Guide for Authors

  • Journal of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (CN 31-1466/U, ISSN 1006-2467) is sponsored by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China and directed by Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

    Journal of Shanghai Jiaotong University is a comprehensive academic journal of natural science. It takes "Three Represents" and "scientific outlook on development" as the guiding ideology, and takes promoting the development of science and technology, cultivating scientific and technological talents, and serving China's socialist modernization as its purpose. This magazine adheres to the party's basic line and advocates the "double hundred policy". The contents of the publication mainly include the latest research achievements in ship and ocean engineering, civil and environmental engineering, mechanical and power engineering, electronic information and electrical engineering, materials science and engineering, chemical engineering and biomedical engineering. This journal is the core journal of statistical source of Chinese scientific and technological papers, and has been included by many authoritative retrieval systems at home and abroad, such as American Engineering Index (EI). In order to ensure the quality of the journal, the general principles are formulated according to the national standards and the arrangement rules of the journal.


    1. Submission of papers

    1.1 The contributions must be innovative, academic, logical and readable. Submission website: http://xuebao.sjtu.edu.cn. The manuscripts submitted should meet the requirements in the preliminary review (i.e. including China library classification number, brief introduction of the first author and corresponding author, copyright agreement), and then will be continued for next procedure.

    1.2 The journal refuses multiple submissions, plagiarism and use of inappropriate content. It usually takes 4 months for one manuscript to finish the whole peer-review procedure. Please check with the editorial department in time for any questions or problems.

    1.3 The editors implement the peer-review procedure with precision and submit the manuscripts to Editorial Committee of the journal for final review. The editor-in-chief decides the acceptance of manuscripts fairly and impartially according to the evaluation opinions.

    1.4 The journal provides print edition, online and CD-ROM of published papers.

    1.5 The editors will fix typos and make writing improvements for the manuscripts if necessary.

    1.6 To cover publication costs, the journal charges a publication fee (Article Processing Charge, APC) and a submission fee, which is usually paid by the authors or by their institutions/funders. Please note that APCs and submission fees will be invoiced after acceptance for publication of the articles.


    2 Demands for manuscripts

    2.1 All manuscripts should be written in Chinese. Please refer to the template for the specific format of the manuscript. Name, professional title, affiliation (institution) of the author(s); city, zip code, country and e-mail address of the author(s) should be given.

    2.2 The title of the paper should be concise but informative. The texts in English shall have the same meaning as the Chinese part.

    2.3 The abstract of at least 250 words should outline the objective, method and main results and conclusion. It should be informative, without descriptive words or citations. Together with the title, the abstract must be adequate as an index to all the subjects treated in the paper, and will be used as a base for indexing. The abstract should include: ① What you want to do; ② Method (how you did it); ③ What results did you get and what conclusion can you draw; ④ What is original in your paper.

    2.4 Provide 3 to 8 key words or phrases for cross-indexing this article. The key words should be selected from the Chinese Thesaurus and titles as far as possible. Important terms in new disciplines and technologies not included in the thesaurus are listed after the subject words. Chinese and English keywords should correspond one by one.

    2.5 The text should contain an Introduction that puts the paper into proper perspective for the reader, and should also contain Methods, Results, Discussion and Conclusion sections. Formulas should be typewritten, punctuated and aligned to bring out their structure, and numbered consecutively in round brackets on the right-hand side of the page. Notation must be legible, clear, compact, and consistent with standard usage. All unusual symbols whose identity may not be obvious, including subscript or superscript, must be made comprehensible. Physical and mathematical variables should be in italic, and vectors and matrices in bold italic. Units, abbreviations and special functions should be upright. Please add notes to explain any other special symbols.

    2.6 Figures should be original laser prints with high contrast, and suitable for immediate reproduction. They will normally be reduced to one column width (58 cm). In the figures, the main lines should be about 0.3 mm in width, and the assistant lines 0.15 mm. Notations in the figures should be distinct and consistent with the same ones in the text, and their font size will be 79 pt. For photographs, the original photos must be supplied with good contrast and clearly distinguishable details. Tables should be drawn with three horizontal lines, at the top and bottom of the table and between the column headings and the table body.

    2.7 The section number of the manuscript shall be sorted by the top grid of the three-level title. The primary title is sorted as 0, 1, 2, 3,..., and the secondary title is shaped as 1.1, 1.2; 2.1, 2.2,... Sort, three-level Title shape, such as 1.1.1, 1.1.2; 2.1.1, 2.1.2,... Sort, introduction does not sort.

    2.8 Only essential references (journal article, book, thesis, report, proceedings, etc.) cited in the text can be listed and must be numbered consecutively in order of their first citation. There should be at least seven references. Here are some examples (Journals, Books, Proceedings, Patents, Dissertation, Standard, Report, Online) of how to set the most common reference types: [1] ZHENG D D, LI P C, XIE W F, et al. Identification and control of flexible joint robot using multi-timescale neural network [J]. Journal of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Science), 2020, 25(5): 553-560. [2] KAUFFMAN S A. The origins of order, self-organization and selection in evolution [M]. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. [3] PETROWSKI A. A clearing procedure as a niching method for genetic algorithms [C]// Proceedings of 3rd IEEE Conference on Evolutionary Computation. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, 1996:798-803. [4] WANG X F, GUANG B Q. Preparation of polysulfonamide fiber[P].CN,1389604, 2003-01-08. [5] ZHAO Y. The spreading mechanism[D]. Shanghai: School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2006 (in Chinese). [6] Eurocode 2 part 1, 1-prEN 1992-1-1-2002. Design of concrete structures [S]. [7] STAUB-FRENCH S, FISCHER M. Practical and research issues in using industry foundation classes for construction cost estimating [R]. California: Stanford University, 2000. [8] ALLIANCE O. Open service gateway initiative [EB/OL]. (2009-07-01). http://www.osgi.org. The references published in Chinese should be noted by “(in Chinese)”.


    3 Online search

    http://navi.cnki.net/knavi/JournalDetail?pcode=CJFD&pykm=SHJT or http://www.cnki.net

    http://www.wanfangdata.com.cn/sns/user/qkshj2;

    American Engineering Index (EI): https://www.engineeringvillage.com.

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