International Review

of Applied Sciences and Engineering

Instructions for Authors

AIMS AND SCOPE

INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING offers a comprehensive range of articles
on all aspects of engineering and applied sciences. It provides an international and interdisciplinary platform for
the exchange of ideas between engineers, researchers and scholars within the academy and industry. It covers a
wide range of application areas including architecture, building services and energetics, civil engineering,
electrical engineering and mechatronics, environmental engineering, mechanical engineering, material sciences,
applied informatics and management sciences. The aim of the Journal is to provide a location for reporting
original research results having international focus with multidisciplinary content. The published papers provide
solely new basic information for designers, scholars and developers working in the mentioned fields. The papers
reflect the broad categories of interest in optimisation, simulation, modelling, control techniques, monitoring,
and development of new analysis methods, equipment and system conception. The journal’s language is English.

EDITORIAL BOARD INFORMATION

INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING was founded in 2010 by the University of
Debrecen. Its publisher is Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary.

EDITORIAL BOARD

INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING is handled by an independent Editorial

Board of autonomous scholars. Free from any external influence, they decide about the journal’s policies in
general, and – based on the outcome of the peer review – about the acceptance or rejection of papers in each
concrete case. The names and affiliations of the Editorial Board members can be found on the journal’s web
page.

CONTACT

In case of any query, please, feel free to contact: [email protected].

ADDRESS OF THE EDITORIAL OFFICE

International Review of Applied Sciences and Engineering

Faculty of Engineering, University of Debrecen
H-4028 Debrecen, Ótemető u. 2-4, HUNGARY

PUBLICATION SCHEDULE

One volume of three issues is published every year.

DIGITAL ARCHIVE

The entire journal content is archived in the Portico preservation archive.

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Submission of a paper to INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING will be taken to
imply that it represents original work not previously published, that it is not being considered elsewhere for
publication, and that if accepted for publication it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in any
language, without the consent of editor and publisher. Submissions are to be accompanied by a signed statement
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thereof (see links to the License Agreement forms under section COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE POLICY/OPEN ACCESS
below).

SUBMISSION

Authors should submit their manuscripts using the online manuscript submission and peer review Open Journal
System. Details are available online at https://submit.akademiai.com/irase.

REVIEW PROCESS

PREFERRED CONDITIONS OF MANUSCRIPTS

The INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING strives to publish high quality papers.
To ensure this goal, we apply some basic quality and relevance criteria when reviewing a manuscript, in particular
every submission undergoes iThenticate plagiarism and self-plagiarism check (including original, revised as well
as accepted versions of the MS). The similarity index may not be higher than 13% (excluding references). Not
fulfilling these requirements may lead to desk rejection of a submitted manuscript.

REVIEW OF THE MANUSCRIPTS

Each paper will be read by at least two unbiased peer reviewers, chosen avoiding any conflict of interest.
INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING applies a single-blind review process, in
which the reviewers’ identities are hidden to the authors while the reviewers are aware of the authors’ identity.
Authors are welcome to suggest at most three potential reviewers when submitting their manuscripts. They
cannot be employed in the same country as any of the authors. Suggested reviewers may not be in any way
affiliated with the author or the work. Authors should provide academic email addresses of the proposed
reviewers. The editor may not use author’s suggestion, but it may facilitate the review process. Excluding
reviewers is not possible.
Unpublished results are treated strictly confidentially.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE POLICY

OPEN ACCESS

INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING is a Gold Open Access journal. Readers
can read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full texts of all articles, or use them for any other
non-commercial lawful purpose. All articles are distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-
NonCommercial 4.0 International Licenses.
The Open Access Licence Agreement form can be downloaded from here (and a slightly modified variant here;
for those authors who are eligible for Open Access publication through the EISZ consortial agreement, see
below).

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE POLICY

By default, the articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
Licenses Copyright Terms. With that, the authors grant to Akadémiai Kiadó Zrt. (hereafter the Publisher) an
irrevocable nonexclusive license to publish the article in electronic and print format, and further sublicense the
article in its original language throughout the world. The Publisher has the exclusive right to publish the article
first.
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The Author shall declare and warrant that

− he/she is the exclusive author of the article along with the above indicated co-authors and he/she has
the approval of all the other co-authors to publish the article in its current form,
− the article is their own intellectual product,
− the article is original, has not been formally published in any other peer-reviewed journal, is not under
consideration by any other journal and does not infringe any existing copyright or any other third-party
rights,
− there is no plagiarism in the article, the content is punctual and true to the best of the Author’s
knowledge, it does not include any libel, or parts that are obscene or violate the copyrights, private life
or any other rights of a third party, or that are illegal and shall warrant that the manuscript is not partly
or entirely under review or being published at any other journals either in English or in any other
languages,
− the Author shall accept that he/she shall provide the exact location of the first publication of the article
when making the article available to any third party and shall enclose the link to the location of the first
publication in the following format: (https://doi.org/ [The DOI-number of the article without brackets]).

The Publisher shall be entitled to the following – not exclusive - rights of use after the first publication:
− To make the article available to the public for download on their own official publisher webpage without
any time restriction.
− To utilize the article for commercial purposes individually or for the entire journal without any
geographic or time limitation (for subscribers, one-off downloaders, one-off buyers of the article
archive, etc.).
− To convert the article into the optional electronic format, to copy the article on a PC or electronic data
medium.
− To publish the article in the electronic and printed journals indicated on the official publisher homepage,
also including those journals that are partially or entirely available to a third party against a subscription
fee.
− To share the publishing and rights of use with any other third party, respectively exercise these rights
together with a third party.
− To translate the article into a different language.
− To represent the author in the case of conducts of infringement of rights, unauthorized usage or
violation of copyrights.
− To exercise all those rights that any third party is entitled to according to the license terms “CC BY NC”
indicated above.
The articles published in the framework of the EISZ Read and Publish Agreement (see below) are covered by the
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. That is, their use is allowed also for commercial
purposes.

