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Author Guidelines

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Manuscripts are accepted for review on the understanding that a similar work has been neither published nor submitted elsewhere and that all the authors have given their approval for the submission of the paper. The submitting author must provide contact information (full name, email address, ORCID ID, institutional affiliation, and mailing address) for all co-authors. The names must be uploaded in the same form and sequence as they appear on the first page of the manuscript (Note that co-authors are not required to register in the online system). The submitting author takes the responsibility of notifying all co-authors that the manuscript is being submitted. Deletion of an author after the submission requires a confirmation email to the assigned editor.
Manuscripts should be submitted in English through our online system in PDF format and also in Word as a "source file". Please remove author information from the PDF file to prepare for the double blind review process. Only manuscripts meeting all the formal requirements will be considered for review and possible publication.
Correspondence regarding the peer review, and/or acceptance of papers should be directed to the Editorial Contact.
Correspondence regarding the preparation of the final version, usage of the MS Word Template, copyediting and typesetting of papers should be directed to the Publisher Contact.
If you have general questions concerning the handling of the online OJS system (e.g. registration, login, paper submission), please contact pp@bme.hu.

Manuscripts
Here is a MS Word Template and a sample file (in docx and in pdf) for preparing the manuscript, which should be submitted in this style. A research article may only be longer than 8 pages in exceptional cases, while the limit of 12 pages applies to review articles.
LANGUAGE: Papers must be submitted in English. Expressions in other languages should be translated to English everywhere in the text, equations, figures, and tables.
TITLE: main words in the title start with a capital letter, articles and conjunctions with lowercase letters.
AUTHORS' names: For double blind review, please leave the authors' names empty. Having the paper accepted, please specify the full author name with non-abbreviated first (given) and last (surname) names in the final version. ORCID ID is not shown in the PDF versions of the papers. If the authors provide the ORCID ID, this information is presented on the web page of the paper.
AFFILIATIONS should be empty for double blind review. In the accepted version, affiliations contain the name of the company or institute (department, faculty, university) postal address, and email address. The ABSTRACT should be concise and no longer than 250 words and should not contain citations.
Give 3–5 KEYWORDS start with lowercase character and are separated by comma.
All SECTIONS are numbered consecutively except for the "Acknowledgement" and "References". Please refer to sections as "Section 1" etc. (not as "Chapter").
Titles may have at most three hierarchical levels:
1 Title
1.1 Subtitle
1.1.1 Sub-subtitle
Should further levels be necessary, additional title lines must have italic font and no number with no empty line before them.
The text may employ italics, rather than underlining. All illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.

Illustrations
In the following, all illustrations (pictures, diagrams, photographs) are referred to as figures. Upon acceptance figures should also be uploaded in separate files. File names should be of the form "Fig01.jpg" or "Fig02.eps" etc. Please do not include captions as part of the figures. If your figure has more parts, include the labels "(a)" and "(b)" etc. as part of the artwork. Bitmap images are expected in jpg, png or tiff formats, vector graphics in eps or pdf formats. Please do not create line drawings with the built-in features of Word or Excel as we shall need these drawings in separate files. Please export the drawings in a vector graphics format (PDF/EPS) or in a bitmap image format (JPG/PNG, TIFF) of high resolution. It is essential that the bitmap images have sufficient resolution to allow faithful reproduction (300 dpi or more). To determine the optimum resolution (width × height) for a 300 dpi image, measure the width and height as it appears in your document (in millimeters), and then multiply those two values by 12. For example, a square image of 80 mm wide, i.e. having the width of a single column, the optimal size is about 1000 × 1000 pixel resolution and should be at least 600 × 600. Please do not increase the resolution by simple upsampling, the text and lines must be sharp and readable. Figures should not have extra white borders and must be properly cropped.
The dimensions of the figures have strict limitations: the maximum width in a column is 83.5 mm and the maximum width for a two-column picture is 174 mm. Keep lettering in a figure resized for the manuscript in a readable but moderate size (ideally equivalent to 8–10 pt).
The definition of the notation (legend) for diagrams should also be sent together with the diagram as an image file. Alternatively, explain the notation in the caption of the figures but without graphic symbols. Some examples of such explanation are "marked with gray column/triangle/striped area".
Figures are numbered consecutively. Please refer every figure from the text. When referencing your figures within your paper, use the abbreviation "Fig." even at the beginning of a sentence. Please always write an informative caption that explains the significance of the figure.
The layout and form of Schemes are identical to those of specified for figures. They should be separate high resolution image files. Scheme title is expected below the scheme, centered, and without abbreviation (e.g. "Scheme 1").

