Author Guidelines

ARTTE Applied Researches in Technics, Technologies and Education is the official scientific Journal of the Faculty of Technics and Technologies of Yambol, Trakia University, Bulgaria.

ARTTE is a no-fee open-access (open-access according BOAI definition) and peer-reviewed and quarterly journal. 

The Journal publishes peer-reviewed articles which present original scientific research  in the topics of:

• Mechanical Engineering

• Technics and Technologies in Agriculture and Transport Engineering

• Fashion and Textile Design and Technologies

• Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Automatics

• Computer Technology

• Energetics

• Food Technology

• Lifelong Learning

The manuscripts have to be written in English according to technical instructions, presented in https://sites.google.com/trakia-uni.bg/artte/paper-template.

Publication Policies and Ethics

The Journal ARTTE strictly respects the Publication justice and ethics. The publishing policies and ethics  requirements are structured according the Elsevier's Publishing Ethics Resource Kit and the Committee of the Publishing Ethics COPE.

Responsibilities of Authors

• • The authors must publish on,y original and authentic data. 

  • The authors have to respect the ethical ethical approach towards other researchers. The information for participation of other persons in research and publishing of their personal data have to be included.

  • The authors are obliged to participate in peer review process.

  • The authors are obliged to provide retractions or corrections of mistakes.

  • The plagiarism is not allowed. 

  • An article, published in ARTTE, must not be published in another journal.

Responsibilities of Reviewers

• • All decisions of the reviewers have to be objective.  

  • Personal criticism of the authors is not allowed.

  • All reviewed articles have been treated confidentially.  

  • Reviewers must not have conflict of interest with respect to the research and the authors.

  • Reviewers may point out relevant published work which is not yet cited.

  • Reviewers have to assess the manuscript in a timely manner.

Peer-Review Process

• • Submitted manuscripts are validated by the Editorial Board by checking of technical and basic scientific compliance with journal requirements. The Editor may choose to reject manuscripts that do not fit within the topics of the Journal, or are clearly lacking in scientific quality. 

  • Validated manuscripts are assigned to an Editorial Board Member on the basis of the profile submitted with the manuscript.

  • The Editor-in-Chief performs a Progression Assessment using a review form.

  • Manuscripts selected for Progression are assigned by the Editor-in-Chief to independent Referees for Peer Review.

  • The Referees reports are received by the Editor-in-Chief who makes a recommendation to the Editor. This may involve one or more rounds of revision by the authors. The Final Decision to publish or reject is made by the Editor or a member of the Editorial Board. 

  • The Editorial Office is responsible for administering the Process, and all communication between Authors, Editor-in-Chief and Referees is via the Office. Editor-in-Chief may choose to remain anonymous, and Peer-Reviewers are always anonymous.  

  • A well prepared manuscript of high scientific quality will normally be sent to Editor-in-Chief within one week, be returned for sending to Peer Reviewers within a further -week and then for a two weeks response. If no revisions are needed, the manuscript could be accepted within five weeks. 

Responsibilities of Editors 

• • Editors have complete responsibility and authority to reject/ accept an article on the basis of objective academic criteria, such as originality, importance and clarity.

  • Editors have to accept a paper when reasonably certain.

  • Editors have to accept the right of authors to appeal against their decisions.  

  • Editors have no conflict of interest with respect to articles they reject/ accept.  

  • When errors are found editors have to promote publication of correction or retraction.

  • Editors have to preserve anonymity of reviewers.

  • Editors have to be reasonably certain of accepting articles. 

  • Editors promote the publication of corrections or retractions of the text if errors or inaccuracies occur in the text.

  • Editors have to maintain integrity of the academic record. Editors are also willing to preclude business needs from compromising intellectual and ethical standards.  

  • Editors are always willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions, and apologies when needed. 

Responsibilities of Publisher

• • The publisher has to provide monitoring of publishing ethics by the Editorial Board.

  • The publisher has to review journal policies periodically.

  • The publisher has to maintain the integrity of academic record.

  • The publisher can publish corrections, clarifications, and retractions.