«The Journal of the Southwest Jiaotong University» (hereinafter refered to the Journal of SJU or further simplified as the Journal.) is a multi-disciplinary and academic periodical on natural sciences and open to a readership both domestic and overseas. The articles published by our Journal are predominantly devoted to theoretic exploration, applied research, experimental tests and disciplinary discussion on the subjects within physical science and related engineering topics, especially in such aspects as transportation, shipment by vehicles and their management, mostly in the form of research papers or related S&T news stories. Our readership covers the following walks of life: S&T workers both at home and abroad, engineers & technicians, teachers & lecturers on the campus specializing in natural sciences and doctorate post-graduates, etc.

Our Journal is one of the core periodicals nationwide, serving as a data source exclusively sampled or documented for national statistics on Chinese S&T papers as well as for the national database of S&T quotations. What’s more, it is one of source journals catalogued by the Ei Compendex, an enormous databank affiliated to the US Engineering Information Co. and accepted as literary digests for some disciplines as the monographic source such as mechanics, rock-and-soil (geotechnical) engineering, machine-building engineering, radio technique etc. in China.

I. Requirements for an acceptable written contribution or a qualified manuscript

1.1 The contributed article must be noted for its academic originality with clear-cut viewpoints, reliable data, closely reasoned and unassailable logic, concise and succinct wording and correct usage of all putctuation marks.

1.2 The text of each manuscript must cover the following items (in line with the following order): the article’s title in Chinese (equal to or less than 20 characters), the author’s full name, his working unit (including its address and postal code), abstracts in Chinese (including the paper’s objective, methodology, main results and conclusion), key words, classification marks in Chinese bibliography, the marking number in related literature, the article’s English title, the author’s full name in English (in Chinese pinyin), his working unit in English, the abstracts in English, key words in English, the article’s full text, references, etc.  In the footnote of the first page, the full name of the research program funded by a foundation or authorities must be given (the authorities must be or higher than provincial or departmental ones in administrative level in addition to the program’s catalogued number) and a brief introduction of the first author (his or her full name, the year of birth, gender, professional title, academic degree, research orienation, telephone number or e-mail website).

1.3 All scripts in the manuscript must be using the simplified version of standardized Chinese characters. The locations of letters, numerals and signs employed as subscripts or superscripts should be eye-catching so that they are easy to be recognized.

1.4 All headlines at various grades must be placed atop the grid at left. Their ordinary numbers must be presented by the Arabic numerals. For example, the headlines of the first grade is shown as “1.,2.,...” while the digits of all numbered headlines are to be separated by periods. The preface is to be out of the numbering series set for the headlines and the word “Preface” has to be deleted.

1.5  The sites of both pictures and diagrams have to be placed closely near the content relevant to themselves in the main body of the text. All engineering drawings to illustrate the text have to be in compliance with the conventional norms in mapping and cartography. The photos must be clearly discernible while all diagramatic tablets or forms have to consist of three columns (? There would be neither slanting nor verticular lines in them). In all graphic works inserted in the textual presentation, the employed quantities and their measurement units are to be in accordance with related decreed or mandatory standards

1.6  Graphs, forms and formulae are to be numbered in a continuous series of Arabic numerals.

1.7  The references are to be presented in a numbered series complying with the order of their first appearances in the main body of the full text.

2. Points in Need of Your Special Attention

2.1 Any manuscript contributed to our Journal must be a work of originality or creation, still unseen or not yet published on various periodicals both at home and abroad, neither read publically at conferences, seminars nor spread in the cyberspace. Its content must have nothing to do with anything confidential. In consideration of the time of our working circulation spent for the manucript’s appraisal and examination in the hands of our editors, it is allowed that the author might try to contribute his or her manuscript once again to another destination for publication if the author has not received an official reply from our editorial department six months later since the article has been mailed out. Before such a time limit, please don’t get involved in the malpractice of multiple submission, i.e., multiple contributions with one manuscript. Otherwise, you (the contributor) has to be held responsible for all legal liabilities provoked by your misdeed as a result, including the repayment for the economic losses inflicted on the Journal.

2.2 So far, our Journal has had signed agreements for on-line co-publication of the kits of optical discs with several digital publishing houses, including CNKI, the Information Center in Southwest China under the Ministry of Science & Technology and CEPS. The royalties paid by us for the published articles include the remunerations derived from these agreements.

2.3 Our editorial department has the right to make technical or verbal revisions on the contributed manuscripts.

2.4  The making of all linear drawings and charts has to be performed by a computer while the complicated patterns in the shading background have to adopt as less as possible in quantity.

2.5 The authors are encouraged to make their way into the Internet, landing at our Journal’s website to make an on-line contribution.

Address of the Journal’s Editorial Department: No.111, the 1st North Section of the Second Ringroad, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province.

Postal code: 610031.

The site of the Office: The ground floor in the University’s Administration Building.

Telephone number: 028-66367562, 66366845, 66367648 and 66366552.

Telex: 028-66366552.

E-mail: xbz@swjtu.edu.cn

Website: http://journal.swjtu.edu.cn