Guidelines for Authors

STEEL GRIPS - Journal of Steel and Related Materials is a modern scientific journal. High quality will be guaranteed by an international Scientific Circle the members of which review all articles before publication. STEEL GRIPS has been announced to ISI and is currently being registered for SCI (science citation index/impact factor).

Language

STEEL GRIPS journal publishes articles in English only.

Original publication - copyright

The requirement for publication of a technical article in STEEL GRIPS is that the work has not been published in any other technical journal, either in the form submitted or in any other similar form.

With the acceptance of the manuscript by the Scientific Circle, the author assigns the rights of publication and translation of his work to GRIPS media GmbH so that publication elsewhere requires the prior agreement of GRIPS media GmbH. Ancillary rights, such as the right of further reproduction for commercial purposes by way of electronical, photomechanical or other processes and the granting of licences for reprints, remain exclusively with GRIPS media GmbH.

Copyright of material used in articles is the responsibility of the author; extensive quotations must be acknowledged, as must the source of illustrations.
 

From manuscript to the printed article

Papers are welcome on subjects that match the aims and scopes of STEEL GRIPS - Journal of Steel and Related Materials.

Please submit your paper to the Editorial Office by e-mail only.

Receipt of contributions will be acknowledged as soon as possible. The confirmation of receipt is sent by e-mail. Each manuscript gets a tracking number (G 01 ###) which should be referred to in further communication.

Reviewing procedure. A Scientific Circle consisting of well-known specialists from all over the world will allow for high quality in reviewing the scientific papers. This is a pre-requisite to be included with ISI´s Science Citation Index and to be registered for Impact Factor. It is standard practice for contributions to be sent to referees, whose identity will not be divulged unless they have suggested otherwise. The Editor will decide on acceptance or rejection of the manuscript after reference to the  Scientific Circle.  Drafts or articles will be returned to authors if referees' or editors' comments show that revision would be advantageous. In this case autors will be requested to clarify any parts of the text that are not understandable and to complete missing documents. The editor reserve the right to reject material without entering into further correspondence.

Mail of Acceptance. As soon as the reviewing procedure is closed the Editorial Office will inform the author by e-mail whether publication is possible.

Galley proof. When all editorial work is finished, the corresponding author will receive a galley proof by fax. Please note that only real mistakes may be corrected at this final phase. If the author does neither return the printing approval nor react in any way by the given deadline the Editorial Office will send the paper to the printer´s in the form submitted as galley proof.

Manuscript form

Please submit your manuscript text as Microsoft-word file by e-mail or on CD-Rom or upload to our server. Discs should be accompanied by 1 hard copy on A4 paper of the manuscript and figures!

An extent of 6 printed pages (pp) should not be exceeded. In exceptional cases, e.g. survey papers, the editor may grant an enlargement. The extent of an article can be estimated as follows:
Title, summary: 0,3 pp;  2 pages written with steelgrips.doc: 1 pp,  6-7 figures or tables: 1 pp.

The spellings used in the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English should be used wherever possible. Technical terms should be in accordance with the generally used terms, the corresponding German Standards or International Standards. Abbreviations should only be used where they are internationally recognized and known. lf abbreviations of longer terms cannot be avoided they should be fully spelt out when they first appear in the text.

Capitals should be used to indicate proper names, and titles: Dr or Sir. Elsewhere capitals should be used as sparingly as possible.

Measurements have to be metric SI units. Quantities and their resp. SI-units are to be separated by 1 blank!

For equations please use the Microsoft Word formula editor or compatible e.g. MathTyp equation editor and chose „equation“ from the format catalogue. Please note that all parameters are to be formatted italic, vectors bold italic, matrices bold. Only constants are to be written in body text.

Equations must be written out exactly. Capital and small letters, subscripts, superscripts, character sizes, character form and the height of characters within the line must be accurate.
The consecutive numbering of equations is desirable. lf many characters and symbols are used in formulae it is advisable to summarize and describe them in a list of symbols at the beginning of the text. The explanation of symbols and quantities should not employ equals signs (=).

References should be consecutively numbered in the text by means of numerals within square brackets, thus [1]  [4...7]  [4; 7]. A separate list of references should be added at the end of the text. Examples for correct citations are given in the following. See [1] for journals, [2] for books, [3] for preprints/congress reports, [4] for theses, [5] for patents:

[1] Author's name, Initials; etc.: title of journal Volume (year) No. ?, p. ???/??.
[2] Author's name, Initials; etc.: title of a book, no. of edition, publishing company, town, datum.
[3] Author's name, Initials; etc.: title of contribution, Proc. Conf. title, conference datum, town, Vol. ??, p. ???/??.
[4] Author's name, Initials; etc.: full title, town, year (Dr.-Ing./rer.nat.-Diss./thesis).
[5] No. of standard or patent: full title, datum of edition.

