| About publications 1. The 2-page extended abstracts submitted to the symposium will be collected in a CD-rom proceedings.
2. According to the option of authors, full length papers of the symposium will be recommended to submit to either the symposium proceedings (to be published by the Springer Corp.) or one of the following five academic journals. Considering the copyright issue, each full paper can only choose one of them. (1) Tribology Transactions (Download Guideline)
(2) Journal of Engineering Tribology -- Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part J
(Download Guideline)
(3) Tribology - Materials, Surfaces & Interfaces (Download Guideline)
(4) International Journal of Surface Science and Engineering (Download Guideline)
(5) Chinese Science Bulletin (Download Guideline) - The Scientific Committee of the symposium is responsible to the review process for the full papers to be submitted to the symposium proceedings. The accepted full papers after peer review will be included in the symposium proceedings, which will be published by the Springer Corp. Please click here for the format.
- For the full papers to be submitted to the journals, a regular review process is required according to the publication policy of each individual journal. You can find the guidlines in the above links for preparation of your paper to be submitted to the above 5 journals . (click HERE to download the proceedings format and guidelines above 5 journals )
Important note:
If a full length paper submitted to a journal is rejected, it can still be submitted to the symposium proceedings before Dec. 31, 2008, if the author decides to do so. After the date, it is not acceptable. Please submit your full paper through the conference website http://www.cist.org.cn/, before September 27th, 2008. The submission of full paper has already been opened on the conference website. Please note that if you do not register to the symposium, your full paper would not be accepted in the symposium proceedings. | 