Submissions

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

• The submitted paper must be a scientific paper relevant to the fields of civil engineering that has not been previously published or is not in the process of publication in other print media.
• The paper is not the result of plagiarism and does not contain elements of plagiarism.
• All names listed in the ownership line are entitled to become authors and have agreed to the final form of the article submitted.
• The authors are willing to bear the risk of the accuracy of the data and will not ask for accountability to the editor for errors in the data provided.
• The authors are willing to make major and minor repairs to the results of further reviews until this article is published.
• The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format with maximum size does not exceed 5 MB.
• Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
• The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
• The text is single-spaced; uses a 11-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.