Formatting guidelines

General
Please submit your manuscript in Microsoft Word or OpenOffice document file format. The text should be single-spaced with a 12-point font. Please use line and page numbers.

An abstract up to 200 words and a list of up to 5 keywords (separated by a semicolon) should be provided. The letter (incl. abstract) should have around 3500-4500 words.

All the e-mail addresses of the authors sould be given at the beginning of the manuscript.

If there exists a conflict of interest, it should be clearly stated in a dedicated section at the end of the manuscript.

In addition, please submit a cover figure that will appear in the table of contents (to be pasted in the manuscript). This figure should have 3:2 aspect ratio (landscape-oriented).

 

Figures
Please place all the figures, illustrations and tables within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
When possible, the graphs should be pasted as enhanced metafile pictures.The text on the figures should be large enough to be readable when the figure is formatted to the width of 8 cm (single column) or 16 cm (double column). The minimum text size is e.g. Arial 7 pt or Calibri 7 pt.

RILEM Technical Letters is an open access journal. In order to avoid conflicts of interests with other publishers, please do not reproduce figures from other publications.

 

Equations
Please use designated tool for the equations. The equations should be editable in the document.

 

Authorship statement (CRediT)
Please place the authorship statement at the end of your manuscript (before the References Section). The authorship statement should be in accordance with the CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) format. The roles that can be assigned to each of the coauthors are listed in the table below. Multiple roles can be assigned to each author, and multiple authors can contribute to the same role. Degree of contribution can be optionally specified (lead, equal, supporting)

Example:
John Firstauthor: Conceptualization, Writing - original draft.
Adam Secondauthor: Investigation, Writing - review and editing.

Conceptualization	Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims
Methodology	Development or design of methodology; creation of models
Software	Programming, software development; designing computer programs; implementation of the computer code and supporting algorithms…
Validation	Verification, whether as a part of the activity or separate, of the overall replication/reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs
Formal analysis	Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyse or synthesize study data
Investigation	Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection
Resources	Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analysis tools
Data curation	Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data …
Writing – original draft	Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation)
Writing – review and editing	Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published…
Visualization	Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/data presentation
Supervision	Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core team
Project administration	Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution
Funding acquisition	Acquisition of the financial support for the project leading to this publication

 

 

References and bibliography
In order to enable fast layout preparation, please respect the following rules:

Use the following format for references in your tex: [1, 2, 5-8].

Use the following style for references in the bibliography section:

Journal Article:
[1] J. de Brito, RV. Silva, Current status on the use of recycled aggregates in concrete: Where do we go from here? RILEM Tech Lett (2016) 1(1): 1-5.

Conference publications, reports, etc.:
[2] J. Page, M. Sonebi, S. Amziane, Experimental Investigation on the Performance of Hybrid Hemp-Flax Composite Materials. Proc. 1st Int Conf on Bio-Based Build Mater, S. Amziane, M. Sonebi (Eds.), Clermont-Ferrand (France), 21-24 June 2015, RILEM Publications s.a.r.l., 2015, 243-250.

 

Questions?
In case of any technical questions regarding preparation of your manuscript, please contact Managing Editor of the journal.