Guides

Everything authors, reviewers, and editors need to work with Open Access Journal of Engineering Applications — submission requirements, the review process, and our editorial policies.

Author Guides

Submitting a paper to OAJEA
What we publish, what we require, and how the submission and review process works.
Manuscript format
Structure, length, figures and tables, equations, units, references, and anonymisation requirements.
Policies for authors
Authorship, conflicts of interest, preprints, AI usage, data availability, and licensing.
Editorial Policies
Open access licensing, how peer review is run, and how we archive published content.

Reviewer Guides

Reviewing for OAJEA
What we ask of a reviewer, from accepting the invitation to submitting your assessment.
Review criteria
The eight things a review of an engineering or applied-sciences manuscript should weigh.
Review checklist
A working checklist that mirrors the structured review form you will fill in.

Editor Guides

The editorial workflow
The state machine every submission moves through, from draft to published.
Editor onboarding
Roles, assigning a handling editor and reviewers, and recording a decision.

Policies

Publication Ethics
What OAJEA expects of authors, reviewers and editors, and how we handle misconduct and retraction.
Privacy Statement
How the names and email addresses you give this journal are used.