国际中文开源期刊平台

1.  Formation
Manuscripts submitted to Economy and Trade should be written in English and must reflect the latest research trends and findings in the related areas. The topic of the article should be consistent with the journal and the arguments be clear and reliable. Data should be accurate, and the words should be concise and standardized. Details for formation are as follows:
(1) The content of the submitted article should not be published publicly, and does not involve confidential issues. References should be given if data and materials are applied; words, figures, units of measurement and symbols should be clearly written in accordance with international standards and regulations, SI (MKS) recommended: the coordinate line or frame line should be thinner than the curves in the figure; units for the coordinate variables and figures in the graph and table should be indicated.
(2) Submitted article should contain title, abstract, keywords, main text and reference. Author’s information, which includes name, contact information, affiliation, can be inserted between the title and abstract or put at the end of the article. The article should be about 10 PAGES with tables and figures clear and accurate.
(3) Abstract is suggested to be 250 – 300 words. Introduction and conclusion should focus on the keynote and novelty of research. Introduction should give references about recent advances in related fields and the references should be written as [1], [2], [3], [4], [5] instead of [1-5].  
(4) Please use standard units of measurement, symbols and standardized terms and terminology.
① Subtitles are numbered in Arabic numerals and dots should be applied between digits for different headings. Punctuation should be added after the last digit for every subtitled in the article. For instance, “1.” Is for Heading 1, “1.1.” for heading 2 and “1.1.1.” for heading 3. Numbers should be written flush without any blank.
② Place figures and tables at the top or bottom of the page. Avoid placing them in the middle of columns. Figure and table captions should be below the figures; table heads should appear above the tables. Insert figures and tables after they are cited in the text. Use “Figure 1”and “Table 1” in bold fonts, even at the beginning of a sentence.
③ Citations should be referred consecutively within brackets [1]. The sentence punctuation follows the bracket [2]. Refer simply to the reference number, as in [3]—do not use “Ref. [3]” or “reference [3]” except at the beginning of a sentence: “Reference [3] was the first...”.
(5) It is suggested that at least 10 references in the last 5 years reflecting recent advances in relevant fields should be cited. Please summarize all the references at the end of the article by the order they appear in the text. Please do not cite any reference in headings and abstract. Unless there are three authors or more give all authors’ names; do not use “et al.”. Formation of the reference is as follow: (1) Name. Article Title [J]. Journal Name, Publication Year, Volume (Issue): Page Number; (2) Name. Book Title [M]. Publication Place: Publisher, Publication Year: Page Number; (3) Name. Article Title [C]//Editor (optional). Proceeding Title. Publication Place: Publisher, Publication Year: Page Number.
(6) Articles should be submitted via the online submission system https://www.sciscanpub.com/journals/et.
Authors are required to sign in and fill necessary contact information before submitting the article. only manuscript in Microsoft Word or PDF version is acceptable. We do not require a particular layout or format, as we want to make preparing and submitting articles as easy as possible.
(7) For those articles pending acceptance, authors are required to revise and improve the manuscript by considering reviewers’ comments point by point and upload the revised manuscript to the online system after revision. For articles accepted, the editorial office will give priority to publication after editing and processing. authors shall check the proof and submit the revised draft promptly. The editorial office will arrange the release according to the publication schedule.

2. Review Process
2.1 Preliminary
Upon receipt of all submissions, the editorial office will assign a managing editor to check whether articles are properly prepared as required and whether they comply with the ethical requirements of the journal, including the ethical policy requirements for human and animal experiments. Contributions that do not meet the ethical requirements or journal requirements will not be peer-reviewed and will be returned to the authors for emendation and resubmission. Those with serious flaws will be rejected. Subsequently, the responsible managing editors will contact the Editorial Board to verify whether the content of the manuscript meets the scopes of the journal. No judgment on the potential impact of the work will be made at this stage. Reject decisions at this stage will be verified by the Editor-in-Chief.
2.2 Peer Review
After the preliminary review, the manuscript will be assigned to at least two experts for review. This journal adopts a single-blinded review pattern in which the reviewer knows the authors' identities. Peer review comments are confidential and will only be disclosed with the express agreement of the reviewer.
In the case of regular manuscript review, the managing editor will invite experts to review the manuscripts. These experts include editorial board members, guest editorial board members, reviewers recommended by the author, etc. Reviewers should not have published papers with contributors in the past 5 years, and they do not currently work or collaborate with any of the institutions of the co-authors of the submitted manuscript.
2.3 Editorial Decision and Revision
All published papers in this journal will be peer reviewed and receive at least two reviews. The managing editor summarizes the review comments and forwards to the editorial board for the final decision of the article. The editorial decision will be one of the followings:

 - Acceptance
 - Revision
 - Rejection

Authors may appeal a reconsideration by sending an e-mail to the Editorial Office of the journal. The appeal must provide a detailed justification, including point-by-point responses to the reviewers' and/or Editor's comments. The managing editor will forward the manuscript and the relevant information (reviewers’ identity included) to the editor-in-chief, associate editor-in-chief or editorial board members. The editor being consulted will make final decisions and may recommend acceptance, further peer-review, or uphold the original rejection decision. A reject decision at this stage is final and cannot be reversed.
2.4 Publication
Once accepted, the manuscript will undergo professional copy-editing, English editing, proofreading by the authors, final corrections, and publication on the journal’s official website.

3. Publication Ethics
Provided the content of the manuscript involves experiment on human or animal, the author must declare that the research was conducted with the approval of the Ethics Committee. The ethics statement should be stated in the content of the article, including the project identification code, the date of approval, and the name of the ethics committee or institutional review board. The editorial office reserves the right to reject any submission that does not meet these requirements. Here is an example of an ethical statement: “consents from all subjects in the study were obtained before they participated in the study. The study was conducted in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration, and the protocol was approved by the XXX Ethics Committee (Project Identification Number).”
For manuscripts containing any case details, personal information and/or patient images, the author must obtain the informed consent of the patient (or his relatives/guardians) before submitting the manuscript. The patient's details must be as anonymous as possible, such as not mentioning specific age, race or occupation unrelated to the conclusion, and not exposing his/her face without the consent of the subject.
This journal resolutely resists any academic misconduct. Plagiarism, forgery, manipulation, plagiarism, fraud or the use of multiple signatures and other academic misconduct will never be tolerated once found. Repeated submissions or multiple submissions are prohibited. Once the article is submitted to the journal, the editorial office will inform the author whether the article can be accepted in due time. Do not submit the article to any other journals until you have received a clear reply from the Editorial Office. Disputes arising from plagiarism, forgery, manipulation, plagiarism, fraud, copyright, etc. caused by the author shall be undertaken by the author.