About the Journal

Aims and Scope

The Journal of Industrial Design and Engineering Graphics is published by the Romanian Society of Engineering Graphics – S O R G I N G – http://www.sorging.ro. The SORGING Society was founded in 2000 as a non-profit Romanian scientific society. The primary goal of the SORGING Society is to advance the science of engineering graphics and industrial design by creating a core that is responsive to the needs of scientists and engineers concerned with graphics and design problems all around the world.
  
All information concerning subscription, new books, journals, conferences, and so on should be submitted to the Editor-in-Chief. Requests of specimen copies and claims for missing issues as well as address changes should be sent to the Editorial Office.
 
JIDEG is a peer-reviewed open access journal.

Indexing and abstracting

 Open Access Statement

All articles published by the Journal of Industrial Design and Engineering Graphics are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) International License. This permits anyone to copy, redistribute, remix, transmit and adapt the work provided the original work and source is appropriately cited.

This is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the DOAJ definition of open access.

We define open access as journals where the copyright holder of a scholarly work grants usage rights to others using an open license (Creative Commons or equivalent) allowing for immediate free access to the work and permitting any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose.

Copyright Statement

The articles published prior to Volume 15 issue 1 have the copyright held by the journal. Presently the journal allows authors to retain the copyright of their papers without restrictions. Authors retain the copyright and full publishing rights without restrictions.

Publication frequency

Our scientific journal maintains a publication frequency of 2 issues per calendar year. We publish the first issue in the May-June time period and the second issue is published in the last month of the year. Submissions are welcomed all year round.

Subscription 

Annual worldwide subscription price including postage is € 50, 00 for institutions, companies and libraries, and € 20, 00 for individuals who are not SORGING members. The JIDEG will be sent to SORGING members as part of their annual dues and free of any extra charge. Requests of specimen copies and claims for missing issues as well as address changes should be sent to the Editorial Office. JIDEG is sent to departments with SORGING members free of charge.

Publication Ethics

 Double-anonymous peer review

 Manuscripts of articles, technical notes and letters-to-the-editor should be submitted to the Editor-in-Chief. Copies of articles on specific topics listed above should also be submitted to the respective Scientific Editor. Manuscripts are refereed by at least two referees and are reviewed by the Editor-in-Chief before acceptance. On acceptance, revised articles, brief biographies and photographs of authors should be submitted to the Managing Editor by Express mail. Manuscripts of articles must be prepared in strict accordance with the author instructions. 

On plagiarism and author discretion

The authors should ensure that they written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others that this has been appropriately cited or quoted. The author represents and warrants to SORGING that: (i) the work is not in the public domain; (ii) the author is the sole proprietor of the work; (iii) the work has not heretofore been published in whole or in part.

 The integrity of the Journal is a valued quality that the editorial office aims to keep intact. All submitted work is tested for plagiarism. All work that plagiarizes is rejected and will not be published in the journal.

Fees and financial aid

You can submit your paper through our system. You can create a new account on the website and follow the steps.
Please make sure the paper follows the Author Guidelines and Article Template provided at this link
We publish original work and after your submission, the paper will be subjected to a double-blind peer review process.
After the review process and if the paper is accepted you have to pay the publishing fee.
After payment confirmation your paper will be published in the next issue of our journal.
Further information may be provided if asked for via our contact information page.

Fees are as follows

Author Type Fee Required
Sorging Member 1st Free
Romanian Author 50 lei
Foreign Author 50 €

Author Guidelines

The journal welcomes original research papers in the field of engineering graphics and industrial design. Please use our Article Template when submiting your work. Once an author submits his manoscript at this link the paper will follow the process of a double-blind peer review. After the review the author will be notified of the results and if accepted will be required to pay the publication fee at this link Following proof of payment the paper will be published in the nexxt issue of the journal.