Author Guidelines

Authors are invited to submit original and high-quality scholarly manuscripts to Journal of Corrosion and Coatings. Manuscripts should demonstrate a clear contribution to corrosion science, protective coatings, electrochemistry, surface engineering, corrosion monitoring, material durability, integrity management, or related engineering applications.

1. General Requirements

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 principal areas: Corrosion Science and Electrochemical Processes, Protective Coatings and Surface Engineering, Corrosion Protection, Monitoring and Integrity, or Materials Durability and Engineering Applications.

Manuscripts focused primarily on generic materials characterization, mechanical properties, nanomaterials, artificial intelligence, manufacturing, or structural analysis should clearly demonstrate their relevance to corrosion, coating performance, surface durability, degradation, integrity, or service-life performance.

Language: Manuscripts must be written in clear and academically appropriate English.

2. Article Types

  • Original Research Articles — experimental, computational, electrochemical, materials, coating, monitoring, or integrity studies.
  • Review Articles — critical reviews of corrosion mechanisms, coating technologies, surface engineering, monitoring, integrity, or durability.
  • Systematic Reviews and Evidence Syntheses — structured reviews using transparent search, selection, and analytical procedures.
  • Technical and Engineering Studies — corrosion-control technologies, cathodic protection, inhibitors, inspection, failure analysis, maintenance, and service-life assessment.
  • Industrial and Applied Studies — studies involving marine, offshore, pipeline, energy, transportation, civil infrastructure, or other real engineering applications.

3. Submission Files and Anonymity

The journal 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, institutional 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.

4. Manuscript Structure

  1. Title
  2. Abstract
  3. Keywords
  4. Introduction
  5. Literature Review and/or Technical Background
  6. Materials and Methods
  7. Results and Discussion
  8. Conclusion and Engineering Implications
  9. Acknowledgements, where applicable
  10. Funding Statement, where applicable
  11. Conflict of Interest Statement
  12. Ethics Approval and Informed Consent, where applicable
  13. Data Availability Statement, where applicable
  14. AI Use Disclosure, where applicable
  15. References

5. Title and Author Information

The title should be concise, specific, technically informative, and accurately reflect the corrosion, coating, electrochemical, surface-engineering, durability, or integrity issue investigated.

Complete author metadata must be entered through OJS, including full name, affiliation, country, email address, and ORCID identifier where available.

6. Abstract and Keywords

The abstract should normally contain approximately 150–250 words and summarize the research problem, objective, materials and methods, principal findings, and major scientific or engineering implications.

Authors should provide 3–6 keywords that accurately represent the principal corrosion, coating, material, electrochemical, integrity, or durability concepts of the study.

7. Introduction

The Introduction should establish the scientific, engineering, industrial, or environmental context of the study; define the corrosion or degradation problem; identify the research or technology gap; state the objectives or research questions; and clearly explain the novelty and significance of the work.

8. Literature and Technical Background

Authors should critically engage with relevant national and international scientific literature rather than merely listing previous studies.

Where relevant, the manuscript should explain corrosion mechanisms, electrochemical principles, coating technologies, surface-treatment methods, degradation processes, monitoring approaches, or integrity frameworks used in the research.

The technical background should clearly establish how the study advances existing knowledge or engineering practice.

9. Materials and Methods

The Methods section should provide sufficient detail to allow readers to understand, evaluate, and where appropriate reproduce the research.

Materials and Specimen Preparation: Authors should report material type, grade or composition where relevant, specimen dimensions, surface preparation, cleaning procedures, heat treatment, coating preparation, coating thickness, curing conditions, and other factors that may influence corrosion behavior.
Electrochemical Testing: Studies involving potentiodynamic polarization, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, open-circuit potential, linear polarization resistance, or related techniques should report electrode configuration, reference and counter electrodes, exposed area, electrolyte, temperature, stabilization period, scan rate, frequency range, perturbation amplitude, fitting procedures, and relevant uncertainty.
Corrosion Rate and Exposure Tests: Weight-loss, immersion, salt-spray, atmospheric, marine, soil, or accelerated-corrosion studies should report exposure conditions, duration, specimen area, cleaning procedures, calculation methods, units, replicate testing, and uncertainty where applicable.
Coating Studies: Research involving paints, polymeric, metallic, ceramic, hybrid, nanostructured, or smart coatings should report formulation or relevant composition, deposition or application method, substrate preparation, thickness, curing conditions, adhesion assessment, exposure conditions, and performance evaluation methods.
Surface and Materials Characterization: Studies using SEM, EDS, XRD, AFM, XPS, FTIR, Raman spectroscopy, profilometry, microscopy, hardness testing, or related methods should clearly report specimen preparation, instrument settings, analytical procedures, and interpretation criteria where relevant.
Numerical and Computational Studies: Authors should report governing equations, assumptions, constitutive relationships, initial and boundary conditions, numerical methods, discretization or mesh information where relevant, convergence criteria, verification, validation, sensitivity analysis, and uncertainty.
Integrity and Remaining-Life Studies: Research involving corrosion allowance, remaining thickness, inspection data, risk-based inspection, failure probability, remaining life, or maintenance optimization should clearly identify assumptions, acceptance criteria, uncertainty, applicable standards, and validity limits.

