Uniport Journal of Engineering and Scientific Research (UJESR) is aiming to provide a rapid publishing platform, and every step in the publishing process is vital. Thus, Authors are instructed to follow the author’s guidelines strictly without which the article publication may be delayed or may not be accepted for publication. Authors are advised to read through the guidelines before submitting any article for publication.

UJESR receives manuscripts that meet the general criteria of significance and scientific excellence.

Submit manuscripts as an e-mail attachment to the Editorial Office at editor@ujesr.org

A manuscript number will be e-mailed to the corresponding author within 48 hours.

Submitted articles should have an abstract, separate from the main text, of not more than 250 words. This abstract does not include references, numbers, abbreviations or measurements unless essential. The abstract should provide a basic-level introduction to the field; a brief account of the background and principle of the work; a statement of the main conclusions; and 2-3 sentences that place the main findings into a general context. Authors will be required to submit a duly signed copyright declaration and license agreement after the acceptance of manuscript.

• Research Articles
• Review Articles

All submissions should be accompanied by a covering letter briefly stating the significance of the research, agreement of authors for publication and any supplementary information.

Font type: Times new roman

Size: For main heading or title: 14 points and Bold; For subtitles: 12 points and Bold; and Content of article: 12 points.

The title should be limited to 25 words or less and should not contain abbreviations. The title should be a brief phrase describing the contents of the paper.

Complete names and affiliation of all authors, including contact details of corresponding author (Telephone, Fax and E-mail address).

The Abstract should be informative and completely self-explanatory, briefly present the topic, state the scope of the experiments, indicate significant data, and point out major findings and conclusions. The abstract should summarize the manuscript content in 250 words accommodating a description of the study background, methods, results and conclusion. Following the abstract should be a list of 3 to 10 keywords.

The introduction should set the tone of the paper by providing a clear statement of the study, the relevant literature on the study subject, and the proposed approach or solution.

This section should provide a complete overview of the design of the study. Detailed descriptions of materials or participants, comparisons, interventions and types of analysis should be mentioned. However, only new procedures should be described in detail; previously published procedures should be cited, and important modifications of published procedures should be mentioned briefly. Capitalize trade names and include the manufacturer’s name and address.

The Results section should provide complete details of the results that are required to support the conclusion of the study. The results should be written in the past tense when describing findings in the authors’ experiments. Previously published findings should be written in the present tense. Results and Discussion may be combined or in a separate section.

This section includes acknowledgment of people, grant details, funds, etc.

Note: If an author fails to submit his/her work as per the above instructions, such work will be rejected.

All references must be arranged first alphabetically and then it may be further sorted chronologically also. If the reference is provided from the same Author(s) in the same year it must be identified by the letter “a”, “b”, “c”, etc. which is placed after the publication year. Example (2000a)

References should be the last part of the article following the below given format.

1. Ugwoha, E. (2015) Sorption and biodegradation of pure volatile fuel compounds in the vadose zone. International Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 37(1): 1386-1394.
2. Brusic, V., Rudy, G., Honeyman, G., Hammer, J. and Harrison, L. (1998) Prediction of MHC class II-binding peptides using an evolutionary algorithm and artificial neural network. Bioinformatics, 14: 121-130.

1. Baggot, J.D. (1999) Principles of drug disposition in domestic animals: The basis of Veterinary Clinical Pharmacology. (1^st edn), W.B. Saunders company, Philadelphia, London, Toranto.
2. Zhang, Z. (2006) Bioinformatics tools for differential analysis of proteomic expression profiling data from clinical samples. Taylor & Francis CRC Press.

Book chapter 

Botkin, J. (2006) What do you meant by Ecosystem in: Environmental Science of Living Plater, 3rd edition, E-age Publishing, New York.

Ganeshkumar, B. (2000) Geospatial technology for disaster management”, International Conference on Disaster Mitigation and Management, PSNA College of Engineering and Technology, Dindigul, pp 234-238

Ramesh, J. (2007) How to draw in Computers. IOP Publishing Physics Web. http://company.org/articles/news/11/6/16/2. Accessed 26 June 2010.

