Instructions for Authors
The Editorial Office of “Metal Mine” warmly welcomes authors from home and abroad to submit manuscripts to “Metal Mine”. To ensure the originality and rigor of academic research and to promote a sound academic atmosphere, authors are kindly requested to note the following when submitting their manuscripts:
I. Please visit the official website of Metal Mine (http://www.jsks.net.cn), click “Online Submission” to submit your manuscript. The journal does not accept submissions by individual email or by regular postal mail.
(1) Registered users may log in directly with their account and password to submit; first-time submitters need to register first. Registration information must be authentic and valid (please read the Author Registration Notice carefully). Please fill in the relevant information as required so that we can contact you. After successful registration, you will be taken directly to the “Author Center”, where you can view the paper template, the copyright transfer agreement, the instructions for authors submitting revised manuscripts, the instructions for authors checking proofs, and the notes on manuscript status.
(2) Submission method: After logging in, click “Submit New Manuscript”; you may submit in either “guided submission” (recommended) or “list-based submission” mode. Follow the wizard to complete the upload of the manuscript, confirm the “Submission Confirmation”, “Instructions for Authors”, “Copyright Transfer Agreement” and “Security and Confidentiality Agreement”, and then complete the submission following the submission steps; The system will automatically reply after the submission is completed. Within 1~2 working days, the Editorial Office will register the submissions in batches and automatically reply with a manuscript number for authors to track.
(3) There are eight manuscript statuses: “Received”, “Initial Review”, “External Review”, “Editing and Processing”, “Request for Revision”, “Rejected”, “Final Review” and “Awaiting Page Fee Payment”. Statuses such as “Rejected”, “Final Review” and “Awaiting Page Fee Payment” represent the final processing results of a manuscript.
II. Submitted manuscripts must be original research results of the author’s independent or collaborative work, comply with academic ethical norms, fully respect the intellectual property rights of others, and contain no content that is illegal, violates discipline or breaches academic ethics. References cited in the manuscript should be actually cited; deliberate citation for the sake of citation is prohibited.
III. Manuscripts submitted to this journal must not be submitted to two or more journals at the same time (no simultaneous or multiple submission), including submission to other journals after partial modification, and the main results or essential content of the manuscript must not be published in any other public or internal publication before being published in this journal.
IV. This journal has not entrusted any commercial institution to solicit or organize manuscripts. This journal does not charge authors any review fee and adopts a system of anonymous expert review. Please do not include personal information about the author in the body of the manuscript, and avoid wording that may reveal the author’s identity.
V. This journal reserves the right to make editorial and other technical revisions to submitted manuscripts. The review period is 1 to 3 months.
VI. Once a manuscript is accepted and published, the Editorial Office will pay the author remuneration and send sample copies. The Editorial Office has the right to license the article for use by the Metal Mine website (http://www.jsks.net.cn), the “Non-Coal Mine Science and Technology Information Service Platform” (http://www.xdky.cn), their new media platforms or other online platforms, and has the right to license databases that collect journals, such as the China Academic Journal Network Publishing Database, the CNKI series of databases and the Wanfang Database, to disseminate the full text of this journal in digital form. The remuneration paid to authors by the Editorial Office already covers the fees for such copyright use, reproduction, distribution, dissemination over information networks, translation, compilation and similar matters; The author shall not make any further claims against the Editorial Office or against the websites and platforms licensed by the Editorial Office.
VII. This journal enjoys the copyright stipulated by the “Copyright Law” for the manuscripts it publishes. If authors wish to include a paper published in this journal in other public publications, they must first obtain the written consent of the Editorial Office and comply with the relevant regulations.
VIII. These Instructions take effect on January 1, 2026 and shall be interpreted by the Editorial Office of “Metal Mine”.
Attachment: The editorial implementation of scientific and technological papers in “Metal Mine” follows, but is not limited to, the following specifications and standards:
(1) Provisions on the Administration of Journal Publishing
(2) GB/T 7713.2-2022 Rules for the Writing of Academic Papers
(3) GB/T 7714-2025 Information and documentation Rules for Bibliographic References and Citations to Information Resources
(4) GB/T 15835-2011 General Rules for Writing Numerals in Publications
(5) GB/T 15834-2011 General Rules for Punctuation
(6) GB 3100-1993 SI Units and Recommendations for the Use of Their Multiples and of Certain Other Units
(7) CY/T 118-2015 Academic Publishing Specification General Requirements
(8) CY/T 119-2015 Academic Publishing Specification Scientific and Technical Terms
(9) CY/T 122-2015 Academic Publishing Specification Citations
(10) CY/T 170-2019 Academic Publishing Specification Tables
(11) CY/T 171-2019 Academic Publishing Specification Figures
(12) CY/T 173-2019 Academic Publishing Specification Rules for Compiling Keywords