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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • 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 editable format (Microsoft Word, LaTeX).
  • Potential reviewers (from 1 to 3) for the Submission are suggested in "Comments for the Editor" field, including the name, email, institution and arguments why he or she would be suitable.
  • The authors have rights to use all material presented in the manuscript (figures, tables etc.)
  • I give permission that the manuscript can be checked against plagiarism and improper usage of Artificial Intelligence (AI) application.

Author Guidelines

General
TRIBOLOGIA -Finnish Journal of Tribology is a journal publishing both practical and scientific articles related to wear, friction and lubrication. They are preferably written in English, but Finnish, Swedish and German languages are also accepted.

Manuscript submission
Manuscripts are submitted using the journal’s online submission system https://journal.fi/tribologia. Authors need to Register and Log in prior to submission. Please read first the About the Journal page for the Journal's policies. Before submission, read these Author Guidelines carefully. Please provide full names (forename and surname) in its entirety and email addresses of all authors in the OJS and clearly indicate the corresponding author.

If an AI application (eg. ChatGPT) has been used as an aid in the improvement of the readability and language of the manuscript, it must be indicated which application or model has been used and in what way. It may be possible that a statement of the usage of AI is added to the manuscript in the copyedit. The manuscript may be checked against improper usage of AI.

Contents and formatting
Manuscripts must be in editable format (Microsoft Word or LaTeX).

If possible, the text should be divided into the following sections: Abstract, Introduction, Experimental procedure or Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, Acknowledgements and References. Numbering of the sections and headings is not needed, but different levels of the headings and subheadings should be clear.

The manuscript is typed on A4-sized paper. The name of the author(s) and the institute/company with postal address should be given. In addition, the email and the phone number, if possible, of the corresponding author are given. From three to five keywords are listed.

The figures and tables should be enclosed in the text (i.e. not at the end of the document). Equations and tables should be numbered sequentially and referred in the text. Each table should have title above it and each figure should have title below. The size of fonts in the figures should be adequate and the resolution of the images should be at least 300 dpi. Please take into account that the figures will be automatically printed grayscale in the hard copy. If you wish to have figures (one or more) in colours in the printed form, it is possible for an additional charge. Please contact subeditor@tribologysociety.fi for details.

Vectors and matrixes should be clearly marked using text (i.e., presenting as a figure is not allowed). For decimals, points should be used (not commas). Hyphenation of text is not allowed. In addition, excessive formatting should be avoided.

The references are collected to a reference list numbered in the order of their first appearance in the manuscript. The corresponding number is presented in square brackets in the text. DOI-numbers, if available, have to be added in the bibliography in the form: https://doi.org/10.1109/5.7717573 (please follow accurately the form, i.e. add https://doi.org/ in front of)

Copyright Notice

The authors of the publication retain the copyrights and the author can publish the article also in other media, such as in her/his PhD thesis or open access databases, such as ResearchGate.

The license of the published metadata is Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0).

Privacy Statement

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As part of the manuscript submission and peer review processes, Finnish Journal of Tribology will require your email address and contact information. The email address you provide as part of the process will be used to contact you regarding submissions, reviews, services, and accounts.

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