Guide for Authors

In the case the authors have the difficulty in online submission, they can send your manuscript by email to the following address: jstt@utt.edu.vn

The format of the manuscript can be downloaded in here.

INTRODUCTION

  • Scope

JSTT is a peer-reviewed scientific journal which publishs highly qualified original, review articles and technical notes in all aspects of science related to transport and construction. It covers the following areas but are not limited:

- Transport planning and traffic engineering
- Civil and structure engineering
- Construction materials
- Mechanical engineering
- Mechanics
- Geotechnical engineering
- Logistics and freight transport
- Construction economics and management
- Earth siences
- Environmental sciences
- Computer sciences
- Electricity, electronics, telecommunications
- Automotive engineering

  • Type of paper

JSTT publishes multidisciplinary studies as well as monodisciplinary papers that are of interest to other disciplines and are of relevance to scope of the journal.

  1. Original research papers (Regular Papers): Original research papers should report the results of original research. The material should not have been previously published elsewhere, except in a preliminary form.
  2. Review articles: Review articles should cover subjects falling within the scope of the journal and which are of active current interest. They may be submitted or invited.
  3. Technical Notes: A Technical Note is a short article on new developments, significant advances and novel aspects of experimental and theoretical methods and techniques relevant to the scope of JSTT. The Technical Note should be used for information that cannot be adequately incorporated into an Original Research Article, and that is of sufficient value to be brought to the attention of the readers of the Journal. The note should describe the nature of the new method, technique or procedure and clarify how it differs from those currently in use, citing relevant literature. Technical Notes should be no more than 5 Journal pages (~5000 words and 2 Figures or Tables). Technical notes are sent for full peer review. Electronic Supplements such as programming code, validation data or user manuals can be added to a Technical Note.

BEFORE YOU BEGIN

  • Conflict of interest

All authors  are  requested  to  disclose  any  actual  or  potential  conflict  of  interest  including  any financial,  personal  or  other  relationships  with  other  people  or  organizations  within  three  years  of  beginning   the   submitted   work that could   inappropriately influence,   or be perceived to influence, their work.

  • Submission declaration and verification

Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously by other journals (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis or as an electronic preprint, that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, including electronically without the written consent of the copyright-holder.

Each author is required to declare his or her individual contribution to the article: all authors must have materially participated in the research and/or article preparation, so roles for all authors should be described. The statement that all authors have approved the final article should be true and included in the disclosure.

  • Language

Please write your text in English (American or British usage is accepted, but not a mixture of these). Editorial board will support researchers who has good result but not familiar with English.

  • Submission

Our online submission system guides you stepwise through the process of entering your article details and uploading your files. All correspondence, including notification of the Editor's decision and requests for revision, is sent by e-mail.

  • Changes to authorship

Authors are expected to consider carefully the list and order of authors before submitting their manuscript and provide the definitive list of authors at the time of the original submission. Any addition, deletion or rearrangement of author names in the authorship list should be made only before the manuscript has been accepted and only if approved by the journal Editor. To request such a change, the Editor must receive the following from the corresponding author: (a) the reason for the change in author list and (b) written confirmation (e-mail, letter) from all authors that they agree with the addition, removal or rearrangement. In the case of addition or removal of authors, this includes confirmation from the author being added or removed.
Only in exceptional circumstances will the Editor consider the addition, deletion or rearrangement of authors after the manuscript has been accepted. While the Editor considers the request, publication of the manuscript will be suspended. If the manuscript has already been published in an online issue, any requests approved by the Editor will result in a corrigendum.

  • Submit your article

Please submit your article via website. Who has the difficulty in e-submitting, can send by email to the journal secretary: jstt@utt.edu.vn

  • Referees

Please submit, with the manuscript, the names, addresses and e-mail addresses of three potential referees. The referees must not have a conflict of interest with any of the authors or the content of the manuscript. For this reason, do not submit referees who are part of your or your co-authors' institutions, or referees you or your co-authors have collaborated with in the past three years. Ideally referees from several different countries are invited. Potential referees should be experts in the field of your research, having published peer-reviewed papers on the subject. Note that the editor retains the sole right to decide whether or not the suggested reviewers are used.

PREPARATION

  • Peer review

This journal operates a single anonymized review process. All contributions will be initially assessed by the editor for suitability for the journal. Papers deemed suitable are then typically sent to a minimum of two independent expert reviewers to assess the scientific quality of the paper. The Editor is responsible for the final decision regarding acceptance or rejection of articles. The Editor's decision is final. Editors are not involved in decisions about papers which they have written themselves or have been written by family members or colleagues or which relate to products or services in which the editor has an interest. Any such submission is subject to all of the journal's usual procedures, with peer review handled independently of the relevant editor and their research groups.

