Swarm Intelligence and Numerical Methods

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Please read the guidelines before submitting the manuscript to Swarm Intelligence and Numerical methods (SINM) Journal. Only online submission to Journal’s Editorial Management System (JEMS) is allowed. To upload your manuscript, you need to login to JEMS. Please note, manuscript should be written in English, and manuscript not conforming to the guidelines mentioned below, may be returned.

Swarm Intelligence and Numerical methods (SINM) Journal will only review the manuscripts which are, contributing something to society, of sufficient quality, and meet the scope of the Journal. For submission you will be required to warrant that, submission (work) is original, you have obtained all the rights in the work, the same work is not under consideration elsewhere, it has not been published previously, and you can supply all the required permissions for the reproduction of and copyright works not owned by you. Submitted Manuscript should comply with the following guidelines:

Editorial Policies

Review Policy

The submitted manuscripts are assessed by the reviewers and based on their recommendations decision for the acceptance of the article is being made. SINM is committed for the timely assessment of the manuscripts and the whole process takes approximately 8-10 weeks for the first review. We follow the review process which is common to many other publishers, i.e., single blind peer review. The reviewers’ identity is not disclosed, however, the reviewers’ are informed about the authors’ name, and affiliation. 

While submitting to JEMS, you will be asked to provide atleast 2 reviewers to review your manuscript. For providing the reviewers name following things should be kept in mind:

• Reviewers should be the subject (field of study) expert and should be able to provide reasoning for the acceptance/rejection of the manuscript.
• Reviewers are not from the same institution as that of authors
• It is desirable to select the reviewers from different countries. (Optional).
• Reviewers should not be aware about your manuscript submission.

Please note the Editors are not bound to invite any of the recommended reviewers for manuscript assessment.

Publishing Policies

For Authors’:

• Originality of the article should be ensured by the authors. Plagiarism of any kind, be it publishing of someone else’s paper as the author’s own, or copying essential parts of other’s paper without appreciation is unacceptable and will incur plagiarism penalty.
• Redundant publication or duplicate submission is intolerable. Authors are requested not to submit manuscripts which are published elsewhere or are under review in more than one journal.
• Consent should be taken from all the co-authors, by author, before submitting the manuscript to the Swarm Intelligence and Numerical Methods journal. Authorship can only be claimed if, Substantial contribution is made by someone, it is critically revised by someone, and if someone approves the final version of the manuscript before publication.
• The author if discovers any fundamental error should notify the journal Chief Editor and cooperate in its correction or provide evidence in support of the originality of the article.
• Due acknowledgement should be given in reference section to other researchers whose work are cited in the manuscript.
• Any financial or other Conflicts of interest should be disclosed in author’s manuscript.

Plagiarism:

Swarm Intelligence and Numerical methods (SINM) Journal considers plagiarism, breaches of best practices, and copyright infringement issues unethical. We take every possible measure to protect the reputation of the journal against any type of malpractice. Before submitting any manuscript author must check for any duplication. If any of the above issues are found in the submitted articles SINM Journal reserves the right to take action which is not limited to retracting the manuscript from the journal, but also the matter can be taken up to the head of the department of the author’s institution and relevant societies.  

Manuscript Submission

Manuscript Preparation

Manuscripts should be submitted in double spacing and font size should be taken as 11 pt. All manuscript must use SI (metric) units in the text, figures, or tables. Manuscripts should be structured in the following order:

• Title
• Name(s) of author(s) and his/her (their) complete affiliation(s) including zip code(s),
• Abstract (not exceeding 200 words),
• Introduction
• Main body of paper,
• Funding
• Acknowledgements
• References

Article Types

• Research Article: This work should relate to the original research or any aspect of engineering, maintenance, operation, production, and education etc.
• Technical Note: It should be the description of some new development or a short statement on a research project.
• Review Article: It should be a critical review of the work which includes theoretical illustrations and numerical examples in the field of engineering.

File Types

SINM Journal allows the authors’ to follow their own way. But authors are requested to follow the reference and citation format of the journal as given below. The manuscript size should not exceed 6 MB, if it exceeds 6 MB then figures should be submitted separately. Manuscript should be submitted in Word Doc file.

