The journal uses the “double blind peer review process” for evaluation of the manuscript. The submissions, except thesis and book reviews, will be evaluated by three Editorial board members or ad hoc referees, and may be selected for publication according to the editorial policy of the journal.


Mandatory requirements

All papers must include: type of contribution (review article, original paper, short communication, case report, book reviews or theses), title, authors’ names, abstract and key words (three to six items that should be based on NASA Thesaurus volume 2 – Access Vocabulary). All authors should be identified with full name, e-mail, institution to which they are related, city and country. One of them should be indicated as the author for correspondence.


Contents

• Editorial
Any researcher may write the editorial on the invitation of the Editor-in-Chief. The article should not exceed two pages.

• Review articles
They should cover subjects falling within the scope of the journal. These contributions should be presented in the same format as a full paper, except that they should not be divided into sections such as introduction, methods, results and discussion. However, they must include a 150 to 200-word abstract, key words, concluding remarks, acknowledgment and references. The article should not exceed 20 pages.

• Technical papers
These articles should report the results of original research and must include: a 150 to 200-word abstract, key words, introduction, methods, results and discussion, acknowledgment, references, tables and/or figures. The article should not exceed 16 pages.

• Communications
These articles should report previous results of ongoing research. They should include a 150 to 200-word abstract, key words, tables and/or figures, acknowledgment and references. The communication should not exceed eight pages.

• Thesis abstracts
The journal welcomes Masters and PhD thesis abstracts for publication.


Paper Submission

Manuscript should be written in English or Portuguese and submitted electronically. The manuscripts written in Portuguese must present the title and the abstract translated into English, with the exact same content. If there is any conflict of interest with regard to the evaluation of the manuscript, the author must send a declaration indicating the reasons, for the review process occur fairly. See the instructions on Paper Submission.

After submitting the manuscript, the corresponding author will receive an e-mail with the Term of Copyright Transfer, in which the author agrees to transfer copyright to the Institute of Aeronautics and Space (IAE), in case of acceptance for publication, thus being forbidden any means of reproduction (printed or electronic) without previous authorization of the Editor-in-Chief. If the reproduction is allowed, it is mandatory to mention the Journal of Aerospace Technology and Management. The author also declares that the manuscript is an original paper and that its content is not being considered for publication in other periodicals and that all co-authors participated satisfactorily in the paper elaboration as to make public the responsibility for its content. The declaration must be printed, signed by the main author and sent back by mailing to the following address:

Instituto de Aeronáutica e Espaço (IAE) / ATTN: Helena Prado/ Praça Mal. Eduardo Gomes, 50 – Vila das Acácias / CEP 12228-901 / São José dos Campos / São Paulo/Brazil.


References

References should be cited in the text by giving the last name of the author(s) and the year of publication. Either use “Recent work (Smith and Farias, 1997)” or “Recently Smith and Farias (1997)”. With four or more names, use the form “Smith et al. (1997)”. If two or more references would have the same identification, distinguish them by appending “a”, “b” etc., to the year of publication. Acceptable references include journal articles, numbered papers, books and submitted articles, if the journal is identified.

References from private communications, dissertations, thesis, published conference proceedings and preprints from conferences should be avoided. Self citation should be limited to a minimum. It is recommended that each reference contains the digital object identifier number (DOI). References retrieved from the internet should be cited by the last name of the author(s) and the year of publication, or n.d. if not available, followed by the date of access. Standards should be cited in text by the acronym of entity followed by their number, and doesn’t need to appear in the reference list.

References should be listed in alphabetical order, according to the last name of the first author, at the end of the article. Some sample references follow:

Illustrations

All illustrations, line drawings, photographs and graphs should be referred as “Figure” and submitted with good definition (1 to 2 mega pixels). References should be made in the text to each illustration using the abbreviated form “Fig.”, except in the beginning of the phrase. Explanations should be given in the figure legends, so that illustrations are kept clean.


Tables

Authors should take notice of the limitations set by the size and layout of the journal. Therefore, large tables should be avoided. All tables must be numbered and mentioned in the text as “Table”.


Equations

Equations should be typed on individual lines, identified by numbers enclosed in parenthesis. References should be made in the text to each equation using the abbreviated form “Eq.”, except in the beginning of the phrase, where the form “Equation” should be used.


Acknowledgments

The financial support received for the elaboration of the manuscript must be declared in this item.