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Author Guidelines

Submission of articles implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis), or it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, without the written consent from the publisher. 

Jurnal Kejuruteraan (Journal of Engineering) also accept manuscripts in Malay (Bahasa Melayu) language. However, kindly take note that the title and abstract must be prepared in both Malay and English languages.

Steps of Submission:

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.

1. Please adhere to the following format for the full manuscript (with authors' details). Take note that Jurnal Kejuruteraan practices double-blind review, where potential assigned reviewers will review anonymous manuscript (without authors' details)

  a) Title, authors(s), address(es)

Please provide full name of the authors, full address and email address of corresponding authors in a separate word file.

Example:

Mohd Mustafizur Rahman*, Ahmad Kamal Arifin, Nordin Jamaluddin & Che Hasan Che Haron

Department of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600 UKM Bangi, Malaysia

Corresponding author: mustafiz@ukm.edu.my

  b) Abstract

The abstract should be clear, descriptive and should provide a brief information to the problem. This should generally be followed by a statement regarding the methodology and a brief summary of results. The abstract should end with a comment on the significance of the result or a brief conclusion. Abstracts must be in the range of 200 to 250 words. For articles written in Malay (Bahasa Melayu), the abstract needs to be written in both Malay and English languages.

Keywords: Maximum of five (5) relevant keywords.

  c) Introduction: Please provide statement of the problems, outline of the paper and important findings

  d) Experimental/ methodology

  e) Results & Discussion

  f) Conclusion

  g) Declaration of competing interest

  h) Acknowledgement

  i) References

All publications cited in the text should be included in the reference list. References should be listed in an alphabetical order according to UKM styles format. Example of references can be referred to the template of manuscript.

  j) Tables

Number of tables consecutively in accordance with their appearance in the text. Please use Arabic numerals and supply a heading. Tables and their captions should be centered on the page. Place footnotes to the table below the table body and indicate them with superscript lowercase letters. Be sparing in the use of the tables and ensure that the data presented in the table do not duplicate results described elsewhere in the article.

  k) Figures

Figures are sequentially numbered commencing at Figure 1 and followed by their captions and are placed at the bottom of the figure. Please ensure that figures are clear and legible with typed lettering.

  l) Nomenclature, symbols and abbreviation

Only wide used accepted symbols and forms of abbreviations should be used, but always give full expression followed by the abbreviation the first time it appears in the text. Abbreviations and symbols used in the tables and figures should be explained in the legend. The used of symbols in the text should be avoided as much as possible as they disrupt the flow of the sentences as well as the appearance of the typeset page. In no case should a combination of symbols and words be used.

2. Manuscript Template

Jurnal Kejuruteraan practises double-blind review process. Therefore, all authors are required to submit their original research papers or review papers in two formats: with and without authors’ details. Templates can be accessed in the ‘Templates and Forms’.

3. Potential reviewers suggestion form

Authors are required to submit the potential reviewers suggestion form which suggests four (4) potential reviewers. This suggestion is required to expedite the review process. However, please note that The Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Board will decide on assigning the suggested reviewers based on their expertise and publication track records.

4. Proofs and reprints

The accepted article will be regarded as final, and the files will be processed as such. Proofs are for checking typesetting /editing: only printer errors maybe corrected. No changes in, or addition to the edited manuscript will be accepted.

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.

1. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
2. • Original research papers (technical article) - should be minimum 3000 words and up to a maximum of 7000 words
   • Review papers - should be minimum 5000 words and up to a maximum of 8000 words
   Kindly be informed that the words are counted from the Introduction until Conclusion and would be excluding the Abstract and the References.

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

3. The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided. Submissions in other formats as stated such as PDF are not accepted. 

4. A full manuscript with no authors details (anonymous) is uploaded as a main file (main submission) for the double-blind review process

5. A supplementary file is uploaded:

   • Full manuscript with authors details (Microscoft Word file format only)
   • Potential reviewers suggestion form that includes four (4) reviewers that may expedite the review process. Please note that the suggested reviewers must not be from the same organization as the authors (local and international reviewers). 
6. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
7. Adhere to a full payment of Article Processing Charge (APC) once submission is accepted

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