Submission Agreement

Articles should possess innovation, scientific, and practical applicability. They should be unpublished academic articles. If parts of the contents have been previously published, please attach copies of the relevant articles and provide detailed explanations in text.

Articles should have clear arguments, rigorous reasoning, accurate mathematical derivations, reliable data, and authentic charts and tables. The length of the paper should be controlled within 6,000 Chinese characters.

Authors are solely responsible for the content of their submissions. Academic misconduct, such as plagiarism, impersonation, and patchwork, is strictly prohibited. Submitting the same draft to multiple journals is not allowed.  The review process usually takes one month from the date of receipt, and the journal will notify authors of acceptance or rejection after this period.

The editorial department of Navigation Positioning and Timing will invite peer experts to review articles. Based on review conclusions, decisions on acceptance or rejection will be made. Priority will be given to articles on cutting-edge topics and those sponsored by scientific research funds.

The editorial department reserves the right to make technical and editorial modifications. Substantive changes to the content must be approved by the authors.

Strict confidentiality regulations are adhered to. When submitting articles, please include a "Confidentiality Review Certificate" with the seal of the author's unit's confidentiality committee and a "Copyright Agreement" signed by the author.  Otherwise, the manuscript will not be accepted.

Submission Requirements

The manuscript should possess innovativeness, scientific rigor, and practical applicability.  It should be an unpublished academic article.  If any part of the content has been previously published, please attach copies of the relevant articles along with a detailed written explanation.

The manuscript should have clear arguments, rigorous reasoning, accurate mathematical derivations, reliable data, and authentic charts and tables.  The length of the paper should be controlled within 6,000 Chinese characters.

Authors are solely responsible for the content.  Academic misconduct such as plagiarism, impersonation, and patchwork is strictly prohibited.  Multiple submissions of the same manuscript are not allowed.  The review process typically takes one month from the date of receipt, after which the journal will notify authors of acceptance or rejection.

The editorial office follows standardized procedures to invite peer experts to review manuscripts and makes fair and impartial decisions based on the review conclusions.  Priority will be given to frontier research topics and projects sponsored by scientific funds.

The editorial office reserves the right to make technical and textual modifications to submissions.  Substantive content changes require the author's consent.

Strict confidentiality regulations must be adhered to.  When submitting, please include a "Confidentiality Review Certificate" stamped by the author's institution's confidentiality committee and a "Copyright Agreement" signed by the author.  Failure to do so will result in the rejection of the manuscript.

Open Access and Copyright

All articles published in this journal are immediately and permanently freely accessible to all readers on the journal's official website upon publication.  Readers are permitted to use, copy, and disseminate these articles in accordance with the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license agreement.

‌Creative Commons License‌

This journal adopts the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license, which allows third-party users to copy and disseminate open-access articles from this journal in any medium and format, provided they comply with the terms of the license.  The key terms of this license include:

Appropriate attribution must be given when copying or disseminating articles, with a link to the license and an indication of whether changes were made to the original article.

Attribution may be made in any reasonable manner, but must not suggest endorsement by the journal.

Articles may not be used for commercial purposes.

Modified versions of articles, created through remixing, transformation, or building upon the original, may not be distributed.

For more details on this license, please visit:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.zh‌

Publication of an article in this journal is considered as the author's agreement to transfer worldwide rights, including publishing, copying, distributing, translating, disseminating via information networks (including but not limited to indexing, searching, and citing on the internet), compiling, and sublicensing, to the editorial office of Navigation, Positioning & Timing for all language versions of the article.

Copyright belongs to the editorial office of Navigation, Positioning & Timing.  Authors must sign a Copyright Authorization Form upon submission, which can be downloaded from the Download Center on the journal's homepage.

Article Archiving and Advertising Policy

All articles published in our journal are digitally archived and can be downloaded from the journal's website.  In the event of the journal ceasing publication, past issues and articles can be accessed and downloaded from databases such as CNKI, Wanfang Data, and VIP.‌

Advertisements are primarily placed on the inside front and back covers of the print edition.  The content of advertisements is separate from academic articles and does not influence the editorial decision-making process regarding article acceptance.  Our journal bears no legal responsibility for the authenticity or legality of advertised content.  Any disputes or controversies arising from the content of advertisements shall be solely borne by the advertiser.

Regarding Confidentiality Clearance Procedures

‌Before Submission‌:

Authors are required to complete confidentiality review procedures prior to submission.  They may use their own organization's (or school's) template, stamp it with the official seal of the confidentiality department, and then upload the electronic version along with the submission documents.

‌During the Editing Phase‌:

Once the article is accepted and enters the editing phase, confidentiality procedures need to be conducted again.  It is recommended to use the template provided by the editorial department in the Download Center.

‌After Acceptance Notification‌:

Upon notification of article acceptance by the editor, authors should send the original copies of the two confidentiality clearance documents, along with three copies of the Copyright Authorization Form, to the editorial department.