Sustainable Structures
ISSN: 2789-3111 (Print)
ISSN: 2789-312X (Online)
Guide for Authors
Sustainable Structures (SUST) publishes mainly Reviews, Research Papers, Technical
notes, Meeting Reports, and Case Reports. All papers
must be written in English, and follow a clear, concise style. The language
editors may have to check the language and grammar of your submitted
manuscript, and make editorial changes if deemed necessary. Manuscripts
about materials, structures, and other applications to non- sustainable structures
are unfortunately outside the scope of this journal. Please do not resubmit a
rejected manuscript (unless the Editors have invited you to resubmit) as it
will not be considered and will be rejected without review.
SUST is an open access but free journal without any publication fees. None
fees or charges are required for manuscript processing and open access
publishing. All related fees for an accepted manuscript will be supported by Sustainable Development
Press Limited (SDPL).
All manuscripts must be submitted electronically via the online
submission system, and manuscripts submitted for publication must be prepared
according to the guidelines given below and must be fitted according to the template for submission. You may choose to submit your manuscript as a single Word or PDF
file (prioritized) to be used in the refereeing process. This guideline
is intended to assist authors as they prepare their manuscripts. To avoid
any delay and time-consuming restructuring, Sustainable Structures (SUST) asks
and encourages authors to read the guidelines before writing the manuscript. If
you found there were some problems to submit from the online system,
please email to lilyguo1202@126.com.
Submission Template /kindeditor/attached/file/20230209/20230209090760056005.docx
Cover Letter
A cover letter must be included with a
submitted manuscript. The cover letter must clearly state that the manuscript
is an original work with its own merit, has not been previously published in
whole or in part, and is not being considered for publication elsewhere. It
should also include statements clearly indicating that all authors have read
the final manuscript, have approved the submission to the journal, and have
accepted full responsibilities pertaining to the manuscript’s delivery and
contents. If there are any ethical, copyright, disclosure issues that come with
the manuscript, please reveal them in the cover letter. In the cover letter,
authors need to declare that there is no conflict of interests or disclose all
the conflicts of interest regarding the manuscript submitted.
Basic requirements for manuscripts
1. The paper should be original, innovative,
scientific, logical and readable. It has not been published previously, or is
not under consideration for publication elsewhere, and if accepted it will not
be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language,
without the written consent of the publisher.
2. The length for the abstract should be 200
words or so (more than 150 words). 6 keywords or so should be offered and each
keyword except the first one should be lowercase unless an uppercase letter is
necessary.
3. Authors must provide the original raw images
of both the figures (e.g., diagrams, charts, graphs, and photographs) cited in
the main text and the supporting information reported in the article. Images
must be clear, high-contrast, and clearly legible at the size in which they are
to appear in the journal. If a figure or table has been published
previously—even by an author of the manuscript being submitted for review—the
copyright holder’s written acknowledgment and permission for its reuse are
often required. For any figures (or tables) that contain data from a public
database, the source should be cited in the caption, legend, or title
explicitly.
4. Only the International System of Units (SI)
are acceptable in text, tables and figures. Abbreviations should be defined in
parentheses the first time they appear in the abstract, main text, and in
figure or table caption and used consistently thereafter. All equations
must be typed by the MathType add-on. Please submit math equations as
editable text and not as images.
5. Please cite references by number in
parentheses in the main text, e.g., [1], [2], [3]… If the cited references are
consecutive more than 2, please see the example, [1–2], [2–5]. References
should be organized in order of citation in the main.
6. All submitted manuscripts should contain the
following parts right before the list of references:
Acknowledgement: All contributors who do not
meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in this section.
Funding Statement: Authors must disclose all
sources of funding for the research in the Funding Statement of the article.
The statement should be specifying the role of each in the design of the study,
the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data, and the composition of
the manuscript. Specifically, the full name of each source of funding should be
provided accompanied by any associated grant numbers in square brackets, URLs
to sponsors’ websites. If the study has no funding support, please include
“The author(s) received no specific funding for this study.” in the funding
statement. Funding sources should not be written in the Acknowledgments or
anywhere else in the manuscript file.
CRediT authorship contribution statement: The
contributions statement of all authors are urged to be described in the
manuscript.
Conflicts of Interest: Authors must declare all conflicts of interest.
