Author Guide

Before submitting your manuscript, please conduct a careful review of the information below to familiarize yourself with the formatting requirements and ethical policies of Nonferrous Metals (Extractive Metallurgy Section). These pages contain very useful information to help you prepare your content so that it flows smoothly through our peer review process, as well as to help you understand our editorial policies and procedures. You can use this list to carry out a final check of your submission before you send it to the journal for review. Please check the relevant section in this Guide for Authors for more details.

Ensure that the following items are present:

1.         Title and signature. Includes Chinese and English titles. The title should be concise and should not exceed 20 words. All author names, units, addresses (city, county) and postal code should be stated.

2.         Content requirements. The content strives for novelty, originality, clear perspective, and substantial material. The full text should not exceed 6,000 words (including figures, tables, references and English abstracts), generally within 4 000 words.

3.         Abstract. The manuscript should contain a Chinese and English abstract. The abstract should contain four contents: purpose, method, result, conclusion and 3-8 keywords. English abstracts must ensure the accuracy of professional nouns and grammatical structures.

4.         Chart. Charts are used to highlight or interpret important arguments or conclusions, rather than retelling the text. The chart should be discharged with the text, and the chart provided by the paper should leave enough space in the relevant section in the article. The Chinese and English topics of the chart must be provided.

5.         Quantity, unit and symbol. Please use the quantity, unit and symbol in accordance with the "Standard Measurement Unit of the People's Republic of China". The unit symbol uses the international symbol. Do not use quantities, units, and symbols that have been abandoned.

6.         References. References use sequential coding. Mark the citation in the order in which the citation appears in the article, and place the code in the upper right corner of the citation with [ ].

7.         Fund project, if the article is funded, please list the detailed project name and number.

8.         Author brief introduction. At the end of the article, please indicate the first author's profile, including name, date of birth, gender, title, degree, major, main research direction and email.

Submission Policy:

Papers submitted to Nonferrous Metals (Extractive Metallurgy Section) Publishing must contain original material. The submitted paper, or any translation of it, must neither be published, nor be submitted for publication elsewhere. Violations of these rules will normally result in an immediate rejection of the submission without further review.

Contributions should be written in Chinese and include a 300-500 words abstract. Our journals usually welcome the following types of contributions:

• Original research articles

• Review articles, providing a comprehensive review on a scientific topic