Guide for Authors

About Journal

Chinese Journal of Aeronautics (CJA) is a comprehensive academic journal dealing with the fields of aeronautics and astronautics. It reports researches concerning the two fields in China and abroad to promote the academic exchange.Founded in 1988 and sponsored by the Chinese Society of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Beihang University, CJA publishes papers monthly.

The intended readers of the journal are specialized technical workers, teachers and students in colleges and universities and the related personnel of management, and they devote themselves to or are interested in the scientific research, teaching, design, experimentation, manufacture or application in the industries of aeronautics and astronautics.

Manuscript Requirement

The contributed manuscripts should reflect the latest developments of the aerospace discipline, with emphasis on academic novelty and thoughtfulness, as well as practicability. The contributions should highlight the main points, with the dull narration and ordinary derivation reduced or deleted as much as possible. The same statements should not be repeated in Abstract, Introduction and Conclusions.

The writing style should be simple and straightforward, the data should be reliable, and any undue self-appraisal must be abandoned. Manuscripts of low quality, of poor English writing or with tedious quotations will be directly returned by the Editorial Office without peer review.

Submission

All the manuscripts should be submitted online on the website www.journal-aero.com or www.elsevier.com/cja/.Authors should download and fill in the relevant forms, including Title Page (for all authors) and Confidentiality Examination Form(for authors with Chinese affiliation), which are available at http://hkxb.buaa.edu.cn/CN/column/column86.shtml. Papers already submitted to conferences should not be submitted to CJA. One manuscript (including the case of slight revision) should not be submitted to two journals. Strict examination and investigation will be exerted in case that one paper is classified into several ones with the same central idea. Papers already published with other languages should not be submitted to CJA.

Review

All the manuscripts will be reviewed critically by at least two independent and anonymous referees. This procedure will be followed even if the manuscript is the result of solicitation or encouragement by the editors. The final decision on publication is made by the Editor-in-Chief upon recommendation of an Associate Editor. The acceptance of the manuscript will be notified by the Editorial Office and review comments will be provided for those rejected ones.

Publication

CJA has adopted “article in press” since 2013, i.e., once the manuscript is accepted, it will be immediately published online at Elsevier's ScienceDirect platform. Meanwhile, all the articles will be “open access” for wider dissemination.

According to the related regulations, there is publication fee for each accepted article. Color printing will incur additional charges. Please consider this cost when submitting the manuscripts. Privileges of the above expenses will be offered to those manuscripts highly appraised by referees. Reviewers who return their reviews in time with good quality and are in support of the journal development will enjoy discount.

Any comment and divergence from readers concerning the published papers of different kinds in the journal will be dealt with seriously. The Editorial Office will make arrangements for its reappraisal, and an open academic discussion will be held. The Laws of Copyright are strictly observed and implemented, and the citation of other papers must be included with their source mentioned in References.

The correspondence address: Editorial Office of Chinese Journal of Aeronautics, 37 Xueyuan Road, Beijing 100083,China. E-mail: cja@buaa.edu.cn.

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