Paper Submission

The authors are invited to submit the Full papers of the Research/Review Papers. Only the accepted and registered submissions will be presented during the conference.Authors of the accepted paper will be allowed to present their papers during the conference. The Conference Proceeding will be published online in Scopus Indexed IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering

The papers will be blind reviewed and only the accepted papers will be considered for the publication in the proceeding.

NOTE:Acceptance of a full-length submission is strictly based on the reviewers’ comments.

Authors are invited to submit original unpublished full papers by electronic submission through Easy chair using the link:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aicera2020

At least one of the authors of an accepted paper needs to register for the conference and to present the paper(s), through Online Mode presentation.

• Maximum number of authors is 3, Extra author pay Rs 1000
• Paper should not exceed 6 pages. Extra page charges Rs 500/page

Guidelines for paper submission

• Experimental investigation with specific conclusions
• Original Contribution, not published earlier
• Case studies of industrial importance
• Simulation studies with practical demonstration/result
• Design of Instruments / Systems / Software

All manuscripts should be prepared following the template of IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering

https://publishingsupport.iopscience.iop.org/questions/templates-and-guidelines-for-proceedings-papers/

Authors of accepted papers are required to submit the consent to publish along with the camera-ready paper.

IOP Manuscript Template in Word

Manuscript Template in LaTeX

IOP_Submission Guidelines

IOP_Template_Manuscript

Plagiarism Policy

Plagiarism Check: Good quality plagiarism software/ tool (Turnitin) will be used to check similarity that would not be more than 20% including reference section. In the case of exclusion of references, it should be less than 10%.

Quality Check: All submitted paper should be cutting edge, result oriented, original paper and under the scope of the conference. Article should have minimum of following headings: Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Methodology, Result and Discussion, Conclusion and References.

Manuscripts found to be plagiarized during initial stages of review are out-rightly rejected and not considered for publication in the journal. In case a manuscript is found to be plagiarized after publication, the Editor-in-Chief will conduct preliminary investigation, may be with the help of a suitable committee constituted for the purpose. If the manuscript is found to be plagiarized beyond the acceptable limits, the journal will contact the author’s Institute / College / University and Funding Agency, if any.

Review Process

1. Initial Screening

All submitted and invited papers should go through an initial screening process to screen papers which are not suitable or has have different focus, papers which are marginal, weak papers, etc. Only relevant and of high quality papers should be processed and sent to referees. Send every paper which passes the initial screening process to be refereed by three experts.

1. Refereeing Process:

 If two referees accept the paper, the paper is then considered for selection. However, if they accept the paper BUT the paper only scored marginal or just acceptable for Originality,Quality, Relevance, Presentation and Recommendation then the paper is not up to the standard of the journal and the editor should reject it.

 If two referees reject the paper, the paper is rejected and the authors are informed.

Ethical Compliance

Research papers reporting animal or clinical studies should, where appropriate, contain a statement that they have been carried out with animal or human ethics committee approval. All scientific studies should be carried out in accordance with the relevant national and local guidelines. Each author(s) warrants that his or her research institution has fully approved the protocol for all scientific studies involving animals or humans and that all experiments of any kinds were conducted in compliance with ethical and humane principles of research after ethics committee approval.