Author guidelines

About the articles

Initial editorial assessment

Guidelines

Preparing manuscript

Carefully following these guidelines helps us process your manuscript more efficiently and avoids unnecessary delays. Please prepare your manuscript in a clear and consistent format to facilitate the review and production process.

Articles that fail to meet the formal requirements will be disqualified during the initial stage and will not be forwarded for review. Please respect each other’s time and work.

By submitting your work to the Archives of Acoustics, you confirm that you have read the guidelines and accept the journal’s formatting and editorial style.

General requirements
Submission file	PDF
Language	English
Layout	A4
Columns	Single
Font	12 pt
Spacing	Double
Page numbers	Required
Line numbers	Required
Length	40 000 characters, including spaces
Numbered sections	1., 1.1., 1.1.1., 1.2., 2., etc.
Appendix	Optional

Manuscript structure

• Title – concise and informative.
• Authors – names with ORCID IDs (if available).
• Affiliations – department, institution, city, country.
• Corresponding author – e-mail addres.
• Abstract – 200–250 words.
• Keywords – 5–8.
• Main text:
  • Introduction
  • Main sections
  • Conclusions
• After the main text:
  • Appendix (optional)
  • Statements
  • References

Note:

• Provide each affiliation only once if shared by multiple authors.
• The corresponding author's e-mail address must be included in the manuscript.
• Enter all author metadata (affiliations, e-mails, ORCID IDs) in the submission system.
• Please ensure that the information entered into the journal system is consistent with your ORCID record.

Supplementary material

Supplementary material essential to understanding the manuscript should be included as an Appendix. The journal does not publish separate supplementary files unless otherwise agreed with the Editorial Office.  

Language

Only manuscripts written in English are accepted.

AI use

The use of AI-assisted tools for language editing, grammar correction, or improving readability is permitted, provided that such tools are not used to generate or substantially rewrite the scientific content of the manuscript.

Using third-party material

If you wish to include in your manuscript any material for which you do not hold copyright and which is not covered by an open Creative Commons licence, you must obtain written permission from the copyright holder prior to submission and upload the permission document during the submission process.

Mathematical notation

Variables	Italic
Mathematical symbols	Italic
Vectors	Bold
Matrices	Bold
Standard mathematical functions (e.g., sin, cos, tan, exp, ln, max, min)	Upright (roman)
SI units	Upright (roman)

Additionally:

• Use notation consistently throughout the manuscript.
• Clearly distinguish between uppercase and lowercase letters (e.g., C/c, S/s) and other symbols that may appear similar.
• Ensure that mathematical notation used in figures is consistent with that used in the manuscript.
• The differential operator (d) should be written in upright (roman).
• Descriptive subscripts (e.g., max, min, ref) should be written in upright type.
• Decimal separators, multiplication signs, and units should follow SI conventions.

Citations

 Use author–year citations in parentheses. The in-text citation must match the beginning of the corresponding reference-list entry.

Situation	Example
One author	(Novak, 2021)
Two authors	(Rakowski, Miyazaki, 2007)
Three or more authors	(Dobrucki et al., 2005)
Several publications	(Rakowski, Miyazaki, 2007; Dobrucki et al., 2005)
Several publications by the same author(s) in the same year	(Novak et al., 2023a; 2023b)
Author mentioned in the sentence	Davis (1954) started the research on mufflers.
Direct quotation	“Lorem ipsum” (Novak, 2021, p. 10).
Organization – first citation	(United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees [UNHCR], 2006, p. 35)
Organization – subsequent citation	(UNHCR, 2006, p. 45)
No identified author	(Encyclopaedia of Physics, 1993)
Secondary citation	Brown (1967), cited by Smith (1970, p. 27), found (…).

Note:

• When the author’s name is part of the sentence, place only the year in parentheses: Novak et al. (2020) showed that (…). Do not begin the sentence with a parenthetical citation.
• Direct quotations must be placed in quotation marks.
• Indirect quotations do not use quotation marks or italics.
• Use semicolons between different citations.
• Do not place URLs in the text. URLs should appear only in the reference list.

 References 

The reference list must include only sources that can be identified and verified. Authors are responsible for checking the accuracy and completeness of all bibliographic data.

Whenever possible, please use citation tools available on publishers’ websites, Crossref, Scopus, Web of Science, Google Scholar, or DOI search tools to export or verify reference metadata. Before submission, check that each reference contains all required information and that DOI links are correct and active.