  • Use of word processing software

It is important that the file be saved in the native format of the word processor used. The text should be in single-column format. Keep the layout of the text as simple as possible. Most formatting codes will be removed and replaced on processing the article. In particular, do not use the word processor's options to justify text or to hyphenate words. However, do use bold face, italics, subscripts, superscripts etc. When preparing tables, if you are using a table grid, use only one grid for each individual table and not a grid for each row. If no grid is used, use tabs, not spaces, to align columns. The electronic text should be prepared in a way very similar to that of conventional manuscripts.  Note that source files of figures, tables and text graphics will be required whether or not you embed your figures in the text.

To avoid unnecessary errors, you are strongly advised to use the 'spell-check' and 'grammar-check' functions of your word processor.

  • Article structure

Please add a title page, detailing the title, the authors and their affiliations and the abstract of your paper to the beginning of your paper.

Please use a size 12-point font and double line spacing for all parts of your manuscript, including the main text, abstract, references, and figure captions.

Submit your paper with numbered pages and with wide margins (at least 2.5 cm).

Subdivision - numbered sections

Divide your article into clearly defined and numbered sections. Subsections should be numbered

1.1. (then 1.1.1, 1.1.2, ...), 1.2, etc. (the abstract is not included in section numbering). Use this numbering also for internal cross-referencing: do not just refer to 'the text'. Any subsection may be given a brief heading. Each heading should appear on its own separate line.

Essential title page information

Title. Concise and informative. Titles are often used in information-retrieval systems. Avoid abbreviations and formulae where possible.

Author names and affiliations. Please clearly indicate the given name(s) and family name(s) of each author and check that all names are accurately spelled. Provide the full postal address of each affiliation, including the country name and, if available, the e-mail address of each author.

Corresponding author. The corresponding author is independent of the first author. Clearly indicate * at  who will handle correspondence at all stages of refereeing and publication, also post-publication. Ensure that the e-mail address is given and that contact details are kept up to date by the corresponding author.

Manuscripts should be prepared with main parts as follows:

Abstract

A concise and factual abstract is required. The abstract should state briefly the purpose of the research, the principal results and major conclusions. An abstract is often presented separately from the article, so it must be able to stand alone. For this reason, References should be avoided, but if essential, then cite the author(s) and year(s). Also, non-standard or uncommon abbreviations should be avoided, but if essential they must be defined at their first mention in the abstract itself.

Keywords

Immediately after the abstract, provide a maximum of 6 keywords, using American spelling and avoiding general and plural terms and multiple concepts (avoid, for example, 'and', 'of'). Be sparing with abbreviations: only abbreviations firmly established in the field may be eligible. These keywords will be used for indexing purposes.

Introduction

State the objectives of the work. The introduction should put the focus of the manuscript into a broader context.  Relevant controversies or disagreements in the field should be mentioned so that a non-expert reader can delve into these issues further. The introduction should conclude with a brief statement of the rationale for the study, the hypothesis that was addressed or the overall purpose of the experiments reported, and should provide a comment about whether that aim was achieved.

Background

Provide an adequate background, avoiding a detailed literature survey or a summary of the results. You should supply sufficient background information to allow the reader to understand and evaluate the results without referring to previous publications on the topic. As you compose the introduction, think of readers who are not experts in this field. Include a brief review of the key literature - use only those references required to provide the most salient background rather than an exhaustive review of the topic.

Material and methods

Provide sufficient detail to allow the work to be reproduced. Protocols for new methods or significant modifications to existing methods should be included, while previously published or well established protocols should only be referenced. Describe new methods completely and give sources of unusual chemicals, equipment, strains etc. Studies presented should comply with our recommendations for distribution of materials and data. In theoretical papers comprising the computational analyses, technical details (methods, models applied or newly developed) should be provided to enable the readers to reproduce the calculations. A Theory should extend, not repeat.

Results

Results should be clear and concise. This section should provide statistical analyses of all of the experiments that are required to support the conclusions of the paper. Reserve extensive interpretation of the results for the Discussion section. Details of experiments that are peripheral to the main thrust of the article and that detract from the focus of the article should not be included. Present the results as concisely as possible in text, table(s), or figure(s) (see below). Avoid extensive use of graphs to present data that might be more concisely presented in the text or tables. Graphs illustrating methods commonly used need not be shown except in unusual circumstances. Limit photographs to those that are absolutely necessary to show the experimental findings. Number figures and tables in the order in which they are cited in the text, and be sure to cite all figures and tables. Styles and fonts should match those in the main body of the article. Large datasets, including raw data, should be submitted as supporting files. The section may be divided into subsections, each with a concise subheading.

