The International Journal of Materials Technology and Innovation publishes articles of high quality for research, development and engineering of materials, contributing to the development of areas of current scientific interest. It covers the diversity of disciplines, drawing together results from materials science, solid-state chemistry, physical metallurgy and physics. The International Journal of Materials Technology and Innovation provides a progressing international forum where materials scientists, physicists and chemists can present their outcomes to researchers in their own fields. Submitted papers for publication in this journal should contain new experimental or theoretical results and their interpretation. To ensure this high criterion, we present these below-mentioned instructions as a reference.
Aims and Scope:
Minerals technology:
Mineral Beneficiation
Metals Technology:
Extraction Metallurgy.
Corrosion.
Foundry.
Thin films.
Surface Coating Technology.
Iron Making & Steel Technology.
The economic viability of the engineering Process.
Welding, inspection and non-destructive testing, Additive manufacturing.
Manufacture Technology:
Biomaterials & Medical implants.
Powder and composite materials Technology.
Metal & Materials Deformation technology.
Advanced Materials:
Advanced materials and processing (Energy, ceramic, magnetic & electronic materials)
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology.
Environmental, Waste and wastewater treatment &Water treatment.
Article types:
Full-length articles describe comprehensive studies of work with a full analysis of results leading to clear and novel conclusions.
Short communications are brief scientific or technical reports that should describe new findings of exceptional novelty and can be up to four printed pages in extent.
Feature Articles resemble the full-length articles but usually have more detailed discussions of the subjects they cover. They may contain reviews of recent research on the subject to enable the broadest possible audience to understand the content. They are submitted by invitation only but leaders in the field concerned may send a proposal to the Editor for consideration or be nominated by an Associate Editor.
State-of-the-art review articles are comprehensive manuscripts that evaluate and assess a specific scientific or engineering issue that is of importance to material science. They should be in topical areas and explain the literature in a demanding and thoughtful style; clear conclusions should be given which are more far-reaching than the sum of the individual papers reviewed. They should integrate the important improvements in the subject and critically appraise the current status. They are submitted by invitation only but leaders in the field concerned may send a proposal to the Editor for consideration or be nominated by an Associate Editor.
Industrial reports are scientific reports for the industries that lie in the filed concerned.
Submission of papers:
The journal accepts only electronic submissions through https://ijmti.journals.ekb.eg/
Submission language: English
Submission checklist: Ensure that the following items are present:
One author has been designated as the corresponding author with contact details:
E-mail address
Full postal address
All necessary files have been uploaded: Manuscript:
Include keywords
All figures (include relevant captions)
All tables (including titles, description, footnotes)
Ensure all figure and table citations in the text match the files provided
Indicate clearly if color should be used for any figures in print
Highlights files (mandatory)
Supplemental files (where applicable)
Further considerations:
The manuscript has been 'spell-checked' and 'grammar checked'
All references mentioned in the Reference List are cited in the text, and vice versa
Permission has been obtained for use of copyrighted material from other sources (including the Internet)
A competing interests statement is provided, even if the authors have no competing interests to declare
Journal policies detailed in this guide have been reviewed
Referee suggestions and contact details provided, based on journal requirements
Originality:
Authors should declare that the submitted work has not previously been published in full, and is not being considered for publication, elsewhere.
Publication Ethics:
The authors, reviewers, and editors of the journals are expected to follow the standards defined by the Committee on Publication Ethics. In particular, authors should not submit manuscripts that contain previously published results, plagiarized material, fictitious results, or intentional /reference omissions. Manuscripts currently being considered for publication elsewhere will not be considered. Publication of abstracts and presentations at scientific meetings will not jeopardize full publication.
Authors should disclose related manuscripts that are under consideration or in press elsewhere, describing their relationship to the submitted manuscript and providing copies preferably at submission, and in any case upon request.
Authors should not submit manuscripts reporting essentially the same research to multiple journals. In addition, authors should not intentionally fragment research into multiple manuscripts if a single report would be more appropriate.
Ownership:
Authors must declare that the submitted work is their own and that copyright has not been breached in seeking its publication, the copyright is available here.
Funding and competing for financial interests:
Authors must disclose all sources of funding for their research and its publication, or for their publication if it is not a research publication. All authors must provide details of competing for financial interests (e.g., employment, significant share ownership, patent rights, consultancy, research funding) in any company or institution that might benefit from their publication.
