Smart Materials and Structures

Dear Friends!

An International Agency for the Development of Culture, Education and Science (IADCES), in collaboration with the Institute of Physics Publishing (UK) invites you to publish in the scientific periodical journal

ISSN: 0964-1726 Online ISSN: 1361-665X

Smart Materials and Structuresis a multi-disciplinary journal dedicated to technical advances in (and applications of) smart materials, systems and structures; including intelligent systems, sensing and actuation, adaptive structures, and active control.

Publishing periodicity – 12 issues/year.

Part of the print run is dispatched to the libraries of major universities worldwide.

The Journal is intended for students, Master’s Degree students, post-graduate students, Ph.D. students, post-graduate degree seekers, recent graduates, instructors, and research workers in different countries.

The edition materials are posted in Scopus and Web of Science.

Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 1.585
SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 1.171

Impact factor: 2.769

*2016 Journal Citation Reports®, Thomson Reuters

The deadline for submitting papers for the next journal issue is 15 July 2017.

Issue dispatch date – within 180 workdays following the Articles submission deadline.

Main subjects areas of the Journal:

· Physical Sciences

· Computer Science

· Engineering

· Materials Science

· Physics and Astronomy

Editors:

Editor-in-Chief

C S LynchUniversity of California-Los Angeles, USA

Editorial Board

G AkhrasRoyal Military College of Canada, Ontario, Canada
J CagnolCentraleSupélec, France
G CarmanUniversity of California-Los Angeles, USA
S-B ChoiInha University, Incheon, Korea
S H ChoiNASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA
A ErturkGeorgia Institute of Technology, GA, USA
U GabbertUniversität Magdeburg, Germany
A GüemesUniversidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
S GopalakrishnanIndian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
J HuberUniversity of Oxford, UK
M KamlahKarlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
J KimInha University, Inchon, Korea
K J KimUniversity of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA
R LammeringHelmut-Schmidt-Universität/Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
C K LeeNational Taiwan University, Taiwan
F LiPeking University, China
W LiUniversity of Wollongong, Australia
W H LiaoChinese University of Hong Kong, China
Y LiuHarbin Institute of Technology, China
W M OstachowiczPolish Academy of Sciences, Gdansk, Poland
H NaguibUniversity of Toronto, Canada
Q PeiUCLA, USA
K PetersNorth Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA
M PhilenVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, VA, USA
S RoundyUniversity of Utah, USA
S SeeleckeUniversität des Saarlandes, Germany
N SimsUniversity of Sheffield, UK
H SodanoUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
G SongUniversity of Houston, TX, USA
W J StaszewskiAGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland
R S TraskUniversity of Bath, UK
N TakedaUniversity of Tokyo, Japan

How to publish a paper

1. Send the manuscript and information about the author to the Editorial Board address:

2. Manuscripts are accepted only by e-mail.

3. After a review, you will be sent a postal message in 30 days with a full cost estimate and payment options.

4. Pay for processing the manuscript and publishing the paper by using the payment details sent to you.

5. After the Journal has been published, we will send it to you immediately by mail.

Cost of services

Service / Cost
Article processing charge (APC) / 120 Euro

Payment options:

· Money transfer to a bank account in Euro to Australia, UK or the USA.

· International payment system Skrill – payment from an organisation's business account in Skrill.

· International payment system Neteller – payment from an organisation's business account in Neteller.

· Payment shall be in Euro.

Contacts: International Agency for the Development of Culture, Education and Science

Level 7/ 30 Collins St, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia

www.iadces.org

Instructions for Authors

Language

You can submit your manuscript as one file in Word format for review. Preferred fonts: Arial or Times New Roman. Font size 12. Line spacing - 1.5.

Articles are accepted in the English.

Article size

The standard size of an article shall be no more than 5,000 words, though articles with more than 5,000 words will be accepted in separate cases if the subject demands such a size.

Shorter materials

Analytical notes and survey papers are also accepted.

Submission

All correspondence, including notifications on Editor’s decisions and requests for revisions, is done by email.

References

When submitting, there are no strict requirements to the format of references. Any references format style can be used, provided consistency is observed. If applicable, indicate the name/names of author(s), name of journals/books, titles of chapters /papers, year of publishing, number of volume /book, chapter and page. Using DOI is encouraged. The style of references accepted in the journal will be applied to the accepted article at the proofreading (layout) stage. Please pay attention that at the proofreading (layout) stage missing information may be indicted for the author to add.

Formatting requirements

We place no strict requirements to formatting, though all manuscripts shall contain essential elements needed for their processing, e.g., an abstract, keywords, introduction, means and methods, results, conclusions, graphical elements and tables with captions.

Page numbering

Place make sure that the pages of your paper are numbered sequentially because this is an essential requirement for your paper to be reviewed by your peers.

Electronic graphical presentation. General provisions

• Make sure that your original graphical presentation uses identical text styles of the same size.

• Number the illustrations according to their order in the text.

• Use a logical means of assigning names to your files with elements of graphics.

Figures and tables in the text

Please make sure that the figures and tables in one file are located opposite the respective text in the manuscript, and not in the beginning or end of the file.

Mathematical formulas

Please insert mathematical equations in an editable format rather than as an image. Insert simple formulas in line with the body text if possible and use a slash symbol (/) instead of a horizontal line for small fractions, e.g., Х/Y. In principle, variables should be in italics. Exponents are best to be indicated as exp. Number sequentially all equations, which are inserted separately from the body text (if the text has an explicit reference to such equations).

Using software tools for processing the text

Please use as simple text formatting as possible. The majority of formatting codes will be replaced or deleted when the paper is processed. The electronic text should resemble a traditional manuscript as much as possible.

Essential information placed on the title page

• Name of Journal, to which the author's paper is being submitted.

• Paper title. Brief and meaningful. Titles are often used in electronic search systems. If possible, avoid using formulas and abbreviations.

• Names of authors and place of employment. Please indicate clearly the name(s) and surname(s) of each author and check the names for correctness. Indicate the place of employment under the names, including the country of residence and, if available, the email of each author.

• The author responsible for correspondence. Indicate clearly who will maintain correspondence at all stages of reviewing and publication, and also after publication. Make sure that the email address is indicated and that detailed contact information is indicated and updated by the author responsible for correspondence.

Abstract

A brief and factual abstract is required. It should contain a brief exposition of the objectives of research, the basic results and conclusions.

Keywords

Please indicate maximum eight keywords. The key words will be used for indexing purposes.