Author Guidelines
Manuscript preparation
Here are some things to keep in mind as you plan your submission:
- Please read and understand the journal's Ethics and Policies; a manuscript against the ethical policies may be rejected.
- Please read the Author Guidelines of the journal, and prepare your manuscript by referring to its template. Insight - Civil Engineering (ICE) adopts a new template since 2024 Volume 6 Issue 1. Authors should follow the step-by-step instructions during submitting a manuscript through the online submission system.
- Please provide a cover letter and cover image as supplementary material when submitting a manuscript.
- Please ensure that you have obtained authorized approval of remixed data from the original copyrighter if available.
- Please be aware of the Authorship Policy, and authors are not encouraged to change the list of authorships after the manuscript is accepted.
- Please refer to the AIGC Policy; the Publisher strictly prohibits the use of AI tools to write content that replaces human logical thinking and analytical interpretation, except for the insertion of references, language embellishment, and graphing of basic data.
- All the journals in PiscoMed Publishing adopt an open access model, and authors retain the copyright of their work. PiscoMed Publishing is authorized to publish the works online first.
- Please be aware of the APCs policy before submitting a manuscript.
Cover letter
Please prepare a cover letter along with your manuscript, that may describe the main innovations of the study, key results and significance, etc. Authors are required to disclose any essential information, such as the potential conflict of interest, preprint version ID if available, statement of non-submission to other journals, reproducibility of data, signatures of all authors approving the submission of the manuscript.
You are welcome to share a list of recommended or recused reviewers, and the journal office has the right to adopt it or not. Authors are encouraged to list their contributions to a research article, where there are more than two authors.
Article types
Please add an article type at the top of your text. In general, we publish the following types of articles: Article, Review, Editorial, Perspective, Case Report, Commentary, and Opinion (please check the details of each type at the bottom of this page). In case your article does not fall into any of the following types, please contact the editorial office of the journal to check whether your article type is acceptable.
Article structure
Usually, the main structure of a research article should include Title, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Methods and Materials, Result, and Conclusion.
A review article should include Title, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Section Description, and Conclusion.
Other types of articles usually have no regular structure requirements, but authors must state the type of the submission. Note that the submission must be written in English (referring to the Language Policy), whether American or British, while authors should be aware of the uniformity of the language style throughout the text.
Title: The title should summarize the main points of the article with a maximum of 50 words.
Author: Please provide a list of authorship according to the Authorship Policy. The names of authors must be spelled out rather than set in initials along with their affiliations (e.g., department, institution, city, state, postal code, and country). The main contributor should be listed as the first author, and corresponding authors should be identified with an asterisk. At least one corresponding author’s email should be listed for further communication. It is important that the submission has obtained the approval of all authors.
Abstract: The purpose of an abstract is to summarize the main research, methodology, and conclusions, and to guide readers to access the whole paper with interest. Ideally, abstracts should be no more than 300 words, but there are exceptions.
Keywords: Please avoid using the words in the title, and provide no more than 8 keywords.
Text: The length of the content is not quite rigorous, and it depends on the manuscript's scientific quality.
The main structure & back matters
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Section title
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Key points
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Article type
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Introduction
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It would be beneficial for readers if authors provide a clear, one sentence purpose statement of the research. Here should start with an explanation of why the particular research has been conducted and end with a statement/conclusion of the selected research approach.
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Article, Review
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Materials and methods
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Authors are required to provide a detailed account of the procedure that was followed while conducting the research described in the report. That's valuable for the replication of the results.
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Article
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Result
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It should provide a concise and precise description of the experimental results, their interpretation, as well as the experimental conclusions that can be drawn. Sometimes, this section may be divided into subheadings.
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Article, Review, Case Report, Perspective, Commentary, Opinion
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Discussion
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Conclusion
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Author contributions
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For research articles with several authors, a short paragraph specifying their individual contributions must be provided.
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Article
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Funding
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This section is not mandatory. If your research has received any external funding, you should claim the details.
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Not mandatory
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Acknowledgments
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Here, you can acknowledge any support received which is not listed as the authorship.
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Not mandatory
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Conflict of interest
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Declare conflicts of interest or state “The authors declare no conflict of interest.”
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All types
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References
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References must be arranged in alphabetical order of the first author at the end of the manuscript.
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Not mandatory in an Editorial
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Appendix
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This section is optional and is for all materials (e.g., advanced technical details) that has been excluded from the main text but remains essential to readers in understanding the manuscripts.
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Not mandatory
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Figures and Tables
All figures and tables should be cited in the main text as Figure 1, Table 1, etc. Figures and tables should be placed as close as possible to the text they refer to and be center-aligned. Photos, graphs, charts or diagram should be labeled as Figures (do not abbreviate), and assigned a number consecutively (e.g., Figure 1). Figure captions should appear underneath figures, and be center-aligned, with no additional blank line.
In cases where a caption needs to be extended over to the second line, the caption should be aligned left.
References
As the new layout style has been adopted, in-text citations should be in APA style, i.e., the author-date citation format. There are two forms: narrative citations and parenthetical citations.
For narrative citations:
Author 1 and Author 2 (year) showed that ....
For parenthetical citations:
It has been found that ... (Author 1 and Author 2, year; Author 3 et al., year).
Do not use footnotes or endnotes as a substitute for a reference list.
Only works that are cited in the main text can be listed here. Generally, references should be in the following pattern:
Author(s), year of publication, title of publication, full journal name, volume number, issue number in parenthesis and lastly, page range. If the DOI is available, please include it after the page range.
For example:
Author 1 AB, Author 2 CD, Author 3 EF, et al. (Year). Title of the article. Journal Name. Volume(Issue) (if available): Firstpage–Lastpage. doi (if available).
Author 1 AB, Author 2 CD. (Year). Title of the chapter. In: Title of the Book, 2nd ed. Publisher name, pp. 102–144.
Author 1 AB, Author 2 CD. (Year). Title of the contribution. In: Editor 1 FM, Editor 2 FM (editors). Title of the Book, Edition. Publisher, Volume, pp. Page range.
Author 1 FM, Author 2 FM, Author 3 FM, et al. (Year). Title of presentation. In: Proceedings of the Name of the Conference; Date of Conference (Day Month Year); Location(City, Country).
Author 1 FM, Author 2 FM, Author 3 FM. (Year). Title of presentation. In: Editor 1 FM, Editor 2 FM (editors). Title of Collected Work, Proceedings of the Name of the Conference; Date of Conference (Day Month Year); Location(City, Country). Publisher.
Author FM. (Year). Title of Thesis [PhD thesis]. Degree-Granting University.
Author 1 FM, Author 2 FM, Author 3 FM, et al. (Year). Title of article. Title of Periodical, Complete Date, Pagination.
Patent Owner 1, Patent Owner 2, Patent Owner 3. (Year). Title of Patent. Patent Number, Date (Day Month Year, the Application granted date).
Author 1 FM, Author 2 FM. (Year). Title of unpublished work. Journal Title (if available); Phrase Indicating Stage of Publication (submitted, in press, etc.).
