Submissions
Author Guidelines
The steps of the submitted papers from initial evaluation and checking to final publishing step is shown in the figure below
Iraqi Journal of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering (IJCPE) operates double-blind peer review process. All submitted manuscripts to IJCPE will be essential evaluated by the editor for the journal’s suitability. If the submitted manuscript passed the essential evaluation of IJCPE, the manuscript will be sent to at least two independent expert reviewers to evaluate the quality of scientific content of the manuscript. The handling editor has the responsibility of the final decision for the manuscript(s) regarding acceptance or rejection.
The handling editors will not be involved in the review process and initial or final decisions on the manuscripts which they have contributed or have been written by colleagues or family members or which relate to products or services in which the editor has an interest. All submissions are subjected to the usual procedures of IJCPE, with peer review handled independently of the relevant editor.
At revision stage, the submitted manuscript may send back to the corresponding author to complete notes that have been written by the reviewers. The final decision for the revised manuscript “acceptance or rejection” will be pointed during the periodical editorial meeting. Upon acceptance, the manuscript will be hold in the copy-editing queue. When the copy-editing is completed, the final version of the manuscript will be checked by the editor and then send for publication.
Submission Preparation Checklist
All submissions must meet the following requirements.
- The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
- The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
- Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
- The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-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.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
Copyright Notice
For papers published in Iraqi Journal of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering (IJCPE), authors and their institutions all have the same rights to reuse articles published in the journal. The journal applies the license of CC BY (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License). This permits users to copy, redistribute, remix, transmit and adapt the work provided the original work and source is appropriately cited. Please check the license for full license terms and attribution requirements.
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