• 1.1. International Scientific Conference UNITECH accepts for publishing scientific reports in the following scientific areas: natural sciences, engineering, precision engineering, electrical engineering, automation, computing equipment and social sciences. The volume of the reports should not exceed 6 (six) standard pages including figures and tables. Publications should be written in English or Bulgarian. The title of the report, Author’s name/s, abstracts and bibliographic information should be necessarily written in English and Bulgarian.

• 1.2. Submissions to International Scientific Conference UNITECH are made through the online system for submission and reviewing materials on: http://unitech.tugab.bg/

• 1.3.  Registration in UNITECH

  For registration or log in to UNITECH, please follow the instructions described below:

  • please log in to: http://unitech.tugab.bg/;
  • Select Registration (in case of initial registration of the author) or Entry/ Login (in case of already registered authors);
  • Your user name will be the e-mail address indicated at the time of the registration, and the password will be sent to the specified e-mail.

• 1.4. Applications for participation in The International Scientific Conference UNITECH should be only made through the electronic module for submission of materials. In order to do this, authors need to create a profile and / or log in to existing, if previously registered.

   Before submitting their reports, authors are kindly asked to carefully read the "Requirements for the layout and structure of the reports”

  Once you sign in to your account, press the “Reports” button. The process of submission a report includes two basic steps:

  Step 1: Registration of an author/s and report:

  • Title of the report (it is obligatory to have a title in English);
  • Summary of the report (obligatory in English, up to 200 words);
  • Section of the report (selected from the drop-down menu);
  • Author/s ’s information (names of author/s – obligatory in English);

  Step 2: Attach the full text or the report.

  The full text of the report must be placed in the “Layout file”, in strict compliance with the "Requirements for the layout and structure of the reports”.

• 1.5. Received reports are reviewed for compliance with the requirements to the authors by a member of the organizing committee. Reports that meet the requirements are eligible for reviewing. Reports that do not meet the requirements shall be returned for reviewing to the authors.

• 1.6. The UNITECH Program Committee defines for each of the submitted reports two independent reviewers. Reviews are made within the deadlines specified in the schedule for organizing the International Scientific Conference UNITECH and in compliance with the reviewers’s requirements.

• 1.7. Reviewing of articles shall be done in accordance with the standards for the evaluation of manuscripts through the single-blind peer review system. Leading role in the reviewers‘ s assessments are the following criteria: originality of the theme , scientific value, applicability of results, completeness of the theme, report’s structure ( accuracy and clarity of the abstract describing the main text, logic of the structure and sequence of the exposition, relevance of the methodology, validity of the results, proving the thesis, validity of findings and conclusions, propriety and relevance of citations, accuracy and clarity of language), layout and style. The decision of the reviewers can be:
  • publishing without changes (accepted);
  • publishing after making recommendations (minor corrections);
  • refusal to publish (rejected).

• 1.8. If the reviewers commit a decision for revising the report, authors should review and answer to the received by e-mail written comments, revise and re-submit the corrected report within the prescribed period. The new version of the report is reviewed by the reviewers and they commit a decision to publish the report or rejection to be published.

• 1.9. Аll reports will be screened through a plagiarism detection process.

• 1.10. The final decision to publish the reports is taken by the Organizing Committee based on the conclusions of the reviews.

• 1.11. In case of contradictory conclusions of the reviews, the Program Committee assigns an additional reviewer/s.

• 1.12. All reports that are accepted for publication are printed in a collection of UNITECH’ reports (print and CD). Part of the reports, which have received the highest scores in the reviews, are selected by the Programming and Organizing Committees as "Selected Reports by UNITECH", which are published on-line on the conference website with open access.

• 2.1. The submitted reports shall be provided in Microsoft Word format materials and have the following margins:

• 2.2. The main structural elements of the reports should be as follows:

  • Title;
  • Author’s information;
  • Abstract;
  • Keywords;
  • Main text:
  • Introduction;
  • Main exposition;
  • Conclusions;
  • References/Literature.

