Information For Authors

JARR welcomes articles, not previously published in any other journal, written in English. An acceptable article must reflect a thorough knowledge and review of the relevant literature indicated by references to prior publications, or presentations.

Articles must be submitted in the format outlined in guidelines. After approval and within a month period from official notification of acceptance, the paper will be published. 

Article Format

• Layout. The article must be double-spaced, single-column, on one side of A4 white sheets of paper, leaving sample left and right margins, preferably using 12 pts Times New Roman characters on main text (smaller size for Affiliation, Abstract, key words and captions, accordingly). Maximum article lenght should be kept at less than 20 pages (all pages numbered consecutively) including diagrams, references and tables, with text not exceeding 6500 words. Follow this order when typing article: Title, Authors (s), Affiliations, Abstract, Key words. Text, Acknowledgements, Appendix, References, Illustrations, Captions.
• Units of Measure, Mathematical symbols and Formulas. Authors of technical papers are strongly advised to use S.I. units throughout their work, providing alternate units in parentheses for convenience, when necessary. When writing fractions, please use negative exponents rather than the fraction sign/ and leave space between symbols, e.g. m s^_1, not ms^-1 or m/s. Where showing roots, the radical sign should be avoided. To indicate roots, use positive (or negative) exponents, accordingly. Formulae should be composed carefully and with the utmost economy. Numbers that identify equations should be placed at the right-hand margin in parentheses. All symbols used (mathematical, or otherwise) are to be explained in the text. In equations, all (dimensional) figures are to be given with units.
• Title, Author's names and Affiliation. Title should be informative, short and precise in describing the full article. Avoid chemical formulae in title. If the paper covers a specific location, this should usually be mentioned in the title. The affiliation should be as concise as possible, including complete mailing address, corresponding author's telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address (if available). When more than one affiliation (co-authors), please use superscript⁽¹⁾,⁽²⁾, etc after each co-author's name. In addition, the corresponding author's name is to be identified by underlining the surname.
• An abstract not exceeding 250 words is required at the beginning of each paper. Abstracts should be complete in themselves giving all main points of the paper, without repeating title, or making a reference citation, but summarizing conclusions/ results obtained, or method(s) used.
• Key words. Include five or six key words (avoid words used in the title) illustrating substantial points or features in the work.
• Text is to be divided into sections, each section with a separate heading bold typed on a line of its own, numbered consecutively. The first section should be an Introduction. Introduction offers a scientific background by going through the literature review, and indicating the reasons for making the paper by explaining and (or) defending how the particular work is an advance on previous efforts. Subsections, when needed, should bear the section number followed by the consecutive subsection number, the two separated by a dot. A final section title Conclusions (or Concluding Remarks) must be included at the end of the text. When writing in electronic form, only Word97 files (or later versions) are acceptable. Mathematical equations, in the proper character size and appearance, should be written using the MS Equation Editor (available to all Word versions).
• Any provisional funding, and or help granted, if there are any, should be mentioned in this separate paragraph placed right after the main text.
• Lengthy mathematical analyses, items of interest only to specialists, model formulations, or other material that are subordinate to the main theme of the article should normally be put into one or more appendices titled accordingly A, B, etc. Equations, Figures, and Tables in the appendix A are labeted and numbered consecutively, (i. e. Eqt. (A4), Fig. A1, Table A, etc.).
• All articles cited in the text should be presented in a list of references following the Appendix (if there is one), or otherwise right after the main text. References shown in the References List should be arranged alphabetically by author's last name. Before submitting their article, authors should compare text citations with bibliographic listings shown under the "References List" section to ensure completeness. Also, articles should be carefully checked to ensure that the spelling of author's names and dates are correct and in agreement in the text as well as in the References List. Journal title abbreviations given in the References List must follow those given in the World List of Scientific Periodicals, 4^lh Edition.