Author Guidelines

Send of the Manuscripts

The manuscript should be submitted electronically only in English at https://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/jatm-scielo.

All data about the authors must be entered correctly at the time of submission. The data refer to the full name; affiliation with three instances (e.g. University/college/department); city, state and country. It is mandatory to inform each author's ORCID number and indicate the corresponding author with an e-mail address. The names of institutions must be in the native language (Portuguese, French, German etc.), except for those not in Latin (Russian, Chinese etc.), which should be translated into English. Authors should provide a list of names and institutional e-mail addresses of four potential referees. The Journal retains the right to decide whether the suggested names are going to be used.

At the time of submission, the submitting author assumes that all other authors actively participated in the research and performed the final review and approval of the article.

After the approval of the manuscript, the correspondence author will be contacted with instructions for the Article Processing Charge (APC) contribution.

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off that their submissions comply with all the following items. Submissions that do not adhere to these guidelines may be returned to authors.

  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice or Microsoft Word document file format or PDF format if it was written in LaTEX.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Instructions to authors.
  • When submitting the manuscript, the corresponding author must be informed about the alignment of the research and the conformity of the manuscript with open science practices. For that, the author must complete the form accessed in this link: Open Science Compliance Form, which must be submitted as a supplementary file to the manuscript.
  • The author must inform if it is a preprint and, if so, the Name of the Preprint server and Preprint DOI.
  • In the Open Science Compliance Form, the author should indicate whether he agrees to interact directly with reviewers while evaluating the manuscript.
  • The author formally specified whether there are possible conflicts of interest in conducting and communicating research.
  • The authors are aware of the Article Processing Charge for accepted manuscripts.

Types of Documents

Editorial: Any researcher may write the editorial at the invitation of the Editors in Chief. Editorials should cover broad aspects of Aerospace Technology, with scientific content.  Such manuscripts are not submitted to peer review

Review articles: These should cover subjects relevant to the journal's scope.  Authors should remember that they are expected to have expertise in the reviewed field. The article should not present more than 40,000 characters with space.

Original papers: These articles should report the results of the scientific research. The article should not present more than 40,000 characters with space, as succinct papers are favored in terms of impact as well as readability

Communications: They should report previous results of ongoing research and should content at most 30,000 characters with space.

Thematic section: JATM, since 2022, publishes a regular thematic section exploring issues of importance to developing a specific subject. The theme is defined by the Editorial Committee, which invites 2 Guest Section editors to oversee the evaluation of the manuscripts. Contributions to the thematic section are subject to peer review and benefit from comments and editorial guidance from the guest editors. Each article should not present more than 40,000 characters with space.

Papers already presented at conferences will be accepted if they were not published in complete form in the conference Annals or if they are extended with additional results or new findings. These articles will be evaluated as the others.

The use of copyrighted material, such as figures, tables, drawings, etc., from other sources (including the Internet) requires written permission. Authors are solely responsible for obtaining the required permissions and presenting them at the time of submission.

Articles from guest authors will be published after the approval of one specialist Section Editor.

The JATM does not publish translated articles from other journals.

JATM accepts manuscripts already published in preprint, considered reliable by the editorial committee,  and must be informed in the Open Science Compliance Form that must be submitted as a supplementary file to the manuscript.

Authors' Contribution

JATM endorses the CRediT taxonomy (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) and asks the authors to provide detailed information about individual contributions to the work. The submitting author is responsible for ensuring that all authors' contributions are correct, and it is expected that all authors will have reviewed, discussed, and agreed to their contributions as shared by the submitting author. Regardless of the contribution and the registration system, all authors are equally responsible for the article content.

The authors’ contribution statement will be published and should accurately reflect only the contributions selected from the following roles: Conceptualization [Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims];  Data Curation [Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later reuse]; Formal Analysis [Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data]; Funding Acquisition [Acquisition of the financial support for the project leading to this publication]; Investigation [Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection]; Methodology [Development or design of methodology; creation of models]; Project Administration [Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution]; Resources [Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analysis tools]; Software [Programming, software development; designing computer programs; implementation of the computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components]; Supervision [Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core team]; Validation [Verification, whether as a part of the activity or separate, of the overall replication/reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs]; Visualization [Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/data presentation]; Writing – Original Draft Preparation [Creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation)]; Writing – Review & Editing [Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work by those from the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary or revision – including pre- or post-publication stages]. Regardless of the contribution and the registration system, all authors are equally responsible for the article content.

