مجلة جامعة الجوف للعلوم الهندسية

With its vision to promote science and scientific knowledge to everybody, Jouf University Science and Engineering Journal (JUSEJ) is an international peer-reviewed journal owned by Jouf University with a focused aim of promoting and publishing original high quality research papers dealing with basic and engineering science. JUSEJ publishes rigorous and original contributions in the Science disciplines of 

The papers published in Jouf University Science and Engineering Journal (JUSEJ) should present novel results and have either theoretical significance or practical utility or both. They may be presented in the form of full articles, short communications or state-of-the-art reviews.

 All contributions will be rigorously reviewed to ensure both scientific quality and technical relevance. Revisions of manuscripts may thus be required.

Manuscripts must be submitted in the English language and authors must ensure that the article has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere in any format, and that there are no ethical concerns with the contents or data collection. The authors warrant that the information submitted is not redundant and respects general guidelines of ethics in publishing. All papers are evaluated by at least two international referees, who are known scholars in their fields.

The main objective of JUSEJ is to provide an international forum for academics, researchers, industry leaders, and policy makers to investigate and exchange novel ideas and disseminate knowledge and information covering the broad range of natural science and industrial activities. In addition, it aims to establish an effective channel of communication between policy makers, government agencies, academic and research institutions and persons concerned with basic science and its applications. It also aims to promote and coordinate developments in the fields of natural science, engineering science and other related fields. The international dimension is emphasized in order to overcome cultural and national barriers and to meet the needs of accelerating ecological and technological advances in all industries and the global society and economy.

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

All published manuscripts will be available on the Journals website http://vrgs.ju.edu.sa/#. We strongly believe that our journal will help to develop your own professional career. You can communicate with us at any time, throughout the publishing process. 

Jouf University Science and Engineering Journal (JUSEJ)

Jouf University, Sakaka, 2014, Aljouf, Saudi Arabia

Email: jusej@ju.edu.sa

Types of Contributions

Original research papers and occasional reviews, short communications, letters, letters to the editor and news items. Please ensure that you indicate clearly the appropriate article type when making your submission. 

Before you Begin

Ethical guidelines

Confidentiality

All material submitted to Science Journal of Jouf University (SJJU), accordingly to Jouf University Science and Engineering Journal (JUSEJ) remains confidential, and the Editor operates a peer review system in which the identity of the referees is protected.

Duplicate publication

Duplicate publication is the publication of the same paper or substantially similar papers in more than one journal. Authors must explain in the submission letter any prior publication of the same or a substantially similar paper, and should explain any circumstances that might lead the Editor or reviewers to believe that the paper may have been published elsewhere (for example, when the title of a submitted paper is the same as or similar to the title of a previously published article).

If work that makes up more than 10% of the manuscript submitted to JUSEJ has been published elsewhere, please provide a copy of the published article in order that the Editor can make a judgment on the amount of overlap without delay. If a member of the editorial board learns that work under consideration has previously been published in whole or in part, the Editor may return the paper without review, reject the paper, announce the duplication publicly in an editorial and/or contact the authors’ employers.

Submission of manuscripts to more than one journal

Authors may not send the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently. If this occurs, the Editor may return the paper without review, reject the paper, contact the Editor of the other journal(s) in question and/or contact the authors’ employers.

Plagiarism and scientific misconduct

Plagiarism is the use of others’ published and unpublished ideas or words (or other intellectual property) without due reference or permission and/or their presentation as new and original points. Plagiarism is serious scientific misconduct and will be dealt with accordingly. All papers submitted to the journal is cheched with iThenticate   program for plagiarism. We define plagiarism as a case in which a paper reproduces another work with at least 15% similarity and without citation.

If evidence of plagiarism is found before or after acceptance or after publication of the paper, the author will be offered a chance to defend his/her paper. If the arguments are found to be unsatisfactory, the manuscript will be retracted and authors found to have been guilty of plagiarism will no longer have papers accepted for publication by JUSEJ.

iThenticate compares submitted documents to extensive data repositories to create a comprehensive Similarity Report, which highlights and provides links to any significant text matches, helping to ensure that you are submitting an original and well-attributed document. 

Data auditing

The journal reserves the right to view original figures and data and may make periodic requests to see these.

Conflict of interest

All authors are requested to disclose any actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial, personal or other relationships with other people or organizations within three years of beginning the submitted work that could inappropriately influence, or be perceived to influence, their work.

Submission declaration

Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis or as an electronic preprint, that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere including electronically in the same form, in English or in any other language, without the written consent of the copyright-holder.

