Authors are invited to submit original and high-quality scholarly manuscripts to Journal of Wave Energy Systems and Technology (WEST). Manuscripts should demonstrate a clear contribution to wave energy conversion, marine renewable-energy systems, hydrodynamics, power take-off technologies, control, reliability, deployment, sustainability, or related wave-energy technologies.
Manuscripts must present original scholarly work that has not been published previously and is not simultaneously under consideration by another journal.
Submissions should demonstrate a substantive contribution to one or more of the journal's core areas: Wave Energy Conversion Systems and Devices, Hydrodynamics, Modeling and Experimental Technology, Control, Power Take-Off, Reliability and Digital Technologies, or Wave Energy Deployment, Sustainability and Marine Systems.
Manuscripts focused primarily on generic hydrodynamics, offshore structures, coastal engineering, artificial intelligence, materials, or electrical systems should clearly demonstrate their relevance to wave energy conversion, wave-energy devices, marine renewable energy, energy capture, deployment, reliability, or sustainable marine power generation.
WEST applies a double-anonymous peer review process. Manuscripts submitted for review must not contain author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, or other information that directly identifies the authors.
Full author names, affiliations, countries, email addresses, and ORCID identifiers should be entered separately in the OJS metadata.
Manuscripts should be submitted in an editable word-processing format and should follow the official journal template where available.
The title should be concise, technically informative, and accurately reflect the wave-energy, hydrodynamic, control, reliability, deployment, or sustainability issue investigated.
Complete author metadata must be entered through OJS, including full name, institutional affiliation, country, email address, and ORCID identifier where available.
The abstract should normally contain approximately 150–250 words and summarize the research problem, objective, methods, principal findings, and major engineering, performance, sustainability, or deployment implications.
Authors should provide 3–6 keywords that accurately represent the principal wave-energy, hydrodynamic, control, reliability, energy, or deployment concepts of the study.
The Introduction should establish the scientific, engineering, technological, environmental, or deployment context of the study; define the research problem; identify the knowledge or technology gap; state the research objectives or questions; and clearly explain the novelty and significance of the work for wave energy systems.
Authors should critically engage with relevant national and international scientific literature rather than merely describing previous studies.
Where relevant, the manuscript should explain hydrodynamic theories, energy-conversion concepts, control strategies, PTO technologies, numerical models, reliability frameworks, structural concepts, or deployment approaches used in the research.
The technical background should establish the current state of knowledge and clearly identify how the study advances wave energy conversion, device performance, control, reliability, or deployment.
The Methods section should provide sufficient detail to allow readers to understand, evaluate, and where appropriate reproduce the research.
Authors should clearly describe the research design, wave-energy device or system, datasets, experimental configuration, numerical methods, control strategies, assumptions, boundary conditions, parameters, software, instrumentation, and analytical procedures where relevant.
Results should be presented clearly and should correspond directly to the research objectives, questions, or hypotheses.
Quantitative results should include appropriate hydrodynamic, energy, statistical, control-performance, reliability, structural, or uncertainty measures where relevant.
Numerical and simulation results should be clearly distinguished from experimental measurements, field observations, or validated operational data.
The Discussion should interpret findings in relation to energy capture, device efficiency, hydrodynamic performance, control, reliability, survivability, deployment feasibility, environmental responsibility, or economic performance and clearly explain the contribution to existing knowledge.
The Conclusion should directly reflect the principal findings and clearly state their scientific, engineering, operational, economic, environmental, or deployment significance.
Recommendations for researchers, technology developers, marine-energy companies, operators, regulators, or policymakers should be supported by the evidence presented.
Study limitations, applicability boundaries, major uncertainties, and directions for future research should be stated where appropriate.
Authors should provide the following information where applicable:
Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, authenticity, originality, technical validity, ethical compliance, and interpretation of all submitted research materials.
Research involving field data, wave-resource datasets, numerical models, experimental records, proprietary device data, sensor information, or industrial datasets should comply with applicable confidentiality, ethical, legal, and institutional requirements.
Artificial intelligence systems and generative AI tools cannot be listed as authors. Substantive AI use in writing, coding, wave prediction, resource assessment, control optimization, fault detection, digital twins, data processing, simulation, or literature synthesis should be disclosed where relevant.
Tables, figures, diagrams, wave spectra, response-amplitude operators, power matrices, performance curves, control diagrams, numerical outputs, experimental plots, resource maps, and other technical materials should be clearly numbered, titled, and cited in the manuscript text.
Units, symbols, abbreviations, coordinate systems, wave parameters, scales, legends, and engineering quantities should be clearly defined.
Authors are responsible for ensuring that figures, diagrams, maps, device images, and reproduced materials comply with copyright, confidentiality, and permission requirements.
References should be relevant, scientifically credible, and sufficient to establish the current state of knowledge.
Authors are encouraged to engage with recent peer-reviewed international literature together with appropriate foundational research.
Relevant standards, recommended practices, marine-energy guidelines, technical reports, and regulatory documents may be cited where appropriate.
Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) should be provided whenever available. References suggested or generated by AI systems must be independently verified.
Citation manipulation, fabricated references, unnecessary self-citation, or irrelevant citation practices are not acceptable. Reference formatting should follow the official journal template.
Manuscripts first undergo editorial screening for scope, originality, scholarly contribution, technical validity, methodological quality, ethical compliance, and adherence to submission requirements.
Manuscripts that pass screening may proceed to double-anonymous peer review by at least two independent reviewers.
Authors receiving a revision decision should respond point-by-point to reviewer and editor comments and clearly identify changes made in the revised manuscript.
Submission of a revised manuscript does not guarantee acceptance. Final publication decisions remain the responsibility of the editorial team.
Following acceptance, manuscripts may undergo copyediting, technical and metadata verification, reference checking, layout preparation, proofreading, and other production procedures before publication.