If there is no conflicts of interest, it should also be declared as in ex,
please write “The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest to
report regarding the present study”.
7. If you are an author whose native language
is not English—or you have any concerns regarding the language quality of your
manuscript—we recommend having your manuscript professionally edited by a
qualified English-speaking researcher in your field prior to submission.
Structure
of manuscripts
Subdivision
- numbered sections
Divide your article into clearly defined and
numbered sections. Subsections should be numbered 1.1 (then 1.1.1, 1.1.2, ...),
1.2, etc. (the abstract is not included in section numbering). Use this
numbering also for internal cross-referencing: do not just refer to 'the text'.
Any subsection may be given a brief heading. Each heading should appear on its
own separate line.
Introduction
State the objectives of the work and provide an
adequate background, avoiding a detailed literature survey or a summary of the
results.
Material
and methods
Provide sufficient details to allow the work to
be reproduced by an independent researcher. Methods that are already published
should be summarized, and indicated by a reference. If quoting directly from a
previously published method, use quotation marks and also cite the source. Any
modifications to existing methods should also be described.
Theory/calculation
A Theory section should extend, not repeat, the
background to the article already dealt with in the Introduction and lay the
foundation for further work. In contrast, a Calculation section represents a
practical development from a theoretical basis.
Results
Results should be clear and concise.
Discussion
This should explore the significance of the
results of the work, not repeat them. A combined Results and Discussion section
is often appropriate. Avoid extensive citations and discussion of published
literature.
Conclusions
The main conclusions of the study may be
presented in a short Conclusions section, which may stand alone or form a
subsection of a Discussion or Results and Discussion section.
References
Please ensure that every reference cited in the
text is also present in the reference list (and vice versa). Any references
cited in the abstract must be given in full. 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. A DOI is guaranteed never to
change, so you must use it as a permanent link to any electronic article. Please
note the format of all citations should be in the same style as all other
references in the paper.
Submission checklist
You can use this list to carry out a final
check of your submission before you send it to the journal for review. Please
check the relevant section in this Guide for Authors for more details.
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 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
Graphical Abstracts / Highlights files (where
applicable)
Supplemental files (where applicable)
Further considerations
• 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
Revised Submissions
Use of word processing software
Regardless of the file format of the
original submission, at revision you must provide us with an editable file of
the entire article and be fitted according to the SUST
Journal template (Downloaded from the linkage mentioned above). To avoid unnecessary errors you are strongly advised to
use the 'spell-check' and 'grammar-check' functions of your word processor.
Open Access
Sustainable Structures (SUST) makes all content freely available to all
researchers worldwide. All published papers have DOI numbers registered through
Crossref (https://www.crossref.org/). Content is published online to provide timely communication to the
community and keep publication times to a minimum. The PDF edition of all
published papers for SUST could be downloaded freely from the journal website: http://www.sustain-dpl.com/journal/sust.
Copyright, Licensing and Repository policy
Sustainable Structures (SUST) publishes all articles under an open-access
license, which means that the articles remain accessible to all without charge
and without technical or legal barriers and that they can be reused with
proper acknowledgment and citation. Financial support for the open access
publication is provided by Sustainable Development Press Limited (SDPL)
once manuscripts have been accepted. The authors’ institutions or research funding
agencies won’t pay any fees for the open access publication. More specifically, SUST publishes articles under the Creative Commons
Attribution (CC BY) License. Sustainable
Structures is committed to open access publishing as a
means to foster the exchange of research among scientists, especially across
disciplines.
The copyright and other proprietary rights related to
papers published by Sustainable
Structures are retained by the authors. If the authors
reproduce any text, figures, tables, or illustrations from the papers published
by Sustainable Structures in their own future research, they must cite
the originally published version. Sustainable Structures (SUST) allow
authors to deposit versions of their work in an institutional or other
repository of their choice. They are further asked to inform Sustainable Structures’ editorial office of any exceptional
circumstances in this regard at the time of submission, for which exceptions
may be granted at the discretion of the publisher. Articles published in Sustainable Structures are likely to contain material republished
with permission under a more restrictive license. When this situation arises,
it should be indicated; it is the responsibility of the authors to seek
permission for reuse from the copyright holder.
All papers are licensed
under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits
unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the
original papers are properly cited.
• All figures (include relevant captions)
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Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.