10. Results and Discussion

Results should be presented clearly and should correspond directly to the research objectives or hypotheses.

Quantitative studies should report appropriate values, units, statistical measures, uncertainty, repeatability, or confidence information where relevant.

Corrosion rates, polarization parameters, impedance values, inhibition efficiencies, coating-performance metrics, degradation rates, remaining-life predictions, or reliability measures should be presented transparently.

The Discussion should interpret the findings in relation to corrosion mechanisms, coating behavior, surface condition, material performance, integrity, durability, service life, and relevant published literature.

11. Conclusion and Engineering Implications

The Conclusion should directly reflect the principal findings and clearly state their scientific, technological, materials, maintenance, integrity, or engineering significance.

Recommendations for researchers, coating developers, materials engineers, operators, inspectors, asset owners, or policymakers should be supported by the evidence presented.

Study limitations, uncertainty, applicability boundaries, and directions for future research should be stated where appropriate.

12. Ethical and Transparency Statements

Authors should provide the following information where applicable:

  • Ethics approval;
  • Informed consent;
  • Industrial or institutional permissions;
  • Funding information;
  • Conflict of interest declaration;
  • Data availability statement;
  • Acknowledgements;
  • AI use disclosure.

Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, authenticity, originality, technical validity, ethical compliance, and interpretation of all submitted research materials.

13. Corrosion Data, Models and AI Use

Research involving industrial inspection data, proprietary coating formulations, field measurements, corrosion-monitoring records, numerical models, laboratory datasets, or restricted engineering information should comply with applicable confidentiality, ethical, legal, and institutional requirements.

Artificial intelligence systems and generative AI tools cannot be listed as authors. Substantive use of AI in writing, coding, corrosion prediction, image analysis, failure diagnosis, surface classification, digital twins, data processing, or literature synthesis should be disclosed where relevant.

Engineering Accountability: Authors must independently verify AI-assisted, simulation-based, model-based, and data-driven results before drawing conclusions concerning corrosion rate, coating performance, failure risk, integrity, durability, or service life.

14. Tables, Figures and Technical Materials

Tables, figures, photographs, micrographs, polarization curves, Nyquist and Bode plots, coating cross-sections, corrosion maps, surface images, numerical outputs, inspection records, and other technical materials should be clearly numbered, titled, and cited in the manuscript text.

Axes, units, symbols, legends, specimen labels, test conditions, magnification, scale bars, and relevant engineering quantities should be clearly defined.

Authors are responsible for ensuring that figures, photographs, industrial images, diagrams, and reproduced materials comply with copyright, confidentiality, and permission requirements.

15. References

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 engineering standards, recommended practices, test methods, 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, and irrelevant citation practices are not acceptable. Reference formatting should follow the official journal template.

16. Submission Preparation Checklist

  • The manuscript fits the Aim and Scopes of the journal.
  • The manuscript is original and not under consideration elsewhere.
  • The manuscript is written in clear academic English.
  • The review manuscript has been anonymized.
  • Complete author metadata has been entered in OJS.
  • The research problem, gap, and contribution are clearly stated.
  • Materials and specimen preparation are described.
  • Electrochemical test conditions are reported where relevant.
  • Coating composition and application conditions are reported where applicable.
  • Exposure conditions and corrosion-rate calculations are transparent.
  • Surface and material characterization methods are sufficiently described.
  • Numerical assumptions and boundary conditions are clearly defined where applicable.
  • Verification and validation procedures are reported where relevant.
  • Uncertainty and study limitations are stated.
  • Industrial or proprietary data permissions are addressed where relevant.
  • Ethics approval and informed consent are reported where applicable.
  • Funding and conflicts of interest are disclosed.
  • Data availability is stated where applicable.
  • Substantive AI use is disclosed where applicable.
  • Tables and figures accurately represent the research.
  • References are accurate and include DOI information where available.
  • The manuscript follows the official journal template.

17. Review, Revision and After Acceptance

Manuscripts first undergo editorial screening for scope, originality, scientific 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.

Authors are encouraged to review the Aim and Scopes, Editorial Policy, and official manuscript template before submitting a manuscript to Journal of Corrosion and Coatings.
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