Submissions

Author Guidelines

Peer Review Process

Manuscripts submitted to Proceedings of International Conferences BALTTRIB are subject to peer review to maintain the standards of the journal, promote rigorous research within the fields and to offer authors constructive feedback on their submissions.

Proceedings of International Conferences BALTTRIB has a 'double blind' review process: Authors are not told who reviewed their paper, and referees do not know the name of the authors whose papers they review. The peer referees’ identity remains unknown to the authors.

Manuscripts are sent out for review electronically, and all correspondence takes place via e-mail. Although the peer review process is accelerated by the use of electronic communication, traditional, high-quality peer-review standards are applied to all manuscripts submitted to the journal.

Peer reviewers are asked to give their opinion on a number of issues pertinent to the quality and suitability of a paper, and to judge papers on grounds of originality and importance. We pride ourselves on providing constructive and formative feedback to authors.

Reviewer Guidelines Reviewers of Agricultural Engineering are asked to consider the following points during their evaluation:
•Does the subject of report correspond to the Conference and journal topic?
•What is the scholastic level of presented material? Is it Original article?
•Is the sufficient literature survey for the analysis of the research topic?
•Is the description of research methodology clear. 
•Does the analysis/ evaluation have a clear flow and logical argument?
•Does the analysis/evaluation link to an appropriate discussion and conclusions?
• Does the technical preparation of paper is good (means quality of schedules, diagrams, figures)?

Peer reviewers will have five possible options, for any paper:
1. Accept manuscript (i.e. no need for any revision)
2. Accept after revision (i.e. accepted if the author makes the requested revisions)
3. Revise and resubmit (i.e. accepted or rejected after revisions have been made - paper will be sent out for another peer review round)
4. Reject manuscript (i.e. if the manuscript is not sufficiently developed for publication)
5. See comments (i.e. if the reviewer cannot choose from any of the above)

In addition, papers may be returned to authors by the Editors prior to review, if judged to be out of scope, out of the limits of the word length guidance or not sufficiently prepared for publication.

To facilitate rapid publication, authors are given a maximum of 3 weeks for revision. After 3 weeks, revised manuscripts will normally be considered new submissions.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Author Self-Archiving

Authors are permitted and encouraged to post items submitted to Proceedings of International Conferences BALTTRIB on personal or institutional websites, prior to and after publication (while providing the bibliographic details of the latter).

Indexing

The materials of International Conferences BALTTRIB 2015/2017/2019 were covered of  SCOPUS