Changes in authorship

Requests to add or remove an author, or to rearrange the author names, must be sent to the Journal Manager from the corresponding author of the accepted manuscript before the accepted manuscript is published and must include: (a) the reason for the addition, removal, or rearrangement of the authors, names and (b) written confirmation (e-mail, fax, letter) from all authors that they agree with the addition, removal or rearrangement. In the case of addition or removal of authors, this includes confirmation from the author being added or removed. Requests that are not sent by the corresponding author will be forwarded by the Journal Manager to the corresponding author, who must follow the procedure as described above. Note that: (1) Journal Managers will inform the Journal Editors of any such requests and (2) publication of the accepted manuscript is suspended until authorship has been agreed.

Copyright

Upon acceptance of an article, authors will be asked to complete a 'Journal Publishing Agreement' An e-mail will be sent to the corresponding author confirming receipt of the manuscript together with a 'Journal Publishing Agreement'.

Subscribers may reproduce tables of contents or prepare lists of articles, including abstracts for internal circulation within their institutions. Permission of the Publisher is required for resale or distribution outside the institution and for all other derivative works, including compilations and translations.

If excerpts from other copyrighted works are included, the author(s) must obtain written permission from the copyright owners and credit the source(s) in the article. 

Retained author rights

As an author you (or your employer or institution) have the right to use your articles for a wide range of scholarly purposes.

Role of the funding source

You are requested to identify who provided financial support for the conduct of the research and/or preparation of the article and to briefly describe the role of the sponsor(s), if any, in study design; in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; and in the decision to submit the article for publication. If the funding source(s) had no such involvement then this should be stated

Subscription

Articles are made available to subscribers as well as developing countries and patient groups

Language (usage and editing services)

Please write your text in good English (American or British usage is accepted, but not a mixture of these). If the English language is used, extra abstract in Arabic should be provided.

 Submission

To submit your paper, please send your manuscripts by e-mail to the Editor (AJBSE@ju.edu.sa). You must submit the manuscript in a single electronic file. The manuscript should be edited using Microsoft (MS) Word (2003 up to 2010, with .doc or .docx extension)

Referees

Please submit, with the manuscript, the names, addresses and e-mail addresses of three potential referees. Note that the Editor retains the only one who has the right to decide whether or not the suggested reviewers are used.

PREPARATION

Use of word processing software

Manuscripts must be in an electronic format that meets the following specifications:

• Do not submit a manuscript file as a PDF file. Remove line numbering.

• The manuscript file—with tables and figures placed at the end of the file, each on a separate page—should be in Microsoft Word (2003 up to 2010, with .doc or .docx extension). 

• Do not use the Microsoft Word “Styles and Formatting” or “Track Changes” features in the file. 

• Tables should be in MS Word (.doc or .docx), one table to a page using hard page breaks. 

• Figures (graphics of any kind) should be placed at the end of the Word document as images, one figure to a page using hard page breaks. 

• Equations may be created and inserted as part of the text, or they may be submitted as images embedded within the text.

Article structure

Manuscript Page setup 

• Margins: 25.4 mm (1 in.) top, 25.4 mm (1 in.) left; adjust the settings for bottom and right margins so that the text area is not more than 165.1 mm by 228.6 mm (6.5 in. by 9 in.)

• Font (typeface): Times New Roman, no smaller than 10 points.

• Numbering: Insert page numbers at upper right of each page; insert name(s) of author(s) at upper left of each page

• Text: Single-spaced.

• Paragraphs: Indent first line 12.7 mm (0.5 in.); do not use an extra line space between paragraphs; do not indent first line after a subhead.

Subheads: All subheads should be flush with the left margin, with one line space above. Subsections should be numbered 1.1 (then 1.1.1, 1.1.2, ...), 1.2, etc. (the abstract is not included in section numbering).

FIRST-LEVEL SUBHEAD 

 (all capitals, boldface, on separate line) 

 Second-Level Subhead 

 (initial capitals, boldface, on separate line)

 Third-Level Subhead 

 (initial capitals, italic, on separate line) 

 Fourth-Level Subhead (initial capitals, boldface, on same line as text, with extra letter space between the subhead and text) 

 Fifth-Level Subhead (initial capitals, italic, on same line as text, with extra letter space between 

 the subhead and text) 

 • Bulleted and numbered lists: Indent first line 12.7 mm (0.5 in.); do not indent for text runovers.

