interest or relationship, financial or otherwise that might be perceived as influencing an author's objectivity is considered a potential source of conflict of interest. These must be disclosed when directly relevant or directly related to the work that the authors describe in their manuscript.

Potential sources of conflict of interest include, but are not limited to: patent or stock ownership, membership of a company board of directors, membership of an advisory board or committee for a company, membership of the editorial board of the journal, and consultancy for or receipt of speaker's fees from a company.

Please read the following statements, adding those sections which are relevant at the end of your submitted manuscript under a heading 'Statement of Interests'.

1. Authors' declaration of personal interests:

1. [Name of individual] has served as a speaker, a consultant, an advisory board member for [names of organization], and has received research funding from [names of organization].
2. [Name of individual] is an employee of [name of organization].
3. [Name of individual] owns stocks and shares in [name of organization].
4. [Name of individual] owns patent [patent identification and brief description].

The existence of a conflict of interest does not preclude publication. If the authors have no conflict of interest to declare, they must also state this at submission, including the following or similar statement: “The authors have stated explicitly that there are no conflicts of interest in connection with this article”. It is the responsibility of the corresponding author to review this policy with all authors and collectively to disclose with the submission ALL pertinent commercial and other relationships.

2. Declaration of funding interests:

1. This study was funded [in part or in full] by [insert name of funding organization], grant number [insert grant or other identification number].
2. The [writing or preparation] of this paper was funded in part by [insert name of funding organization].
3. Initial data analyses were undertaken by [name of individuals if not listed as authors] who are employees of [name company] and received funding from [insert name of funding organization].

Authors should list all funding sources in the Declarations section. Authors are responsible for the accuracy of their funder designation. If in doubt, please check the Open Funder Registry for the correct nomenclature: https://www.crossref.org/services/funder-registry/.

Publications by the Editors or Editorial Board
The Editor and Editorial Board members are never involved in editorial decisions about their own work. The Editor, Editorial Board members and other editorial staff (including peer reviewers) will withdraw from discussions about submissions where any circumstances might prevent him/her offering unbiased editorial decisions. In particular, when editorial decisions are required about peer reviewed articles where the Editor or Editorial Board member is an author or is acknowledged as a contributor, the affected Editor or Editorial Board member will exclude themselves and are not involved in the publication decision. When the Editor is presented with papers where their own interests may impair their ability to make an unbiased editorial decision, decisions about the paper are deputized to a suitably qualified individual.

The journal follows the ICMJE definition of authorship, which indicates that authorship be based on the following 4 criteria:

1. Have made substantial contributions to conception and design, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data; and
2. Been involved in drafting the manuscript or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and
3. Given final approval of the version to be published. Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content; and
4. Agreed to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.

In addition to being accountable for the parts of the work he or she has done, an author should be able to identify which co-authors are responsible for specific other parts of the work. In addition, authors should have confidence in the integrity of the contributions of their co-authors.

All those designated as authors should meet all four criteria for authorship, and all who meet the four criteria should be identified as authors. Those who do not meet all four criteria should be acknowledged. These authorship criteria are intended to reserve the status of authorship for those who deserve credit and can take responsibility for the work. The criteria are not intended for use as a means to disqualify colleagues from authorship who otherwise meet authorship criteria by denying them the opportunity to meet criterion #s 2 or 3. Therefore, all individuals who meet the first criterion should have the opportunity to participate in the review, drafting, and final approval of the manuscript.

Additional Authorship Options: Joint first or senior authorship: In the case of joint first authorship, a footnote should be added to the author listing, e.g., 'X and Y should be considered joint first author' or 'X and Y should be considered joint senior author.'

Author Name Change Policy
In cases where authors wish to change their name following publication, Wiley will update and republish the paper and redeliver the updated metadata to indexing services. Our editorial and production teams will use discretion in recognizing that name changes may be of a sensitive and private nature for various reasons including (but not limited to) alignment with gender identity, or as a result of marriage, divorce, or religious conversion. Accordingly, to protect the author’s privacy, we will not publish a correction notice to the paper, and we will not notify co-authors of the change. Authors should contact the journal’s Editorial Office with their name change request.

