Guide for Authors

Procedure for Paper Submission

 

Copyright form in pdf: Transfer of Copyright Agreement

Conflict of Interest Form in pdf: Conflict of Interest

 

 

Review Stage

  • Please submit your manuscript electronically for review by using Paper Submission. To access this section, you should login or register first. If you have not registered yet, please click on Register .
  • When you submit your initial full paper version, prepare it in two-column format, including figures and tables.

Document Modification

  • If you modify this document for use with JGM you should save it as type “Word - RTF (*.docx)” so that it can be opened by any version of Word.

Copyright Form

  • A JGM copyright form should accompany your final submission. You can get a .pdf version at http://www.jgm.birjand.ac.ir/downloads/copyright.pdf or from the first issues in each volume of the JGM. Authors are responsible for obtaining any security clearances

 

IMPORTANT

Before submitting your paper, please check the following instructions on your final paper.

Paper Size

  • Letter
  • Page margins are 1,78 cm top and down; 1,65 cm left and right.
  • Each column width is 8,89 cm and the separation between the columns is 0,51 cm.

Paper Title

  • Cambria, 22 pt., Centered, Title Case (Capitalize Each Word), NOT Bold

Authors’ Names

  • Cambria, 11 pt., Centered, Title Case (Capitalize Each Word)
  • IMPORTANT: Do NOT write your institution address below your name. See “Affiliation”

Abstract

  • Cambria, 10 pt.
  • Text should be written Calibri 9 pts.
  • The abstract should be self-contained. Do not cite references in the abstract.
  • The abstract should not exceed 500 words.
  • Paragraph - Line Spacing- Single

Keyword

  • Cambria, 10 pt.
  • Text should be written Times New Roman 9 pts
  • Add about four keywords or phrases in alphabetical order, separated by commas.

Paragraph

  • Line Spacing- Single
  • Except abstract, keywords, figure & table captions, for the whole text: Paragraph - Line Spacing- Multiple 1.05.

Alignment

  • Justified
  • Special: First Line: 0.36 cm
  • Font: Cambria, 10 pt. 

Heading 1

  • Cambria, 10 pt, Centered
  • 1st Step: Capitalize each word.  Example:  Steps in Modeling and Simulation
  • 2nd Step: Choose and Right click - Font- Effects - Small caps

Heading 2

  • Cambria, 10 pt, Capitalize each word.

Heading 3

  • Cambria, 10 pt, Capitalize each word.

Introduction Part

  • First letter should be Times New Roman 28 pts. Whole word should be written in “Upper Case”.

Affiliation

  • Cambria, 8 pt. Affiliation part should be written at the bottom of the first page on the left as:
  • Sponsor and financial support acknowledgments can be written here.
  • Name Surname is with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO 80305 USA (corresponding author to provide phone: 505-555-5555; e-mail: author@ boulder.nist.gov).

Figures

  • Large figures may span both columns. If your figure has two parts, include the labels “(a)” and “(b)” as part of the artwork. (Ex: 3 (a) Mapping nonlinear data...).
  • Figures should be centered.
  • All figures should be captioned. Captions should be written “Times New Roman, 9 pt., centered”
  • Please do not include captions as part of the figures.
  • Do not put captions in “text boxes” linked to the figures.
  • Do not put borders around the outside of your figures.
  • Use the abbreviation “Fig.” even at the beginning of a sentence.
  • WRONG: Figure 2.1 represents...  CORRECT:  Fig. 2. represents…

Tables

  • Large tables may span both columns.
  • Tables should be centered.
  • All tables should be captioned. Captions should be written “ Cambria, 8 pt., centered”
  • Please do not include captions as part of the tables.
  • Word “Table”: Upper case,    Number: Tables are numbered with regular numerals
  • Caption: Capitilize each word: Units for Magnetic Properties THEN Font-Effects-Small Caps

Equations

  • Number equations consecutively with equation numbers in parentheses flush with the right margin, as in (1).
  • Refer to “(1),” not “Eq. (1)” or “equation (1),” except at the beginning of a sentence: “Eq. (1) is ... .”

References

  • APA referencing style or an "author-date" style.
  • Citation in the text consists of the author(s) and the year of publication given wholly or partly in round brackets. Use only the surname of the author(s) followed by a comma and the year of publication.
  • Example for single reference: (AA et al., 2020)
  • Example for multiple references: (AA et al., 2020; BB et al., 2020)
  • All references cited in the text of the paper must be included in the reference list with the APA format as the following examples:   

Reference to a journal article:

  • Cao, J., Zhang, N., Wang, S., Qian, D., & Xie, Z. (2020). Physical model test study on support of super pre-stressed anchor in the mining engineering. Engineering Failure Analysis, 118, 104833.
  • Zhang, Z. X., Enqvist, T., Holma, M., & Kuusiniemi, P. (2020). Muography and its potential applications to mining and rock engineering. Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, 53(11), 4893-4907.

Reference to a book:

  • Hartman, H. L., & Mutmansky, J. M. (2002). Introductory mining engineering. John Wiley & Sons.
  • Czaplicki, J. M. (2009). Mining equipment and systems: theory and practice of exploitation and reliability. CRC Press.
  • Masterson, D. (2018). The Story of Offshore Arctic Engineering. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Reference to a chapter in an edited book:

  • Gao, F., Zhou, K., & Chen, Q. (2008). Mining Environment Regeneration and Induced Caving Technology in Mine Engineering. In Geotechnical Engineering for Disaster Mitigation and Rehabilitation (pp. 616-621). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
  • Kamath, C., & Fan, Y. J. (2013). Data mining in materials science and engineering. In Informatics for Materials Science and Engineering (pp. 17-36). Butterworth-Heinemann.

 Reference to a conference paper:

  • Gao, Feng, Keping Zhou, and Qingfa Chen. "Mining Environment Regeneration and Induced Caving Technology in Mine Engineering." In Geotechnical Engineering for Disaster Mitigation and Rehabilitation, pp. 616-621. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008.
  • Hemanth, K. S. (2014). Mining Knowledge from Engineering Materials Database for Data Analysis. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving (SocProS 2012), December 28-30, 2012 (pp. 1217-1223). Springer, New Delhi.

Acknowledgment

  •  COMMON MISTAKES: Acknowledgement, Correct form: Acknowledgment (No “e” after “g”)
  • Avoid expressions such as “One of us (S.B.A.) would like to thank ... .”
  •  Do not change the font sizes or line spacing to squeeze more text. There is no page limitation.

 

Use italics for emphasis; do not underline.

Text should be written in the third person to avoid sounding like an autobiographical account penned by a narcissistic author.

Prefer: “It is possible to ..” than to say “One could ...”.

Avoid using above (“the above method,” “mentioned above,” etc.) or below (in the figure below). Be specific.

The following link includes some of the troublesome words, terms, and expressions most frequently found in Experiment Station journal paper and bulletin manuscripts: http://www.ag.iastate.edu/aginfo/checklist.php