Electronic Journal "Technical Acoustics" - ISSN 1819-2408

Main features

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Purely electronic (on-line) journal
Free for readers
Publication fee is 150 EUR or 200 USD (60/90 for students) per article
Article size limit is 16 pages A4 and 1 Mb disk space
Manuscripts are reviewed
Realizable time from manuscript submitting to article publication is three weeks
Simple and friendly rules for authors

General Information

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Since 1992 Journal "Technical acoustics" was issued as paperback (ISSN 0869-4583). In 2001 we launched the Journal in the Internet. Electronic Journal "Technical Acoustics" (EJTA) is free to readers scientific and technical journal. EJTA is a refereed journal publishing original articles in all areas of acoustics:

general acoustics
structural acoustics
flow acoustics
electroacoustics
architectural acoustics
noise control
underwater sound
atmospheric sound
acoustics materials
medical applications
musical acoustics
speech technology
measurement and instrumentation
acoustic signal processing
ultrasound
environmental acoustics
physiological and psychophysical acoustics
standardization
speech recognition and denoising
image processing
digital signal processing
and others

English and Russian are the Journal languages. It means we handle manuscripts either in English or in Russian.

All EJTA articles must meet the highest scientific quality standards, both in terms of originality and significance. Manuscripts are reviewed by two experts and editors of the journal before acceptance. Authors themselves are welcome to recommend reviewers for their article. We ask referees to review papers within two weeks.

All articles published in this journal represent the opinions of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the editors. Accepting of a manuscript implies that the work has not been published before.

We are aware of responsibility for maintenance of the journal and all the published articles in the Internet permanently and in perpetuity.

We are happy to receive your comments and suggestions concerning the Journal.

Author guide

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How to publish the article: main steps

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.
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.
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.
Use our Instruction for Manuscript Preparation when preparing the paper.
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.
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.
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:

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
Use Microsoft Word 97 (or later) for Windows for manuscript preparation
Margins from left, right, top and bottom of the text field are 2.5 cm
Distances from sheet edges to running title are 1.5 cm
Font for the body of the paper and abstract is "Times New Roman", 12 point size
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
Use default options of Microsoft Equation Editor when editing equations
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.

Reader Guide

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All the articles are free.

Click a selected year in "Contents" on main page (on top) to read table of content according to this year. Below each title in table of content there is a link ("read more") to abstract of the paper, references list, data on authors and other useful information including language of the paper (English or Russian).

Link "Download article" serves to download full text of the paper as archived file (zip). You may use browser command "Save Target As..." Unpack archive using any suitable software.

Articles are presented in Portable Document Format (PDF). PDF was developed by Adobe © for viewing and printing documents. To read these documents you need Adobe Acrobat © Reader software, which is simple to use and available at no cost. Use version 4.0 or higher. You can download software from Adobe website (http://www.adobe.com/).

How to refer to a paper, published in electronic journal “Technical Acoustics”

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When you refer to an article, published in electronic journal “Technical Acoustics” it is enough to point out address of the journal in the internet (<http://www.ejta.org>), the year of publishing and sequence number of the paper.

For example, reference:
A. G. Troshin. A note on calibrational technique for reusable piezoelectric film strain gauges using stepped beam with variable cross section. Electronic Journal “Technical Acoustics” <http://www.ejta.org> 2001, 1
means that the paper has been published the first in 2001.

Editorial Board

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I. Gruchetsky	St. Petersburg, editor(at)ejta.org
A. Ionov	St. Petersburg
M. Crocker	Auburn, USA, mcrocker(at)eng.auburn.edu
V. Grinchenko	Kiev, Ukraine
T. Kihlman	Goteborg, Sweden, tk(at)ta.chalmers.se
G. Pavich	Lyon, France, pavic(at)lva.insa-lyon.fr
L. Buvailo	St. Petersburg

Contact (address)

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7-47 Pulkovskaya str., Saint Petersburg, 196158, Russia

Journal "Technical Acoustics"

Tel: +7 (812) 7236660

E-mail: editor(at)ejta.org

http://www.ejta.org

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