About the Journal

AIM & SCOPE

Journal of Electrical Systems & Automation (JESA) is an international journal that publishes original research articles as well as review articles in all fields of electrical Engineering. Important topics of interest include:

  • Electrical Machines
  • Power Electronics
  • Renewable energy
  • Automation and Control Engineering

The journal publishes also Special Issues within its scope resulting from specific and dedicated editorial efforts or covering a particular theme.

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING
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GUIDE FOR AUTHORS

I. MANUSCRIPT CATEGORIES AND REQUIREMENTS

The journal publishes original Research Articles, Review Articles and Brief Reports.

  • Research Articles are full-length articles presenting original, high-quality research results. The Research Articles should be within 25 pages, no more than 8000 words.
  • Review Articles are expected to present the current state of understanding on a topic, important progress that have been achieved and those challenges that remain unresolved. Review articles can be focused on a broad subject area or on a very specific topic. The Review Articles should be within 35 pages, no more than 15000 words.
  • Brief Reports may be submitted to the Editor on any topic of short cutting edge research. To ensure a more timely review process, Editors have the discretion of proceeding with a decision with one external review for brief reports. The Brief Reports should be in 4-6 pages, no more than 2000 words.

II. BEFORE YOU BEGIN

1. Moral Obligations

a. Editors’ Ethical Obligations

  • The editor is solely and independently responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published.
  • The editor shall ensure that the peer review process is fair, unbiased, and timely.
  • The editor shall select reviewers who have suitable expertise in the relevant field.
  • The editor should evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.
  • The editor must protect the confidentiality of all material submitted to the journal and all communications with reviewers, unless otherwise agreed with the relevant authors and reviewers.

b. Reviewers’ Ethical Obligations

  • Help editors achieve the JESA quality goal.
  • A reviewer should be alert to potential ethical issues in the paper and should bring these to the attention of the editor, including any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which the reviewer has personal knowledge. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation.
  • Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. Reviewers must not share the review or information about the paper with anyone or contact the authors directly without permission from the editor.

c. Ethical Responsibilities of Authors

  • The manuscript should not be submitted to more than one journal for simultaneous consideration.
  • The submitted work should be original and should not have been published elsewhere
  • The authors must declare any conflicts of interest
  • Authors are strongly advised to ensure the author group, the Corresponding Author, and the order of authors are all correct at submission.
  • The author shall include appropriate funding statements in the manuscript
  • Results should be presented clearly, honestly, and without fabrication, falsification or inappropriate data manipulation (including image-based manipulation). Authors should adhere to discipline-specific rules for acquiring, selecting and processing data.
  • The authors should Inform the journal if you subsequently find errors in your research

2. Declaration of competing interest

The journal requires that all authors disclose any potential sources of conflict of interest. Any interest or relationship, financial or otherwise that might be perceived as influencing an author's objectivity is considered a potential source of conflict of interest. These must be disclosed when directly relevant or directly related to the work that the authors describe in their manuscript. Potential sources of conflict of interest include, but are not limited to: patent or stock ownership, membership of a company board of directors, membership of an advisory board or committee for a company, and consultancy for or receipt of speaker's fees from a company. The existence of a conflict of interest does not preclude publication. If the authors have no conflict of interest to declare, they must also state this at submission. It is the responsibility of the corresponding author to review this policy with all authors and collectively to disclose with the submission ALL pertinent commercial and other relationships.

3. Submission declaration

Submission of a manuscript implies that:

  • the work described has not been published before;
  • it is not under consideration for publication anywhere else;
  • its publication has been approved by all co-authors,

4. Changes to authorship

Authors are expected to consider carefully the list and order of authors before submitting their manuscript and provide the definitive list of authors at the time of the original submission. Any addition, deletion or rearrangement of author names in the authorship list should be made only before the manuscript has been accepted and only if approved by the journal Editor. To request such a change, the Editor must receive the following from the corresponding author: (a) the reason for the change in author list and (b) written confirmation (e-mail, letter) from all authors that they agree with the addition, removal or rearrangement. In the case of addition or removal of authors, this includes confirmation from the author being added or removed.

5. Copyright

Open Access authors retain the copyrights of their papers, and all open access articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original work is properly cited. The use of general descriptive names, trade names, trademarks, and so forth in this publication, even if not specifically identified, does not imply that these names are not protected by the relevant laws and regulations. Find more about the license agreement.

While the advice and information in this journal are believed to be true and accurate on the date of its going to press, neither the authors, the editors, nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein.

6. Article Processing Charges

Journal of Electrical Systems & Automation (JESA) is a free open access journal.

7. Role of the funding source

You are requested to identify who provided financial support for the conduct of the research and/or preparation of the article and to briefly describe the role of the sponsor(s), if any, in study design; in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; and in the decision to submit the article for publication. If the funding source(s) had no such involvement then this should be stated.

III. PREPARATION

1. Article structure

Please divide your article into clearly defined and numbered sections. Subsections should be numbered 1.1 (then 1.1.1, 1.1.2, ...), 1.2, etc. (the abstract is not included in section numbering). Each heading should appear on its own separate line. Do not number the Acknowledgements or References sections.

