Instructions For Authors

To be acceptable for publication in Quaid-e-Awam University Research Journal of Engineering, Science and Technology material must be original, unpublished, a useful extension of knowledge in the filed of Engineering, Science and Technology, and well presented.  The author (s) are advised to conform to the following requirements.

1. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Send three (03) copies of your manuscript, each copy complete with illustrations, either to the Editor-in chief or to the Editor, Quaid-e-Awam University Research Journal of Engineering, Science and Technology Nawabshah, Sindh, Pakistan

Note: Authors should also submit their research article saved in 3.5" Floppy diskette or CD-ROM. The text may be saved as Microsoft Word, whereas, tables and figures may be saved in Microsoft Excel. The font Type regular "Times New Roman" must be adopted with font size as given below.

Title (Capital Letters)                  12-point Bold

Name of Author (s)                     10-point

Text of Abstract                          11-point, Bold

Heading (Capital Letters)            10-point Bold

Sub-heading (Capital Letters)      09-point Bold

Main Text                                   10-point

The line spacing shall be 1.2 for main text where as single line spacing be used in abstract only.

Send only good quality copies of the illustrations, along with original figures, diagrams, photographs, etc.

(2) PREPARATION OF SUBMISSIONS

There copies of manuscript must be submitted, typed in double spacing, preferably composed in an  Text

Editor ( for example MS word ) on one side only A4 paper (210 x 297mm). 4 cm margins should be left at the top, sides and foot of the page. Paper should he numbered in order.

(3) Title page with abstract

On the first page of the manuscript, gives the title of paper, author's name and qualification, establishment where the work was carried out (if author

has left the establishment his or her present address should be given as a footnote) and an informative abstract. Title should indicate the contribution precisely, be as of interest, given brief outline of the content of the papers and drawing attention to new information, Principal conclusion and recommendations.

The format for manuscript is Abstract followed by Introduction then by main body of the paper ending with conclusion, followed by Acknowledgement and References.

(4) FOOTNOTES AND REFERENCES

Footnotes are numbered consequently in order of appearances and identified numbered superscript.

References should be given as follows:

[1]    Lctherman  K.M and Samo SR, "Prediction of Cooling Energy Requirement" Quaid-e-Awam University Research Journal of Engineering, Science & Technology, Vol. 5,

 No. 1, Nawabshah, Sindh, Pakistan 2004.

(5) TABLES AND ILLUSTRATION

(1)      Table each on a separate sheet and numbered in sequence. Each table should have a title starting concisely the nature of the information given. Units should be given in brackets at the heads of the column.

(2)       Illustration should be original, sharp and of high contrast. Computer generated plots should be produced by laser rather then of the dot-matrix printer. Drawing should be in black ink on white paper. Photographs should be marked on the back in soft pencil with the author's name and the figure number. Color prints are not generally suitable. All figures should be numbered consecutively in the order in which they referred in the text.