Reference Style

Swarm Intelligence and Numerical methods (SINM) Journal comply with the Vancouver reference style, as follows: (taken from https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/administration-and-support-services/library/public/vancouver.pdf):

Book: print

Simons NE, Menzies B, Matthews M. A Short Course in Soil and Rock Slope Engineering. London: Thomas Telford Publishing; 2001.

Book online:

Simons NE, Menzies B, Matthews M. A Short Course in Soil and Rock Slope Engineering. London: Thomas Telford Publishing; 2001. Available from: https://www.myilibrary.com?ID=93941 [Accessed 18th June 2015].

Book: chapter in an edited book:

Partridge H, Hallam G. Evidence-based practice and information literacy. In: Lipu S, Williamson K, Lloyd A. (eds.) Exploring methods in information literacy research. Wagga Wagga, Australia: Centre for Information Studies; 2007. p. 149–170.

Journal article: online / electronic

Arrami M, Garner H. A tale of two citations. Nature. 2008;451(7177): 397–399. Available from:https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v451/n7177/full/451397a.html [Accessed 20th January 2015].

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Wang F, Maidment G, Missenden J, Tozer R. The novel use of phase change materials in refrigeration plant. Part 1: Experimental investigation. Applied Thermal Engineering. 2007;27(17–18): 2893–2901. Available from: doi:10.1016/j. applthermaleng.2005.06.011 [Accessed 14th July 2015].

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Read B. Anti-cheating crusader vexes some professors. Chronicle of Higher Education. 2008;54(25). Available from: https://global.factiva.com/ [Accessed 18th June 2015].

Note: articles published online may not have page numbers.

Conference proceeding: individual paper

Wittke M. Design, construction, supervision and long-term behaviour of tunnels in swelling rock. In: Van Cotthem A, Charlier R, Thimus J-F, Tshibangu J-P. (eds.) Eurock 2006: multiphysics coupling and long term behaviour in rock mechanics: Proceedings of the International Symposium of the International Society for Rock Mechanics, EUROCK 2006, 9–12 May 2006, Liège, Belgium. London: Taylor & Francis; 2006. p. 211–216.

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All mathematical equations should be clearly typed using lucid explanation. Superscripts and subscripts should be typed clearly above or below the base line. Equation numbers should be written in Arabic numerals as (1), (2), etc on the right-hand margin. It should be cited in the text such as, Eq. (1), or Eqs. (1)-(5).

Figures:

All the illustrations should be of high quality and clear enough to meet the publishing requirement USE figures with dpi more than 300. The captions of all figures should be referred to in the text such as, Fig. 1, or Figs. 1-3.

Tables:

Tables should be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals. Borders are not required for the Table, do refer template for creating the Table. All tables should be referred to in the text as Table 1, Tables 1-3.

On Submission

Swarm Intelligence and Numerical methods (SINM) Journal offers the authors with a choice of open access for the publication of their article. When the manuscript is submitted to the SINM Journal, the author should select from the access: open access or closed access from the dropdown box in the submission page. There an author can opt for his/her article to be published open access. Please note that your decision to publish open access or not cannot be changed after article submission. There are no charges for 9 pages manuscript (provided the manuscript is in SINM template) but from 10^th page onwards 55USD per page will be charged for closed access articles. An invoice will be sent to the author for charges for additional pages; whereas, in case of open access articles, the author has to pay the open access charges. Open access rules and charges are given below:

• Open access
  • In open access articles are made freely available to both subscribers and the wider public with permitted reuse.
  • Authors needs to pay the article processing and open access charges (APC)
  • The choice of access does not affect the peer review process the journal will follow the same review process.
  • The open access publication fee for this journal is USD 321, excluding taxes.

After Acceptance

Upon acceptance of any article in SINM journal, the author will receive an email with the copyright form attached. The author is required to sign the copyright form, get it signed by all the co-authors, and return it back to the Journal for further processing. Upon successful completion of this process, the proofs will be made available to the authors for final check.

Proof Reading

The final proof reading is required to check for the typesetting, conversion errors and the accuracy of the tables, text, and figures. Changes in the content after the acceptance are not allowed without the Editor’s approval.