• Enacted January 6, 1984
• Amended October 16, 2015

Article 1 Purpose

The rules are designed to specify matters related to the submission and publication of papers in Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering (hereinafter referred to as the “Journal”) of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering (hereinafter referred to as the “Society”).

Article 2 Submitter

The corresponding author and the first author of the submitted paper must be members of the Society. With special permission by the Editor-in-Chief, however, the person can be treated as the exceptional case.

Article 3 Responsibilities and Compliance with Code of Ethics

• A. The Authors are responsible for the submitted paper.
• B. With regard to their submitted paper, all its authors must comply with ‘Code of Ethics for Academic Activities of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering’. When any of the authors violates Code of Ethics for Academic Activities, the Editor-in-Chief may disallow or cancel the publication of the paper and impose disciplinary actions as specified.

Article 4 Scope of Research

The scope of research for the paper shall cover areas of precision engineering such as Precision Manufacturing Processing, Precision Metrology, Robot·Control·Automation, Manufacturing System, Design and Materials, Machine Tools, Nano/Micro Technology, Biomechanical Engineering, Solid Freeform Fabrication Manufacturing, Green Manufacturing Technology, and the paper must not have been published in any other publication.

Article 5 Categorization of Submissions

The paper submitted to the Journal falls into one of the categories below, and should be within eight pages, which may be exceeded if need be.

• A. Ordinary paper: The paper that shows excellent scholarship, practicality, and applicability.
• B. Special paper: The paper that is written in accordance with a special provision for special papers.
• C. Other submissions: Forecast, explications, lectures, and other writings.

Article 6 Submission

• A. The Paper is accepted anytime and submission date is the day submission is completed at the Society.
• B. The paper must be written in compliance of the template specified by the Society to be registered and submitted. At submission, the specified review fee has to be paid.
• C. The paper that is found not to comply with ‘Rules for Submitting and Publishing Papers in Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering’ and ‘Guidelines for Manuscript Writing’ may not be accepted.
• D. The submitted paper shall not be returned.

Article 7 Review and Decision to Publish Paper

• A. The Editor-in-Chief shall decide whether to publish the paper or not.
• B. The review of the paper is conducted by two reviewers recommended by the Editor-in-Chief, and the review and the decision over its publication shall comply with ‘Rules for Reviewing Papers for Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering Paper Review Rules’.

Article 8 Copyright

• A. The authors shall be responsible for the content of the paper.
• B. The author(s) must transfer the copyright for the submitted paper to the Society, and for this purpose, the corresponding author(s) must submit ‘Research Ethics and Copyright Transfer Agreement’.
• C. The copyright for the submitted paper or other submissions shall lie with the Society and may not be reproduced without authorization from the Society.
• D. The author(s) may use part of their paper or other submissions published in the Journal in their other research, provided the published paper is referenced as its source.

Article 9 Disclosure of Materials

The Society may disclose a paper or other submissions in print or as online publications.

Article 10 Manual of Style

• A. Writing and editing the paper to be submitted to the Society must comply with ‘Guidelines for Manuscript Writing’ provided separately.
• B. Editorial Board may edit the selected paper so that terms, characters, and orthography may comply with ‘Guidelines for Manuscript Writing’.

Article 11 Publication Fees

The author must pay the specified fee for the paper published in the Journal. For the paper that exceeds the specified number of pages, the author must pay the fee for those extra pages. The fee for extra pages shall be decided by the board of directors.

Addendum

The Rules go into force as of January 6, 1984.

Addendum

The Rules go into force as of February 22, 1985.

Addendum

The Rules go into force as of January 1, 1993.

Addendum

The Rules go into force as of June 1, 1995.

Addendum

The Rules go into force as of January 1, 1999.

Addendum

The Rules go into force as of June 1, 1999.

Addendum

The Rules go into force as of January 1, 2006.

Addendum

The Rules go into force as of February 10, 2010.

Addendum

The Rules go into force as of March 8, 2013.

Addendum

The Rules go into force as of October 16, 2015.

Guidelines for Manuscript Writing

• 1. Manuscripts should be written according to the format of the Journal and should be submitted online (https://www.editorialmanager.com/jkspe/).
• 2. The manuscript should be organized in the following order:
  (1) The title in Korean, (2) The title in English, (3) Author names in Korean, (4) Author names in English, (5) Affiliations in Korean and English, and information of corresponding author, (6) Keywords, (7) Abstract, (8) Date of submission, (9) Introduction, (10) Main body (Theory, Experimental, Results, Discussion) (11) Conclusion, (12) Acknowledgements, (13) References, (14) Appendices.
• 3. Manuscript may be written in Korean or in English. If necessary, the original terminology may be provided in parentheses to avoid confusion.
• 4. The manuscript title must be expressed concisely, preferably in ten words or less, and Key Words must be written in English, with Korean translations in parentheses, and numbering Six words or less.
• 5. The abstract must be written in English and not exceed 200 words. Figures and tables shall not be included in the abstract.
• 6. Figures and tables shall be numbered in order in the main text, and captions should be written in English. Captions shall be labeled beginning “Fig. 1” for figures and “Table 1” for tables.
• 7. Arabic numbers and SI units shall be used in principle.
• 8. References shall be numbered in order of quotation.
  • 1) Citation in the main text: First author's last name with reference number in square bracket. e.g.) Lee [1]
  • 2) References shall be written in English at the end of the main body with the following formats.
    • - Periodic articles: Author names, (Year), Paper title, Journal name, Volume(Number), Cited pages. DOI
      e.g.) Lee, C., Min, J., Min, B., (2017), Limiting tool path error generated by corner blending of CNC interpolator, Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering, 34(10), 695-700. https://doi.org/10.7736/KSPE.2017.34.10.695
    • - Book: Author names, (Year), Book title, Publisher, Cited pages.
      e.g.) Callister, W. D., Rethwisch, D. G., (2015), Materials science and engineering 9th edition, Wiley New York.
• 9. Appendices shall be formatted in the same way as main body text.