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Authors are obliged to cite relevant prior work and they should consider the following points:

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4) As any scientific progress requires replication, papers submitted for publication must provide sufficient information to allow readers to perform similar experiments or calculations and as well as to use the reported results. Although not everything is needed to be disclosed, a paper must contain new, useable, and fully described information.
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For every reference try to find out (this is not mandatory and not always possible) a permanent online link and include it at the end of the respective reference. See below as example:

Do, H., Lee, S., Two-Switch CRM Resonant DC-DC Converter with Soft-Switching Operation, (2014) International Review of Electrical Engineering (IREE), 9(4), pp. 681-687.
https://doi.org/10.15866/iree.v9i4.2178


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This journal offers authors two choices to publish their manuscript:
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In the final accepted paper (sent by the authors), the 11-th page and above will incur an excess page charge, currently euros 50 per page.

 

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Articles are freely available to both subscribers and the wider public with permitted reuse.

To provide "open access", this journal has a publication fee which needs to be met by the authors or their research funders for each article published with "open access" option.
Articles published in this journal with "open access" option will undergone peer-review and upon acceptance will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download.

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The "open access" publication fee for this journal is euros 600, notwithstanding any possible increase. We offer authors the free download of the full e-journal version of the issue. If the author prefers the print copy of the issue, he can purchase it with 80% discount.

The previous charge is assessed for the number of pages beyond the standard length for our Journals' paper of ten (10) printed journal pages. In the final accepted paper (sent by the authors), the 11-th page and above will incur an excess page charge, currently euros 50 per page.

 

If you do not have funds to pay such fees, you will have an opportunity to waive each fee. We do not want fees to prevent the publication of worthy work.

Please note that EU authors (private EU citizens) without VAT can purchase only the print copy of the issue.