RETERM - Thermal
Engineering – Notes for Authors
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 only
by E-mail: The file, preferably in Word for Windows, with the full
manuscript (including figures) should be sent to vargasjvcv@gmail.com
. Other file types, such as Open Office or Latex files could be
accepted, but a delay in final publication should be expected.
In the e-mail that sends the manuscript file, the authors should
indicate to which journal section the paper is intended to, i.e.
Technology or Science. The e-mail 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 file since
the journal cannot accept responsibility for damage or loss of paper
files.
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://www.demec.ufpr.br/reterm/autores.htm,
in order to comply with RETERM’s format since the very first
submission. 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. If you are using Word
for Windows, please type equations with Microsoft
Equation 3.0 only.
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, for
example, “Figure 1, Figures 1 and 2, or Figures 1-5”
in the beginning of a sentence, and “Fig. 1, Figs 1 and 2,
or Figs. 1-5” in the middle of a sentence. The figure label
should be text centered underneath the figure as, for example “Figure
1. Problem sketch.”. The table labels should be text centered
on top of the table as, for example “Table 1. General rate
of annual mileage.”.
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, preferably in Word for Windows, of the final corrected version
of their paper via e-mail (reterm.abcm@gmail.com
or vargasjvcv@gmail.com).
The formatting of the final paper should follow the RETERM publication
standard template, which may be downloaded from the journal website
http://www.demec.ufpr.br/reterm/autores.htm.
Please note that accepted papers which exceed the standard length
of 10 (ten) journal pages will be subjected to an excess-page charge
of US$ 50.00 per page for each page. This charge will be invoiced
to the author’s company, institute, or agency, as indicated.
One journal printed issue is sent to the first author of the paper
free of charge. Additional printed issues can be ordered from RETERM
(reterm.abcm@gmail.com) 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.abcm@gmail.com.
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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