Guideline for Authors
1 General Information
Chemical Industry and Engineering（ISSN1004-9533）is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal. The journal was started in 1984 and publishes high-quality and original research papers or reviews in the fields of chemical engineering science and industry. The journal is co-sponsored by Tianjin University and Chemical Engineering Society of Tianjin.
The scope of the journal is:
Chemical reaction and technology
Energy and environment
Process design, analysis, and modeling
Separation and intensification
Biochemical and pharmaceutical engineering
Online versions are available at http://www.jchemindustry.tju.edu.cn.
All contributions should conform to the Aims and Scope shown at the front of the journal. The Editors welcome contributions to new topics that fall within the broad scope of Chemical Industry and Engineering.
1.1 Ethical Responsibilities of Authors
This journal is committed to upholding the integrity and authority of science. The journal will follow the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines (http://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines) on how to deal with potential acts of misconduct.
Authors should refrain from misrepresenting research results, as this could damage the trust in the authors themselves, the work/research, the journal, and ultimately the entire scientific endeavor. Maintaining the integrity of the research and its presentation can be achieved by following the rules of good scientific practice, which include:
The manuscript should not be submitted to more than one journal for simultaneous consideration.
The manuscript should not have been published previously (in part or in full), unless the new work concerns an expansion of previous work (please be transparent on the re-use of any materials to avoid any doubt of text-recycling (“self-plagiarism”)).
A single study should not be split up into several parts to increase the quantity of submissions, then submitted to various journals or to one journal over time.
No data should be fabricated or manipulated (including images) in order to support conclusions.
No data, text, or theories by others should be presented as if they were the authors’ own (“plagiarism”). Proper acknowledgements to other works must be given (this includes any materials that are directly cited, summarized and/or paraphrased). Quotation marks are used for direct citation of materials, and permission must be secured for material that is copyrighted.
Important note: the journal may use software to screen for plagiarism.
All co-authors and responsible authorities where the work was carried out must give their consent to publish before the work is submitted.
Authors whose names appear on the submitted paper have contributed sufficiently to the work and therefore share collective responsibility and accountability for the results.
In addition:
Changes in authorship or in the order of the authors’ names are not accepted once the manuscript has been accepted. Requests to add or delete authors at the revision stage or after publication is a serious matter and may be considered only after receiving written approval from all authors with a detailed explanation about the role/deletion of the new/deleted author. The decision to accept or decline the change rests with the Chief Editor of the journal.
Upon request, authors should be prepared to send relevant documentation or data to verify the validity of the results. This could be in the form of raw data, samples, records, etc.
If there is any suspicion of misconduct, our board will carry out an investigation following the COPE guidelines. If the allegation seems to raise valid concerns, the accused author will be contacted and given an opportunity to address the issue. If misconduct has been proven, it may result in the implementation of certain measures, for instance:
If the article is still under consideration, it may be rejected and returned to the author(s).
If the article has already been published online, depending on the nature and severity of the infraction, either an erratum will be placed with the article or, in severe cases, the article will be completely retracted. The reason must be given in the published erratum or retraction note.
The author(s)’ institution may be informed for the misconduct.
1.2 Disclosure of Potential Conflict of Interests
A conflict of interest may exist when an author or the author’s institution has a financial or other relationship with other people or organizations that may inappropriately influence the author’s work. A conflict can be actual or potential and full disclosure to the Journal is the safest course. All submissions to the Journal must include disclosure of all relationships that could be viewed as presenting a potential conflict of interest. The Journal may use such information as a basis for editorial decisions and may publish such disclosures if they are believed to be important to readers in judging the manuscript. A decision may be made by the Journal not to publish on the basis of the declared conflict.
If no conflict exists, the authors should state as following
Conflict of Interest: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
1.3 Statement of Human and Animal Rights
When reporting studies that involve human participants, authors should include a statement that the studies have been approved by the appropriate institutional and/or national research ethics committee and have been performed in accordance with the ethical standards as laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. If doubt exists whether the research was conducted in accordance with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration or comparable standards, the authors must explain the reasons for their approach, and demonstrate that the independent ethics committee or institutional review board explicitly approved the doubtful aspects of the study.
The following statements are recommended:
Ethical approval: “All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.”
For studies with animals, the following statement should be included:
“All applicable institutional and/or national guidelines for the care and use of animals were followed.”
If articles do not contain studies with human participants or animals by any of the authors, the following sentence is recommended:
“This article does not contain any studies with human participants or animals, performed by any of the authors.”
For retrospective studies, please add the following sentence:
“For this type of study formal consent is not required.”
1.4 Conflicts of interest
Any conflict of interest, any grant or financial profit related with the study must be mentioned in a brief note at the end of the manuscript. This statement has no bearing on the editorial decision to publish the manuscript.
All authors must disclose any and all conflicts of interest, they may have with publication of the manuscript or an institution or product that is mentioned in the manuscript and/or is important to the outcome of the study presented. Authors should also disclose conflicts of interest with products that compete with those mentioned in their manuscript. A conflict of interest may exist when an author (or the author’s institution or employer) has financial or personal relationships or affiliations that could influence (or bias) the author’s decisions, work, or manuscript. All authors are required to complete and submit the Form for Disclosure of Potential Conflicts of Interest.