AUTHOR CHARGES

In accordance with the agreement between the Electronic Information Service National Programme (EISZ) and
Akadémiai Kiadó, papers with a corresponding author affiliated to a member institution subscribing to the journal
package of Akadémiai Kiadó, will be published without an author fee.
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In principle, the Authors of manuscripts submitted after Feb 1, 2020 and not covered by the agreement between
EISZ and Akadémiai Kiadó are requested to pay the Article Processing Charge (APC) to cover the publishing costs
of the paper. However, in practice, there are a number of funded waivers, courtesy of the University of Debrecen.
If the corresponding author is not affiliated with an EISZ member institution, and in the unlikely event that funded
waivers have run out, the APC is 1100 EUR (including VAT). Akadémiai Kiadó offers a 50% discount for Editorial
Board members, and institutions in middle-income countries, whereas low-income economy institutions would
be granted a 100% discount. Discounts may not be combined.
Authors without a waiver will be requested – after acceptance of their paper in INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF
APPLIED SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING – to enter our online payment platform (https://apc.akademiai.hu),
where after registration they can upload the license agreement and settle the fee by bank transfer or with a
credit card. Manuscripts with outstanding payment will not be processed until the balance is cleared.
Please note that there is no peer review charge, the only applicable fee might be the article processing charge.
For more information on Akadémiai Kiadó’s Open Access policy visit our website.

ETHICAL STATEMENT

INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING and Akadémiai Kiadó are committed to
the ethical practices in science publishing and therefore follow the COPE Code of Conduct for Journal Editors as
well as the Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers. All authors are expected to be aware and follow the Ethical
Guide of Akadémiai Kiadó, conform to the highest standards of ethical conduct in the submission of accurate
data, acknowledging the work of others, and divulging potential conflicts of interests.
Editors and Editorial Board members are welcome to submit their own papers to their journals. These
submissions – as well as any other submission with which they have any kind of conflict of interest, e.g. those by
their students – must be handled by other editors. All such submissions must be peer reviewed and evaluated as
any other. Possible conflicts of interests (such as previous co-authorship or working in the same department)
should be considered when choosing peer reviewers.

PREPARATION OF THE MANUSCRIPTS

INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING publishes Original Research Papers and
Review Papers. Review papers are generally by invitation. However, prospective authors are welcome to submit
review paper proposals to the Editor-in-Chief.

MANUSCRIPTS

Manuscripts should be written in clear, concise, and grammatically correct English. The order should be as
follows: title page, abstract, keywords, text, appendix, acknowledgements, notes, references, tables, figures,
figure captions.

TITLE

The title should be concise and informative. Abbreviations in the title should be avoided.

ABSTRACT

should not exceed 200 words.

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KEYWORDS

should not exceed 10.

TEXT

The body of research reports will generally include the following headings: Introduction, Materials and Methods,
Results, Discussion, Conclusions (Limitations). Further subheadings are acceptable.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

You may add an optional Acknowledgements section for any further information you wish to disclose.

FOOTNOTES

should only be used if absolutely necessary.

REFERENCES

in the text should be cited by names only if they are part of the sentence: “Hilton [5] described earlier…,”
otherwise they should be indicated by the reference number(s) in square brackets [3, 7, 12]. If there are more
than two authors, the name of the first author should be used, followed by “et al.” List the references in order
of appearance at the end of the paper. The style and punctuation of references should conform to that used in
the journal, following the IEEE Guidelines. See the following examples:

W. T. Huang, H.Y. Tong, C. P. Lee, K. Ha, and L.Y. Pao, “Development of a practical driving cycle construction
methodology: A case study in Hong Kong,” Transp. Res. D Transp. Environ., vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 115–28, 2007,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2007.01.002.
B. Klaus and P. Horn, Robot Vision. Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press, 1986.
L. Stein, “Random patterns,” in Computers and You, J. S. Brake, Ed., New York, NY, USA: Wiley, 1994, pp. 55– 70.
W. R. Leonard and M. H. Crawford, Eds. Human Biology of Pastoral Populations. New York, NY, USA: Cambridge
Univ. Press, 2002.
I. Sovinc, “Stresses and displacements in a limited layer of uniform thickness, resting on a rigid base, and
subjected to an uniformly distributed flexible load of rectangular shape,” 5th Int. Conf. Soil Mech. and
Found. Eng., pp. 823–7, 1961.
O. F. Delgado-Neira, Driving Cycle Properties and their Influence on Fuel Consumption and Emissions. Graduate
Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports. 3568, 2012. https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/3568.

TABLES

Each, bearing a title, should be self-explanatory. They should all be mentioned in the text, numbered
consecutively with Arabic numerals and placed on separate sheets at the end of the manuscript, following the
References.

FIGURES

Figures should be inserted within the text or in the end of the manuscript following the References, or as separate
files if so preferred. Figures must be prepared in *. JPG, *.TIF or *.BMP format, and numbered in order of citation
in the text. All figures should be mentioned in the text. Color or gray scale photograph and line drawing resolution
must be at least 600 DPI.
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PROOF

Online page proofs for checking are requested to be returned within three working days of receipt. Please note
that authors are urged to check their proofs carefully before submitting corrections, since late corrections cannot
be guaranteed for inclusion and post-publication corrections are only possible in an erratum. Corrections to the
proofs must be restricted to existing errors. Rewriting the text or modifying authorship is not accepted in the
proof stage.