Submission process
Before submitting
Who can submit an article to Comptes Rendus Mécanique?
Any researcher is able to spontaneously submit an article to Comptes Rendus Mécanique, regardless of his or her institution.
On the other hand, the contribution to a special issue is subject to the invitation of an editor in chief or guest editor of the journal.
Researchers who have won prizes from the French Academy of Sciences are systematically invited to submit an article presenting their research in CR Mécanique.
What is published in Comptes Rendus Mécanique?
Comptes Rendus Mécanique covers all the fields of the discipline: dynamic systems, solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, acoustics/waves/vibrations, automation/signal processing, etc. They mainly publish original research articles, but also review articles, historical perspectives, pedagogical texts or conference proceedings, with no limit in length and in a format as flexible as necessary (figures, associated data, etc.). Articles are published in English or French.
For more information on the type of articles published, please refer to the editorial policy of the journal. For any further information, please do not hesitate to contact the members of the editorial team.
Commitments of the author
By sending his manuscript to Comptes Rendus Mécanique, the corresponding author affirms that :
- The article corresponds to the editorial policy of the journal;
- The Code of Ethics and Good Practice of the journal has been respected, and in particular:
- The article has not been submitted to any other journal (including in another language),
- The corresponding author has the permission of any co-authors to submit their contribution in their names,
- If the submitted text includes elements protected by the copyright of third parties (for example illustrations, tables, animations...), the author has obtained all necessary authorizations for their publication in CR Mécanique, under the CC-BY 4.0 license;
- The text conforms to the technical, computer, stylistic and bibliographic requirements described in the instructions to authors.
Send us your manuscript
Submission platform
Articles must be submitted through the Comptes Rendus Mécanique submission site.
The corresponding author must create an account, or connect to an existing account if he/she already has one (NB: an account created for another series of Comptes Rendus of the French Academy of sciences does not allow submission to CR Mécanique, it is necessary to create a new account).
- If you are submitting for the first time --> Create an account
- If you already have a CR Mécanique account --> Login
If you are having difficulty, contact cr-mecanique@academie-sciences.fr for assistance.
You can also view the University of Montreal Library's tutorial that walks you through the registration and submission process.
Elements of the submission
As per the instructions to authors, your submission should include:
- The full text of your article (including a short abstract and 5 to 7 keywords), in text format (Word, LibreOffice, LaTeX...),
- The full text of your article (including a short summary and 5 to 7 keywords), in PDF format,
- The illustrations and figures of your article, in high resolution and as separate files (one file per figure).
Review Process
All articles submitted to Comptes Rendus Mécanique are reviewed by at least two experts who evaluate the scientific and editorial quality of the article and provide feedback to the authors to improve the article. The final decision on acceptance of the article, in its final version, is made by an editor in chief or guest editor.
After acceptance
The editorial decision of acceptance or rejection is communicated to the author as soon as possible, in general 4 to 5 months after the initial submission.
In case of acceptance, the author will have to sign a non-exclusive contract with the journal, for a diffusion of his article under a CC-BY 4.0 license. The author remains the owner of all his or her copyrights (for more information, see the instructions to authors).
The articles are then reviewed by the CR Mécanique editorial team, which may contact the authors if necessary to obtain additional information or files (data and/or figures, in particular), and then formatted according to the journal's layout.
The PDF proofs of the text in its original language are sent to the corresponding author. They must be carefully checked and returned as soon as possible. At this stage, only strictly formal corrections are possible. If no response is received within 8 days, the article will be published with the editor's corrections only.
Publication
Once the PDF proofs have been validated by the corresponding author, and the full text has been validated by the CR Mécanique editorial team, the article is published on the journal's website. It has a DOI and can be cited immediately.
Under the Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 license under which it is published, the article may be translated and distributed by the journal alongside the original article.