Example: Conceptualization: Omar A; Methodology: Rahma R; Computational Works: Rahma R and Emmed A; Analysis: Omar A; Rahma R and Emmed A; Writing – Original Draft: Rahma R and Emmed A; Writing – Review and Editing: Omar A; Supervision: Omar A.

Manuscript Preparation

The manuscript should be digitalized using a Microsoft® Office document (.docx), 12-pt—Times New Roman, double-spaced throughout, justified paragraphs and leaving one space after a period. Do not try to fit the manuscript in the final template.  Top-level headings should be centered on the page, using upper and lowercase letters. Second-level headings should be flush left and italicized using upper and lower case, without numbering.  Those authors who prefer to edit in LaTex should submit a PDF file instead.  Authors are also strongly advised to use abbreviations sparingly whenever possible to improve the manuscript's readability. Do not include a list of symbols, nomenclature and/or abbreviations.  Instead, define them the first time they appear in the text. The editorial office can edit accepted manuscripts to comply with the journal's format, remove redundancies, and improve clarity and understanding without altering meaning.  The edited text will be presented to the authors for approval.

Article submission format

Manuscript structure

If possible, manuscripts should include the following subsections; however, articles from some areas should follow their usual format. Please do not number the sections. Use different styles for differentiate subsections:

Title and names of authors: The title should not contain abbreviations. All authors should be identified with full name, orcid, email, institution to which they are related (up to three instances), city, state, and country. One of them should be indicated as the author for correspondence.

Abstract: They are limited to 200 words and structured into objectives, methods, results, and conclusions. Citations or abbreviations (except internationally recognized abbreviations, such as weights, measures, and physical or chemical ones) are not permitted.

Keywords:  It is highly recommended to choose the keywords accurately, selecting three to six items based on NASA Thesaurus volume 2 – Access Vocabulary, which can be accessed at http://www.sti.nasa.gov/thesvol2.pdf

Introduction: It should set the purpose of the study, provide a summary (not a review) of previous relevant studies, and state the new advances in the current investigation. The introduction should not include data or conclusions from the work being reported. A final sentence summarizing the novel finding to be presented is permissible.

Methodology: The authors are free to use any structure in this section to fit the study's objectives. They could also rename it (e.g., Numerical analysis, Case study, and so on), and in some cases, it may be advisable to omit it. Clear and sufficient information to permit the study to be repeated by others should be briefly given. Standard techniques need only to be referenced. Previously published methods may be briefly described following the reference.

Results: This section should concisely account for the new information discovered, with the most minor personal judgment. Do not repeat all the data in the tables and illustrations in the text, but briefly describe what these data comprise.

Discussion: The discussion should include the significance of the new information and the relevance of the latest findings considering existing knowledge. Only unavoidable citations should be included. Citations to review articles are not encouraged in this section. In some cases, it may be advisable to merge this section with the previous section (“Results and Discussion”).

Acknowledgments: This section should be dedicated to those who did not participate directly in achieving the results presented in the paper. Also, references to personal or private communication placed in running text should be acknowledged in this section. 

References: Acceptable references include journal articles, numbered papers, books, and submitted articles if the journal is identified. References must be restricted to directly relevant papers or abstracts that have been accepted for publication. Self-citation should be limited to a minimum. Authors are responsible for the accuracy and completeness of their references.

Digital Assets

Tables: Tables should be numbered in order of appearance in the text, using Arabic numerals. Each table should have a title and an explanatory legend, if necessary. All tables must be referenced and mentioned in the text as “Table” and briefly described. Under no circumstances should a table repeat data that are presented in an illustration. Statistical measures of variation (i.e. standard deviation or standard error) should be identified, and decimal places in tabular data should be restricted to those with mathematical and statistical significance.