Discussion

This should explore the significance of the results of the work, not repeat them. Avoid extensive citations and discussion of published literature. The Discussion should provide an interpretation of the results in relation to previously published work and to the experimental system used. It should not contain extensive repetition of the Results or reiteration of the Introduction. This section should spell out the major conclusions of the work along with some explanation or speculation on the significance of these conclusions. The discussion should be concise and tightly argued.

Conclusions

The main conclusions of the study may be presented in a short Conclusions section, which may stand alone or form a subsection of a Discussion or Results and Discussion section.

Acknowledgments

This section should describe sources of funding that have supported the work. Please also describe the role of the study sponsor(s), if any, in study design; collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; writing of the paper; and decision to submit it for publication.

References

Citation in text

Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list (and vice versa). Any references cited in the abstract must be given in full. Unpublished results and personal communications are not recommended in the reference list, but may be mentioned in the text. If these references are included in the reference list they should follow the standard reference style of the

journal and should include a substitution of the publication date with either 'Unpublished results' or 'Personal communication'. Citation of a reference as 'in press' implies that the item has been accepted for publication.

Reference style

Reference of the journal uses the reference style of Construction and Building Materials journal (Elsevier publisher) with following requirements:

Text: Indicate references by number(s) in square brackets in line with the text. The actual authors can be referred to, but the reference number(s) must always be given.
Example: '..... as demonstrated [3,6]. Barnaby and Jones [8] obtained a different result ....'

List: Number the references (numbers in square brackets) in the list in the order in which they appear in the text.

Examples:
Reference to a journal publication:

[1].       V. De Semir,  C. RibasandG. Revuelta. (1998). Press releases of science journal articles and subsequent newspaper stories on the same topic. Jama, 280(3), 294-295.

Reference to a book:

[2].       I.A. Leonard. (2020). Books of the Brave. University of California Press. USA

Reference to a multi-author books:

[3].       H.J. Gilbert,  G. Davies,  B. HenrissatandB. Svensson. (1999). Recent advances in carbohydrate bioengineering. Royal Society of Chemistry: Vol. 246.

Reference to a chappter in proceeding:

[4].       Q.-H. Nguyen,  M. Hjiaj,  X. NguyenandH. Nguyen. (2015). In Finite element analysis of a hybrid RCS beamcolumn connection. The 3rd international conference CIGOS, pp 11-32

Reference to personal communications

[5].       I. GloverandP.M. Grant. (2010). Digital communications. Pearson Education.

Reference to standard:

[6].       AASHTO. (2018). Code T 267-86 (2018), Standard Method of Test for Determination of Organic Content in Soils by Loss of Ignition.

Reference to website:

[7] Cancer Research UK, Cancer statistics reports for the UK. http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/aboutcancer/statistics/cancerstatsreport/, 2003 (accessed 13 March 2003).

Reference management software

JSTT has a reference template available in several popular reference management software products. Using citation plug-ins from these products, the authors only need to select the appropriate journal template when preparing their article, after which citations and bibliographies will be automatically formatted in the journal's style. If you use reference management software, please ensure that you remove all field codes before submitting the electronic manuscript. 

Users of Endnote can easily install the reference style for the journal by downloading the Endnote style here.

Appendices

If there is more than one appendix, they should be identified as A, B, etc. Formulae and equations in appendices should be given separate numbering: Eq. (A.1), Eq. (A.2), etc.; in a subsequent appendix, Eq. (B.1) and so on. Similarly for tables and figures: Table A.1; Fig. A.1, etc.

Supplementary material

Supplementary material such as applications, images and sound clips, can be published with your article to enhance it. Submitted supplementary items are published exactly as they are received (Excel or PowerPoint files will appear as such online). Please submit your material together with the article and supply a concise, descriptive caption for each supplementary file. If you wish to make changes to supplementary material during any stage of the process, please make sure to provide an updated file. Do not annotate any corrections on a previous version. Please switch off the 'Track Changes' option in Microsoft Office files as these will appear in the published version.

  • Other requirements

Abbreviations

Define abbreviations that are not standard in this field in a footnote to be placed on the first page  of the article. Such abbreviations that are unavoidable in the abstract must be defined at their first mention there, as well as in the footnote. Ensure consistency of abbreviations throughout the article.

Units

Follow internationally accepted rules and conventions: use the international system of units (SI). If other units are mentioned, please give their equivalent in SI.

