Manuscripts submitted for publication in IPPT Reports on Fundamental Technological Research (IPPT Reports on FTR) should represent a high scientific level and contain original research results, results not previously published and not submitted for publication anywhere else. Submitted papers are subject to the procedures defined below.
- Manuscripts intended for publication should be submitted in PDF format via e-mail reports@ippt.pan.pl
- Manuscript should be original and should not have been submitted either previously or simultaneously elsewhere, neither in whole nor in part.
- Submitted papers must be written in good English or Polish.
- Monographs and Theses above 50 pages, research paper – up to 50 pages.
- A brief abstract must be included (maximum 250 typographic signs). The keywords and subject classification for the manuscript are required.
- Postal addresses, affiliations and email addresses for each author are required. At the submission stage, all metadata concerning authors should be provided (including affiliation and email).
- Detailed information regarding the preparation of manuscripts is provided below.
Manuscript Requirements
- At the time of submission, only a PDF file is necessary. All source material must be submitted by authors after acceptance. Authors can use their preferred manuscript-preparation software, including for example Microsoft Word or any variant of TeX. The publisher typeset the manuscript in LaTeX, therefore, the accepted manuscript written using other software will be converted to LaTeX during production.
- Text should be submitted with 1.5-lined spacing and preferably in a 12-point font size. The text should be in single-column format.
- The title of the manuscript should be brief/concise and informative.
- Full authors’ names and surnames should be given – ORCID numbers are appreciated.
- The affiliation, including the country name should be provided. Affiliations should contain the e-mail address of one author designated as the corresponding author.
- The text should be preceded by a concise abstract (less than 250 words). The abstract should contain a brief presentation of the aim, methods, results and conclusions concerning the presented research.
- Keywords (max. 5) should be given. It is also desirable to include a list of notations used in the paper.
- The formulae to be numbered are those referred to in the manuscript, as well as the final formulae and should be numbered using one digit: the first represents the section/chapter number and the other the formula number in that section/chapter. The formula number should be written on the right-hand side of the formula in round brackets.
- All notations should be written very distinctly. Special care must be taken to write small and capital letters as precisely as possible (this applies mainly to the letters c and C, s and S, and others whose shapes of the lowercase and uppercase letters differ slightly).
- Vectors should be denoted by boldfaced type.
- Trigonometric functions are denoted by sin, cos, tan and cot, inverse trigonometric functions – by arcsin, arccos, arctan and arccot; hyperbolic functions are denoted by sinh, cosh, tanh and coth. All functions must not be written in Italics.
- Acknowledgments should be included in a section after the main text, before the references.
- References in the text [1, 2]. Examples: [1] or [4–7], or [3, 6, 11–15]. All references in the bibliography should be cited in the text and arranged in order of appearance. Number them from 1 to n.
Items appearing in the reference list should be complete, including surname and the initials of the first name of the author, the full title of the paper/book in English followed by the information on the original paper/book language. In case of a book, the publisher's name, the place and the year of publication should be given. In case of a periodical, the full title of the periodical, consecutive volume number, current issue number, pages, and year of publication should be given; the annual volume number must be semi-bold so as to distinguish it from the current issue number. Please also provide the doi number for each item in the reference list to which the doi number has been assigned.
Examples:
- The Boeing Company, Strain Gage Studies, D-4411, 1959.
- Hatting D.R., The-S/N-fatigue-life gage: a direct means of measuring cumulative fatigue damage, Experimental Mechanics, 6: 19A–24A, 1966.
- Charsley P., Robins B.A., Electrical resistance changes of cyclically deformed copper-nickel alloys, Materials Science and Engineering, 17(1): 117–123, 1975, doi: 10.1016/0025-5416(75)90035-X.
- Szökefalvi-Nagy A., Electrical resistivity of cyclically deformed tungsten, Scripta Metallurgica, 11(4): 335–337, 1977, doi: 10.1016/0036-9748(77)90213-7.
- Joshi N.R., Green R.E., Ultrasonic detection of fatigue damage, Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 4(3): 577–583, 1972, doi: 10.1016/0013-7944(72)90067-7.
- Carson J., Rose J.L., An ultrasonic nondestructive test procedure for the early detection of fatigue damage and the prediction of remaining life, undefined, 1978.
- Namkung M., Utrata D., Nondestructive residual stress measurements in railroad wheels using the low-field magnetoacoustic test method, [w:] Thompson D.O., Chimenti D.E. (Red.), Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation, s. 1429–1438, Springer, Boston, MA., 1988, doi: 10.1007/978-1-4613-0979-6_66.
- Dobrzanski J., Materiałoznawcza interpretacja trwałości stali dla energetyki, OPEN Access Library, 2011 (dostep 13.12.2021).
- Dobrzanski J., Diagnostyka uszkodzeń elementów ciśnieniowych urządzeń, Prace Instytutu Metalurgii Żelaza, 61, nr 2, s. 36–45, 2009.
After acceptance for publication
After acceptance for publication, Authors will need to submit Word or LaTeX source files of the final version of articles as well as original source files of Figures (drawings/diagrams/graphs or photographs).
Files with figures should be prepared as follows:
- In the case of diagrams and graphs, the use of square brackets is required for unit descriptions in axis. The descriptions of the axes should be written in Times New Roman font (no boldfaced type) and its size adjusted proportionally. Mathematical symbols in the figures should be in italic if correspond to such symbols used in the text.
- For diagrams and graphs vector EPS or vector PDF files are the most useful (EPS stands for Encapsulated PostScript). Most drawing and graphing packages (e.g. Mathematica, Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, MATLAB) allow the user to save files in one of these formats. Make sure that what you're saving is vector graphics and not a bitmap. Please also include the original data for any plots. This is particularly important if you are unable to save Excel-generated plots in vector format. Saving them as bitmaps is not useful; please send the Excel (.xls) spreadsheets instead.
- Photographs must be high-quality – with resolution no lower than 300 dpi.
- Each figure should be saved in separate file and properly named.
- Pack all figure files and text file into a single archive (zip, tar, rar or other format) and then upload on the magazine web site.