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i) PURPOSE AND POLICY
The purpose of the RETERM - Thermal Engineering Journal is
to publish papers of permanent interest dealing with research,
development and design related to Energy, Equipments, Oil and Gas.
The journal is divided in two sections: i) Technology and
ii) Science. The Technology section comprises articles that document
modern engineering applications or general advances in industry. The
Science section is intended for publishing articles that deal with
fundamental advances in heat transfer and fluid mechanics, new physical
insights, and novel experimental and analytical methods that have great
appeal for the industry community.
Submission of full-length scientific, review or technical
papers to RETERM implies that it is not under consideration for
publication elsewhere and it has not been previously published. Exception
is made for papers previously published in proceedings of conferences.
Review articles should constitute a critical appraisal of published
information.
The decision of acceptance for publication either for the
Technology or the Science section lies with the Editors and is based on
the recommendations of at least two independent referees and of the
Editorial Board, if necessary.
ii) SUBMISSION
All manuscripts for RETERM must be written in clear and
concise English. The submission of a manuscript may be carried out by:
a) E-mail: The file (Word for Windows or Latex) with the
full manuscript (including figures) should be sent to
reterm@demec.ufpr.br;
b) Mail: Three (3) hard copies of the manuscript should be
sent to the Technical Editor at: RETERM – Departamento de Engenharia
Mecânica - Universidade Federal do Paraná, Centro Politécnico, Caixa
Postal 19011, CEP 81531-990, Curitiba/PR-Brasil, or
c) On-line: Follow all instructions (in Portuguese) as
detailed at http://calvados.c3sl.ufpr.br/reterm/. Upon registering, the
submission procedure becomes available to the authors.
In any case, the manuscript should be accompanied by a
cover letter indicating to which journal section the paper is intended
to, i.e. Technology or Science. The cover letter should also contain the
full name and postal address of the corresponding author and his/her
phone, fax number and e-mail address.
If the authors so wish, the names of up to five persons
who could act as referees may be indicated.
The authors should retain a copy of their manuscript since
the journal cannot accept responsibility for damage or loss of papers.
iii) MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION
The manuscript should be organized in the following order:
Title, authors, affiliations, abstract, keywords (3 to 5), nomenclature,
main text (divided into sections and subsections), acknowledgements,
references, and appendices. The tables and captions, as well as figures
and captions should be appropriately distributed into the main text.
The abstract should state the objectives, methodology and
main conclusions in up to 300 words. In all papers, sufficient
information should be provided in the text or by referring to papers in
other journals, to permit the work to be repeated.
Manuscripts should be typed according to the template file
available on the journal internet site:
http://demec.ufpr.br/reterm/autores/index.htm. The pages should be
numbered and the full length of the manuscript including tables and
figures should not exceed 10 pages.
iii.1) Units and Symbols
The use of SI (metric) system is mandatory for all
reported data. Temperatures should be given in °C or K. Uncertainties
should be specified for experimental and numerical results.
The nomenclature section should list, in alphabetical
order, all used symbols and their definitions, followed by, if
applicable, Greek symbols, subscripts and superscripts. Besides, all
symbols should be defined within the text.
iii.2) Mathematical Expressions
Mathematical expressions should be produced by an equation
editor and should not be introduced along the text itself, as part of a
sentence line, but typed on individual lines.
Numbers that identify mathematical expressions should be
enclosed in parentheses located at the right margin of the paragraph.
Refer to equations in the text such as in “…as derived from eq. (1)…”,
or, if at the beginning of a sentence, “Equation (1) indicates…”.
iii.3) Figures and Tables
Photographs, charts and diagrams are all to be referred to
as “Figure (s)”.
Figures should be submitted in laser printer output,
original line drawings or glossy prints. Photocopies should be avoided.
Figures should be clear and suitable for reduction (up to
50%). The amount of lettering should be reduced as much as possible by
transferring it to the figure legend. Remaining lettering should be large
enough to be clearly legible.
Figures and tables, with a suitable caption, should be
numbered consecutively in the order in which they are referred to in the
main text. Footnotes to tables should be typed below the table and should
be referred to by superscript lowercase letters.
Refer to figures or tables in the text such as in “Figure
1 shows…”, or, “…in Fig. 1 it is shown…”.
Please note that color figures or tables cannot be printed
in color. However, they will appear in color in the journal website.
iii.4) References
Cite references in the text by giving the last name of the
author(s) and the year of publication: either “Recent work (Prata and
Parise, 1985) has indicated...” or “Recently Prata and Parise (1985)
indicated....”. With three or more authors, use the form “Prata et al.
(1985)…”. When two or more references have the same text identification,
append “a”, “b”, etc, to the year of publication.
Acceptable references include: journal articles,
dissertations, published conference proceedings, books, accepted articles
if the journal is identified, and private communications.
References cited in the text should be listed, in alphabetical
order of the last name of the first author, at the end of the paper. Some
sample references follow:
Kays, W. M., and London, A. L., 1964, Compact Heat Exchangers,
McGraw-Hill Book Company. (for
books)
Mengüç, M. P., and Dutta, P., 1994, Scattering Tomography
and its Application to Sooting Diffusion Flames, Journal of Heat
Transfer, Vol. 116, No. 1, pp. 144-151. (for journal articles)
Phiney, L. M., 1997, Electronic Desorption and
Microstructure Adhesion Reduction Using Ultrashort-Pulse Lasers, Doctoral
Thesis, University of California, Berkeley, CA. (for theses)
Viskanta, R., 1995, Convective Heat Transfer in
Consolidated Porous Media: A Perspective, in: Symposium on Thermal Science and Engineering in
Honor of Chancellor Chang-Lin Tien, University of California,
Berkeley, pp. 43-50. (for
conference proceedings)
iv) AFTER ACCEPTANCE
Upon notification of acceptance, authors should submit an
electronic copy (Word for Windows, or Latex) of the final corrected
version of their paper via e-mail (reterm@demec.ufpr.br). The formatting
of the final paper should follow the RETERM publication standard
template, which may be downloaded from the journal website http://demec.ufpr.br/reterm/autores/index.htm.
Please note that accepted papers which exceed the standard
length of eight journal pages will be subjected to an excess-page charge
of US$ 50.00 per page for each page over eight pages. This charge will be
invoiced to the author's company, institute, or agency, as indicated.
One journal printed issue wiil be sent to the first author
of the paper free of charge. Additional printed issues can be ordered
from RETERM (reterm@demec.ufpr.br,
tel. (41) 3361-3124 or fax (41) 3361-3131) and will be charged according
to: 25 extra volumes (US$ 100.00) or 50 extra volumes (US$ 180.00).
For inquiries related to the submission of articles
(including electronic submission), the status of accepted articles or
other inquiries, please contact RETERM at reterm@demec.ufpr.br.
v) COPYRIGHT
The authors, or the
first author on behalf of all authors, must sign the “Copyright Transfer”
agreement before the article can be published. This transfer agreement
enables RETERM to protect the copyrighted material for the authors,
without the author relinquishing his/her proprietary rights.
The copyright transfer covers the exclusive rights to
reproduce and distribute the article, including reprints. Authors are
responsible for obtaining from the copyright holder permission to
reproduce any material for which copyright already exists.
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