Chapter Guidelines

Authors are invited to submit original, technically sound, and scholarly contributions to Collaborate Engineering Daily Book Series. Each contribution should demonstrate a clear engineering, technological, methodological, industrial, environmental, or interdisciplinary contribution and should be relevant to the thematic focus of the intended volume.

1. General Requirements

Submitted chapters must represent original scholarly work that has not been published previously in substantially the same form and is not simultaneously under consideration elsewhere.

Contributions should provide a clear advancement in engineering knowledge, technology development, design, analysis, experimentation, industrial application, sustainability, or interdisciplinary engineering practice.

Language: Contributions should be written in clear, grammatically correct, and academically appropriate English.

2. Types of Contributions

  • Research Chapters — original experimental, numerical, analytical, field, or computational research.
  • Review Chapters — critical and structured syntheses of established or emerging engineering topics.
  • Technical Chapters — engineering design, development, testing, implementation, maintenance, optimization, or technology assessment.
  • Case-Based Engineering Studies — documented engineering applications, industrial cases, infrastructure cases, field implementations, or lessons learned.
  • Interdisciplinary Contributions — engineering research connected with environmental science, management, economics, digital technology, safety, policy, sustainability, or societal challenges.

3. Thematic Volume Alignment

Individual volumes may be organized around specific engineering themes. Authors should ensure that their chapter directly addresses the topic, engineering problem, technology area, or interdisciplinary theme identified for the intended volume.

Volume Relevance: A technically strong contribution may still be redirected or declined if it does not fit the thematic identity of the intended volume.

4. Submission Files and Author Information

Chapters should be submitted in an editable word-processing format and should follow the official book series template where available.

Full author metadata should be entered accurately, including full name, institutional affiliation, country, email address, and ORCID identifier where available.

The corresponding author is responsible for communication with the editorial team and for ensuring that all contributing authors approve the submitted and final versions.

5. Chapter Structure

A research-based chapter will normally include:

  1. Chapter Title
  2. Author Names and Affiliations
  3. Abstract
  4. Keywords
  5. Introduction
  6. Technical Background / Literature Review
  7. Materials and Methods / Methodology
  8. Results and Discussion
  9. Conclusion and Engineering Implications
  10. Acknowledgements, where applicable
  11. Funding Statement, where applicable
  12. Conflict of Interest Statement
  13. Data Availability Statement, where applicable
  14. AI Use Disclosure, where applicable
  15. References

Review chapters, technical chapters, and interdisciplinary contributions may use alternative section structures when appropriate to the nature of the contribution.

6. Chapter Title and Author Metadata

The chapter title should be concise, specific, technically informative, and accurately reflect the principal engineering subject or contribution.

Titles should avoid unnecessary abbreviations, vague expressions, and claims that are broader than the evidence presented in the chapter.

7. Abstract and Keywords

The abstract should normally contain approximately 150–250 words and summarize the engineering problem, objective, methods, principal findings, and major implications.

Authors should provide 3–6 keywords that accurately represent the main technical concepts and improve discoverability of the published chapter.

8. Introduction

The Introduction should establish the engineering or interdisciplinary context, define the problem, identify the relevant knowledge, technology, or practice gap, state the objectives, and clearly explain the contribution and significance of the chapter.

9. Methods and Engineering Reporting

Methods should be described in sufficient detail to allow technical evaluation and, where appropriate, reproduction.

Engineering Design Studies: Authors should report the design basis, geometry, material properties, loading conditions, environmental conditions, operating parameters, assumptions, constraints, safety criteria, and applicable engineering standards.
Experimental Studies: Experimental contributions should report test configuration, specimen or model geometry, materials, instrumentation, calibration, loading or operating conditions, procedures, number of repetitions, uncertainty, and relevant quality-control measures.
Numerical and Computational Studies: Authors should identify governing equations, assumptions, constitutive models, boundary and initial conditions, mesh or discretization strategy, solver procedures, convergence assessment, verification, validation, sensitivity analysis, uncertainty, and applicability limits.
Field and Industrial Studies: Authors should clearly describe site or operational context, equipment or system configuration, data sources, measurement procedures, operating conditions, limitations, confidentiality considerations, and the basis for engineering interpretation.
Digital and Data-Driven Studies: Studies involving artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital twins, sensors, optimization, predictive modeling, or intelligent systems should identify dataset sources, preprocessing procedures, model architecture, training and validation procedures, performance metrics, uncertainty, benchmark comparisons, and limitations.
Sustainability and Environmental Studies: Contributions involving environmental performance, lifecycle assessment, energy efficiency, pollution mitigation, resource efficiency, carbon reduction, or sustainability should clearly define system boundaries, indicators, assumptions, reference cases, datasets, calculation methods, and uncertainty where applicable.

