Submissions

Author Guidelines

Submission requirements

• “Engineering Economics" journal requires 3 files to be uploaded by the authors in the journal system. All required files a) paper text, b) signed authors’ guarantee form, and c) paper title page must be uploaded to the journal system during the submission.
• All article metadata*, including information about authors, institutions, and other relevant details, must be provided by the authors in the journal system during submission.
• Authors must follow research and publishing ethics.
• The article must strictly follow the formatting requirements.

The article will not be sent for review unless all formal requirements are met by the authors.

*NOTE. Metadata refers to the information entered during the submission process into the paper submission system. Information about the authors of the article, which is provided in the system (Contributors tab) during the submission (i.e., names, affiliations, emails, order of appearance in the list of authors, biographies, etc.), is considered to be final and will not be subject to change during the publishing process.

Article Processing Charges

The Article Processing Charges for VAT payers - 570,25 EUR + VAT (21%) - 690 EUR. 

The Article Processing Charges for non-VAT payers - 570,25 EUR. 

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Templates for submission

The submission consists of three files:

• Paper Template 
• Author's Guarantee Form 
• Paper Title Page Template 

Paper Template

• The article must be prepared in accordance with the requirements and using the provided article template. 
• The article is written in English.
• Articles must be prepared using Microsoft Word.
• All figures should be prepared in black and white only.
• The length of an article should be between 8000 and 12000 words.

Recommended paper sections

• Title of the article
• Names and Surnames of all authors
• Authors' affiliations and their addresses, E-mails
• Abstract (max 150 words)
• Keywords (not less than 5)
• Introduction
• Sections of the article which usually include, but are not limited to, the literature review/theoretical framework, methods, and results.
• Discussion
• Conclusions
• Declaration of generative AI and AI-assisted technologies in the writing process
• Funding acknowledgement
• List of references
• Authors' biographies

 The Authors‘ Guarantee Form

The document should be prepared using the Author's Guarantee Form . It should include all authors of the paper and must be signed by the corresponding author and submitted with the paper.

Paper Title Page Template

This document should be prepared using the Paper Title Page Template . It should include the following information:

• Title of the Paper
• Authors’ names and surnames
• Addresses
• Emails
• Corresponding author and his/her email
• Declaration of generative AI and AI-assisted technologies in the writing process
• Acknowledgements (funding if applicable)
• Biographies (A brief professional biography of not more than 100 words for each named author must be provided as a separate file during the submission. Information about the authors of the article, which is provided in the system during the submission (i.e., names, affiliations, order of appearance in the list of authors, biographies, etc.), is considered to be final. It will not be subject to change during the publishing process.