  Title: the title of the report in Bulgarian and English must be short, written in capital letters in Times New Roman font (13 point, bold) and centered. It is mandatory to have a title in English.

  Author’s information: must be centered and in Times New Roman font. This section contains the full names of the authors (12 point, bold); name of the organization, e-mail for contact with authors (11 point, italic).  It is the responsibility of the lead author to ensure that the list of authors, as well as the individual contributions to the study of each of them, are clearly stated.

  Abstract: the abstract of the publications must be written in English. It’s in one-column format in Times New Roman font (10 point, italic, single-spaced). The abstract must include the following elements:

  • Introduction (”background” of the study) (mandatory);
  • Purpose and objectives of the study (mandatory);
  • Applied methodology (“setting of the study”) (mandatory);
  • Achieved major results (mandatory);
  • Conclusions (mandatory);
  • Limitations of the research and consequences (if any);
  • Practical implications (if any);
  • Originality/value (mandatory);

  The maximum length of the abstract should not exceed 200 words!

   

  Keywords: Up to 5 keywords must be included at the end of the abstract (10 point, normal).

   

  MAIN TEXT:

  The report must be in two-column format. Distance between columns should be 0.7 сm. For equations authors should use Word Equation Editor. Scalars must be in italic, and vectors - bold. The size of the basic font must be 12 pt, in Sub-/Superscript - 8 pt, Symbol - 16 pt, and Sub Symbol - 12 pt. A distinction must be made between the number 1 and the letter l, as well as between zero and the letter O. Throughout the whole manuscript should be used SI International Measurement System, including tables and figures.

  А) Introduction

  The introduction aims to ensure that the published development includes novelty and it is applicable by responding the following questions:

  • What is the problem?
  • Are there any existing solutions (the level of investigation of the problem at the moment is indicated)?
  • Which are the best solutions, according to the author/s?
  • What is the main limitation of the study?
  • What is expected to be achieved by the author/s of the research?

  B) Main exposition

  The main text is structured into separate sections, distinguished by their titles. (Headings should be brief, with clear indication of the differences between their hierarchy.The preferred format for the main titles is to be written in bold format and subtitles to be written in italics. Font - Times New Roman 12, capitals, left alignment).

  The main text should include:

  Purpose and objectives of the study. The purpose and objectives of the study should ensure the understanding of the publication’s focus and should justify its structure. After that, authors should specify:

  • What is the significance of the publication?
  • Why the publication is important and original?
  • To whom is the publication designed?

  Additionally can be discussed potential utility of practice, importance for future studies, detailed limitations of the study and others.

  Main thesis and hypothesis of the research. Authors’ arguments about their merit are presented.

  Applied methodology and methods. The author should indicate the main methods used by him in a separate title. Author should demonstrate that the methodology is robust and appropriate to achieve the objectives. It is expected by the author to focus on the main theme, to point the main stages of his research, to show the used methods and influences that determine the chosen approach by him/her, to give arguments why he/she has chosen specific examples and others.

  Achieved major results. When presenting the results, it is important authors to focus on the essentials. The publication must contain only the essential facts and those with a wider meaning, without giving many details of every possible statistics. If development is full of statistics, it is possible to prevail over the conclusions and after all the publication to be understood primarily as an enumeration of facts and not as a scientific study. The main thesis of the author must be clearly traceable and steadily established.

  When describing the results author’s  should seek answers to the following questions:

  • Do you provide interpretation for each of the submitted results as you want?
  • Are the achieved results consistent with what other researchers have found?
  • Are there any differences? Why?
  • Are there any limitations?
  • Does the discussion logically lead the reader to your conclusion?

  It is important when presenting the results not to make statements that go beyond what results can acknowledge.