General rules: 

• Arrange references alphabetically by author surname.
• Number all references from 1 to n.
• Provide the DOI link for every reference to which a DOI has been assigned.
• Provide URLs for standards, online sources, datasets, or other web-based materials.
• If the publication is in a language other than English, provide the English translation of the title followed by the original language in square brackets, e.g., [in Polish]. The original title may also be provided.
• If the same author or group of authors has more than one publication in the same year, add a lowercase letter to the date, e.g., 2019a, 2019b.
• List up to six authors. If there are seven or more authors, list the first author followed by et al.
• If no publication date is available, use n.d. instead of the year. If no author is given, begin the reference with the title of the page or document.

Source type	Format / example
Journal article	Sęk A., Moore B.C.J. (1995), Frequency discrimination as a function of frequency, measured in several ways, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 97(4): 2479–2486, https://doi.org/10.1121/1.411968.
Journal article with article number	Cui X., Chi C., Li S., Li Z., Li Y., Huang H. (2023), Waveform design using coprime frequency-modulated pulse trains for reverberation suppression of active sonar, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 11(1): 28, https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse11010028.
Book	Kinsler L.E., Frey A.R., Coppens A.B., Sanders J.V. (2000), Fundamentals of Acoustics, 4th ed., John Wiley & Sons, New York.
Book in a language other than English	Nowicki A. (1995), Basics of Doppler Ultrasonography [in Polish: Podstawy ultrasonografii dopplerowskiej], WN PWN, Warszawa.
Edited book	Crocker M.J. [Ed.] (2007), Handbook of Noise and Vibration Control, John Wiley & Sons, New York.
Chapter in an edited book	Rakowski A. (1991), Context-dependent intonation variants, [in:] Music, Language, Speech and Brain, Sundberg J., Nord L., Carlson R. [Eds], pp. 203–211, MacMillan Press, London.
Conference paper in proceedings	Rakowski A., Miśkiewicz A. (2002), Pitch discrimination of low-frequency tones, [in:] Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, pp. 538–540.
Dissertation/thesis	Tucker S. (2003), An ecological approach to the classification of transient underwater acoustic events: Perceptual experiments and auditory models, Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield.
Standards	International Organization for Standardization (2023), Acoustics – Determination of acoustic properties in impedance tubes. Part 2: Two-microphone technique for normal sound absorption coefficient and normal surface impedance (ISO Standard No. ISO 10534-2:2023), https://www.iso.org/standard/81294.html. ASTM E2611-19 (2019), Standard test method for normal incidence determination of porous material acoustical properties based on the transfer matrix method, ASTM International.
Website/online source	Boersma P., Weenink D. (2019), Praat: Doing phonetics by computer, Computer program, Version 6.2.06, https://www.praat.org.
Audio-visual source	Puccini G. (1990), Nessun dorma, [on:] Carreras Domingo Pavarotti in Concert [CD], Decca, London.

Important:
Do not provide references that cannot be identified or verified. If a cited source cannot be found in scientific databases, publisher websites, DOI databases, or standard online searches, please provide a working link or replace it with another reliable and traceable source that supports the same statement in the manuscript.

Required statements

Copy the appropriate statement(s) below into your manuscript. Replace the text in brackets with your own information.

Fundings	This work was supported by the [institutions, or organizations, if any] (grant number). OR This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
Conflict of Interest	The authors declare that there are no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have influenced the work described in this paper. OR The author declares that there are no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have influenced the work described in this paper.
Authors' Contributions	Author A (conceptualized the study and wrote the original draft). Author B (performed the analysis and contributed to data interpretation). Author C (performed the analysis and wrote the original draft). All authors reviewed and approved the final manuscript. OR The author conceptualized the study, performed the analysis, wrote the original draft, and approved the final manuscript.
Ethics Approval*	The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and approved by the Ethics Committee of [university/organization name]. Informed consent was obtained from each participant. All data were anonymized prior to analysis.
Data Availability*	The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
Acknowledgements*	The authors would like to thank [individuals, institutions, or organizations, if any] for their valuable support and contributions.

* Include only if applicable.

Archives of Acoustics templates

For manuscript preparation, you can use the attached Word or LaTeX template. 

 

Submitting your manuscript

Manuscripts intended for publication in Archives of Acoustics must be submitted through the journal’s online submission system. The manuscript should be uploaded in PDF format.

All correspondence, including editorial decisions and revision requests, is sent by e-mail.

