Упатство за авторите

The journal, also publishes (continuously or occasionally) the bibliographies of the members of the Faculty, book reviews, reports on meetings, news of future meetings, important events and dates, and various rubrics, wich contribute to the development of the corresponding scientific field.

Original scientific papers should contain hitherto unpublished results of completed original scientific research. The number of pages (including tables and figures) should not exceed 15.

Short communications should also contain completed but briefly presented results of original scientific research. The number of pages should not exceed 5 (including tables and figures).

Reviews are submitted at the invitation of the Editorial Board. They should be surveys of the investigations and knowledge of several authors in a given research area.  The competency of the authors should be assured by their own published results.

Professional papers report on useful practical results that are not original but help the results of the original scientific research to be adopted into scientific and production use. The number of pages (including tables and figures) should not exceed 10.

Acceptance for publication in the Journal obliges the authors not to publish the same results elsewhere.

Editor-In-Chief

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

P.O. Box 464

1000 Skopje

Republic of Macedonia

The papers and appendices should be numbered. It is strongly recommended that the MS Word and/or PDF files of the manuscript be sent on the disc or by e-mail on mesj@mf.edu.mk.

A letter must accompany all submissions, clearly indicating the following: title, author(s), corresponding author’s name, address and e-mail address, suggested category of the manuscript and a suggestion of five referees (their names, e-mail and affiliation).

The original scientific papers, short communications and reviews should be written in English, while the professional papers may be submitted also in Macedonian.

Only SI (Systeme Internationale d'Unites) quan­­tities and units are to be used.

Double subscripts and superscripts should be avoided whenever possible. Thus it is better to write n₃(PO₄) than or exp(–E/RT) than e^–E/RT . Strokes (/) should not be used instead of parentheses.

Figures (photographs, diagrams and sketches) and mathematical formulae should each be given on a separate sheet. Figures should also be inserted in the correct place in the manuscript, being horizontally reduced to 8 or 16 cm. The size of the symbols for the physical quantities and units as well as the size of the numbers and letters used in the reduced figures should be comparable with the size of the letters in the main text of the paper. Diagrams and structural formulae should be drawn in such a way (e.g. black Indian ink on white or tracing paper) as to permit high quality reproduction. The use of photographs should be avoided. The tables and the figures should be numbered in Arabic numerals (e.g. Table 1, Fig. 1). Tables and figures should be self-contained, i.e. should have captions making them legible without resort to the main text. The presentation of the same results in the form of tables and figures (diagrams) is not permitted.

Footnotes are also not permitted.

When a large number of compounds have been analyzed, the results should be given in tabular form.

Manuscript should contain: title, author(s) full-name(s), surname(s), address and e-mail, short abstract, key words, introduction, experimental or theoretical back-ground, results and discussion, acknowledgment (if desired), references and summary.

The title should correspond to the contents of the manuscript. It should be brief and informative and include the majority of the key words.

Each paper should contain an abstract that should not exceed 150 words. The abstract should include the aim of the research, the most important results and conclusions.

In the introduction only the most important previous results related to the problem in hand should be briefly reviewed and the aim and importance of the research should be stated.

The experimental section should be written as a separate section and should contain a description of the materials used and methods employed – in form which makes the results reproducible, but without detailed description of already known methods.

Manuscripts that are related to theoretical studies, instead of experimental material, should contain a sub-heading and the theoretical background where the necessary details for verifying the results obtained should be stated.

The results and discussion should be given in the same section. The discussion should contain an analysis of the results and the conclusions that can be drawn.

The reference should be given in a separate section in the order in which they appear in the text. The surname of one or two authors may be given in the text, whereas in the case of more than two authors they should be quoted as, for example, Kuzinovski and collaborators [1] or Vrtanoski et al. [1].

Papers from scientific journals should be cited as follows:

[1] G. Vrtanoski, V. Dukovski, K. Yamaguchi: Use of polymer concrete for construction materals, Proc. Fac. Mech. Eng, – Skopje, 21, 1, 43–48 (2002).

Books should be cited as follows:

a) books without editor:

[2] V. Georgievski: Lake metalne konstrukcije prostorni rešetkasti sistemi, Građevinska knjiga, Beograd, 1990, pp. 134–157.

b) books with editor:

[3] M. Golay, in Gas Chromatography, D. Desty, ed. Butterworths, London, 1958, p. 36.

Manuscripts should also contain a summary in Macedonian at the end of the paper. The summary in Macedonian for foreign authors will be prepared by the Editorial Board. The summary should contain: title, author(s) full-name(s), surname(s) and address, key words and abstract.

The category of the paper is proposed by the author(s) but the Editorial Board reserves for itself the right, on the basis of the referees' opinion, to make the final choice.

Proofs are sent to the author(s) to correct printers' errors. Except for this, alterations to the text are not permitted. The proofs should be returned to the Editorial Board in 2 days.

The author(s) will receive, free of charge, 20 reprints of every paper published in the Journal.