Author's Notes
Center for Leading (Technology) Innovations and our journal publications promote high ethical standards and novelty. Researchers are obligated to submit original scientific writings and adhere to standards in accordance with the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). We subscribe to the COPE Flowcharts in resolving alleged violation of the Code of Conduct. Falsification of results is a major misconduct and we shall follow the COPE guidelines to address such.
All persons that meet the requirement for authorship must be included in the list of authors. Individuals who did not contribute to the content but provided resources should be acknowledged and not listed as authors. Deviation from these recommendation may be considered a violation of ethical standards.
CENTERLIN and our journal publications are committed to rejecting any manuscripts that is flagged for plagiarism during the electronic review process and will not progress into the peer-review stage. Plagiarism is severe offense and deliberate deprivation of credits to researchers’ original ideas and contents. CENTERLIN uses the iThenticate plagiarism detection application
One of the authors is required to submit the manuscript through our online paper submission. We recommend a separate email sent to our Editorial Team stating the highlights and novelty of your work and why is should be published.
Our paper submission accepts PDF or Microsoft Word documents as an attached. If you experience any technical difficulty during this process, please contact our Editorial Team.
After your paper is submitted, an electronic verification for any ethical violations is conducted within 24 hours before sending a copy of your paper to the peer-review board. Between 7 and 14 days, two different peer review teams will review your paper and send recommendations to the Editorial Team receive results. The recommendation would determine whether your paper require some revisions, accepted as is or rejected.
Journal specific editorial board will evaluation the revised copy of your paper with the peer-review recommendations and make a final determination (see below process flow).
CENTERLIN is committed to making your work available for references in all continents by industry professionals, researchers, students and faculty. We therefore urge you to follow the document organization guidelines and format:
Title Section:
- CENTERLIN Logo (left), journal cover (right) and link to journal (middle)
- Title of research paper
- Authors separated by comma
- Authors affiliations
- Abstract, Keywords and Abbreviations:
Abstracts should contain not more that 250 words. Abbreviations should be defined the first time the first time used in the content of the paper. All keywords should be relevant to the research subject.
Manuscript and Figures:
Manuscript should be organized in PDF or MS-word document and in English. Editorial may request .jpg or tif files for papers submitted as PDF. Article maybe organized in one or two column format as preferred. After the title section, order as follows: Abstract, Keywords, Introductions. The Procedures/Methods, Results and Discussion sections may be ordered as necessary based on research area and/or most comprehensible layout. There should be a section for Conclusions before References.
References:
List references in open and close square brackets and numbered in the ordered they were cited in paper content. When available, links to cited articles should be provided. Last name of authors followed by initials for first name and middle name (if any) should be used and separated by comma. Below are some examples
[1] Bradley, K., Adeleke, O. T. and Xin, Y. M. (2019). Characterizing property of states: Effect of defects on the coefficient of thermal expansion and the specific heat capacity of ZrB2. Journal of Innovations in Materials Science and Applications 1(1): 161-170.
[2] Ighere, J. and Ramesh, C (2014). Controlled-Release Analysis of Potassium Permanganate Using PMMA Matrix. Journal of Minerals and Materials Characterization and Engineering Vol.2 No.6