Frontiers of Mechanical Engineering（《机械工程前沿（英文）》）期刊由教育部主管，高等教育出版社、中国工程院和华中科技大学共同主办，德国Springer公司负责海外发行。以网络版和印刷版两种形式出版，为全英文季刊，是Frontiers系列英文学术期刊之一和中国工程院院刊。
Frontiers of Mechanical Engineering is an international peer-reviewed academic journal sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Engineering, administered by Higher Educations Press and Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and jointly published by Higher Education Press of China and Springer on a quarterly basis in English.
The journal publishes primarily research article and review article by following the peer-review system. Two reviewers are requested in the relevant study fields, and review feed-back will usually take about one month.
The most important things of the followings
1. All figures and tables cited must have obtained the authorizations from the original papers or their publishers;
2. Manuscripts should be in a Word format and single column;
3. Equations and variables must be input with MathType rather than the tool embedded in Word;
4. Please insert pictures (over 300 dpi) and tables into the article, and simultaneously upload the picture files separately to the system;
5. More than 30 references should be cited in the article, in which references published in recent two years must occupy higher than 20%. Non-English References must be less than 3.
1. Duplicate/previous publication or submission
Manuscripts submitted to this journal must not be under simultaneous consideration by any other publisher and should not have been published elsewhere in substantially similar form. No part of a paper which has been published by Frontiers of Mechanical Engineering may be reproduced or published elsewhere without the written permission of the publisher.
2. Permissions
Authors wishing to include figures, tables, or text passages that have already been published elsewhere are required to obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) for both the print and online format and to include evidence that such permission has been granted when submitting their papers. Any material received without such evidence will be assumed to originate from the authors.
3. Article Categories
The following categories of papers can be submitted to the journal:
RESEARCH articles describing original investigations relevant to mechanical engineering;
REVIEW articles giving an in-depth overview of certain topic or a review of one’s own work or work of a laboratory or a group of researchers;
FEATURE articles providing an overview on certain topic written by well known scientists in the field.
4. Manuscript preparation and submission requirementsManuscript preparation and submission requirements
4.1 MManuscript anuscript submissionsubmission
Authors are encouraged to submit their papers electronically via the online submission system (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/fome). The The wweb site guides authors stepwise through the creation eb site guides authors stepwise through the creation and uploading of the various files. Note that and uploading of the various files. Note that original sourceoriginal source files,files, not PDF filesnot PDF files,, are required. Once are required. Once the submission files are uploaded, the system automatically generates an electronic (PDF) proof, the submission files are uploaded, the system automatically generates an electronic (PDF) proof, which is then used for reviewing. All correspondence, including the editorwhich is then used for reviewing. All correspondence, including the editor’’s decision and request for s decision and request for revisions, will revisions, will be by ebe by e--mail. After reviewing process, the manuscript will be finally judged by one of mail. After reviewing process, the manuscript will be finally judged by one of the editors who have the right to accept or reject a paper.the editors who have the right to accept or reject a paper.
