AUTHOR’S GUIDELINES

Journal of Production and Industrial Engineering (JPIE) is an open access, peer reviewed online quarterly publishing journal dedicated to the publication of high quality research contributions for the production and industrial engineering community. This journal publishes original research papers, review articles and case studies. All contributions to the journal are rigorously reviewed and are accepted on the basis of quality and originality of the work. After peer reviewing process, all the accepted manuscripts are published in the nearest issue of the journal. Manuscripts will follow the style of the journal subject to both review and editing. The mode of language is English. All the papers in the journal will also be available freely online in full-text content and permanent worldwide web link.


Types of paper
Research paper and review paper. Please ensure that you select the appropriate article type from the list of options when making your submission.

Submission checklist
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: One author has been designated as the corresponding author with contact details: Further considerations • Manuscript has been 'spell checked' and 'grammar checked' • All references mentioned in the Reference List are cited in the text, and vice versa • Permission has been obtained for use of copyrighted material from other sources (including the Internet) • A competing interests statement is provided, even if the authors have no competing interests to declare

Ethics in publishing
Please see our information pages on Ethics in publishing and policies of RAME Publishers.

Plagiarism and Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
All manuscripts submitted to our journals will be subject to rigorous plagiarism detection by iThenticate through Informatics Publishing Limited. Also all accepted paper for publication in the journal will assigned as Digital Object Identifier (DOI) by Crossref in association with Informatics Publishing Limited. Author must take care that the submitted paper should have zero similarity index and no copyrighted material have been used in the manuscript without permission.

Authorship
Every author of submitted manuscript should have significant contribution to the work reported. Every author should take responsibility of matter included in the manuscript is their own work and they want to share with the readers. Each author, co-author and corresponding author must satisfy the criteria for authorship and ensure appropriate acknowledgements made in the manuscript. Authors from different organizations or from different countries must ensure their affiliation mentioned in the manuscript. Authors should ensure that their manuscript as submitted is not under consideration (or accepted for publication) elsewhere. Where sections of the manuscript overlap with published or submitted content, this should be acknowledged and cited.

Licensing and Copyright
All articles published by RAME Publishers will be distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY). So anyone is allowed to copy, distribute, and transmit the article on condition that the original article and source is correctly cited. The manuscript published in RAME Publishers journal will be copyrighted, so authors are allowed to use their own articles for non-commercial purposes without seeking permission from RAME Publishers .

Conflict of Interest and Acknowledgement
Authors should declare any potential conflicts of interest relating to a specific article. Author should acknowledge the support given for his research work from any funding agency or from host institution or any individual. Also reviewers should specify clearly the conflicts of interest while contacted by editor for review of manuscript.

Publication Malpractice
The responsibility of Editor is to make fair and unbiased decisions and ensure a fair and appropriate peer review process.
The editor can ask author to provide supporting data if found data fabrication in the manuscript. An article may be rejected if the supporting data provided is not satisfactory and considered as a publication malpractice.

Open access
All research articles published in RAME Publishers journals are fully open access: immediately freely available to read, download and share. Articles are published under the terms of a Creative Commons license which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Submission
Manuscripts to be considered for publication have to be submitted online. If you are experiencing difficulties during the submission process, please send your paper on email id editor.jpie@rame.org.in. Author should prepare paper as per journal template for submission in journal attached here. Before submitting manuscript to the journal, authors must ensure that their paper is free from plagiarism. We consider only unpublished paper or extended version of published paper for submission. Submitted papers must be written in English language.

Peer review
This journal operates a double blind review process. All submission will be initially assessed by the editor for suitability for the journal. Papers deemed suitable are then typically sent to a minimum of two independent reviewers to assess the scientific quality of the paper. The Editor is responsible for the final decision regarding acceptance or rejection of articles. The Editor's decision is final.

Use of word processing software
It is important that the file be saved in the native format of the word processor used. The text should be in double-column format. Keep the layout of the text as simple as possible. Most formatting codes will be removed and replaced on processing the article. In particular, do not use the word processor's options to justify text or to hyphenate words. ) immediately after the author's name and in front of the appropriate address.
• Corresponding author. Clearly indicate who will handle correspondence at all stages of refereeing and publication, also postpublication. This responsibility includes answering any future queries about Methodology and Materials. It is mandatory to provide email id of corresponding author.
• Abstract. The abstract should state briefly the purpose of the research, the principal results and major conclusions.
• Keywords. Author should write maximum 5 keywords exactly below the abstract which will be relevant work described in paper and can easily be searchable for getting more citation.

I. Introduction
State the objectives of the work and provide an adequate background, avoiding a detailed literature survey or a summary of the results. Your goal is to simulate the usual appearance of papers in a Journal Publications of the RAME Publishers. We are requesting that you follow these guidelines as closely as possible.

A. Full-Sized Camera-Ready (CR) Copy
Prepare your CR paper in full-size format, on A4 paper (210 x 297 mm, 8.27 x 11.69 in). No header or footer, no page number. Type sizes and typefaces: Follow the type sizes specified in Table I  Each major section begins with a Heading in 10 point Times New Roman font centered within the column and numbered using Roman numerals (except for ACKNOWLEDGEMENT and REFERENCES), followed by a period, two spaces, and the title using an initial capital letter for each word. The remaining letters are in SMALL CAPITALS (8 point). The paragraph description of the section heading line should be set for 12 points before and 6 points after. Subheadings should be 10 point, italic, left justified, and numbered with letters (A, B, …), followed by a period, two spaces, and the title using an initial capital letter for each word. The paragraph description of the subheading line should be set for 6 points before and 3 points after.
For main text, paragraph spacing should be single spaced, no space between paragraphs. Paragraph indentation should be 3.7mm/0.21in, but no indentation for abstract & index terms. As always with a conversion to PDF, authors should very carefully check a printed copy. Tables  Position figures and tables  Give all authors' names; use "et al." if there are six authors or more. Papers that have not been published, even if they have been submitted for publication, should be cited as "unpublished" *4+. Papers that have been accepted for publication should be cited as "in press" *5+. In a paper title, capitalize the first word and all other words except for conjunctions, prepositions less than seven letters, and prepositional phrases. For papers published in translated journals, first give the English citation, then the original foreign-language citation [6].

C. Footnotes
Number footnotes separately in superscripts 1, 2, … . Place the actual footnote at the bottom of the column in which it was cited, as in this column. See first page footnote as an example.

D. Abbreviations and Acronyms
Define abbreviations and acronyms the first time they are used in the text, even after they have been defined in the abstract. Do not use abbreviations in the title unless they are unavoidable.

E. Equations
Equations should be centered in the column. The paragraph description of the line containing the equation should be set for 6 points before and 6 points after. Number equations consecutively with equation numbers in parentheses flush with the right margin, as in (1). Italicize Roman symbols for quantities and variables, but not Greek symbols. Punctuate equations with commas or periods when they are part of a sentence, as in c b a   .
(1) Symbols in your equation should be defined before the equation appears or immediately following. Use "(1)," not "Eq. (1)" or "equation (1)," except at the beginning of a sentence: "Equation (1) is ..." F. Other Recommendations Use either SI (MKS) or CGS as primary units. (SI units are encouraged.) If your native language is not English, try to get a native English-speaking colleague to proofread your paper. Do not add page numbers.

III. Results and Discussion
Results should be clear and concise. Discussion should explore the significance of the results of the work, not repeat them. A combined Results and Discussion section is often appropriate. Avoid extensive citations and discussion of published literature.

IV. Conclusions
The authors can conclude on the topic discussed and proposed. Future enhancement can also be briefed here.