New Requirements for Manuscript Submission

21 October 2025

The Renewable Energy and Smart Grid Technology (RAST) journal now requires all authors to include CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) and a Declaration of Competing Interests in their manuscripts.

CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy):
Authors must clearly specify each co-author’s contribution according to the 14 CRediT roles (e.g., Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, etc.).

Declaration of Competing Interests:
Authors must declare whether they have any financial or non-financial conflicts of interest related to their submitted work. If no conflicts exist, please include the statement:
“The authors declare no conflict of interest.”

For detailed instructions, please refer to the Author Guidelines:
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