1.5 Plagiarism Detection
The journal employs a plagiarism detection system. By submitting your manuscript to this journal, you accept that your manuscript may be screened for plagiarism against previously published works.
1.6 Articles Types
Original research articles Originally report the innovative and valuable findings in chemical science and engineering.
Review Summarize the progress of certain topic, give comment on the research status, and make suggestions for future work. It should be closely related to or based on the author’s own research work.
Views & Comments present important views and comments on the work of others that are already published.
2 Manuscript preparation
Contributions are required of a concise, focused account of the findings and reliable essential data. They should be well organized and written clearly and simply, avoiding exhaustive tables and figures. Authors are advised to use internationally agreed nomenclature, express all measurements in SI units, and quote all the relevant references.
Abbreviation
Do not use abbreviations in the title or abstract and limit their use in the text. Expand all abbreviations at first mention in the text.
Units of measure
All measurements must be given in SI or SI-derived units. For more information about SI units, please go to the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM) website at: http://www.bipm.fr.
The following components are required for a complete manuscript: Title, Author(s), Author affiliation(s), Abstract, Keywords, Main text, References, Acknowledgements, Nomenclature and Appendices(when needed). There is no formal limit for the length of a paper, but the editors may recommend condensation when appropriate.
Title
Titles must be limited to no more than 20 words, and should be concise, indexable, and informative for a broad scientific audience. Authors should avoid using colons, questions, and nonstandard abbreviations in titles.
Author(s) and author affiliation
Authors should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for the content. Family names are written in upper case, and they appear before given names for Chinese authors. The affiliation should be the institution where the work was done. Complete addresses are required with post codes.
Corresponding author
The name and the e-mail address of the corresponding author should be given on the first page of the manuscript. In the case of multiple authors, one should be designated as the corresponding author. An authorship declaration must acknowledge i) that all authors listed meet the authorship criteria, and ii) that all authors are in agreement with the manuscript.
Abstract
A short abstract of up to 300 words written in one paragraph, It should briefly describe the research purpose, method, result and conclusion. The extremely professional terms, special signals and equations should be avoided, and citation of references is not allowed.
Keyword
A list of three to eight keywords should follow the abstract. The chosen keywords are required to reflect the theme of a manuscript.
Financial support
Financial support appears on the right bottom of the title page, with grant number(s).
Heading and subheading
Headings and subheadings should be used throughout the text to divide the subject matter into its important, logical parts. Typical headings include: Introduction, Materials and methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, Acknowledgments, Appendixes and References.
Main Text
A paper should begin with a brief introduction of the significance of the author’s research. Nomenclature, signal and abbreviation should be defined at their initial appearance. All the figures and tables should be numbered in numerical order.
Introduction
Being the most important part of an article, the introduction introduces the relevant research background and the progress in 2 or 3 years, with references cited in numerical order, then presents the problem to be solved in this article, and finally briefly describes the method adopted in this work. Before the end, the aim of the research should be mentioned.
Materials and method
This part introduces the materials, method and experimental procedure of the author’s work, so as to allow others to repeat the work published based on the clear description.
Results and Discussion
The Results section should describe in detail the data obtained during the study. Avoid undue repetition of data in text and table. Brief comments on the significance of the results are appropriate, but broader aspects of interpretation are reserved for discussion. Use of subheadings to aid clarity is encouraged.
The Discussion section should define the unanswered questions related to the topic, discuss the findings in context of relevant published data and provide clear directions for future research. A section on limitations of the study is often recommended.
Conclusions
Conclusions should be derived from the observation and experimental results, and comparison with other relevant results is considered helpful to further prove the results. Repeated data should be avoided, and conclusions and suggestions are required to be clearly expressed.
Acknowledgment
The “Acknowledgment section” is the general term for the list of sponsor and financial support, contributions, credits, and other information included at the end of the text of a manuscript but before the references. Conflicts of interest and financial disclosures must be listed in this section. Authors should obtain written permission to include the names of individuals in the Acknowledgment section.
Appendix (if needed)
Appendix A
A1, A2, A3…
Appendix B
Appendix C…
References
Reference is regarded as an important indicator of the paper quality. References should be numerically numbered and cited in order within the text, with the numbers expressed in square brackets. The author should carefully check the author names, article title, journal title, year, volume and issue number of references, and create the listing according to the format of Chemical Industry and Engineering. Examples follow:
Reference for journal
[1] Furikado I, Miyazawa T, Koso S, et al. Catalytic performance of Rh/SiO2 in glycerol reaction under hydrogen[J]. Green Chem, 2007, 9(6): 582-588
Reference for book
Hofbauer J, Sigmund K. The theory of evolution and dynamical systems[M]. London: Cambridge University Press, 1988, 25–27
Reference for dissertation
Zhang Jinlong. Study on crystallization process of L-threonine[D]. Tianjin: Tianjin University, 2003(in Chinese)
Reference for patents
Samour C M. Coated pipe and process for making same:US,4213486[P].1980-07-22
Supporting Information
Supporting information is not essential to the article but provides greater depth and background and may include tables, figures, videos, datasets, etc. This material can be submitted with your manuscript, and will appear online, without editing or typesetting. Please note that the provision of supporting information is not encouraged as a general rule. It will be assessed critically by reviewers and editors and will only be accepted if it is essential.
