Submission Checklist
Read the journal's Aims & Scope to ensure your manuscript is suitable for this journal.
Use the provided Microsoft Word template for manuscript preparation.
Ensure compliance with Publication Ethics.
Confirm that all authors have reviewed and approved the final manuscript and have read the Instructions for Authors.
Template
Please use the provided Microsoft Word template for manuscript preparation. (Download Template)
Article Processing Charge (APC)
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To support our diverse network of researchers, we have designed an equitable, transparent, and author-friendly APC policy.
For full details regarding our APC, please visit https://solarlits.com/apc.
Copyright & Licensing
Your manuscript should not contain any information that has already been published. If you include already published figures or images, please obtain the necessary permission from the copyright holder to publish under the CC-BY license.
The Journals offer authors to publish their research Open-Access. Articles are freely available to the wider public with permitted reuse under Creative Commons user licenses. All articles published Open Access will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download. For further information, see the Copyright & Licensing page.
Language
Article should be written in good English (American or British usage is accepted, but not a mixture of these). Authors who feel their English language manuscript may require editing to eliminate possible grammatical or spelling errors and to conform to correct scientific English may wish to use the English Language Editing service.
Types of Manuscripts
The Journals accepts the following types of manuscripts:
Original articles
Review articles
Short communications
Book reviews
Errata
Authors should produce a manuscript that can be reviewed on its own. Each submission will be considered on its own merits.
Submission Declaration
Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously. Article should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere including electronically in the same form, in English or in any other language, without the written consent of the copyright-holder.
Manuscript Preparation
Cover Letter
Briefly introduce the manuscript's title, significance, and scope, explaining its relevance to the journal's audience. Read the Aims and Scope to gain an overview and assess if your manuscript is suitable for this journal. Highlight the study's unique contributions and confirm that the work is original, unpublished, and not under review elsewhere.
Suggested Reviewers
During the online submission process, authors will be required to provide the names, institutional affiliations, and email addresses of five potential peer reviewers. Please enter this information directly into the submission system; do not include these suggestions within the manuscript file itself. The final selection of reviewers remains at the sole discretion of the Editor.
Graphical Abstract
Please include a graphical abstract with your submission.
The graphical abstract must provide a concise, visual summary of your article's content, presented in a professional format to engage a broad, interdisciplinary audience.
The image size should be 3000 px by 1500 px.
Ensure that you have secured all required permissions before including any third-party copyrighted material in your graphical abstract.
Do not include the manuscript title on the graphical abstract image.
Title Page
The title page must include the manuscript title, the full names of all authors, and their respective affiliations and email addresses.
General Considerations
Please use word processing software to prepare the manuscript and save the file in the native format of the word processor used (accepted formats include: .docx).
The text should be in single-column format.
Use font size: 10, single spacing
Do use bold for Title and headings.
Keep the layout of the text as simple as possible.
In particular, do not use the word processor's options to justify text or to hyphenate words.
However, do use bold face, italics, subscripts, superscripts etc.
To avoid unnecessary errors you are strongly advised to use the "spell-check" and "grammar-check" functions of your word processor.
Thoroughly verify the sequence of Figures, Tables, and References within the manuscript text, ensuring that all are cited appropriately and in sequential order in the text.
Figures
Before inserting images in the file, select the option in the word processor by going to File > Options > Advanced > Image Size and Quality > do not compress images in file.
Insert Figure without using the text box.
Number Figures (e.g., Figure 1) consecutively in accordance with their appearance in the text.
Use font size: 8 for Figure caption.
For figure annotations, labels, and caption, use font format Merriweather and font size 8.
Images must have a resolution of 300 ppi. Horizontal and vertical dimensions of an image should be greater than 1500 pixels and less than 5000 pixels.
Do not add borders around figures.
All sub-parts of a figure (e.g., (a), (b), (c)) should be embedded in a single image file. The sub-parts should be referenced in the figure caption using lowercase letters in parentheses.
Thoroughly verify the sequence of Figures within the manuscript text, ensuring that all are cited appropriately and in sequential order in the text.
Tables
When preparing tables, if you are using a table grid, use only one grid for each individual table and not a grid for each row.
Number tables consecutively in accordance with their appearance in the text.
Use font size: 8 for table caption.
Do not use a screenshot of a table from simulation software. Convert the table data into a formatted text-based Table.
Thoroughly verify the sequence of Tables within the manuscript text, ensuring that all are cited appropriately and in sequential order in the text.
Equations
Equations should be numbered consecutively in the order they appear in the manuscript.
Use the equation tools in your word processing software.
The equation parameters should be described in paragraph form.
Equations must be referenced in the text as "Equation (1)".
Reference Style
All references should be listed at the end of the manuscript. Number the references [in square brackets] in the list in the order they appear in the text. Group consecutive references together in the format [2], [3], [4], [8], [9], [10].
Reference to a journal publication: [1] A. Author 1, Title of the article, Journal Name, Volume:Issue (Year) 15-25.
Reference to a book: [2] A. Author 1, Book Title, 3rd ed., Publisher: Publisher Location, Country, 2008, pp. 100-140.
Reference to a conference publication: [3] A. Author 1, B. Author 2, Title of Presentation, in: Proceedings of the Name of the Conference, Location of Conference, Country, Date of Conference (Day Month Year), pp. 100-115.
Funding
Please disclose all financial support received for the conduct of this research and preparation of the manuscript; otherwise, state that this research received no external funding.
Authors' Contributions Statement
CRediT enables authors to share an accurate and detailed description of their contributions to the published work.
The corresponding author must ensure the descriptions are accurate and agreed upon by all authors.
The roles of all authors should be listed using the relevant CRediT categories.
Authors may have contributed in multiple capacities.
Authors should write contributions of each author in the manuscript in a separate section.
Acknowledgements
Please acknowledge any individuals who contributed to the research or manuscript preparation but do not qualify for authorship.
Declaration of Competing Interest
The authors should declare their conflicts of interest.
Declaration of Generative AI and AI-Assisted Technologies
Any use of generative AI or AI-assisted technologies in the writing or preparation process must be disclosed. Include a dedicated section titled "Declaration of Generative AI and AI-Assisted Technologies in the Manuscript Preparation Process", placed at the end of the manuscript immediately before the References. The statement will appear in the published version.
Recommended format: During the preparation of this work, the author(s) used [NAME OF TOOL / SERVICE] in order to [REASON]. After using this tool/service, the author(s) reviewed and edited the content as needed and take(s) full responsibility for the content of the published article.
Submit Your Manuscript
All manuscripts must be submitted via our online submission system. To initiate a submission, please log in at https://track.solarlits.com.