Contributions to Metrology and Hallmark are invited on all aspects of the research, development and applications of the science and technology of measurement and instrumentation. Authors are encouraged to submit novel material which could include results of research or experimental work. The scope includes measurement systems supporting metrology in the full range of length scales, fundamental aproches to measurement science, new directions in the development of probation, measurement instruments and instrumentation technology, and measurement signal processing. Submitted papers should be use good English.
Types of paper
The types of paper that Metrology and Hallmark accepts are original research papers and reviews.
Editorial Procedures
All submitted manuscripts received by the Editorial Office will be checked by a Managing Editor to determine whether they are properly prepared and whether they follow the ethical policies of the journal. Manuscripts that do not fit the journal's ethics policy or do not meet the standards of the journal will be rejected before peer-review. Manuscripts that are not properly prepared will be returned to the authors for revision and resubmission. After these checks, the Managing Editor will consult the journals’ Editor-in-Chief or Associate Editors to determine whether the manuscript fits the scope of the journal and whether it is scientifically sound. Reject decisions at this stage will be verified by the Editor-in-Chief.
Peer-Review
Once a manuscript passes the initial checks, it will be assigned to at least two independent experts for peer-review. A single-blind review is applied, where authors' identities are known to reviewers. Peer review comments are confidential and will only be disclosed with the express agreement of the reviewer.
Declaration of competing interest
Corresponding authors, on behalf of all the authors of a submission, must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence (bias) their work. Examples of potential conflicts of interest include employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, patent applications/registrations, and grants or other funding. All authors, including those without competing interests to declare, should provide the relevant information to the corresponding author (which, where relevant, may specify they have nothing to declare). Corresponding authors should then use this tool to create a shared statement and upload to the submission system.
Author contributions
For transparency, authors have to submit an author statement file outlining their individual contributions to the paper using the relevant roles: Conceptualization; Data curation; Formal analysis; Funding acquisition; Investigation; Methodology; Project administration; Resources; Software; Supervision; Validation; Visualization; Roles/Writing - original draft; Writing - review & editing. Authorship statements should be formatted with the names of authors first and contribution role(s) following.
Article structure
Follow this order when typing manuscripts: Title, Authors, Affiliations, Abstract (not exceeding 150 words in length), Keywords, Main text (divided into numbered sections and subsections), Acknowledgements, Appendices, References, Figure Captions and Tables should be presented in main text. Please supply figures imported into the text and also separately as original graphics files as well as Highlights and Graphical abstract.
References
There are no strict requirements on reference formatting at submission. References can be in any style or format as long as the style is consistent. Where applicable, author(s) name(s), journal title/book title, chapter title/article title, year of publication, volume number/book chapter and the article number or pagination must be present. Use of DOI is highly encouraged. The reference style used by the journal will be applied to the accepted article by journal staff at the proof stage. Note that missing data will be highlighted at proof stage for the author to correct.
Please note that the final (after acceptance from editor-in-chief) version of the article, which is ready for submitting, should be prepared in word file (doc).
Submission declaration and verification
Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously, that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, including electronically without the written consent of the copyright-holder.
Cross-check verification
Journal publiser uses the 'iThenticate' software to analyse papers that are submitted to the journal 'Metrology and Hallmark ' to examine the level of overlap or duplication with published papers that are readily accessible on the internet. If the check will carried out shows a level of overlap that indicates that there is limited originality of the paper submitted than the Editor will has decided to reject the paper.
If the paper will includes a significant amount of text, more than 25 % taken from other sources and more than 4 % from one source Editor can reject the paper.