  • Title and Authorship Information

The following information should be included

  • Paper title
  • Full author names
  • Authors' affiliation addresses (where the actual work was done)
  • Email addresses
  • Abstract

Please provide an abstract of 100 to 200 words. The Abstract should provide a clear statement of the problem, the proposed approach or solution, and highlight the main findings and conclusions. The abstract should not contain any undefined abbreviations or unspecified references.

  • Keywords

Please provide 4 to 6 keywords which can be used for indexing purposes.

  • Introduction

The Introduction should provide a clear background, a clear statement of the problem, the relevant literature on the subject, the proposed approach or solution, and the new value of research which it is innovation. It should be understandable to colleagues from a broad range of scientific disciplines.

  • Body of the article

This part should contain sufficient detail. It can be divided into subsections if several methods are described. Methods that are already published should be summarized, and indicated by a reference.

  • Results and Discussion

Results and discussion maybe combined into a single section. Results and discussion may also be presented separately if necessary.

  • Conclusions

This should clearly explain the main conclusions of the work highlighting its importance and relevance.

  • Acknowledgments

All acknowledgments (if any) should be included at the very end of the paper before the references and may include supporting grants, presentations, and so forth.

  • References

There are no strict requirements on reference formatting at submission. References can be in any style or format as long as the style is consistent. Where applicable, author(s) name(s), journal title/ book title, chapter title/article title, year of publication, volume number/book chapter and the article number or pagination must be present. Use of DOI is highly encouraged.

2. Manuscript Style

Manuscripts must be written in English. Manuscripts should be typed in double spacing, single column in 12-point, conventional font. All pages should be numbered consecutively.

Figures and Tables should always be mentioned in the text and should be numbered with Arabic numerals in consecutive numerical order. Figure and table titles should be sufficiently detailed that the main message of each figure is apparent. The resolution of images should not be less than 118 pixels/cm when the width is set to 16 cm.

In order to optimize the review process, the editors strongly encourage that authors place their figures and tables in the correct position in the body of the text.

IV. SUBMISSION

1. Procedures for submission

Once you have prepared your submission in accordance with the Guidelines, manuscripts should be submitted online at https://revues.imist.ma/index.php/JESA/about/submissions#authorGuidelines. You will be guided stepwise through the creation and uploading of your files. The system automatically converts your files to a single PDF file, which is used in the peer-review process.

  • During the submission process you must enter the full title and names and affiliations of all authors. Give the full address, including email of the author who is to check the proofs.
  • Enter a summary and keywords.
  • The manuscript must be a single file (including tables, figures, etc.), of less than 1 Meg, using either an Adobe-compatible portable document format or an MS Word *.doc (preferred).
  • If your article includes any Videos and/or other Supplementary material (applications, images and sound clips), this should be included in your initial submission for peer review purposes.
  • Authors will be notified by e-mail that their manuscript has been received. Authors can view the status of their manuscripts at any time

2. Privacy Statement

The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.

V. PEER REVIEW

1. Peer review process

Initially, a manuscript that meets the general requirements for submission and complies with the subject scope of the JESA will be reviewed by the journal's Editors. During this first check, the editor may return the articles for the following reasons:

  • The manuscript is outside the scope of the journal.
  • The manuscript is not prepared in the format described in the authors Guidelines.
  • The manuscript is incomplete; it lacks rudiments such as the title, authors, affiliations, keywords, main text, references and all tables and figures.
  • Language and grammar are not up to the mark for the peer review process.
  • Similarity index is higher than the permitted threshold.

Papers deemed suitable are then typically sent for single blind peer review to at least two different reviewers. Upon receipt of all requested reviews, the Associate Editors will prepare a recommendation to the Editor-in-Chief to: (a) reject the manuscript; (b) conditionally accept the manuscript (with either minor or major revisions); or (c) accept the manuscript.

In the case of a conditional acceptance, authors will be required to revise the manuscript to address the concerns and recommendations emanating from the peer review process, or alternatively, to provide a detailed justification of the reasons for disagreeing with the observations made. The manuscript is again revised by the Associate Editors, as well as by peer reviewers in some cases. Be advised that the text may undergo as many reviews as needed to ensure that authors have adequately addressed all issues raised.

The Editor-in-Chief makes the final decision on the acceptance of manuscripts. All decisions are communicated in writing to the corresponding author.

The time needed to process a manuscript varies depending on the complexity of the subject matter and the availability of appropriate peer reviewers.

2. General criteria for manuscript acceptance

During the peer review process, editors, and reviewers look for:

  • Scope: Suitability for the journal's subject scope.
  • Novelty: Is this original material distinct from previous publications?
  • Validity: Is the study well designed and executed?
  • Data: Are the data reported, analyzed, and interpreted correctly?
  • Clarity: Are the ideas expressed clearly, concisely, and logically?
  • Compliance: Are all ethical and journal requirements met?

VI. AFTER ACCEPTANCE

Manuscripts accepted for publication will be edited and then sent to the corresponding author to respond to the editor’s queries and to approve any revisions. If during this stage the author does not satisfactorily respond to the editor’s queries, the journal reserves the right not to publish the manuscript. To avoid delay in the publication of the corresponding issue, authors are urged to return the edited manuscript, with their approval, by the date indicated in the accompanying message.

The final PDF version will be sent to the corresponding author for approval before publishing online.

VII. POST PUBLICATION

When the article is published online: 

  • The author receives an email alert (if requested).
  • The link to the published article can be shared through social media.