Files to upload

Cover letter

Editorial workflow

Submission → Editorial check → Section Editor → Reviewer invitation → Peer review → Decision → Revision  → Acceptance → Production & editing → Publication

Stage	Typical duration
Initial assessment	~7 days
Reviewer response	~7 days
Peer review	4–8 weeks
Author revision	30 days
Production & editing	after acceptance
Online First publication	after final proofreading

The timeframes above are indicative and may vary depending on reviewer availability, the number of revision rounds, and the complexity of the editorial process.

Peer review

Archives of Acoustics uses a single-blind peer-review process.

Each manuscript is initially assessed by the Editor-in-Chief and the Journal Managing Editor. Manuscripts that meet the journal's formal and scientific requirements are assigned to a Section Editor, who decides whether the manuscript should proceed to peer review.

Each manuscript is evaluated by at least two independent reviewers. Reviewer recommendations form the basis for the editorial decision, while the final decision is made by the Editorial Board.

Reviewers are asked to:

• accept or decline the invitation within 7 days,
• submit their review within 4–8 weeks.

Authors are normally given 30 days to prepare a revised manuscript.

After receiving a final decision

Production files

After acceptance, authors must send the files required for production:

• final editable manuscript file: Word or LaTeX (with the corresponding PDF file)
• original source files for all figures, drawings, diagrams, graphs, and photographs
• original data files for plots, especially Excel (.xls/.xlsx) files if charts were prepared in Excel

All figures and photographs must be provided in high quality, with a resolution of at least 300 dpi.

For diagrams and graphs, vector PDF or EPS files are preferred. Please make sure that the submitted file is a true vector graphic, not a bitmap saved as PDF or EPS.

Each figure should be saved as a separate file and named according to its number, e.g., Fig1, Fig2a, Fig2b. Please do not use descriptive figure titles as file names.

All production files should be packed into a single archive file, e.g., .zip, .rar, or .tar, and uploaded to the journal system or sent to the Editorial Office as instructed.

Early Birds / Pre-Proof Publication

Archives of Acoustics offers an Early Bird publication option for accepted manuscripts.

After formal acceptance, authors may request that their article be published online before copyediting, typesetting, and final editorial correction. Such articles are published as pre-proof publications with an active DOI, which makes them visible, discoverable, and citable before assignment to a regular journal issue.

Early Bird articles are published in the author’s accepted version. They have not yet undergone final language verification, formatting, or technical editing. Minor changes may therefore appear in the final Version of Record.

Each Early Bird article is:

• marked as ‘PRE-PROOF PUBLICATION’,
• published with a visible watermark on every page,
• citable using the assigned DOI.

Once the full editorial and production process is completed, the Early Bird version will be replaced by the final published version.

Important: If you wish to have your article published as an pre-proof publication, please notify the Journal Managing Editor by e-mail when submitting the final files.

Linguistics and editorial verification

By submitting a manuscript to Archives of Acoustics, authors acknowledge that, after acceptance, the manuscript will undergo linguistic, editorial, and technical verification to ensure compliance with the journal’s language, formatting, and stylistic requirements. During this stage, the Editorial Office focuses on:

• formal scientific style,
• grammar and clarity,
• consistency of terminology,
• consistency of equations, symbols, tables, and figures,
• formatting of tables, figures, equations, footnotes, citations, and references,
• reduction of unnecessary repetition,
• compliance with the journal style.

Where necessary, the Editorial Office may introduce editorial, linguistic, typographic, and formatting corrections that do not alter the scientific meaning of the manuscript. Figure fonts and graphic elements may also be adjusted to ensure consistency with the journal layout.

The Editorial Office does not modify the scientific content of the manuscript, including the interpretation of results, methodology, theoretical assumptions, or conclusions.

If any section is unclear or requires author confirmation, it will be marked for the author’s review during proofreading. Authors remain fully responsible for the scientific content and meaning of the manuscript and will have the opportunity to review and approve the final version before publication.

Proofreading

After formatting the manuscript according to the Archives of Acoustics layout, the article will be sent to the corresponding author for proofreading.

Authors should carefully check:

• typesetting,
• completeness and correctness of the text,
• tables and figures,
• equations and symbols,
• author names, affiliations, and e-mail addresses,
• references and citations.

Only necessary corrections should be introduced at this stage.

Important: Significant changes at the proofreading stage require approval from the journal editors. The proofreading stage is not intended for rewriting the manuscript or introducing substantial changes to the scientific content.

The Editorial Board reserves the right to introduce minor corrections before or after issue publication without additional author confirmation. Minor corrections include, for example, formatting, spelling, and typographic corrections that do not affect the meaning, reception, or scope of the published content.

Publishing agreement

Final publication