Electrical, Control and Communication Engineering

Please submit your manuscripts to Electrical, Control and Communication Engineering journal online at ecce-journals.rtu.lv/

Open Access Statement

The journal is an Open Access journal that allows a free unlimited access to all its contents without any restrictions upon publication to all users.

Open Access License

The Journal of Electrical, Control and Communication Engineering of Riga Technical University utilize the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license as currently displayed on https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

Copyrights policy

The use of the papers, published in the Journal of Electrical, Control and Communication Engineering of Riga Technical University, are completely governed by the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license as currently displayed on https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, in the manner agreed with Sciendo, throughout the world, in any form, in any language, for the full term of copyright, effective upon acceptance for publication.

Article Processing Charge (APC)

Policy of the Journal of Electrical, Control and Communication Engineering of Riga Technical Universitycurrently assumes that all the accepted papers are published free of any charge. The publishing expenses of RTU-ECCE Journal are covered by Riga Technical University and other financial supporters of the journal.

Peer review

The Journal of Electrical, Control and Communication Engineering of Riga Technical University provides double blind peer-review policy. This means that the reviewers of the papers do not have any information about their authors, while the authors do not know the reviewers. Each paper is occasionally assigned with at least two reviewers based on the topic and keyword list of the paper. All the reviewers of each paper are chosen from different institutions. More than half of the reviewers represent country different from the country of the authors.

Submission Page

The submissions to Journal of Electrical, Control and Communication Engineering of Riga Technical University (RTU-ECCE Journal) are to be done through the Open Journal System (OJS) licensed to RTU.

I one already has a Username/Password for RTU-ECCE OJS this author uses the link
https://ecce-journals.rtu.lv/login

Otherwise the author uses the link
https://ecce-journals.rtu.lv/user/register

Registration and login are required to submit items online and to check the status of submissions.

Guidelines for Authors

The formatting rules can be found in a “live” template at
https://ieei.rtu.lv/ECCE/doc/RTU_Journal_ECCE_Paper_Template.doc

Since the reviewing is double blind avoid placing author’s information in the reviewable version (emphasized with red in the template).

The choice of keywords is not free. The list of keywords can be found at
https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/pubs/ieee-taxonomy.pdf

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

1. The submission has not been previously published nor is currently under consideration nor planned for another submission in another journal or conference proceedings. The following requirements must be satisfied:

1) The submission must be a post-conference paper after one of the following events: RTUCON, AIEEE, International Doctoral School of Electrical Energy Conversion and Saving Technologies of RTU-IIEEE, Doctoral School of Energy and Geotechnology of TalTech. Submissions can also be considered based on the recommendation of the section editors of the journal.
2) 25% of overlap with other papers of the same authors is critical. An exception is the original paper from the proceedings of the mentioned conference for which the threshold is up to 50% of overlap with the paper presented at the conference, but not more than 50% in total.
3) 3% of overlap with other papers of other authors (in total) is critical - quotation marks and references are mandatory for such quotations.
4) A copyright form is signed and submitted together with the submission as a supplementary file.

2. The submission file is the following: MS Word 97-2003 document “*.doc” - both for reviewable and final versions.
3. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
4. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
5. The paper contains a complete description of scientific research or its logical part. The volume of the paper is more than 3000 words, presented on at least 6　complete　pages (assuming the journal format).