These should be used at a minimum and designed as simple as possible. We strongly encourage authors to submit tables as .doc format. Tables should be self-explanatory without reference to the text. Note: If the submission is in PDF format, the author is requested to retain the same in .doc format in order to aid in completion of process successfully.

The preferred file formats for photographic images are PNG, TIFF and JPEG.

Use Arabic numerals to designate figures and upper-case letters for their parts (Figure 1). Begin each legend with a title and include sufficient description so that the figure is understandable without reading the text of the manuscript. Information given in legends should not be repeated in the text.

Equations should be encoded in MathML format.

If the reference is of a Single author: the author’s name (without initials) and the year of publication: Two authors: Both authors name and the year of publication of the article. Three or more than three authors: First author’s name followed by “et al.”.

Examples: Baskaran (1998) or (Baskaran, 1998); Ugwoha and Andresen (2012) or (Ugwoha and Andresen, 2012); Podilinski et al. (2004) or (Podilinski et al., 2004). Citing web reference can be like the journal article reference.

All tables should be numbered in order; the word Table may be bolded. The table number should be properly given; large size tables should be split into two or more tables so that it can be accommodated within the page size. Table width and cell sizing should be even and all the content should be centered. Table number and title should be given above the table. Also, do not insert tables as image format. Tables should be editable and without any shading. The title of the table should not contain any text box.

Example: Table 1: Number of villages covered in this study

All figure numbers should be arranged orderly; the figures should not be supplied separately but pasted in the proper place. Figure number and title should be given below the figure; the content of the figure should be explained in the title of figure. All images supplied should have enough resolution, inferior images will be removed.

Do not give the figures and tables in the last page, provide them wherever necessary in the article.

Example: Figure 1: Map of the study area.

All equations should be numbered in order from starting. Authors are advised to follow standard notations and SI unit’s system.

UJESR aims at rapid publication of articles while maintaining rigorous peer review process, each article will be subjected to a minimum of two reviews by two individual reviewers. If their decision varies the article will be sent to a third reviewer and the editors’ decision is final. Reviewers will be instructed to review the paper within 10 days’ time and if he/she fails to deliver, the paper will be sent to another reviewer.

Final decision on acceptance of the paper is with the editorial team. Selected papers will be put in queue for publication. Once the article is published, author will get a confirmation mail from the corresponding editor.

UJESR follows Creative Commons License 3.0. By submitting a manuscript to JESR, authors have consented to our copyright declaration and license agreement.

Once the review process is over and the article is accepted, the corresponding author will be intimated over mail with the galley proof which the author is expected to reply within 5 days of notification, after which the article will be published. All articles accepted for publication will be published in hard copy and online. Authors are free to download their papers at any time, no reprints or any other format of accepted article will be provided.

UJESR is published as a bi-annually Journal (from January 2016) with two issues per year in the following periods as January-June and July-December in any year. Special editions are also planned subject to the scope and need. We adopt online first method which means the selected articles will be uploaded immediately once it is approved by the reviewers and also the editorial board.

If only a small part of an article reports flawed data, and especially if this is the result of genuine error, then the problem can be rectified. Retractions are also used to alert readers to cases of redundant publication (i.e. when authors present the same data in several publications), plagiarism, and failure to disclose a major competing interest likely to influence interpretations or recommendations. Notices of retraction will mention the reasons and basis for the retraction, to distinguish cases of misconduct from those of honest error; they will also specify who is retracting the article.

Open access publishing provides immediate, worldwide free access to all published articles. Readers can view, download, print, and redistribute any article without any financial barrier, enabling greater distribution of an article. The processing costs of an article are paid from an author's research budget, or by their supporting institution. These Article Processing Charges replace subscription charges, covers the costs of manuscript processing, online availability, hosting and archiving. The processing charges for UJESR is Twenty Thousand Naira (₦20,000.00) only.

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