Cover letter:
Authors must submit a cover letter with their manuscripts. The cover letter must contain a short statement that explains why your submitted manuscript represents a significantly new scientific or engineering advance. This statement will help the Editor-in-Chief to decide either the manuscript meets the scope of the journal or no. If a manuscript does not meet the scope of the journal, it will be rejected without review.
Highlights:
Highlights are mandatory for this journal as they help increase the discoverability of your article via search engines. Highlights consist of a short collection of bullet points that capture the novel results of your research as well as new methods that were used during the study (if any).
Highlights should be submitted in a separate editable file in the online submission system. Please use 'Highlights' in the file name and include 3 to 5 bullet points (maximum 85 characters, including spaces, per bullet point).
Please provide an image with a minimum of 531 × 1328 pixels (h × w) or proportionally more. • The image should be readable at a size of 5 × 13 cm using a regular screen resolution of 96 dpi. • Preferred file types: TIFF, EPS, PDF or MS Office files.
File Formats:
Original submissions should be submitted as a single document using Word file formats.
The submission should follow the guidelines listed in these instructions.
Submissions after minor revisions should and after acceptance must follow the style guide.
Figures and tables must be embedded in the body of the document.
Submissions after any revisions should be made with change tracking enabled so that editors can easily distinguish the changes made.
Page Format:
All manuscripts must be in double-spaced format, including the abstract, references, and figure and/or table captions.
They should be formatted to print on A4 paper with left and right margins of at least 1 in each.
Title:
The title should:
1) be concise and informative
2) Describe the content of the paper;
3) Distinguish the paper from others on a similar topic;
4) Not be too complicated &
5) Catch the reader's attention and interest.
Introductory words, such as 'On,' 'Observations on,' 'Some,' and 'Study of' are to be avoided.
Avoid abbreviations and formulae where possible.
For indexing purposes, chemical names rather than formulas are preferred in titles.
The titles have a limit of 90 characters including spaces. Authors should refrain from using acronyms in the title.
Authors' Names and Affiliations:
Authors' first and last names should be provided.
Please clearly indicate the given name(s) and family name(s) of each author and check that all names are accurately spelled.
The affiliations of the authors at the time the work was performed should be presented with the institution and department names (if applicable) presented in full, with the city, state/ prefecture/province, postal code, and country (if not United States). Do not include local address information, such as street name, on the manuscript; however, this information should be included in the online submission form or cover letter.
Indicate all affiliations with a lower-case superscript letter immediately after the author's name and in front of the appropriate address.
If authors' current or permanent affiliations are different from the above, this should be explained in a footnote.
Corresponding author. Clearly indicate who will handle correspondence at all stages of refereeing and publication, also post-publication. This responsibility includes answering any future queries about Methodology and Materials. Ensure that the e-mail address is given and that contact details are kept up to date by the corresponding author.
Abstract:
A concise abstract not exceeding 200 words must be provided with each paper.
The abstract should be of the informative type, presenting a condensed version of the information in the paper.
The abstract should state briefly the purpose of the research, the approach used, the principal results and major conclusions.
No footnotes or references may appear in the abstract, but if essential, then cite the author(s) and year(s).
Also, non-standard or uncommon abbreviations should be avoided, but if essential they must be defined at their first mention in the abstract itself.
Keywords:
Immediately after the abstract, provide a maximum of 5 keywords, using American spelling and avoiding general and plural terms and multiple concepts (avoid, for example, 'and', 'of'). Only abbreviations firmly established in the field may be eligible. These keywords will be used for indexing purposes.
Abbreviations:
Define abbreviations that are not standard in this field in a footnote to be placed on the first page of the article. Such abbreviations that are unavoidable in the abstract must be defined at their first mention there, as well as in the footnote. Ensure consistency of abbreviations throughout the article.
Footnotes:
Should be used to document the following general types of information about a paper:
Notice that the paper was presented at a technical meeting, information regarding a thesis or dissertation upon which the current paper is based, and the source of financial support for the work.
Text Sections:
• The text of each paper should be divided into three or more sections.
• Typical section titles are as follows:
Introduction
Experimental Procedure
Results and Discussion
Conclusions (or Summary)
Appendix (optional)
Tables
Figure captions
• Supplementary Materials may be submitted for online publication.
• Figures and Tables in Supplementary Materials should be numbered S1, S2, S3, etc. and all such material should be referred to in the main text as Supplementary Materials available online.
• The background and context of a paper should be presented in an Introduction, and the main points of the paper should be reiterated in the Conclusions or Summary section.
• An appendix can be added to make the paper more readable. For example, a lengthy mathematical derivation could be included as an Appendix.
