International Journal of Heat and Technology

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Instructions for Preparing Papers for International Journal of Heat and Technology
Sandra Mayang Dika Ridwan1*, Nasaruddin Salam2, Rustan Tarakka3

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Hasanuddin University, 92171, Indonesia

Corresponding Author Email:

https://doi.org/10.18280/ijht.xxxxxx ABSTRACT

Received: Detailed instructions for preparing your paper submitted to International Journal of Heat
Accepted: and Technology are given as follows. Please be responsible for the quality and
appearance of your work. It’s strongly recommended that you directly type over the
Keywords: template or just cut and paste from another document and use markup styles. Please keep
key word 1, key word 2, key word 3, key in mind all the way through the preparation: do not modify page setup in this template,
word 4, key word 5, key word 6, key word 7, such as font, line spacing, margin, uppercase and lowercase, and the order of sections.
key word 8 The abstract section is mandatory, with a word limit of 200 words. The purpose,
(no more than 8 keywords) methodology, results & conclusions, and implications should be summarized here. Avoid
inserting any reference in this section. In the Keywords section, please enter words or
phrases in alphabetical order. There is a maximum of 8 keywords.

1. INTRODUCTION Example: “4.1 Paper title”.

Level 3: Times New Roman, 10, not bold, only the first
Throughout the main text, please follow these prescribed letter as well as proper nouns capitalized, 10 pts spacing
settings: 1) the font is mostly Times New Roman; 2) almost above and below heading. However, when a Level 3 heading
all the words are typed in 10 points; 3) each line throughout is directly below a Level 2 heading, just leave 10 pts spacing
the paper is single-spaced; 4) in most cases, 10 pts spacing between them instead of 20 pts. Example: “4.2.1 Name”
shall be left above and below any heading, title, caption, No more levels successive to Level 3 are allowed. If you
formula equation, figure and table. must add some “Level 4” heading, just place it at the
As mentioned in the abstract section, it will be rather easy beginning of a paragraph, underline it, and follow it with a
to follow these rules as long as you just replace the “content” full stop and immediately the text. For example:
here without modifying the “form”.
The heater tube. This device is used as the electrical
resistance for providing heat input. D.C. voltage is applied at
1.2 PAGE SETUP the…

The book size should be in A4 (8.27 inches × 11.69 Do not begin a new section directly at the bottom of the
inches). Do not change the current page settings when you page, instead, move the heading to the top of the next page.
use the template.
The number of pages for the manuscript must be no more
than ten, including all the sections. Please make sure that the 2. MORE DETAILS ABOUT PAPER TITLE AND
whole text ends on an even page. Please do not insert page AUTHOR INFORMATION
numbers. Please do not use the Headers or the Footers
because they are reserved for the technical editing by editors. 4.1 Paper title

Paper titles should be written in upper-case and lower-case

1.3 SECTION HEADINGS letters, not all upper-case, e.g., “Instructions for preparing
papers for International Journal of Heat and Technology”.
The way that section titles and other headings are Do not use capital letters for prepositions, articles or
displayed in these instructions, is meant to be followed in conjunctions unless one is the first word.
your paper. Avoid writing long formulas with subscripts in the title;
Level 1: Times New Roman, 10, bold, all letters short formulas that identify the elements are fine (e.g., “Nd–
capitalized, 20 pts spacing above heading and 10 pts below, Fe–B”).
Example: “3. SECTION HEADINGS”
Level 2: Times New Roman, 10, bold, only the first letter
as well as proper nouns capitalized, 10 pts spacing above
heading, 10 pts spacing below heading. However, when a 2.2 Author information
Level 2 heading is directly above a Level 1 spacing, just
leave 10 pts spacing between them instead of 20 pts. 4.2.1 Name
 Full names of authors are required. The middle name can
be abbreviated. 4. TABLES AND FIGURES

