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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