Tables
Submitted as three-line tables, that is, there are three horizontal lines: one under the legend, one under the column heads, and one below the body. Vertical lines are generally not used.
Must be sequentially numbered and called out in the text as, e.g., Table 1.
Tables should be embedded in the corresponding place of the text. Do not list tables in a separate page.
Illustrations
Graphs should be practically self-explanatory. Dimensional drawings and diagrams should include only the essential details and as little lettering as possible.
Size Figures should be drawn in the size of the virtually appear.
Numbering and title number all figures (graphs, charts, photographs, and illustrations) in the order of their citation in the text and cited as, e.g., Fig.1. Use (a), (b), (c)… to give titles for subfigures if there are any.
For graphs, axis labels should use SI units, separated from quantities with a solidus (/) not parentheses, e.g., λ/nm.
Symbols representing physical quantities should be given in italics, e.g., t, V.
Figure quality Figures should be supplied as electronic files with high quality.
Figure location Figures should be embedded in the corresponding place of the text. Do not list figures in a separate page.
Figure formats The scale of the coordinate axis should be set inward but not outward. The font of coordinate variables should be Times New Roman and only the initial letter is capital.
Formulae and equation
Structural formulae should ideally be prepared with chemistry drawing software (e.g., Chem Draw, Chem Windows, ISIS/Draw). Schemes and structures should be drawn to make best use of single and double column widths.
Equations should be edited by formula editor. An equation is numerically numbered (Arabic numeral), and has the number put on its right side.
3 Submission of manuscripts
The acceptance criteria for all articles are the quality and originality of the research and its significance to readership. All manuscripts within the aim and scope of the journal are peer-reviewed by at least two experts in the same or similar research field in a double-blinded manner.
Submission
Authors can submit their papers via the online submission system: http://jchemindustry.tju.edu.cn. Submit your manuscript as a Word file. Other file types are not suitable for production. It is important that the file be saved in the native format of the word processor used. All correspondence, including the editor’s decision and request for revisions, will be by e-mail. After reviewing process, the manuscript will be finally judged by one of the editors who have the right to accept or reject a paper.
To submit a manuscript, please visit the website of http://jchemindustry.tju.edu.cn, click the button “submission”. For a new user, please register an “Author Account”, and then submit a manuscript following the guidance.
Cover letter
An informative cover letter is considered helpful for editors and reviewers to make evaluation of your paper. The covering letter must contain
An acknowledgment that all authors have contributed significantly.
A statement that all authors are in agreement with the content of the manuscript.
A statement confirming that the content has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere except as a brief abstract in the proceedings of a scientific meeting or symposium.
Authors must declare any financial support or relationships that may pose conflict of interest in the ‘Conflict of Interest’ field.
Referee
All papers will be independently refereed. When submitting a paper authors are requested to suggest 3-5 potential referees, supplying the full name, address, e-mail and research field in each case. Authors may also suggest reviewers they do not want to review their manuscript, but the reasons for doing so should be stated. In either case, the final choice of referees will remain entirely with the Editor.
The whole process usually takes 20 to 45 days. No matter whether accepted or rejected, we will inform the author of the evaluation results. If the author does not receive any comments from the editorial office, please contact us. For the accepted paper, we will carry out the reviewing of its English expression.
4 After acceptance
Proof
After typesetting, page proof is usually sent electronically as email attachments to the corresponding author for checking. No new materials shall be inserted at the time of proofreading. Please note that authors are urged to check their proofs carefully before return one all-inclusive e-mail, since subsequent additional corrections will not be possible. The proof plus any minor corrections must be returned to the managing editor within 72 hours. Failure to do this will result in delays in publication.
Authorship
Authorship should be limited to those who have contributed substantially to the work, and every author has responsibility for the data and argument mentioned in the paper. The corresponding author must have obtained permission from all authors for the submission of each version of the paper and for any change in authorship.
Copyright Transfer
No article can be published unless accompanied by a signed Copyright Transfer Statement, which ensures a transfer of copyright from author to publisher. The copyright covers the exclusive right to reproduce and distribute the article (in various languages), including reprints, translations, photographic reproductions, microform, electronic form (offline, online) or other reproductions of similar nature. The Copyright Transfer Statement is available at http://jchemindustry.tju.edu.cn.
5 After publication
Authors will be presented 2 sample copies and PDF files are available by contacting the editor. The full text in Chinese and in English opens free to the readers at http://jchemindustry.tju.edu.cn.
If you have any questions about the online submission process, please feel free to contact the Journal Editorial office:
School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, China
E-mail: hgbjb@tju.edu.cn
Telephone: 86-22-27406054