Correction to Authorship
In accordance with Wiley’s Best Practice Guidelines on Research Integrity and Publishing Ethics and the Committee on Publication Ethics’ guidance, the journal will allow authors to correct authorship on a submitted, accepted, or published article if a valid reason exists to do so. All authors – including those to be added or removed – must agree to any proposed change. To request a change to the author list, please complete the Request for Changes to a Journal Article Author List Form and contact either the journal’s editorial or production office, depending on the status of the article. Authorship changes will not be considered without a fully completed Author Change form. [Correcting the authorship is different from changing an author’s name; the relevant policy for that can be found in Wiley’s Best Practice Guidelines under “Author name changes after publication.”]

Acknowledgements
Please acknowledge anyone who contributed towards the article who does not meet the criteria for authorship including anyone who provided professional writing services or materials.
Authors should obtain permission to acknowledge from all those mentioned in the Acknowledgements section.
Group authorship (for manuscripts involving a collaboration group): if you would like the names of the individual members of a collaboration Group to be searchable through their individual PubMed records, please ensure that the title of the collaboration Group is included on the title page and in the submission system and also include collaborating author names as the last paragraph of the “Acknowledgements” section. Please add authors in the format First Name, Middle initial(s) (optional), Last Name. You can add institution or country information for each author if you wish, but this should be consistent across all authors.

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4. AUTHOR LICENSING

Wiley Author Services
When an accepted article is received by Wiley's production team, the corresponding author will receive an email asking them to login or register with Wiley Author Services. The author will be asked to sign a publication license at this point.

Copyright and Licensing
Authors may choose to publish under the terms of the journal's standard copyright agreement, or Open Access under the terms of a Creative Commons License. Note that certain funders mandate a particular type of CC license be used. This journal uses the CC-BY/CC-BY-NC/CC-BY-NC-ND Creative Commons License. Please click here for more information on Wiley’s compliance with specific Funder Open Access Policies.

Open Access fees: If you choose to publish with open access, you will be charged a fee. A list of Article Publication Charges for Wiley journals is available here.

Self-Archiving definitions and policies: Note that the journal's standard copyright agreement allows for self-archiving of different versions of the article under specific conditions. Please click here for more detailed information about self-archiving definitions and policies.

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5. AFTER ACCEPTANCE

First Look
After your paper is accepted, your files will be assessed by the editorial office to ensure they are ready for production. You may be contacted if any updates or final files are required. Otherwise, your paper will be sent to the production team.

Proofs
Authors will receive an e-mail notification with a link and instructions for accessing HTML page proofs online. Authors should also make sure that any renumbered tables, figures, or references match text citations and that figure legends correspond with text citations and actual figures. Proofs must be returned within 48 hours of receipt of the email.

Reprints
Reprints can be ordered when the proofs are returned to the publisher. Reprint rates are also available from the Editorial Office on request.

Post Publication
When the article is published online,
- The author receives an email alert (if requested).
- The link to the published article can be shared through social media.
- The author will have free access to the paper (after accepting the Terms & Conditions of use, they can view the article).
- The corresponding author and co-authors can nominate up to ten colleagues to receive a publication alert and free online access to the article.

Please review Wiley’s guidelines on sharing your research here.

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6. Guides and Templates

• Manuscript Template (MS Word)
• Manuscript Checklist (MS Word)
• Guide for Cover Artwork (PDF): The journal offers authors to feature their article on a cover page of the journal with an illustrative figure which graphically represents the essence of their contribution.
• Open Access: Information on terms and conditions (PDF)
• How to Request Permissions to Reproduce
• Best Practice Guidelines on Publication Ethics
• Cost Confirmation for Color Figures (PDF)
• Cover Cost Confirmation (PDF)

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(Author Guidelines Updated June 2025)