  C) Conclusion

  The general rule is that the conclusion should not only contain a summary of the research (it can be found in the abstract). The conclusion should give answers to the set at the beginning of the publication questions and to indicate opportunities for further research. It would be better to reveal how the achieved results will be applied in practice and to identify constraints in this regard. Although indicating how this research can be applied and extended in future studies, it is not accepted in the conclusion to introduce new material or to be state the obvious. The conclusion should emphasize what is different in the research results, what stands out in the design or it is unexpected.

  D) Notes

  Notes or Endnotes should be used only if it is absolutely necessary and must be identified in the text by consecutive numbers, enclosed in square brackets and listed at the end of the report.

  E) Funding the scientific research

  Funding sources of the scientific research in the report are presented in section “Acknowledgements”. Authors should describe the role of these funding sources throughout the whole workflow – from sтагинг the research to achieving the final results.

  F) Figures and tables

  Figures and tables should be included in the text with titles (9 point, italic). Figures should be numbered consecutively as cited in the text. The numbering and titles of the figures are placed below them. The numbering and titles of the tables are placed above them. It is preferably they to be accommodated on the page without turning the wide portion of the paper horizontally. Necessary explanations are given below it, marked with the appropriate symbols/ characters.

  G) References/Literature

  The Literature cited in the text should be enclosed in medium brackets, and a numbered list should be given at the end of the report. The list of references should be written at the end of the document, and the sequence should be in the order of their mention in the text.

  Literature should be given in the following form (books, magazines, conferences, respectively):

   [1] Bejan A. Advanced engineering thermodynamics. New York: John Wiley and Sons Inc., 1997.

   [2] Leon A. Benefits of split mandrel coldworking. International Journal of Fatigue 1998;20(1):1-8.

   [3] Huang ZF, Tan KH. Structural response of a steel beam with a frame during a fire. In: Proceedings of the third international conference on advances in steel structures, vol. II, 2002, p. 1111-1118. If the source is available on the Internet, the full URL should be indicated at the end of the references and the date when you access it.

  [4] Family name, Initials, Name of the article available at: URL address, year (date of access). For each source cited in Cyrillic - in Bulgarian language, which has no original title in English, authors should give the same source, written according to the regulations of the transliteration.

  For exemple: Ерхард, Л., Благоденствие за всички, София, УИ “Стопанство”, 1993 // Erhard, L., Blagodenstvie za vsichki, Sofia, UI „Stopanstvo“, 1993.

This statement is to certify that all the authors accept the rules of the “UNITECH-SELECTED PAPERS” for publishing a scientific paper and declare that:

1) The manuscript is original and in its present form has not been published elsewhere in any form, that it has not been submitted to any journal/proceedings and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere and that it will not be submitted to any other journal/proceedings, if it is accepted for publication in the “UNITECH-SELECTED PAPERS”;

2) The Author is responsible for the research they have been done and for the results described in the paper;

3) If the article is a join work of several authors (co-authors), the Author who submits the article (corresponding Author) declares that any person named as author (co-author) of the Article is aware about the requirements of this agreement and has agreed for being so named. All Authors have seen and approved the manuscript being submitted and agree to its submission to the “UNITECH-SELECTED PAPERS”;

4) On behalf of all co-authors, the corresponding Author shall bear full responsibility for the submission;

5) The Author warrants that the article is the Authors' original work;

6) The Author warrants that the article does not infringe upon any copyright, contains no libelous or otherwise unlawful statements, and does not otherwise infringe on the rights of others;

7) The Author/s transfers the copyright for this publication/article to the Publisher of “UNITECH-SELECTED PAPERS” - including the exclusive right to electronically store, reproduce and distribute the contribution wholly or in part, including publish, reprints, translations, photographic and reproductions;

8) The Author licenses to the Publisher the right to distribute the Article as a part of “UNITECH-SELECTED PAPERS” proceedings or archive or any other issue managed by the “UNITECH-SELECTED PAPERS” Scientific Committee;

9) In case that the article is not accepted by the “UNITECH-SELECTED PAPERS” Review Committee for publishing or is withdrawn, this agreement becomes null and void.