Open Access

This is an open access journal which means that all contents are freely available without charge to the users or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribution, 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.

All articles published by the Journal of Mining Science and Technology are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication.

Licence Creative Commons

All the article published in the Journal of Mining Science and Technology are distributed under Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Copyright Agreement

The author of an accepted manuscript should sign the Copyright Transfer Agreement with the editorial office, under which the copyright is transferred to the publisher (for the electronic version of Copyright Transfer Agreement, see the attached file). The author has the right to allow a third party to share the manuscript under the Creative Commons Licenses and also for other academic purposes.

Manuscript Preparation

All manuscripts should be written in English or Chinese. 

Title: The title of the paper should be concise but informative.

Author name(s): A list of all authors, as well as corresponding addresses, should be provided on the title page. Authors’ names should be given in a consistent form on all publications to facilitate indexing. It will be better if the e-mail address(es), and telephone number(s) are all provided.

Abstract: The abstract should be informative, without descriptive words or citations, and contain the major conclusions and quantitative results or other significant items in the paper. Together with the title, the abstract must be adequate as an index to all the subjects treated in the paper, and will be used as a base for indexing.

Main body of the paper: The body of the paper should include all the information of the research, but no subtitles.

Notation: Notation must be legible, clear, compact, and consistent with standard usage. All unusual symbols whose identity may not be obvious, including subscript or superscript, must be made comprehensible. Physical and mathematical variables should be in italic, vectors in boldface. Units, abbreviations and special functions should be upright. Please add notes to explain any other special symbols.

Tables: Tables, numbered in order of appearance, should be identified with appropriate titles. The table title, which should be brief, goes above the table. A detailed description of its contents or table footnotes should be given directly below the body of the table.

References: References must be published work, and numbered consecutively in order of their first citation. References should be listed individually at the end of the text and indicated in the text with a superscript number in square brackets. All of the references’ authors, as well as the titles of the referenced articles, should be given.

Page Charge

To support open access, Journal of Mining Science and Technology charges article page charges, which needs to be paid by the authors or by their research funder or institution. Each accepted manuscript needs to pay RMB 1 200 yuan.