Algorithms
Algorithms are supposed to have the form of a table. The title of the Algorithm is in the first row of the table, aligned left. If necessary, it may contain vertical lines or simple arrows but not complex drawings. Schemes and Algorithms should be explicitly referred in the text: (e.g.: Scheme 10, Algorithm 10).

Tables
Tables cannot be images. Tables are to be referred as "Table 1" etc. in the text, do not write "the table above" or "the table below". Tables get consecutive numbers similarly to figures. Please refer every table explicitly in the text. Please always write an informative caption that explains the significance of the table. The table caption is centered above the table.

Equations
Use the Equation Editor or MathType (Math Equations Editor | MathType (wiris.com)), and never insert an equation as an image or a text. Number equations consecutively with equation numbers in parentheses flushed to the right margin. Use the tab to position the formula and the equation number. Punctuate equations when they are part of a sentence. Refer to equations as "Eq. (1)", but not as "equation (1)" or as "(1)", except at the beginning of a sentence, e.g. "Equation (1) is ...". When referring to mathematical/physical/chemical expressions, the Eq. term is used, that is, Eq. is a general term applicable not only to equations but also for inequalities, constraints, etc.
Whenever possible, inline mathematics should also be typed with the equation editor. Be sure that the symbols in your equation have been defined before the equation appears or immediately following.

Symbols and Character Formats Italicize symbols but not units of measure (variable T might refer to temperature, but T is the unit tesla).

• Lowercase Greek letters are italic (ω), uppercase Greek letters (Ω) are regular.
• Texts (if, then and, or etc.) and acronyms (DG etc.) are not slanted in equations.
• Lowercase abbreviations are slanted even in subscripts.
• Mathematical functions (min, max, sin, cos), dimensionless numbers (e.g..: Re – Reynolds number), and chemical symbols (H₂O) are not slanted.
• Vectors are in italic and bold fonts, but the components of vectors are only italic.

Appendix, Supplement and Nomenclature
Appendix is placed after the References. Appendices are denoted as Appendix A, Appendix B, etc. Numbering of tables, figures, algorithms, schemes, and equations starts from 1 and is distinguished with letter A, B, C ... etc.
For example:
Fig. A1 (first figure in Appendix A), Table B2 (second table in Appendix B), Algorithm C3 (third algorithm in Appendix C), Scheme D4 (fourth scheme in Appendix D), Eq. (E5) (fifth equation in Appendix E).
Supplement in a separate file can also be published on-line. Numbering in the supplement starts from 1 and is distinguished with letter S: Fig. S1, Table S1, Eq. (S1).
Nomenclature is between the last section and References.

Bibliography
Authors take the full responsibility for the accuracy of their references. Please add the DOI number or URL of a full-text version if it exists. The DOI of journal papers can be found in page http://www.crossref.org/SimpleTextQuery/ (you need to register first). DOIs must be given for conference papers too. Insert DOI as active link in the following format (example): https://doi.org/[DOI].
This journal uses the Harvard (name and date) reference system for citations in the text, with a detailed list at the end of the paper. The references are arranged alphabetically according to first author, subsequent lines indented. Do not number references.
Author names are expected in the "Family, C." format where "C" is the initial of the first name. If the author cannot be identified use N. N. (i.e. Nomen Nescio). Do not use "and" or "et al.", give the names of each author (Smith, A. D., Small, B., Big, C.). Publications by the same author(s) should be listed in order of the year of publication. For two works published in the same year by the same author, use "a" and "b". If the list of references includes persons bearing the same surnames, the first letter of the author's name should be indicated.
Provide the complete title of publication (title of paper, book, book chapter, standard, patent). Do not abbreviate journal or conference names, e.g. write "Transactions on Medical Imaging" instead of "Trans Med Imaging".
A single author paper is cited as (Silvio, 2010) in the text. Two authors are cited as (O'Brien and Johnson, 2005), more than two authors are cited as (Lee et al., 1995). If the author's name appears in the text itself, then put only the date in parentheses: "Silvio (2010)…"; "O'Brien and Johnson (2005) …" or "Lee et al. (1995) …".
If more than one work is cited, separate the citations with semicolons: (Silvio, 2010; O'Brien and Johnson, 2005).
Please note that all items of the reference list must be directly cited in the body of the text. Each citation in the text must be included in the reference list.
Do not create "Cross-references" in your Word file.