10. Results and Discussion

Results should be presented clearly, logically, and directly in relation to the stated objectives.

Engineering results should include appropriate values, units, performance indicators, statistical measures, uncertainty, or sensitivity information where relevant.

The Discussion should interpret the significance of the findings in relation to previous research, engineering practice, technology performance, industrial relevance, sustainability, limitations, and potential application.

11. Conclusion and Engineering Implications

The conclusion should directly reflect the principal findings and explain their engineering, technological, operational, environmental, or sustainability significance.

Limitations, applicability boundaries, recommendations, and opportunities for further research should be stated where appropriate.

12. Ethics, Transparency and Permissions

Authors should disclose, where applicable:

  • Funding support;
  • Conflicts of interest;
  • Ethics approval;
  • Informed consent;
  • Industrial or institutional permissions;
  • Field-study permissions;
  • Data availability;
  • Acknowledgements;
  • AI-assisted content or analysis.

Authors are responsible for securing permission to reproduce previously published figures, tables, diagrams, photographs, maps, standards excerpts, or other copyrighted material.

Proprietary engineering data, industrial information, confidential records, and restricted datasets should only be included with appropriate authorization.

13. Artificial Intelligence Use

Artificial intelligence systems and generative AI tools cannot be listed as authors. Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, integrity, and scholarly validity of all submitted content.

Substantive use of AI in writing, coding, engineering analysis, image processing, optimization, simulation, prediction, classification, data analysis, or literature synthesis should be disclosed where relevant.

Human Engineering Accountability: Authors must independently verify AI-assisted calculations, references, design outputs, predictions, classifications, interpretations, and conclusions before submission.

14. Tables, Figures and Technical Materials

Tables, figures, photographs, engineering drawings, process diagrams, structural models, computational results, charts, maps, and other technical materials should be numbered sequentially and cited in the text.

Captions should be concise but sufficiently descriptive. Units, symbols, legends, coordinate systems, scales, boundary conditions, and technical parameters should be clearly defined.

Images and graphics should be of sufficient resolution for professional book production.

15. References

References should be relevant, accurate, and sufficient to establish the scholarly and technical basis of the contribution.

Authors are encouraged to include recent peer-reviewed international literature together with relevant foundational studies.

Engineering standards, technical specifications, codes, regulatory documents, books, reports, and other authoritative sources may be cited where appropriate.

Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) should be provided whenever available.

Fabricated references, citation manipulation, irrelevant citations, and unverified AI-generated references are not acceptable.

16. Submission Preparation Checklist

  • The chapter fits the scope of the book series.
  • The chapter fits the intended thematic volume.
  • The contribution is original and not submitted elsewhere.
  • The manuscript is written in clear academic English.
  • Complete author metadata has been provided.
  • The engineering problem and contribution are clearly stated.
  • The methods are adequately described.
  • Design assumptions and operating conditions are transparent.
  • Experimental procedures are reproducible where relevant.
  • Numerical studies include verification and validation where appropriate.
  • Industrial and field data permissions have been addressed.
  • AI-assisted methods have been disclosed where relevant.
  • Uncertainty and limitations are stated where appropriate.
  • Tables and figures are numbered and cited correctly.
  • Copyright permissions have been obtained where required.
  • Funding and conflicts of interest have been disclosed.
  • References are accurate and DOIs are provided where available.
  • The manuscript follows the official chapter template.

17. Peer Review, Revision and Final Proof

Submitted chapters first undergo editorial screening for scope, thematic relevance, originality, technical quality, scholarly contribution, ethical compliance, and preparation standards.

Chapters that pass screening are normally evaluated by at least two independent reviewers.

Authors receiving revision requests should respond to editorial and reviewer comments point-by-point and clearly identify changes made in the revised chapter.

Following acceptance, the chapter may undergo copyediting, technical checking, metadata preparation, reference verification, typesetting, and proof preparation.

Final Proof: The corresponding author should carefully review the final proof for typographical errors, author information, equations, tables, figures, references, and metadata. Proof corrections should normally be limited to production errors and minor necessary corrections.
Authors are encouraged to review the Aim and Scopes, Editorial Policy, thematic volume information, and official chapter template before submitting a contribution to Collaborate Engineering Daily Book Series.
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