Instructions for Authors Submitting Manuscripts
to the Journal of Materials Science and Technology

Manuscripts submitted must contain original unpublished results and should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. They must be written in English. Both American or English spellings are acceptable. Manuscripts must be sent to the Editor-in-Chief:

Prof. S. Vodenicharov, D.Sc.
Institute of Metal Science, Equipment and Technologies
"Acad. A. Balevski" with Hydro-and Aerodynamics Centre,
67, Shipchenski prohod Street, 1574 Sofia

Each manuscript is a subject to a peer review procedure. The final decision about publication is based on the referees’ comments and the author’s reply.
Manuscripts may be submitted in MS Word or LaTex format. Additional copy in PDF format is required. It must be neatly printed using Times New Roman font, 11 pt on A4 white paper (297x210 mm) on one side of the paper only, with top and bottom margins 55.5 mm, and right and left margins – 39.5 mm, respectively, single spacing, in one column. It is not recommended the volume of the paper to exceed 12 pages.
For general format and style, please, consult volume 19 (2011). Additional information in a form of template is in preparation.
The title of the manuscript should be concise and relevant to the contents of the work. It must be followed by the names of the authors with a corresponding author specified, their affiliations and addresses. The abstract, not exceeding 120 words should be self-contained (without footnotes and references) and include all important results of the article. A list of keywords must be added too.
Notation must be legible, clear, and consistent with standard usage. Such characters as e.g. 0 (numeral) and O (letter), 1 (one) and l (el), v (Latin) and ? (Greek) that could be easily confused should be distinguished clearly. Equations and formulae should be neatly formatted and numbered on the right in parentheses. Be careful with bracketing of fractions (e.g. 1/2k means 1/(2k), not (1/2)k).
Figures and tables should be numbered consecutively. One has to keep in mind that they will be printed in a grey scale. Some pictures and graphics may be in color, but they will appear in color only in the electronic version. The size of the figures must be conformable to the information contained, and must be suitable for direct reproduction without significant rescaling. Diagrams must be drawn in black on a white background. Lettering should be in proportion to the overall dimensions. Shaded areas should be filled in by hatching or cross-hatching since fine dots are reproduced not so well. All figures, pictures, diagrams etc. should be referred to as Fig.1, Fig.2 etc. Figure captions should be written on a separate page as well. Figures may be sent in the following formats: PDF, EPS, PS, CDR, PCX, BMP, WMF, TIFF and GIF. A minimum resolution of 300 dpi is required.
References must be given at the end of the manuscript in the order of appearance in the text. When citing in the text, the reference number must be in square brackets. Each reference starts with the initials of the authors names, then cognomen, followed by the Journal in Italic (using the common abbreviations), volume number (in bold), first page of the article (or article number) and the year of publication (in parentheses). It is recommended to include ISSN and DOI. References to books must contain, in addition, the full title, Publisher, Editor and ISBN. The cited chapter, section or page should be pointed out. References on private communications are not acceptable.

Examples:
[1] V. Schott, M. Fahnle and P. A. Madden, J. Phys.: Cond. Mat. (2000) 12 (3) 1171.
[2] Ch. Kittel, Introduction to solid-state physics (7-th edition), John Willey & Sons, Inc. New York, 1996, ISBN 0-471-11181-3.
[3] M. Petrov, in: Proc. Int. Conf. High-nitrogen steels, Varna, 1989, pp. 88-92.
The manuscripts sent by conventional mail will not be returned back to the authors.

How to prepare articles using LaTex: