Original high-quality research papers; technical papers; review papers. Please be sure to select the appropriate article type upon submission of paper.

The first author or corresponding author should be a member of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing. Either of them is not a member, should apply for the membership before submission. Please contact the society office to apply for the membership.

The Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
06130, 22, Teheran-ro, 7-gil, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Korea
Tel. 82-2-583-7564, 7566 Fax. 82-2-582-2743
E-mail: journal@ksnt.or.kr

For the policies on the research and publication ethics not stated in this instructions, International standards for editors and authors (http://publicationethics.org/international-standards-editors-and-authors) can be applied. If research misconduct is suspected, the editor follows COPE’s Code of Conduct. (http://publicationethics.org/resources/flowcharts).

Manuscript should be submitted through website (http://journal.ksnt.or.kr). Other correspondences can be sent by e-mail to the Editor, KOFST Center Suite 903, Teheran-ro 7-gil, Gangnam-gu, Seoul 06130, Korea (Tel: +82-2-583-7564, e-mail: journal@ksnt.or.kr)
The manuscript should include the title of paper, name and affiliation of author(s), an abstract with keywords, main text, acknowledgements (if applicable), references, appendices (if applicable), tables and figures, in order listed. The main body consists of introduction, theory or background, experiments, results, discussion, and conclusion(s). All pages should be numbered.

Title should be concise but informative enough to facilitate as clearly as possible the main subject of the manuscript. The first letter of each word should begin with a capital letter exclusive of any articles, conjunctions, and prepositions in it. The first letter after a hyphen should also be capitalized.

Authors
Complete address including Department, Institute, City, zip or postal code and Country, e-mail address of each author should be provided with the corresponding authors clearly identified.

Abstract and keywords
The length of the abstract should be less than 250 words. In the next line of abstract, less than or equal to seven keywords should be written. The first letter of the keywords should be capitalized.
Text should be concise and written in clear.

1. The International System of Units (SI) should be employed throughout the text.
2. Abbreviations should be defined when they first occur in a manuscript.
3. All equations should be written clearly and legibly. Place each equation on a separate line and number the equations sequentially by numbers enclosed in parentheses. Equations must be referred to in the text as, for example, Eq.(1), or Eqs. (1) and (2), or Eqs. (1)-(3).
4. Tables and Figures must be accompanied by table titles and figure captions, respectively, above the describing tables and below the corresponding figures. The sizes of figures and photographs should be between 65mm or 130mm in width.

Tables and Figures

1. Tables and Figures should be lucid and simple and should be cited in the text. The abbreviation used should be described as full name in the bottom of Tables or Figures.
2. Tables and Figures should be numbered separately. Tables and Figures should be printed in black and white although they are originally in color except that authors request color printing. The fee for color printing will be charged to authors.
3. Explanation for Figures and Tables should be written in English. Number of Figures should be in a form of Fig. 1, Fig. 2. The first letter of the title and explanation should be a capital letter. If there is more than or equal to two figures in a same Figure number, it should be written as Fig. 1(a), Fig. 1(b).
4. All the Figures and Photos should be of high quality meeting the publishing requirement with legible symbols and legends. In preparing the illustrations, authors should consider a size reduction during the printing process to have acceptable line clarity and character sizes.

References
All references should be listed at the end of the manuscripts, arranged in order. References should be cited in the main text by numerals in a square bracket in ascending order, e.g. [1,2], [3-6], etc. The exemplary form of listed references is as follows:

1. Z. Mottl, "The quantitative relations between true and standard depth of penetration for air-cored probe coils in eddy current testing," NDT International, Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 11-18 (1990)
2. R. S. Chandel and S. R. Bala, "Effect of welding parameters and groove angle on the soundness of root beads deposited by the SAW process," Proceedings of Trends in Welding Research, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, USA, pp. 479-385 (1986)
3. E. C. Guler, B. Sankur, E. Anarim, C. D. Mendi, O. Alkin, Y. P. Kahya and T. Engin, "Wavelet transform based transient detection," Advances in Signal Processing for Nondestructive Evaluation of Materials, X. P. V. Maldague, Ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Netherlands, pp. 269-283 (1994)
4. I. G, Kahn, Y. A. Bobrov, L. Y. Ignatov, E. Y. Shishkina, P. I. Lazarev and A. V. Kurbatov, "Dichroic Light Polarizers," U.S. Patent, 6049428 (2000)
5. P. L. Burka, "A Hypertext History of Multi-User Dimensions," The MUDdex, <http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/lpb/ muddex/essay/> (5 Mar. 1998)

Every manuscript received is circulated to two peer reviewers. The author's name and affiliation is not disclosed to reviewers during the review process. Manuscripts should receive an "Accept" decision from all reviewers in order to be ready for publication in the journal. When two reviewers conflict on their decision, the associate editor shall either appoint a third reviewer or make the final decision based on the reviewers' opinion.

The final manuscript accepted will be reviewed by manuscript editor for the consistency of the format and the completeness of references. The manuscript may be revised according to the opinion of the manuscript editor.

The author(s) will be charged for 200,000 KRW up to eight (8) Journal pages, and 30,000 KRW for each additional Journal page. Once the invoice is fully paid, the corresponding author will be entitled to thirty (30) offprints of the paper and a complimentary copy of the Journal.
The bank account information is as follows:

• Bank Name: Citibank
• Beneficiary: The Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
• Account No.: 186-00372-256-01

Upon acceptance of a paper, the author(s) will be asked to transfer the copyright of the paper to the publisher, The Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing. This transfer will ensure the widest possible dissemination of the information.

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