4.2.2 Affiliation 6.1 General

Different affiliations shall be listed in separate lines. Do
not insert any punctuation at the end of each affiliation. If all (1) Briefly and descriptively title each table and caption
the authors are affiliated to the same organization, type that each figure. Place figure captions below the figures whereas
affiliation just once. table titles above the tables. Please do not include captions as
part of the figures or put them in “text boxes” linked to the
4.2.3 Superscripts figures. Also, do not place borders around the outside of your
To match authors and their own affiliations, please insert figures.
numerical superscripts, i.e., “1, 2, 3, 4 …” followed by a space, (2) All the table titles and figure captions should be
after name and, correspondingly, before affiliation. If all the centered, Times New Roman font and 10 pts in size. Just
authors are affiliated to the same one organization, any capitalize the first letter of words, phrases and sentences
number is no need. which are included in tables and figures.
Do not forget to denote the corresponding author with a (3) Reference each table and figure within the text by
superscript asterisk (*). You may offer emails of all co- writing: e.g., Table 1 or Figure 1 (instead of Tab. 1 or Fig. 1).
authors. But in the final version of your manuscript, only one If possible, place tables and figures in the order mentioned in
valid email of the corresponding author will be kept. the text, at top or bottom of page, as close as possible to text
reference.
(4) Allow 10 pts spacing between the table title and the
3. MATH table (or between the figure and its caption). The equal
spacing is allowed between the table or figure and the
5.1 Equations following text.

(1) Tool: You are strongly recommended to use 4.2 Tables

MathType (http://www.mathtype.com) to edit equations.
Microsoft Equation Editor is also acceptable. (Insert | Object | Words within a table should use 9 pts. The table number
Create New | Microsoft Equation or MathType Equation). should be in bold type.
“Float over text” should not be selected. In general, if a table is too long to fit one page, the table
(2) Format: The size of equation is 10 pts. Remember to number and heading should be repeated on the next page
leave 10 pt spacing both above and below an equation. Set before the table is continued. Alternatively, the table may be
the equation flush left, without indenting it. spread over two consecutive pages (first an even numbered,
(3) Numbering: Make sure that placing and numbering then an odd-numbered page) turned by 90, without repeating
of equations is consistent throughout your manuscript. the heading. Here is an example:
References to the equations should be as Eq. (1). Make the
number of an equation flush-right. For example: Table 1. Table title

Heading1 Heading 2 Heading 3

b  b 2  4ac
x1,2  (1) Table size can be edited
2a
Notes: 1. If you must attach a note for further explaining some data in the
table, please use 8 pts font size here. 2. If more than one note is to be
3.2 Measurement units and numbers attached, please number them with “1, 2, 3 …” and separate them with a
period or a semicolon. 3. The right and left borders of the note area must be
Please use the SI set of units as much as possible. aligned in relation to those borders of the table above it no matter what the
table size is. 4. Please distribute your notes evenly between the margins.
Wherever the application domain uses a different set of units
widely, please minimize the use of non-standard units or non-
4.3 Figures
standard symbols for those units. For example, the use of “a”
for year (annum) is depreciated and the use of “y” is
Please make sure that the captions are on the same page
encouraged instead. Similarly, “h” should be used for hours
with the relevant figures and tables. Please keep captions
instead of “hr” and “t” instead of “ton” or “tonne”. It is
short – taking preferably one line. If a caption is a complete
important to take care of the case in which the measurement
sentence, place a period at the end of it. If not, then place no
units are typed. E.g. “Km” does not mean “kilometres”, but
punctuation at the end.
“Kelvin-meters”.
Figures and captions must be centered. Any word, number,
When providing numerical values followed by
shape and symbol on figures must be discernible when the
measurement units, please leave a regular space or non-
page zoom level stands at 120%. We suggest that you use one
breaking space between each value and the measurement
of the following Open Type fonts: Times New Roman,
unit. This also includes percentages and degrees Celsius (e.g.
Helvetica, Arial, Cambria, and Symbol, when preparing your
42 % or 35 %, 234 °C, 504 K). This rule also applies to the
figures.
unit for litre, which is recommended to be capital “L”.
Various figures can be accepted. Several examples cited
The authors are encouraged to render the numbers
from papers published in previous IIETA journal issues are as
specifying the dot as a decimal separator and the comma as a
follows. Please pay special attention to how much line
thousand separator. Please use the British style for numbers –
spacing is allowed in different cases:
i.e. 1,000,000 and not 1000000 or 1 000 000.
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It is mandatory to have conclusions in your paper. This Angeles, California, USA.
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and a comprehensible explanation of their significance and Motorola Semiconductor Products Inc., Phoenix, USA.
relevance. The limitations of the work and future research
directions may also be mentioned. Please do not make
another abstract. NOMENCLATURE