• Sections can be divided into two or more subsections. The titles of subsections should be brief, and the subsections should reflect an organized breakdown of the section subject. Subsection titles should be as brief as clarity permits and should be parallel in structure.
• Rapid Communications need not have separate sections but must have a separately labeled Abstract and Conclusions.
Acknowledgment and Support:
Organize acknowledgments in a separate section at the end of the article before the references. List here those individuals who provided help during the research (e.g., providing language help, writing assistance or proofreading the article, etc.).
If the author wishes to acknowledge non-financial support (for example, donation of materials or use of laboratory equipment), a brief Acknowledgment section may be presented immediately preceding the Reference section.
Figure captions
Ensure that each illustration has a caption. Supply captions separately, not attached to the figure. A caption should comprise a brief title (not on the figure itself) and a description of the illustration. Keep text in the illustrations themselves to a minimum but explain all symbols and abbreviations used.
Tables:
Please submit tables as editable text and not as images.
Tables can be placed either next to the relevant text in the article, or on separate page(s) at the end.
Number tables consecutively in accordance with their appearance in the text and place any table notes below the table body.
Be sparing in the use of tables and ensure that the data presented in them do not duplicate results described elsewhere in the article. Please avoid using vertical rules and shading in table cells.
Referees:
Please submit the names and e-mail addresses of several probable reviewers. Note that the editor holds the sole right to decide whether or not the proposed referees are used.
Review:
The review system assigns a manuscript number, forwards the manuscript to the journal, and sends an e-mail letter to the submitting author acknowledging receipt of the manuscript with cc to each identified co-author. The Journal staff electronically forwards the manuscript to the appropriate Journal Editor. The next step is to assign reviewers who access the manuscript to assess and judge it. Associate editors, when invited, make an accept/reject the recommendation to the Editor, who makes a final decision on publication of the manuscript.
The Editor's decision is sent to the author, with the reviewers' comments. The identities of the reviewers are not revealed to the authors but the reviewers do receive a copy of the decision letter, which gives them insight into the reviewing process and an awareness of the expectations for acceptance.
Decisions:
The decision of the Editor is final. Resubmissions of previously rejected manuscripts will be returned to the author.
References:
Citation in text: Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list (and vice versa). Unpublished results and personal communications are not recommended in the reference list, but may be mentioned in the text. If these references are included in the reference list, they should follow the standard reference style of the journal and should include a substitution of the publication date with either 'Unpublished results' or 'Personal communication'. Citation of a reference as 'in press' implies that the item has been accepted for publication.
Web references: As a minimum, the full URL should be given and the date when the reference was last accessed. Any further information, if known (DOI, author names, dates, reference to a source publication, etc.), should also be given.
Reference formatting: Author(s) name(s), journal title/book title, chapter title/article title, year of publication, volume number/book chapter, and the article number or pagination must be present. The use of DOI is highly encouraged. If you do wish to format the references yourself they should be arranged according to the following examples:
Reference style Text: Indicate references by Author name, publication year in square brackets in line with the text. Example: '..... as demonstrated [El-amir et al., 2019].
List: arrange the references alphabetically on the list.
Examples:
Reference style Text: Indicate references by number(s) in square brackets in line with the text. The actual authors can be referred to, but the reference number(s) must always be given. Example: '..... as demonstrated [3,6]. Barnaby and Jones [8] obtained a different result ....'
List: Number the references (numbers in square brackets) in the list in the order in which they appear in the text. Examples: Reference to a journal publication: [1] H. Bany-Aiesh, R. Banat, K. Al-Sou’od, Kinetics and adsorption isotherm of ibuprofen onto grafted β-CD/chitosan polymer, Am. J. Appl. Sci. 12 (2015) 917–930. https://doi.org/10.3844/ajassp.2015.917.930.
Reference to a journal publication with an article number:
[1] T. Xia, L. Yin, Y. Xie, Y. Ji, Efficiently remove of Cs(I) by metals hexacyanoferrate modified magnetic Fe3O4-chitosan nanoparticles, Chem. Phys. Lett. 746 (2020) 137293. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cplett.2020.137293.
Reference to a book: [3] W. Lima., E.B. Black, The Main Group Elements, fourth ed., Longman, New York, (2000).
Reference to a chapter in an edited book: [4] A. Barhoum, M. Bechelany, A Broad Family of Carbon Nanomaterials: Classification, Properties, Synthesis, and Emerging Applications. In: A. Barhoum, M. Bechelany, A. Makhlouf (eds), Handbook of Nanofibers. Springer, Cham. (2019) 2-59.