Author Guidelines

1. General Instructions for Submission

Authors must confirm the originality of their work. Plagiarism, copying, and other unethical practices are strictly prohibited. When referencing the work of others, the source and corresponding citation must be provided, clearly distinguishing it from the author's own contributions.

Authors must verify the submission status of their work. Submitting similar content to other journals or multiple submissions of the same manuscript are strictly forbidden. If the manuscript has been submitted elsewhere, authors must formally withdraw it from the other journal(s) and inform the editorial office of Distributed Energy of the situation before submitting here.

Authors must carefully review the authorship (i.e., the primary contributors and their affiliated institutions) and the order of authors, especially for collaborative projects. This should be considered carefully to avoid intellectual property disputes. The institutional affiliation in the authorship generally refers to where the research was conducted, not necessarily the author's current educational or employment institution.

Authors must ensure that the content of the manuscript is not classified and does not harm national sovereignty or interests. Submissions and revisions by Ph.D. or Master's students must have the consent of their supervisor, who is recommended to be the corresponding author. Supervisors have the obligation to help students improve their papers regarding scientific rigor, logic, and readability, and are responsible for strictly overseeing the academic ethics of the paper.

The journal reserves the right to make textual modifications to submitted manuscripts. If an author does not agree with any modifications, this must be stated in the submission.

The submitting author must be the corresponding author, representing all named authors. Please provide the most convenient contact number and email address during submission. Authors must promptly notify the journal of any changes to their personal information or contact details to ensure accurate delivery of remuneration and complimentary copies.

2. Submission Process

Please click "Author Login" to submit your manuscript. If you are using the system for the first time, please register a new account following the on-screen instructions and then submit via the online submission system. If you encounter any problems during submission, please contact us at Tel: 010-80732111, Email: mailto:fbshny@cdt-kxjs.com.

3. Content and Formatting Requirements

Articles must be scientifically sound, innovative, and practical at an academic level; the arguments must be clear, the data reliable, and the reasoning rigorous. The language should be fluent, the structure clear, logic strong, and terminology standardized. The total length of the manuscript should not exceed 8,000 characters (including the space occupied by charts and graphs). Please click "Submission Guidelines" -> "Paper Format Template" to download the template, which details the content elements and formatting requirements for easy application.

Chinese and English Titles: The title should be simple, appropriate, distinct, and accurate in summarizing the main content of the paper, meeting the requirements of brevity, clarity, retrievability, and specificity.

Chinese and English Author Names and Affiliations (Authors should not exceed 6): The first author should be listed first, followed by others in sequence. The format for the affiliation is: full name of the unit, province/city name, postal code. If multiple authors belong to different units, please provide detailed information for each author, including name, unit name, and postal code.

Chinese and English Abstracts: Please use the third-person perspective. The abstract should be an independent short text containing the main information equivalent to that of the paper and generally include the four elements of purpose, method, results, and conclusion.

Chinese and English Keywords (4-8): These are mainly used for document retrieval. Try to use generic terms that are appropriately broad or narrow in scope and can reflect the characteristics and content requirements of the article.

CLC Number: The CLC number should be classified according to the Chinese Library Classification.

We welcome the indication of provincial or ministerial-level and above fund-supported projects. However, please review this carefully to avoid suspicion of duplicate funding applications. The number of supported projects should not exceed 3, and both the project number and name must be provided.

Introduction: The main content of the introduction should cover the significance of the research, the progress of previous studies, the entry point of this study, and the key problems to be solved.

Quantities, Units, and Charts/Graphs: The uppercase and lowercase, superscripts and subscripts of characters (numbers, Greek, English, Roman) in the text and formulas must be clear. Letters representing vectors and matrices should be in bold. The text, variables, units, and numbers in charts and graphs must be clear. Charts and graphs should have Chinese and English titles and indicate the physical quantities and units of the coordinate axes.

References: Number references in the order of their first appearance in the text, and mark the sequence with square brackets in the upper right corner where they appear in the article. Please cite all references in the main text (do not cite in the title) and arrange them in natural order. Please list the references according to the national standard GB/T 7714-2015 Rules for Content Recording of References after Documents. Examples of reference recording formats can be found in "Submission Guidelines" -> "Reference Recording Format".

Author Biographies: Names of all authors, year of birth, gender, education level, professional title, research direction or field of work. The corresponding author must also provide email and telephone contact information.

4. Academic Misconduct Detection

This journal uses the CNKI Academic Misconduct Detection System AMLC (https://check.cnki.net/amlc) for academic misconduct detection. We will conduct investigations into suspicious issues detected by the software. If plagiarism or other academic misconduct is found, the related manuscript will be rejected. If academic misconduct is discovered after publication, the published article will be retracted, and the author's institution and relevant organizations will be notified.

5. Manuscript Processing Procedure

Submission Stage

Complete the relevant information for the manuscript, read and agree to the academic ethics statement and copyright agreement, and then submit the manuscript.

Manuscript Review and Revision Stage

The editorial office will complete the preliminary review within 5 working days and complete the single-blind review and feedback comprehensive review comments within 20 working days. If revision is required, the submitting author should upload the revised manuscript, a revision statement, and other attachments within 5 working days of receiving the notification; otherwise, it will be considered a withdrawal. If there are special circumstances, please contact the responsible editor promptly.

Typesetting and Proofreading Stage

After authors receive the proof for confirmation, please complete the confirmation within 3 working days.

Tips:

◆ Tip 1: If uploading more than 1 attachment, you can compress multiple files into a single package before uploading.

◆ Tip 2: If the manuscript contains complex figures with high-resolution requirements, you can upload the original figures as attachments to facilitate review by experts and subsequent typesetting.

6. Journal Open Access Statement

This journal is an open access journal. All content is immediately and freely available to readers upon publication. Readers may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full text, or use it for other non-commercial legitimate purposes without requesting permission from the publisher or author in advance. This journal follows the BOAI definition of open access.

7. Copyright Policy Statement

If a submission is accepted and published, the relevant copyright usage fee (including electronic publications) will be paid to the author in a lump sum. Therefore, submission represents that the author voluntarily authorizes the editorial office with the following rights during the copyright protection period: reproduction rights, digital reproduction rights, distribution rights, distribution rights in digital products (including CD-ROMs, the internet), compilation rights, digital compilation rights, translation rights, information network dissemination rights, and exclusive rights to layout design, and these rights can be sublicensed to third parties. Authors will not grant others the above rights to the article in any form, but the author may quote (or translate) parts of the paper or compile it into collections (non-journal type) in their subsequent works.

8. Journal Content Usage License Statement

For articles published in this journal, the exclusive copyright has been obtained. Users are permitted to download and share the articles with others, provided that the author's name, the work's title, and the publishing journal are properly credited. However, the articles must not be altered or have their integrity compromised in any way, nor may they be used for commercial purposes. The license statement of this journal complies with the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license agreement.

9. Fee Statement

This journal does not charge any publication fees, page charges, or review fees. Submission and publication in this journal are free of charge. The journal will pay remuneration to authors of published articles and review fees to peer reviewers. Remuneration and review fees will be distributed to authors and reviewers within one month of publication.