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Types of article

This journal accepts original research articles, review articles, technical notes, and short communication articles.

Submission checklist

Please check the list below for a final check before submitting your article to the journal for a review process. Make sure that the following items are present in your submission:

• One author designated as the corresponding author shall provide complete contact detail, including full postal and e-mail addresses.

• All necessary files have been uploaded in the manuscript:

  • Keywords are written in an alphabetic manner
  • All Figures including relevant captions and citation (if applicable)
  • All Tables including relevant captions and citation (if applicable)
  • Supplemental files (if applicable)
• The article has been 'spell-checked' and 'grammar-checked' to avoid unnecessary errors.
• All references are cited in the text with the correct format.
• The article should contain nothing which might imply that any race, sex, belief, culture, or any other characteristics is superior to another and should use inclusive language which acknowledges diversity and promotes equality throughout.

Please submit your documents by Unijourn journal system. The documents must include:

• Cover letter including statements of conflict of interest and free of plagiarism.
• Manuscript in Microsoft Word or Open Office File format.

The manuscript that does not follow the guideline will be rejected.

The submitted article will be reviewed by experts in each field through the Double-Blind Peer Review process to assure the high standard journal quality. Double-Blind Peer Review means the reviewer's identity will be concealed from the author(s), and vice versa, throughout the review process. To facilitate this, the Editorial Board of IJSTT will prepare the manuscript in a way that does not give away the author(s) identity.

Reviewers will recommend to the editorial board whether the submitted article can be accepted, revised, or rejected. However, the final decision will be determined by the editorial board. If the decision requires authors to revise their manuscript, the authors will be given a chance to revise it for two weeks. Additional time for revision might be given based on author request.

The accepted article will be published online after editing process. To assure fast publication, the authors will be given last chance to do proof-reading prior publication for two days. Please note the authors cannot make substantial correction at this stage.

Copyright Transfer Agreement

IJSTT is an open-access journal in which articles are available to be accessed openly to reach a broad and wide audience. Authors must understand that if an article is accepted for publication, copyright publishing of the article shall be assigned or transferred to International Journal of Sustainable Transportation Technology (IJSTT) and Unijourn as the publisher of the journal. Upon the acceptance of an article, authors will be asked to complete a Copyright Transfer Agreement. An e-mail will be sent to the corresponding author confirming receipt of the manuscript together with the Copyright Transfer Agreement form in editable format.

Submission of an article implies that the work is not under consideration for publication elsewhere and has not been previously published in other journal, in English or in any other language, including electronically without the written consent of the copyright holder, that the publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out.

IJSTT makes every effort to ensure that no wrong or misleading data, opinions, or statements be published in the journal. In any way, the contents of the articles and advertisements published in the IJSTT are sole and exclusive responsibility of their respective authors and advertisers.

See a sample of Copyright Transfer Agreement form here. The form should be signed electronically.

Authorship and contributorship

Credit of authorship should be based on the contribution provided by each author to the design, concept, or interpretation of the study. The order of names in the author can be decided upon each author's contribution to the article.

Originality and concurrent publication

Authors need to ensure that the article submitted is entirely original work, and any references used within the manuscript, including the author's previous work, are appropriately cited. When using published figures or tables, please make sure that permission from the original publisher has been obtained prior to submission.

Conflicts of interest / competing interest and funding sources

Authors must declare any potential conflict of interest in the statement of conflict of interest. Full disclosure is required for the journal editor team to inform their editorial decisions. Additionally, authors must fully acknowledge all funding sources, including research funding, direct or indirect financial support, the supply of equipment or materials, etc. which support the work.

Post-publication discussions and corrections

Upon discovery of inaccuracy or error in the published work, the author is obligated to notify the journal editor immediately and cooperate to correct or retract the article.

Plagiarism screening will be conducted by IJSTT Editorial Board using Grammarly® Plagiarism Checker and Plagiarisma.net plagiarism screening service.

The article will be published online after the editing process. All publication service is sponsored by National Center for Sustainable Transportation Technology (NCSTT). Thus, this journal does not charge article processing charges (APCs) and submission charges.

All articles published in IJSTT provide immediate open access to the full-text articles online. Open access means making all articles freely available via the internet, giving permission for any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full text of the articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any lawful purpose without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited. Open Access Policy is adapted by IJSTT to aim a great global exchange of knowledge. These definitions are taken from the Budapest Open Access Initiative's definition of Open Access.

International Journal of Sustainable Transportation Technology (IJSTT) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Authors submitting an article to IJSTT must agree that the article, if editorially accepted for publication, shall be licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International, of which CC BY-ND 4.0, was developed to facilitate open access.

In the following, we provide the licenses’ summaries as they can be found on the Creative Commons website. The Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International provides the following summary (where ‘you’ equals ‘the user’):

You are free to:

Share—copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format for any purpose, even commercially.

The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.

Under the following terms:

Attribution—You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

NoDerivatives—If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.

No additional restrictions—You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

Notices:

You do not have to comply with the license for elements of the material in the public omain or where your use is permitted by an applicable exception or limitation.

No warranties are given. The license may not give you all of the permissions necessary for your intended use. For example, other rights such as publicity, privacy, or moral rights may limit how you use the material.

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