Regarding [1] - [4], please note: if there are more than 3 authors, please write down the name of the first author and summarise all the others by et al.
Example:
Smith; A. B.; Myers, C. D.: STEEL GRIPS 1 (2003) No. 1, p. 25/29.
but:
Smith, A. B. et al.: STEEL GRIPS1 (2003) No. 1, p. 35/49.

Arrangement of the manuscript

A manuscript for STEEL GRIPS must consist of the following parts (see template steelgrips.doc):

Contents of the article in keywords of about 5 - 10 lines each. This documentation in STEEL GRIPS is presented in the online table of contents. This allows the reader to gain a first survey on the contents of the article. Furthermore, documentations allow libraries and documentation offices to render a short review of the article's contents.

Title
first names, last names of all authors.

Abstract of about 20 lines. Precise information is required concerning the following points: problem to be solved, objective of the investigation; test parameters, materials; newly discovered relationships; results.

Author's note: For each author, please send a black-and-white photograph (as separate *.tif file) and add the academic degree, prename and family name, professional degree, Department, Company (University), town/country.

Text of the article. A clear structuring of the text by means of section headlines has proven helpful for the readers:

 Bold type medium size headline (header1 within steelgrips.doc);

 Bold type caption. (chose bdy within steelgrips.doc and add bold) at the beginning of a paragraph,

 Italic type caption. (chose bdy within steelgrips.doc and add italic) at the beginning of a paragraph.

STEEL GRIPS template

The template file sgmanu.doc will support you in writing a correct STEEL GRIPS manuscript. Before writing make sure that you are working with the latest version of template file sgmanu.doc. The file can be downloaded here:

autorsguide.pdf and sgmanu.doc

Open steelgrips.doc and immediately save it under the file name G02###.doc. Now write your paper in accordance with the latest edition of author´s guide (a shortened version is included with the template). Please use the following formats of steelgrips.doc for the respective parts of the manuscript:
 

If you cannot write in Winword (Windows or MAC), please chose a programme, which offers the possibility to have steelgrips.doc converted into your file format. After having completed the manuscript, please convert your file either into Rich-Text-Format (.rtf) only. Neither ASCII nor TeX-Files are accepted!

Figures and tables

Methods of investigation and technical data of materials and plants are best summarized in tabular form. Results of investigations should either be presented in figures or in tables.
All drawings are to be supplied in reproducible form. Ordinates and abscissae should be captioned in words. Units are to be separated by a comma only! (It is no more allowed to put them into brackets).

Use only a Helvetica-type fonts for figures.

Submit figures and diagrams in separate files, each. Do not include figures in Word-documents. For Pixelgraphics use the *.tif or *:jpg (uncompressed) format. Vectorgraphics and diagrams should also be converted into *.tif./*.jpg. If you want to use other formats please ask the editor.

The as-scanned resolution should be 300dpi 8bit grayscale or 1bit b/w. at a minimum figure-width of 85 mm. Please do not have figure data recalculated from lower resolutions, their reproduction quality would be too poor.

Diagrams submitted as data files should have one of the following widths (without any margin):

• 85 mm (the width of one column is preferred and mostly an adequate size)
• 114 mm (is to be used for complicated illustrations)
• 174 mm (in exceptional cases very complicated figures ask for this width)

Photos: Strong contrast positive prints are suitable for printing; transparencies and negative films can be used . With microstructure photos, please always mark with the enlargement. All figures must be consecutively numbered.
The author himself is responsible for correct illustration forms.

Submittance

Please submit your manuscript electronically to:

a) if you want to send a CD ROM by mail:

GRIPS Editorial Office
Dipl.-Ing. Kerstin Garbracht
Eichendorffstr. 64
38667 Bad Harzburg
Germany

b) as e-mail attachment to

Kerstin Garbracht: editor@steel-grips.com.
(If your files are larger than 10Mb some problems with the capacity of our mailserver may occour. In this case please upload your files.)

c) upload your files directly to our fileserver:

You can copy your files directly from your computer to our server. Please follow the link below and proceed as indicated.
- Fill in your name and email address
- select the files you want to transmit on your machine ( Durchsuchen... )
- if you want add a short description or your manuscript number
- and click Upload Files.
- if you want transmit more than 5 files please start the procedure again..

-> upload

As soon as your files are uploaded, an automatic mail is sent to inform the editorial office about your upload. Within a few days you will receive your confirmation or receipt..

Support

Should you need further support or in case there are any questions left, please do not hesitate to contact

GRIPS Editorial Office
Phone: ++49 (0) 5322 54576
Fax: ++49 (0) 5322 54574
e-mail: editor@steel-grips.com

You may directly use the Feedback button on the left.