Figures: All illustrations, line graphs, charts, schemes, photographs, and diagrams should be referred as “Figure” and submitted with good definition (JPEG files of at least 300 dpi resolution and 12 cm wide); otherwise, authors will be requested to withdrawn from the text. Number the figures consecutively using Arabic numerals in order of appearance. References should be made in the text to each figure using the abbreviated form “Fig.” except if they are mentioned at the beginning of the sentences. Captions should be descriptive and allow the examination of the figures without reference to text. You are welcome to paste images into Microsoft® Word documents, but you must send the images as separate JPEG files as well when required.

Equations: Type them on individual lines in 12-pt—Times New Roman, with symbols in italics, and identify them by Arabic numerals enclosed in parenthesis. References should be made in the text to each equation using the abbreviated form “Eq.” except at the beginning of the sentences, where “Equation” should be used.

Citations and References

The JATM uses the name-year system.  The references should be mentioned in the text by giving the author's last name and the year of publication: Smith 1997.  For articles with two authors, use the form Smith and Farias 1997. Use the form with three or more names: Smith et al. 1997. If two or more references have the same identification, distinguish them by appending “a”, “b” etc., to the year of publication.

Where citing more than one reference, they should be separated by a semicolon. Standards should be mentioned in the text by the acronym of the entity followed by the number, and they do not appear in the references list.  Organization as author should be cited by the acronym.  Research data: Data files, software codes and other content must be mentioned in the text, preferentially in the Materials and Methods’s section. For the in-text reference of websites or other online formats, include only the first word or two words of the title (enough to distinguish it from other titles in the references list), followed by an ellipsis (APSnet . . . c1994–2005).  Personal or private communication references should be cited as in this example: ... and most of these parameters (2012 Final project of Carvalho DS; unreferenced, see “Acknowledgements” section) were used to …

The references list is unnumbered and appears alphabetically by author and year of publication, with multiple studies by the same author listed in chronological order. It is highly recommended that each reference contains the digital object identifier number (DOI). References retrieved from the Internet should be cited by the last name of the author(s) and the year of publication, or n.d., if unavailable, followed by the date of access. Some examples are as follows:

Journals:  List authors in the order in which they appear in the original text, separated by colon. The year of publication follows the authors list in parentheses, followed by article and journal title, as well as volume or issue information. The page range for the article is preceded by colon.  Journal titles are generally abbreviated according to the list of title word abbreviations maintained by the ISSN International Centre.

Article with one author: Costa S (1996) Dassault adaptative cells. Ind Robot Int J 23(1):34-40. https://doi.org/ 10.1108/01439919610108837

Articles with 2 to 10 authors, list all authors: Alves MB, Morais AMF (2009) The management of knowledge and technologies in a space program. J Aerosp Technol Manag 1(2):265-272. https://doi.org/10.5028/ jatm.2009.0102265272

Articles with more than 10 authors, list the first 10 followed by “et al.” :  Pizzi C, Caraglia M, Cianciulli M, Fabbrocini A, Libroia A, Matano E, Contegiacomo A, Del Prete S, Abbruzzese A, Martignetti A et al. (2002) Low-dose recombinant IL-2 induces psychological changes: monitoring by Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. Anticancer Res 22(2A):727-732.

Author with more than one paper in the same year:

Sparrow EM (1980a) Forced convection heat transfer in a duct having spanwise-periodic rectangular protuberances. Num Heat Transfer 3:149-167.

Sparrow EM (1980b) Fluid-to-fluid conjugate heat transfer for a vertical pipe-internal and external natural convection. ASME J Heat Transfer 102:402-407.

Volume with no issue or other subdivision: Laskowski DA (2002) Physical and chemical properties of pyrethroids. Rev Environ Contam Toxicol 174:49-170.

Volume with issue and supplement: Gardos G, Cole JO, Haskell D, Marby D, Paine SS, Moore P (1988) The natural history of tardive dyskinesia. J Clin Pharmacol 8(4 Suppl):31S-37S.

Volume with supplement but no issue: Heemskerk J, Tobin AJ, Ravina B (2002) From chemical to drug: neurodegeneration drug screening and the ethics of clinical trials. Nat Neurosci 5 Suppl:1027-1029.

