ASME Journals Digital Submission Tool
Initial Submission

Step 2: Submitting Your Work

This next step involves identifying the paper type, selecting the specific journal to which you wish to submit, providing the projected title and relevant text (and files) of your work.

IMPORTANT NOTE

You can arrive at this submittal screen in a few ways: from the Author Center on the toolbar, through a link provided on the Purpose and Scope page of each journal title to the left on the home page, through a link for new authors at the bottom of the home page. You may have pre-selected a paper type and journal name through one of these routes. If not, you will be asked to do so here.

Identify a Paper Type

It is important to identify the type of work you are submitting.

Technical submissions, which undergo rigorous peer review, include:

• Full-length research papers

• Technical briefs

• Design innovation papers

Non-technical submissions, which undergo editorial review, may include:

• Book reviews

• Technology reviews

• Discussions

• Closures

• Announcements

• Editorials

The submittal screen will change depending on the paper type selected. For example, if you are submitting a research paper, you will be asked to provide a short, text-only abstract as well as a full-length paper. However, if you are submitting a book review, you will be prompted to upload a file only (no abstract will be requested). The information provided below will give general guidance to the most common fields requested by the various submittal screens.

Journal Title

You must select a journal to which to submit your work. If you are uncertain of the topics covered by any of the 18 ASME journals, you can access the purpose and scope from the home page. Or, you can select Technical Journals from the About Journals button on the toolbar. This link will take you to the asme.org site and to the individual journal home pages.

Paper Title

The title of the work should be concise and definitive. It should be grammatically correct and contain no typographical errors. The paper title should be provided in upper and lowercase letters, not all capitals or lowercase letters.

• Correct

This is How a Paper Title Should be Typed

• Incorrect

This is not how a paper title should be typed

IT SHOULD ALSO NOT BE TYPED LIKE THIS

Additional Recommendations:

• Prepositions and conjunctions of four (4) or more letters should be uppercase: e.g., With, From, That, Which, Until, About, Through, but, and, is, the, an, be, for.

• Special terms should be provided as they are known or understood by the industry. This includes acronyms, abbreviations, computer program names and codes, units of measure, etc.

• If the paper you are submitting was published in a conference proceedings and therefore has a unique paper number, e.g., GT-2003-546, please include this number in parentheses at the end of the paper title.

Abstract

The abstract (required for research papers and technical briefs) should give a clear indication of the objective, scope, and results of the paper. The abstract should be text only (no special characters, Greek, or math please) and no more than 400 words. The abstract text can be typed directly in the field provided or you can cut and paste into this field from a word-processing file. (Please keep in mind the length of a user session is 1.5 hours.)

File Upload

All submissions, regardless of paper type, must be submitted in PDF format. For details on guidelines for submission, please select Author Resources from the Author Center button on the toolbar.

The full work should be uploaded to the site through the Browse feature. Click on the button to search your computer to find the correct filename to be uploaded. Click on that filename, which will then appear in the window on the screen.

Comments

Brief comments may be provided at your discretion. This requires text only and cannot exceed 8000 characters. If the paper you are submitting was published in a conference proceedings, please include that unique paper number in the comments box.

Statement

ASME policy requires agreement to the following statement for publication consideration.

This paper has been neither published nor submitted elsewhere for publication, in whole or in part, either in a serial, professional journal or as a part in a book that is formally published and made available to the public.

If you unable to agree to the statement, submittal of your work will be cancelled. Please note that the corresponding author account will still be active should you wish to submit another work.

From this step you will proceed to Step 3 - Adding Authors.

If your paper does not have any additional authors, you can skip this step and choose Finish to finish the process and submit your work.