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Author guide

How to publish the article: main steps

  1. Send abstract to Igor Grushetsky (editor(at)ejta.org), editor of the journal. If you paper meets subjects of the journal you will be asked to send full text for reviewing.
  2. Send full text (archive large files please) and recommend us two experts (names, e-mails) whom you consider as the best reviewers for your article. Your original manuscript will be sent to reviewers. We ask referees to review papers within two weeks.
  3. After reviewing we accept the paper (or not – it is quite rare case). You receive acceptance message by e-mail. Some revision and improvement (more or less) of the paper are always necessary. With acceptance message you get a list of requirements and suggestions on the article correction.
  4. Use our Instruction for Manuscript Preparation when preparing the paper.
  5. You make payment and send Assignment of Copyright (hardcopy). Do not delay AoC sending. Keep in mind that ordinary mail is very slow. Sometimes it takes about one month to get your letter. But we do not wait for AoC and publish your paper right after it is ready for publication and the payment have been received. If we don’t receive your AoC too long and the next paper is ready for publication, your paper probably will be removed up to AoC receiving.
  6. Supply us the following additional information:
    • your photo and photos of your co-authors in JPG format. File size should be 20–40 kb, Try to make the photos as good as possible.
    • short information about you and your co-authors: place of employment, position, scientific area, home page addresses, any other proper data. This information (and photos) will be placed on web page with abstract of your paper.
  7. While payment and AoC travel from you to us, you make the paper better according to reviewer’s and editor’s suggestions. We work with you on article improvement. When the article is ready for publication and the payment have come we place your article into the journal.


Article Charge (payment)

EJTA is available without charge to readers. Therefore we have to get fee from authors. The article charge is 150 EURO or 200 USD. If you and your co-authors are undergraduate students the payment is 60 EURO (90 USD), but paper is limited by 6 pages and 300 kb disk space. There are two primary ways of payment: 1. to transfer money via bank, 2. to draw a cheque and send it by ordinary mail. The detailed instruction on payment you receive after your paper has been accepted for the publication.


Assignment of Copyright

With the permission to publish in this journal the author agrees to exclusive transfer of the copyright to the publisher. For legal reasons, we have to receive the assignment of copyright forms in hard copy; e-mailed forms are unacceptable at present. You should print out the filled ASSIGNMENT OF COPYRIGHT form and send it to the Editorial office: Journal “Technical Acoustics”, Moskovskoe Shosse, 44, Saint Petersburg, 196158, Russia


Instruction for Manuscript Preparation

Use, please, template (doc, zip, 70 kb) when preparing manuscript.

We are aware that it is pleasant to nobody to read instructions. General requirements in "Technical Acoustics" are the same as for any other scientific journals. Therefore, we enumerate only 8 clauses, which are the most important for us:

  1. We recommend to limit article by 8 pages (A4, 210x296 mm). The articles longer than 16 pages will not be accepted. Maximum file size of the article in PDF is 1 Mb
  2. Use Microsoft Word 97 (or later) for Windows for manuscript preparation
  3. Margins from left, right, top and bottom of the text field are 2.5 cm
  4. Distances from sheet edges to running title are 1.5 cm
  5. Font for the body of the paper and abstract is "Times New Roman", 12 point size
  6. Spacing: single space for abstract, single space with multiplier 1.2 for article text, intervals 6 points from above and below of formulae, figures, tables. Spacing can be varied a little if it is necessary when you do layout the text
  7. Use default options of Microsoft Equation Editor when editing equations
  8. The same symbols in equations and in text must look identical

English speaking expert will not subject your manuscript to circumstantial lingual examination. So if you are not assured in your English ask your colleagues, whose native language is English, to help you in the manuscript preparation or involve they as co-authors. Editorial staff will not be responsible for lingual mistakes in your article.