Introduction

Journal of Daylighting is the leading journal that publishes original research on all aspects of Energy, buildings, and lighting.

Manuscript Processing and Publishing Fees

Journal of Daylighting does not have publication fees. All accepted papers are published without any page charges.

Copyright & Licensing

Your manuscript should not contain any information that has already been published. If you include already published figures or images, please obtain the necessary permission from the copyright holder to publish under the CC-BY license.

Journal of Daylighting offers authors to publish their research Open-Access. Articles are freely available to the wider public with permitted reuse under Creative Commons user licenses. All articles published Open Access will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download. For further information, see the Copyright & Licensing page.

Language

Article should be written in good English (American or British usage is accepted, but not a mixture of these). Authors who feel their English language manuscript may require editing to eliminate possible grammatical or spelling errors and to conform to correct scientific English may wish to use the English Language Editing service.

Types of Papers

Journal of Daylighting accepts following papers:

• Original papers
• Review articles
• Short communications
• Book reviews
• Errata

Authors should produce a manuscript that can be reviewed on its own. Each submission will be considered on its own merits.

Submission declaration

Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously. Article should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere including electronically in the same form, in English or in any other language, without the written consent of the copyright-holder.

Manuscript preparation

Cover letter

Briefly introduce the manuscript's title, significance, and scope, explaining its relevance to the journal's audience. Read the Aims and Scope to gain an overview and assess if your manuscript is suitable for this journal. Highlight the study's unique contributions and confirm that the work is original, unpublished, and not under review elsewhere.

Referees

Submit, with the manuscript, the names, addresses, and e-mail addresses of three potential referees. Authors are obliged to participate in peer review process.

Note: The editor retains the sole right to decide whether or not the suggested reviewers are used.

Title page

The title page should include the names of all authors, along with their affiliations and email addresses

General Considerations

Please use wordprocessing software to prepare the manuscript and save the file in the native format of the wordprocessor used. (Accepted formates indlude: .docx)

• The text should be in single-column format.
• Use font: Times New Roman, size: 10, single spacing
• Do use bold for Title and headings.
• Keep the layout of the text as simple as possible.
• In particular, do not use the wordprocessor's options to justify text or to hyphenate words
• However, do use bold face, italics, subscripts, superscripts etc.
• To avoid unnecessary errors you are strongly advised to use the "spell-check" and "grammar-check" functions of your wordprocessor.
• Do not use cross-references for references, Tables, and Figures.

Figures

• Before inserting images in the file, select the option in the wordprocessor by going to File → Options → Advanced → Image Size and Quality → do not compress images in file.
• Insert Figure without using the text box.
• Number FIgures (e.g., Fig. 1) consecutively in accordance with their appearance in the text.
• If a sentence starts with 'Figure', then use the full word 'Figure' followed by the figure number (e.g. 'Figure 1').
• Use font size: 8 for Figure caption.
• For figure annotations, labels, and caption, use font format Arial and font size 8.
• Images must have a resolution of 300 ppi. Horizontal and vertical dimensions of an image should be greater than 1500 pixels and less than 5000 pixels.
• Do not add borders around figures.
• All sub-parts of a figure (e.g., (a), (b), (c)) should be embedded in a single image file. The sub-parts should be referenced in the figure caption using lowercase letters in parentheses.

Tables

• When preparing tables, if you are using a table grid, use only one grid for each individual table and not a grid for each row.
• Number tables consecutively in accordance with their appearance in the text.
• Use font size: 8 for table caption.
• Do not use a screenshot of a table from simulation software. Convert the table data into a formatted text-based Table.

Equations

• Equations should be numbered consecutively in the order they appear in the manuscript..
• Use equation tools in wordprocessing software.

Reference style

All references should be listed at the end of the manuscript. Number the references [in square brackets] in the list in the order they appear in the text. Group consecutive references together in the format [2,3,4], [8-15] or [1,3,4-7]. Do not use space after comma [x,y,z].

• Reference to a journal publication:
  [1] A. Author 1, Title of the article, Journal Name, Volume:Issue (Year) 15-25.
• Reference to a book:
  [2] A. Author 1, Book Title, 3rd ed., Publisher: Publisher Location, Country, 2008, pp. 100–140.
• Reference to a conference publication:
  [3] A. Author 1, B. Author 2, Title of Presentation, in: Proceedings of the Name of the Conference, Location of Conference, Country, Date of Conference (Day Month Year), pp. 100-115.

Authors' Contributions Statement

CRediT enables authors to share an accurate and detailed description of their contributions to the published work.

• The corresponding author must ensure the descriptions are accurate and agreed upon by all authors.
• The roles of all authors should be listed using the relevant CRediT categories (Read more about CRediT here).
• Authors may have contributed in multiple capacities.

Auhtors should write contributions of each author in the manuscript in a separate section.

Acknowledgements

Add acknowledgements in a separate section.

Funding

Add funding staement in a separate section.

File for submission

Cover letter, referees, and manuscript as a single file (.docx). PDF file is not acceptable.

Submit and track your article

To submit a manuscript, please log in to the online submission and tracking system at Login Page using your email. If you don't have an account, you can create one on the same page.