Each paper should have a separate nomenclature section

ACKNOWLEDGMENT that lists in detail and unambiguously all the symbols used in
the text and their definitions. Do not use the same symbol for
Acknowledgement section is not numbered and presented two or more different meanings or definitions; similarly, do
after the conclusion. Use the singular heading even if you not use more than one symbol for one variable/parameter.
have many acknowledgments. Avoid expressions such as Each dimensional symbol must have SI units mentioned at
“One of us would like to thank ...” Instead, write “This work the end. All dimensionless groups and coefficients must be
is supported by the National Science Foundation (Grant indicated as dimensionless after their definitions. All Latin
numbers: xxxx, yyyy).” symbols (dimensional and dimensionless) should be listed in
an alphabetic order. All Greek symbols follow the Latin
symbols. Subscripts and superscripts follow Greek symbols
REFERENCES and should be identified by a minor heading. Symbols that
cannot be typed should be entered in black ink. Symbols
In order to give our readers a sense of continuity, we should be italicized throughout the text.
encourage you to identify in your papers the articles of Please make a nomenclature originally in a table and then
similar research published in past issues of the journal. Please hide all the borders so that the symbol column and the
do a literature check of the papers published in the journal in meaning column can be aligned from the top down. A
recent years. template for nomenclature is as follows.
Literature included in your references list must all be
mentioned in the text. Please number all the pieces of
literature in the order of their appearance in the text and mark
them with Arabic numerals in square brackets, such as [1], NOMENCLATURE
[2], [3]. Please do not make these numerals superscript either
in the text or in the references list. B dimensionless heat source length
The digital object identifier (DOI) should be attached to CP specific heat, J. kg-1. K-1
the end of a reference if the reference has one indeed. You g gravitational acceleration, m.s-2
may find DOI at http://www.crossref.org/guestquery/#. k thermal conductivity, W.m-1. K-1
You may imitate the following examples to prepare your Nu local Nusselt number along the heat source
references:
Greek symbols
[1] Magrini, A., Lazzari, S., Marenco, L., Guazzi, G.
(2017). A procedure to evaluate the most suitable a thermal diffusivity, m2. s-1
integrated solutions for increasing energy performance b thermal expansion coefficient, K-1
of the building’s envelope, avoiding moisture problems. f solid volume fraction
Ɵ dimensionless temperature (3) Permissions. You are responsible for making sure
µ dynamic viscosity, kg. m-1.s-1 that you have the right to publish everything in your paper. If
you use material from a copyrighted source, you may need to
Subscripts get permission from the copyright holder. You need to seek
permission to use a figure or table if it has not been changed
p nanoparticle in any substantive way from the original or if it does not plot
f fluid (pure water) or compile data readily available to anyone. You need to seek
nf nanofluid permission to quote material if you use it in a way
competitive with the original material, that is, if your use of
APPENDIX the material will harm the rights of the original publisher
and/or author. This criterion holds true regardless of the
(1) Appendix. If there is an Appendix section in your length of the quote. If the quoted material will not be used
paper, please place the section after Nomenclature and follow competitively, you need only to cite the original source.
the format of the text body. Please consult your own legal adviser if you have any
(2) Footnotes. It is recommended that footnotes be questions about what may need permission.
avoided.