Math formulae

Please submit math equations as editable text and not as images. Present simple formulae in line with normal text where possible and use the solidus (/) instead of a horizontal line for small fractional terms, e.g., X/Y. In principle, variables are to be presented in italics. Powers of e are often more conveniently denoted by exp. Number consecutively any equations that have to be displayed separately from the text (if referred to explicitly in the text).

Footnotes

Footnotes should be used sparingly. Number them consecutively throughout the article. Many word processors can build footnotes into the text, and this feature may be used. Otherwise, please indicate the position of footnotes in the text and list the footnotes themselves separately at the end of the article. Do not include footnotes in the Reference list.

Figures

General points

  • Make sure you use uniform lettering and sizing of your original artwork.
  • Save text in illustrations as "graphics" or enclose the font.
  • Only use the following fonts in your illustrations: Arial, Courier, Times, Symbol.
  • Number the illustrations according to their sequence in the text.
  • Use a logical naming convention for your artwork files.
  • Provide captions to illustrations separately.
  • Produce images near to the desired size of the printed version.
  • Submit each figure as a separate file.

Formats

Regardless of the application used, when your electronic artwork is finalized, please "save as" or convert the images to one of the following formats (note the resolution requirements for line drawings, halftones, and line/halftone combinations given below):

EPS: Vector drawings. Embed the font or save the text as "graphics".

TIFF, JPEG: color or grayscale photographs (halftones): always use a minimum of 500 dpi.

TIFF, JPEG: Bitmapped line drawings: use a minimum of 1000 dpi.

TIFF, JPEG: Combinations bitmapped line/halftone (color or grayscale): a minimum of 500 dpi is required. If your electronic artwork is created in a Microsoft Office application (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) then please supply "as is".

Please do not:

  • Supply files that are optimized for screen use (like GIF, BMP, PICT, WPG); the resolution is too low;
  • Supply files that are too low in resolution;
  • Submit graphics that are disproportionately large for the content.

Present your figures and tables on separate sheets, not within the text. Please number your figures. Please remove all figures placeholder from within your text.

Color artwork

Please make sure that artwork files are in an acceptable format (TIFF (or JPEG), EPS (or PDF), or MS Office files) and with the correct resolution. If, together with your accepted article, you submit usable color figures then Journal will ensure, at no additional charge, that these figures will appear in color online (e.g., ScienceDirect and other sites) regardless of whether or not these illustrations are reproduced in color in the printed version. Please indicate your preference for color: in print or online only. For further information on the preparation of electronic artwork.

Figure captions

Ensure that each illustration has a caption. Supply captions separately, not attached to the figure. A caption should comprise a brief title (not on the figure itself) and a description of the illustration. Keep text in the illustrations themselves to a minimum but explain all symbols and abbreviations used. Figures captions can be placed next to the relevant text in the article at the end.

Tables

Please submit tables as editable text and not as images. Tables can be placed next to the relevant text in the article at the end. Number tables consecutively in accordance with their appearance in the text and place any table notes below the table body. Be sparing in the use of tables and ensure that the data presented in them do not duplicate results described elsewhere in the article. Please avoid using vertical rules.

Submission checklist

The following list will be useful during the final checking of an article prior to sending it to the journal for review. Please consult this Guide for Authors for further details of any item.

  • Permission has been obtained for use of copyrighted material from other sources (including the Web)
  • Color figures are clearly marked as being intended for color reproduction on the Web (free of charge) and in print or to be reproduced in color on the Web (free of charge) and in black-and-white in print
  • If only color on the Web is required, black and white versions of the figures are also supplied for printing purposes

COPYRIGHT NOTICE

  1. The author assigns all copyright in and to the article (the Work) to the Journal of Science and Transport Technology (JSTT) – University of Transport Technology (UTT), including the right to publish, republish, transmit, sell and distribute the Work in whole or in part in electronic and print editions of the Journal, in all media of expression now known or later developed.
  2. By this assignment of copyright to the JSTT Journal, reproduction, posting, transmission, distribution or other use of the Work in whole or in part in any medium by the Author requires a full citation to the Journal, suitable in form and content as follows: title of article, authors’ names, journal title, volume, issue, year, copyright owner as specified in the Journal, DOI number. Links to the final article published on the website of the Journal are encouraged.
  3. The Author and the company/employer agree that any and all copies of the final published version of the Work or any part thereof distributed or posted by them in print or electronic format as permitted herein will include the notice of copyright as stipulated in the Journal and a full citation to the Journal as published on the website.

PRIVACY STATEMENT

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