Open Access

This is an open access journal where all manuscripts are available without charge to readers, users or his/her institutional affiliations. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or get access to the full texts of the manuscripts, or use them for any other lawful purposes, without asking for prior permission from the publisher or the author.

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

Creative Commons License 

All the published manuscripts in Journal of Mining Science and Technology are distributed under Creative Commons 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 board, under which the copyright is transferred to the publisher (for the electronic version of Copyright Transfer Agreement, see Author's Commitments & Copyright Transfer Agreement). 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.

Preparing Your Manuscript 

The working language of all manuscripts is Chinese.

Title: The title should be informative and concise.

Author name(s): A list of all authors and 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 expressions or citations, and contains the conclusions, major findings or other significant contributions of the research. It should serve as an index to all the subject matters involved in the research and will be used for indexing.

Main text: The main body should include all the relevant information of the research, but without subtitles.

Symbols: Symbols should be legible, clear, compact, and consistent with standard usage. All specially-used symbols, including subscripts or superscripts, should be made comprehensible. Physical and mathematical variables should be italicized; vectors in boldface; units of measure, abbreviations and special functions should be clarified. Please add notes to explain any other special symbols.

Tables/Figures: Tables/Figures should be numbered in the order of their appearance in the main text. They should have brief and appropriate captions, which should be positioned above the tables or below the figures. A detailed description of table/figure contents or footnotes should be given directly below the table/figure.

References: References are published work, and should be numbered consecutively in the order of their first citation in the main text. Citations should be numbered in superscript within square brackets. 

Fees

The authors or individuals/institutions that fund the research should be charged of RMB1200 for each accepted manuscript.