 Table Titles and Figure Captions: 

 TABLE 5 Effects of All Factors 

 (Insert title above the table; “Table” is all capitals; title is initial capitals; all types are boldfaced; 

 Extra space, but no punctuation after number; no punctuation at end of title.) 

FIGURE 3 Example of results.

 (Insert caption below the figure; “Figure” is all capitals; caption is sentence case; all type is boldface; extra space but no punctuation after number; period at end of caption.)

Body of the manuscript

Introduction

State the objectives of the work and provide an adequate background, avoiding a detailed literature survey or a summary of the results.

Materials and methods

Provide sufficient detail to allow the work to be reproduced. Methods already published should be indicated by a reference: only relevant modifications should be described.

Theory/calculation

A Theory section should extend, not repeat, the background to the article already dealt with in the Introduction and lay the foundation for further work. In contrast, a Calculation section represents a practical development from a theoretical basis.

Results

Results should be clear and concise.

Discussion

This should explore the significance of the results of the work, not repeat them. A combined Results and Discussion section is often appropriate. Avoid extensive citations and discussion of published literature.

Conclusions

The main conclusions of the study may be presented in a short Conclusions section, which may stand alone or form a subsection of a Discussion or Results and Discussion section.

Appendices

If there is more than one appendix, they should be identified as A, B, etc. Formulae and equations in appendices should be given separate numbering: Eq. (A.1), Eq. (A.2), etc.; in a subsequent appendix, Eq. (B.1) and so on. Similarly for tables and figures: Table A.1; Fig. A.1, etc.

Essential title page information

• Title. Concise and  informative. Titles are often used in information-retrieval systems. Avoid

abbreviations and formulae where possible. The title should be all capitals. 

• Author names and affiliations. Where the family name may be ambiguous (e.g., a double name), please indicate this clearly. Present the authors' affiliation addresses (where the actual work was done) below the names. Indicate all affiliations with a lower-case superscript letter immediately after the author's name and in front of the appropriate address. Provide the full postal address of each affiliation, including the country name, and, if available, the e-mail address of each author.

• Corresponding author. Clearly indicate who will handle correspondence at all stages of refereeing and publication, also post-publication. Ensure that phone numbers (with country and area code) are provided in addition to the e-mail address and the complete postal address. Contact details must be kept up to date by the corresponding author.

• Present/permanent address. If an author has moved since the work described in the article was done, or was visiting at the time, a 'Present address' (or 'Permanent address') may be indicated as a footnote to that author's name. The address at which the author actually did the work must be retained as the main, affiliation address. Superscript Arabic numerals are used for such footnotes.

Abstract

A concise and factual abstract is required. The abstract should state briefly the purpose of the research, the principal results and major conclusions. An abstract is often presented separately from the article, so it must be able to stand alone. For this reason, References should be avoided, but if essential, then cite the author(s) and year(s). Also, non-standard or uncommon abbreviations should be avoided, but if essential they must be defined at their first mention in the abstract itself.

Keywords

Immediately after the abstract, provide a maximum of 6 keywords, using American spelling and

avoiding general and plural terms and multiple concepts (avoid, for example, 'and', 'of'). Be sparing with abbreviations: only abbreviations firmly established in the field may be eligible. These keywords will be used for indexing purposes.

Abbreviations

Define abbreviations that are not standard in this field in a footnote to be placed on the first page of the article. Such abbreviations that are unavoidable in the abstract must be defined at their first mention there, as well as in the footnote. Ensure consistency of abbreviations throughout the article.

Acknowledgements

Collate acknowledgements in a separate section at the end of the article before the references and do not, therefore, include them on the title page, as a footnote to the title or otherwise. List here those individuals who provided help during the research (e.g., providing language help, writing assistance or proof reading the article, etc.).

Nomenclature and units

Follow internationally accepted rules and conventions: use the international system of units (SI).

If other quantities are mentioned, give their equivalent in SI. 

Math formulae

Present simple formulae in the line of normal text where possible and use the solidus (/) instead of a horizontal line for small fractional terms, e.g., X/Y. In principle, variables are to be presented in italics. Powers of e are often more conveniently denoted by exp. Number consecutively any equations that have to be displayed separately from the text (if referred to explicitly in the text).

Footnotes

Footnotes should be used sparingly. Number them consecutively throughout the article, using superscript Arabic numbers. Many word processors build footnotes into the text, and this feature may be used. Should this not be the case, indicate the position of footnotes in the text and present the footnotes themselves separately at the end of the article. Do not include footnotes in the Reference list.

Table footnotes

Indicate each footnote in a table with a superscript lowercase letter.

