Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

Submitted article is original and Authors have rights to the work.
The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
The manuscript has been composed with the use the template; and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
Where available, DOI/URLs for the references have been provided.
The submission file is in Microsoft Word (Office Open XML format) file format (DOC/DOCX).
Authors have obtained and can supply all necessary permissions for the reproduction of any copyright works not owned by them.
The authors have read the Journal's ethical standards (link).
Please remember include author ORCID ID to the journal account and in manuscript. To include your ORCID in journal database, simply add it to your profile data after you login.

Author Guidelines

Please read this instruction for Authors and note that manuscripts not conforming to these guidelines may be returned.

As part of the submission process Authors will be required to warrant that submitted articles are own original work, that Authors have the rights in the work, that Authors submit the work for first publication in the Journal of Mechanical and Energy Engineering (JMEE) and that the manuscript is not being considered for publication elsewhere and has not already been published elsewhere. Authors will be also required to warrant that have obtained and can supply all necessary permissions for the reproduction of any copyright works not owned by them.

If you have any questions, please contact us: jmee.submit@tu.koszalin.pl

Open Access

Journal of Mechanical and Energy Engineering (JMEE) is an Open Access publication. All articles are freely available online immediately upon publication. There is no publication fee for the Authors of articles. Additionally JMEE is published in print by Department of Mechanical Engineering of Koszalin University of Technology.

Article types

Original research paper: describes an original research results, or some aspect of design development in mechanical and energy engineering field.

Review paper: a critical review of the state-of-the-art in mechanical and energy engineering field without extensive theoretical analysis.

Preparing the manuscript

File types

Preferred formats for the text and tables of manuscript are Word DOC/DOCX files. The text should be prepared using Journal template in Office Open XML format. Authors can also see as example well formated paper in both: Office Open XML and Portable Document Format. Files can be downloaded from below links:

tempalate → link (MS Word, 180 kB),
sample manuscript → link (MS Word, 2 MB),
sample manuscript → link (PDF, 1.3 MB).

Current upload file size limit is 30MB. In the case of larger file, please compress files with ZIP/RAR/7z software or send your submittion manually to jmee@tu.koszalin.pl.

Attention: File size after production process will be limited to 5 MB due to respect Google Scholar politics. So, please consider to limit size of original files, figures, etc.

Copyright Notice

Authors retain full copyright to their individual works.
The Journal of Mechanical and Energy Engineering (JMEE) publishes fully open access articles.

Open Access benefits:

High visibility – all articles are made freely available online for everyone worldwide, immediately upon publication.
Increased visibility and readership.
Rapid publication.
All articles are CC BY licensed. The final article can be reused and immediately deposited in any repository.
Authors retain the copyright to their work.

By publishing with us, you retain the copyright of your work under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY) license.

The CC BY license permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided appropriate credit is given to the original author(s) and the source, a link to the Creative Commons license is included, and it is indicated if any changes were made. This means that you can deposit the final version of your work in any digital repository immediately after publication.

We are committed to providing high-level peer review, author and production services, so you can trust in the quality and reliability of the work that we publish.

Privacy Statement

Data Privacy Policy

The data collected from registered and non-registered users of JMEE journal falls within the scope of the standard functioning of peer-reviewed journals. It includes information that makes communication possible for the editorial process; it is used to informs readers about the authorship and editing of content; it enables collecting aggregated data on readership behaviors, as well as tracking geopolitical and social elements of scholarly communication.

JMEE journal’s editorial team uses this data to guide its work in publishing and improving this journal. Data that will assist in developing this publishing platform may be shared with its developer Public Knowledge Project (PKP) in an anonymized and aggregated form, with appropriate exceptions such as article metrics.

The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.

The data will not be sold by JMEE journal or PKP nor will it be used for purposes other than those stated here. The authors published in this journal are responsible for the human subject data that figures in the research reported here.

Those involved in editing JMEE journal seek to be compliant with industry standards for data privacy, including the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) provision for “data subject rights” that include (a) breach notification; (b) right of access; (c) the right to be forgotten; (d) data portability; and (e) privacy by design.

The GDPR also allows for the recognition of “the public interest in the availability of the data,” which has a particular saliency for those involved in maintaining, with the greatest integrity possible, the public record of scholarly publishing.