Sample Reference List (Harvard)

Download the FULL Sample Reference List (Harvard) in docx and in pdf

If the author cannot be identified use N. N. (i.e. Nomen Nescio).

Journal article
Author, A. B., Author, C., Author, D. E. (Year) "Title of article", Complete Title of the Journal, Volume(Number), pp. xxx–xxx*.
https://doi.org/[DOI]**

* In case of lack of pagination, add any other article identifiers, e.g., Article number, Article ID, etc., (for example: Engineering Journal, 15(2), 12067.)

** In case the article does not have DOI, add: "[online] Available at: URL [Accessed: Day Month Year]" with a valid link.

Book and e-Book
Author, A. B. (Year) "Title of book",* Publisher. ISBN
https://doi.org/[DOI]

* In case of e-books add: [e-book] after the title.

Chapter of book
Author, A. B. (Year) "Title of chapter", In: *Title of the Book, Publisher, pp. xxx–xxx. ISBN
https://doi.org/[DOI]

* In case of edited books add: Editor, A. B., Editor, C. D.  (ed.) or (eds.) before the title of the book.

Conference proceeding (published)
Author, A. B. (Year) "Title of paper", In: Title of the Conference Proceedings, City of Conference, Country of Conference, pp. xxx–xxx. ISBN
https://doi.org/[DOI]

Website
Authorship or Source "Title of web document or webpage", [online] Available at: URL [Accessed: Day Month Year]

Digital archive material
Author, A. B. (Year) "Title of document", [type of medium or subject of the document], Archive material identifier (number or ID), Name of the Institute, City, Country.

Standard
Corporate author (Year) "Identifying letters and numbers and full title of the standard", Publisher, Place of publication.

Dissertation/Thesis
Author, A. B. (Year) "Title of dissertation", Level (PhD/MSc), Official name of the University.
https://doi.org/[DOI]

Archival sources

If you have used material from archives or special collections, the required elements for a reference are very different. Please use the "Digital archive material" reference pattern, use the Harvard reference shape, and list it in the reference list for digital archive material. In the case of non-digital archival material, we cannot replace the missing information. Different archives may request other data in referring, so please always check the reference requirements of the institution for the archive material you want to reference. 

Each non-digital archival material citation in the text is included in the "Archival source" list. Each item of the archival source list is cited in the text. Archival sources are referred to as "(Archive 1)" etc. in the text. Archival sources get consecutive numbers. The archival sources are arranged in the order of citations, in the list of Archival sources.  

Please fill in the Archival sources template below (download here) with the information you received for your archive materials and copy the table after the "References" under "Archival sources" and we will typeset it into text form. 

You may not be able to fill in all the cells because not all archives have a title or author or an archival reference code, but please provide as much information as possible. Please give the title and name of the institute in original language and English translation in brackets at the archive materials which are not in English, and a remark at the end: (in [Original Language]). 

Revisions

If revisions of the original manuscript are required, authors will have a maximum of 4 weeks (from receipt of the referees comments) to revise and re-submit their paper. For the submission of the revised article, you should send a text file containing the revised text where the changes are highlighted and a response to the reviewers' comments in Word or PDF file.

Final Version after Acceptance
For the submission of the final version, you should upload the article text in docx format prepared with our template and also in pdf, and a separate image file of each figure. The preferred formats for pictures are jpg (moderate compression!), tif, png, maybe pdf. Do not convert your vector graphics into raster format, just submit the original in a separate file.
We will check all figure and bibliography requirements and let typesetting start only when all of them are met. The precise preparation of your final version speeds up the publication of your paper.
Proof in PDF format can be downloaded from the Open Journal System (OJS) after the notification is sent to the corresponding author via e-mail. The proofs should be returned within 72 hours of receipt. Corrections should be restricted to minor corrections (like typesetting errors, etc.). Extensive or important changes on page proofs, including changes to the list of authors, authors' affiliation or major changes to the title, are subject to editorial review. Please upload an annotated PDF or scan the corrected pages of the proofs.