Author Guidelines

0. Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to ensure their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines:

• The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
• The responsibility for the contents of the paper rests upon the authors and the paper have prepared according to the research and publication ethics available at the JAEST website.
• Authors of submitted papers automatically agree to the terms of the Copyright Notice which are found in About the Journal.
• The authors must indicate in the submission email the topic of the article. The seven topics of JAEST are as follows: A- Electrical, Electronics and Automatic Engineering; B- Thermal, Mechanical and Materials Engineering; C- Geotechnical and Civil Engineering; D- Environmental and Water Resource Engineering;  E- Chemical and Process Engineering; F- Architectural and Building Engineering. 
• The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines as follows.

1. Preparation of the manuscript

File format

All manuscripts should be submitted electronically in ms-word (MS Word 2007 or an earlier version).

Language

Please write your text in good English (American or British usage is accepted, not a mixture of these) or French.

Manuscript content

English paper: Material should be placed in the following order: title, author names, all address of author institutions, abstract, keywords, topic (A . . . F), text, acknowledgments, appendices and references.

French paper: Material should be placed in the following order: English title, French title, author names, all address of author institutions, English abstract, French abstract, English and French key words, topic (A . . . F), text, acknowledgments, appendices and references.

Page setup

Margins: Top: 2.5cm, Bottom: 2.5cm, Left: 2.5cm, Right: 2.5cm.

Paper: Portrait, A4 size (21cm x 29.7cm).

Header/Footer: 1.25cm Each.

Article structure

Title of article: Calibri or Time New Roman, Font size 16.

Author(s) name: Please indicate the given name and family name clearly. Use Calibri or Time New Roman, Font size 12.

Organization name and address: Calibri or Times New Roman, Font size 11.

Abstract: Calibri or Time New Roman, Font size 11.

Keywords: Please provide a maximum of 6 keywords, Calibri or Time New Roman, Font size 11.

Numbered sections: Please divide your article into clearly defined and numbered sections (1.Introduction, 2.Materials and methods, 3.Results and discussions etc). The abstract, Acknowledgement and References, glossary and appendix are not included in section numbering. Please use Calibri or Time New Roman, Font size 14.

Subdivision: Calibri or Time New Roman, Font size 12. Subsections should be numbered 1.1 (then 1.1.1, 1.1.2, ...), 1.2, etc.

Full text: The text should be in single-column format with no Line Breaks between Paragraphs. Please use Calibri or Times New Roman, Font size 11, 1.5 line spacing.

Electronic artwork: TIFF (or JPEG): Color or grayscale photographs, keep to a minimum of 300 dpi. All illustrations should be inserted immediately after the citation in the text or at the end of the article.

Figure captions: Ensure that each illustration has a caption. Supply captions separately, not attached to the figure.

Tables: Calibri or Times New Roman, Font size 10, Inserted immediately after the citation in the text.

Reference style:

Citation
Cite references in the text by name and year in parentheses, as in the following examples:

radiation is expressed by the Hottel-Whillier-Bliss equation (Duffie and Beckman 2013)
This observation was confirmed by Ouamane and Lempérière (2006).
This mechanism has been widely studied (Soltani et al. 2003; Zahi et al. 2003; Betka and Moussi 2004).

Reference list
Reference list should appear at the end of the paper and should be alphabetized by the last names of the first author of each work.

Some examples:

Reference to a journal publication:
Betka, A., A. Moussi (2004) Performance optimization of a photovoltaic induction motor pumping system. Renewable Energy 29(14): 2167-2181.

Reference to a book:
Duffie, J.A., W.A. Beckman (2013) Solar Engineering of Thermal Processes: Fourth Edition. New York, Wiley.

Reference to a chapter in an edited book:
El Hadrami, I., A. El Hadrami (2009) Breeding date palm, in Breeding Plantation Tree Crops: Tropical Species. Ed. S.M. Jain and P.M. Priyadarshan, New York, Springer, pp. 191-216.

Reference to a paper presented at a conference:
Ouamane, A., F. Lempérière (2006) Design of a new economic shape of weir. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Dams in the Societies of the 21st Century, Barcelona, Spain, pp. 463-470.

2. Submitting Your Manuscript

Authors are asked to submit manuscripts electronically, preferably in MS Word, via e-mail attachment jaest.fst@gmail.com to the Editor in Chief.

3. Peer Review Process

All the submitted papers will undergo a peer-review process. Once a paper is reviewed and accepted for publication in the JAEST, it will be edited to conform to the Journal's style and format.

4. Proofs

Proofs will be sent to the corresponding author and should be returned within 3 days of receipt. Corrections should be restricted to typesetting errors and minor changes.

5. Online publication

Once the author proof has been returned, the final PDF version of the article will be made and the article will be assigned to the current Issue ‘In Progress’. This will make the article available online, publically accessible, searchable and fully citable.