Civil and Project journal

Before submitting a manuscript, please review the Guide for Authors and use the latest official Word template provided by the journal. Detailed requirements concerning manuscript language, structure and components, page layout and fonts, abstract and keywords, research methodology, figures and tables, references and citation style, required submission files, and the pre-submission checklist are provided in the Guide for Authors. Compliance with these requirements is necessary for the manuscript to proceed to evaluation.

No. A manuscript is not required to include a university professor or faculty member as an author or co-author. Manuscripts submitted to Civil & Project Journal are evaluated on the basis of their relevance to the journal’s scope, originality and scholarly contribution, compliance with research and publication ethics, adequacy of the research methodology, reliability of the data and analysis, and compliance with the Guide for Authors . Accordingly, qualified researchers and professionals may submit manuscripts without being required to include a university professor among the authors. Scientific decisions are based on the scholarly quality of the manuscript and the journal’s evaluation and peer-review process, rather than on the academic title or professional status of the authors.

Manuscript submission, initial assessment, and scientific peer review at Civil & Project Journal are free of charge , and no payment is required before final scientific acceptance of the manuscript.

The charge is collected only after final scientific acceptance and applies exclusively to post-acceptance publication services, including final quality control, technical editing, layout, DOI assignment, and electronic publication.

Following formal notification of final scientific acceptance, the official payment instructions and payment link are sent to the corresponding author through the journal’s official communication channel. Payment must be completed within a maximum of three days, and an image of the payment receipt must be uploaded to the designated section of the journal system.

If the author withdraws the article after payment, the amount already paid is non-refundable.

No. Manuscript submission, initial assessment, peer review, revision handling, communication of the scientific decision, and manuscript-status tracking are conducted through the journal system and the author’s account. In-person visits or telephone follow-up are not required for routine manuscript tracking. Under normal conditions, the target time for the complete scientific review and peer-review process is up to 30 days. However, author revisions, reviewer availability, or particular scientific circumstances may extend the overall process. If the target timeframe has been exceeded or a technical problem occurs, authors should first check the manuscript status in their user account and, where necessary, contact the journal through the Contact Us page or other official communication channels.

Civil & Project Journal considers scientific and applied research in civil engineering, construction management, project management, and interdisciplinary fields related to projects, construction, infrastructure, and the built environment.

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First, use the Back button to return to the previous submission step or steps. Re-enter and save the required details of the suggested reviewer. Then, in the Author Commitment section, complete the blank fields in the commitment text displayed by the system by typing the required information directly. After verifying the information, proceed again to the final submission stage. Once all required information and mandatory fields have been completed correctly, the Submit Manuscript button should become available.

No. Civil & Project Journal is published exclusively in electronic and online format and does not have a printed paper edition. Accepted articles are published online on the journal website after completion of the scientific evaluation and final publication process. The version published on the journal website constitutes the official published version of the article, and the full text of published articles is freely available on an Open Access basis.

Yes. An English abstract is required. The relevant English-abstract information must be entered in the designated fields of the journal system, and the English abstract must also appear on the first page of the main manuscript file. Further details are provided in the journal's Guide for Authors.

A manuscript that does not include the required English abstract or other essential submission requirements may be returned to the author for completion or correction before it enters the scientific peer-review process.
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According to the Guide for Authors, authors should prepare the commitment and competing-interest declaration form, the main manuscript in editable Word format, and a matching PDF version. Author names, author order, and institutional affiliations must be consistent with the information registered in the journal system. A payment receipt is required only after final scientific acceptance and receipt of the journal’s payment instruction; it is not required at initial submission.

A manuscript may be submitted in Persian with an English abstract or as a full-text English manuscript. The English abstract must appear on the first page of the manuscript, and all English-language article and author information should be prepared with appropriate scholarly and linguistic accuracy.

Manuscripts should be between 5 and 30 pages when prepared in the journal’s official template. Authors are encouraged to devote the principal part of the manuscript to methodology, data, findings, analysis, discussion, verification, and conclusions, and to avoid unnecessarily lengthy introductions or literature reviews.

The journal’s normal maximum similarity threshold is 20%. However, the percentage alone is not the final criterion; the location, source, concentration, and nature of the overlap are also evaluated. Unattributed reuse, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, and duplicate publication are unacceptable regardless of the reported percentage.

Authors’ ORCID iDs should be entered in the journal-system profile and article information in accordance with the Guide for Authors. Author names, author order, corresponding-author designation, and institutional affiliations must be fully consistent between the manuscript and the journal system. Checking these details before submission helps prevent unnecessary corrections and metadata errors during publication.

Authors should carefully verify names, author order, corresponding-author designation, and institutional affiliations before final submission. After publication, changes to authorship information are not treated as routine amendments and may be considered only under the journal’s formal post-publication correction procedures and following review of the supporting documentation.

The journal uses a single-blind peer-review model, and each manuscript is evaluated by at least two specialist and independent reviewers. Reviewers provide scholarly assessments and recommendations; the final scientific decision on the manuscript is made by the Editor-in-Chief. Further details are available on the Manuscript Acceptance Process page.

Formal and technical completeness checking is normally completed within a maximum of 2 working days. The target time for the initial scientific assessment is up to 7 days, and the target time for the complete scientific review and peer-review process under normal conditions is a maximum of 30 days. These timeframes are not guarantees; author revisions, reviewer availability, or particular scientific circumstances may extend the overall process.