Multiple issue numbers: Ramstrom O, Bunyapaiboonsri T, Lohmann S, Lehn JM (2002) Chemical biology of dynamic combinatorial libraries. Biochim Biophys Acta 1572(2-3):178-186.

Issue with no volume: Sabatier R (1995) Reorienting health and social services. AIDS STD Health Promot Exch (4):1-3.

Books: The basic format is: Author(s) (Date) Title. Edition. Place of publication: Publisher.

Extent and Notes. Extent can include information about pagination or number of volumes and is considered optional. Notes can include information of interest to the reader, such as language of publication other than English; such notes are optional. These notes also provide information about location, such as a URL for online works.

Rohsenow W, Hartnett JP, Cho YI (1998) Handbook of heat transfer. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Organization as author: [ALSG] Advanced Life Support Group (2001) Acute medical emergencies: the practical approach. London (England): BMJ Books.

Author(s) plus editor(s) or translator(s): Luzikov VN (1985) Mitochondrial biogenesis and breakdown. Galkin AV, translator; Roodyn DB, editor. New York: Consultants Bureau.

Chapter or other part of a book, same author(s): Gawande A (2010) The checklist manifesto: how to get things right. New York: Metropolitan Books. Chapter 3, The end of the master builder; p. 48-71.

Chapter or other part of a book, different authors: Rapley R (2010) Recombinant DNA and genetic analysis. In: Wilson K, Walker J, editors. Principles and techniques of biochemistry and molecular biology. 7th ed. New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 195-262.

Dissertations and Theses: Oliveira ALL (2010) Contribuição metodológica para investigar fenômenos de superfície em tribossistemas protéticos articulares de quadril (PhD thesis). São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo. In portuguese.

Patents: Blanco EE, Meade JC, Richards WD, inventors; Ophthalmic Ventures, assignee. 1990 Nov 13. Surgical stapling system. United States patent US 4,969,591.

Research data: References to data follow the same general principles of journal references and should include: Authors; Year; Dataset title; Data repository or archive; Version (if any); Persistent identifier (e.g. DOI): Haleghian Salman, 2020, Synthetic-Aperture Radar (SAR) based Ice types/Ice edge dataset for deep learning analysis, DataverseNO, V, https://doi.org/10.18710/QAYI4O

Websites and other online formats: References to websites and other online formats follow the same general principles as for printed references, with the addition of a date of update/revision (if available) along with an access date and a URL: Title of the homepage. Date of publication. Edition. Place of publication: publisher; [date updated; date accessed]. Notes. If no date of publication can be determined, use a copyright date (if available), preceded by “c”. Include the URL in the notes:  APSnet: plant pathology online. c1994-2005. St Paul (MN): American Phytopathological Association; [accessed 2005 Jun 20]. http://www.apsnet.org/

Forthcoming or unpublished material: Farley T, Galves A, Dickinson LM, Perez MJ. Forthcoming 2005 Jul. Stress, coping, and health: a comparison of Mexican immigrants, Mexican Americans, and non-Hispanic whites. J Immigr Health.

Paper or poster presented at conference:  Unpublished presentations are cited as follows: Antani S, Long LR, Thoma GR, Lee DJ (2003) Anatomical shape representation in spine x-ray images. Paper presented at: VIIP 2003. Proceedings of the 3rd IASTED International Conference on Visualization, Imaging and Image Processing; Benalmadena, Spain.

Supplementary material

The author, as the responsible party for the submission, plays a crucial role in maintaining the academic integrity of the manuscript. It is essential to inform whether the manuscript cites the data, software codes, and other materials underlying the articles. If so, the respective URLs must be provided; otherwise, the author must justify this. This can be done using the Open Science Compliance Form, a tool that ensures transparency and accountability in research.

Funding

The financial support received for the elaboration of the manuscript must be declared in this item. The funding agency should be written out in full, followed by the ROR (Research Organization Registry) and the grant number. Multiple grant numbers of same agency or multiple agencies should also be informed. If a specific project grant does not fund the research, include this information: This research received no specific grant from any funding agency, whether public, commercial, or not-for-profit.