Tables

Number tables consecutively in accordance with their appearance in the text. Place footnotes to tables below the table body and indicate them with superscript lowercase letters. Avoid vertical rules. Be sparing in the use of tables and ensure that the data presented in tables do not duplicate results described elsewhere in the article.

References

Citation in text

Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list (and vice versa). Any references cited in the abstract must be given in full. Unpublished results and personal communications are not recommended in the reference list, but may be mentioned in the text. If these references are included in the reference list they should follow the standard reference style of the journal and should include a substitution of the publication date with either 'Unpublished results' or 'Personal communication'. Citation of a reference as 'in press' implies that the item has been accepted for publication. 

Web references

As a minimum, the full URL should be given and the date when the reference was last accessed. Any further information, if known (DOI, author names, dates, reference to a source publication, etc.), should also be given. Web references can be listed separately (e.g., after the reference list) under a different heading if desired, or can be included in the reference list.

References in a special issue

Please ensure that the words 'this issue' are added to any references in the list (and any citations in the text) to other articles in the same Special Issue.

Reference style

Text: Indicate references by number(s) in square brackets in line with the text. The actual authors can be referred to, but the reference number(s) must always be given. Example: '..... as demonstrated [3,6]. Barnaby and Jones [8] obtained a different result ....'

List: Number the references (numbers in square brackets) in the list in the order in which they appear in the text.

Examples:

Reference to a journal publication:

[1] J. van der Geer, J.A.J. Hanraads, R.A. Lupton, The art of writing a scientific article, J. Sci. Commun. 163 (2010) 51–59.

Reference to a book:

[2] W. Strunk Jr., E.B. White, The Elements of Style, fourth ed., Longman, New York, 2000.

Reference to a chapter in an edited book:

[3] G.R. Mettam, L.B. Adams, How to prepare an electronic version of your article, In: B.S. Jones, R.Z. Smith (Eds.), Introduction to the Electronic Age, E-Publishing Inc., New York, 2009, pp. 281–304.

Journal abbreviations source

Journal names should be abbreviated according to the List of title word abbreviations http://www.sciencemag.org/site/feature/contribinfo/prep/res/journal_abbrevs.xhtml

Submission checklist

The following list will be useful during the final checking of an article prior to sending it to the journal for review. Please consult this Guide for Authors for further details of any item.

Ensure that the following items are present:

One author has been designated as the corresponding author with contact details:

• E-mail address

• Full postal address

• Phone numbers

• Keywords

Further considerations

• Manuscript has been 'spell-checked' and 'grammar-checked'

• References are in the correct format for this journal

• All references mentioned in the Reference list are cited in the text, and vice versa

• Permission has been obtained for use of copyrighted material from other sources (including the Web)

• Color figures are clearly marked as being intended for color reproduction 

AFTER ACCEPTANCE

Proofs

One set of page proofs (as PDF files) will be sent by e-mail to the corresponding author (if we do not have an e-mail address then paper proofs will be sent by post). If there is any correction, please list your corrections quoting line number. If, for any reason, this is not possible, then mark the corrections and any other comments on a printout of your proof and return by fax, or scan the pages and e-mail, or by post. Please use this proof only for checking the typesetting, editing, completeness and correctness of the text, tables and figures. Significant changes to the article as accepted for publication will only be considered at this stage with permission from the Editor. We will do everything possible to get your article published quickly and accurately – please let us have all your corrections within 48 hours. It is important to ensure that all corrections are sent back to us in one communication: please check carefully before replying, as inclusion of any subsequent corrections cannot be guaranteed. Proofreading is solely your responsibility. 

Offprint

The corresponding author, at no cost, will be provided with a PDF file of the article via email (the PDF file is a watermarked version of the published article and includes a cover sheet with the journal cover image and a disclaimer outlining the terms and conditions of use). For an extra charge, paper offprints can be ordered via the offprint order form which is sent once the article is accepted for publication. Both corresponding and co-authors may order offprints at any time via e-mail (ajbse@ju.edu.sa)

AUTHOR INQUIRIES

For inquiries relating to the submission of articles (including electronic submission) please visit this journal's homepage. Contact details for questions arising after acceptance of an article, especially those relating to proofs, will be provided by the publisher.

Disclaimer

Jouf University Science and Engineering Journal shall not take any responsibility for the contents of articles published in the journal and all such responsibility shall lie with the author/s. The opinions expressed in the articles are solely of the author/s and JUSEJ may not agree with such opinions in part or in full.