The charge is collected only after final scientific acceptance and applies to post-acceptance publication services, including final quality control, technical editing, layout, DOI assignment, and electronic publication. Manuscript submission, initial assessment, and scientific peer review are provided free of charge and are not included in the publication fee.

Civil & Project Journal is published on an Open Access basis and exclusively in electronic format, and readers may access the full text of published articles free of charge. Published content is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). Licensing and publication-ethics information is provided on the Publication Ethics page.

Yes. In addition to research and review articles, the journal welcomes case studies, applied articles, and documented professional experience, provided that the subject falls within the journal’s scope and the manuscript is supported by evidence, a transparent method, a scholarly structure, and assessable analysis. A descriptive account of experience without adequate documentation and scientific analysis is not sufficient for scientific acceptance.

Complete files, compliance with the official template, and accurate author information form part of the initial manuscript check. If a manuscript is scientifically and thematically suitable but has incomplete required files, formatting, references, or author information, it may be returned to the author for correction before scientific peer review. Following the Guide for Authors at first submission substantially reduces delays and unnecessary rework.

No. Submission, entry into peer review, a favourable report from one or more reviewers, or payment does not by itself guarantee acceptance or publication. Acceptance occurs only after completion of the scientific evaluation process and the Editor-in-Chief’s final decision. Payment is requested only after final scientific acceptance and has no influence on the scientific decision.

No. The journal’s scientific, operational, ethical, peer-review, author-charge, and publication policies are equivalent in content across the Persian and English versions of the website; the English version is a professional translation of the same policies. If any apparent inconsistency between the two language versions is identified, please report it through the Contact the Journal page so that it can be reviewed and corrected.

Yes. A similarity-check report is required when requested by the journal. The report should be generated using recognized domestic services such as Samim Noor or the IranDoc Similarity-Checking System, or recognized international systems such as iThenticate and other services accepted by the journal.

Following the initial assessment, the corresponding author may be asked to provide a similarity report. In addition to the similarity percentage, the journal may verify the word count, the content screened, and whether the checked document corresponds to the manuscript version registered in the journal system.

Important: The similarity report must be uploaded only through the manuscript panel in the designated section. Please do not submit similarity reports by email or through any route outside the journal system.

Access to manuscript processing, revision requests, correspondence, and peer-review-related actions is managed through the account of the corresponding author.

Therefore, if you are a co-author but are not registered as the corresponding author in the journal system, all revision requests or peer-review information may not appear in your personal account.

The corresponding author is responsible for monitoring the journal system, coordinating requested revisions, and communicating the relevant information to the other authors. To avoid conflicting or duplicate records, authors should not submit separate revisions for the same manuscript through different user accounts.

No. Civil & Project Journal issues acceptance certificates electronically only.

Once the acceptance process has been completed, the certificate becomes available through the manuscript panel for the corresponding author and may be viewed, saved, or printed by the author.

The journal does not send a separate paper or printed certificate. The electronic certificate available through the journal system is the official certificate issued by the journal.

Yes. The Persian and English forms of author names, author order, corresponding-author designation, and Persian and English institutional affiliations must be fully consistent between the manuscript file and the information registered in the journal system.

If any discrepancy is identified, the manuscript may be returned to the corresponding author for correction before further processing, and evaluation may be suspended or delayed until the inconsistency has been resolved.

The corresponding author is responsible for verifying the accuracy and consistency of all author information before submission. Any request to amend author information after publication is subject to the journal’s formal post-publication correction procedures.

All manuscript revisions, revised files, responses to reviewer comments, supplementary documents, and requested supporting materials must be submitted exclusively through the relevant manuscript panel in the journal system.

Please do not send revised manuscripts, responses to reviewers, similarity reports, or other manuscript-related files by email, messaging applications, directly to editorial members, or through any route outside the journal system.

Uploading all files through the manuscript panel preserves the scholarly and administrative record, enables accurate version tracking, and helps prevent inconsistencies between different versions of the files under evaluation.

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Yes. Completion and signature of the form are mandatory.

The Commitment and Competing-Interest Declaration Form must be completed and signed by the corresponding author and uploaded through the journal system together with the required manuscript files. The form is used to confirm the originality of the work, author responsibility, and the status of competing interests.

An incomplete or missing form may result in the manuscript file being returned for completion before the article enters scientific peer review.

The form is available through the Guide for Authors .

Recommended statement when no competing interests exist:

If an actual or potential competing interest exists, the authors should not use the statement above and must instead disclose the nature of the competing interest clearly and accurately.

Policy on Artificial Intelligence and Automated Tools

The use of generative artificial intelligence or other automated tools does not reduce the scholarly responsibility of the authors. An AI tool cannot be listed as an author or co-author, and generative AI must not be cited as a scholarly source.

Material use of generative AI in preparing a manuscript, beyond straightforward language correction, editing, or formatting, must be disclosed transparently. Authors are responsible for checking and validating all AI-assisted output, including its accuracy, originality, citations, data, analyses, and compliance with third-party rights. Full responsibility for the final manuscript remains with the human authors.

Recommended disclosure when generative AI has been used:

Reviewers and editors must not upload confidential manuscript files or confidential peer-review information to public generative-AI tools, nor delegate the preparation of scientific assessments or peer-review decisions to generative AI.