SAE International is the professional society and standards body for mobility engineering - automotive, commercial vehicle, aerospace, and off-highway. Founded in 1905 as the Society of Automotive Engineers and headquartered in Warrendale, Pennsylvania, it is a non-profit society rather than a commercial publisher, and its output looks different from a typical STM press: 16 peer-reviewed scholarly journals sit alongside a very large body of technical papers and more than 50,000 engineering standards, all hosted on the SAE Mobilus platform.

If you work on engines, powertrain electrification, vehicle dynamics, connected and automated driving, fuels and lubricants, or aerospace systems, SAE is likely to be a venue you consider - and, just as often, a source you cite. This guide covers the three publication routes, open access and fees, peer review, and how to submit.

• Scholarly journals (16 titles). The SAE International Journal family includes the Journal of Engines, Journal of Aerospace, Journal of Fuels and Lubricants, Journal of Materials and Manufacturing, Journal of Commercial Vehicles, Journal of Alternative Powertrains, Journal of Transportation Safety, Journal of Passenger Vehicle Systems, Journal of Electrified Vehicles, Journal of Connected and Automated Vehicles, Journal of Vehicle Dynamics, Stability, and NVH, Journal of Transportation Cybersecurity and Privacy, and Journal of Advances and Current Practices in Mobility.
• Technical papers. SAE's best-known output. The Mobilus platform lists roughly 224,000 publications in total, of which about 140,000 are peer-reviewed technical papers and journal articles.
• Standards. More than 50,000 standards and recommended practices, including widely cited documents such as J3016 (levels of driving automation) and the AS/ARP aerospace series.
• Books and magazines. Several hundred engineering books, plus SAE's professional magazines.

SAE journals are hybrid: subscription by default, with an optional Gold open-access route.

• Gold OA. Authors (or their funders) pay an article publication charge after the paper is approved for public release. SAE does not publish a standard APC schedule on its open-access policy page - request the current fee from SAE's managing editor before you commit to this route.
• Licences. Gold OA articles may be published under CC BY, CC BY-NC, or CC BY-NC-ND; other licences are handled case by case.
• Green OA. Authors may self-archive the author accepted manuscript after a 6-month embargo.
• Funder compliance. SAE states that it complies with the open-access requirements of UKRI, Wellcome, and NIHR.
• Technical papers. These are priced separately from journal APCs; event papers are normally tied to author registration for the conference, so check the current call for papers.

Because SAE's fees are quoted rather than listed, treat any figure you find in a third-party source as unverified and confirm directly with SAE.

• Model: SAE journals use double-anonymized peer review. Author names and affiliations are collected at submission and must not appear in the manuscript file.
• Editorial route: papers are screened for scope and technical fit, then sent to subject-matter reviewers drawn largely from SAE's engineering community - a reviewer pool that skews more toward practising industry engineers than most academic journals.
• Technical papers are also peer reviewed, though against an applied-engineering bar rather than a novelty bar, which is why many SAE papers read as detailed test-and-measurement reports.
• Turnaround is not published as a portfolio-wide figure; event papers run to the conference deadline calendar, so plan backwards from the call for papers.

1. Pick the route - journal, event technical paper, or non-event technical paper. They have different calendars and different review expectations.
2. Check the journal's call for papers. SAE runs rolling and themed calls per title on sae.org.
3. Prepare the manuscript. MS Word is the preferred format. Strip identifying information for double-anonymized review, and follow SAE's technical paper style conventions, including SAE numbered citations.
4. Submit through Editorial Manager, SAE's online submission and peer-review system. You will need to register the first time.
5. Approve the copyright release at upload, and decide on the open-access option once the paper is accepted.

SAE content is indexed in Scopus (journal articles, technical papers, standards, and eBooks), Web of Science (journal articles), Ei Compendex, Inspec, TRID, Dimensions, and Google Scholar, and is discoverable through EBSCO Discovery Service and OCLC WorldCat Discovery. For engineering literature searches, SAE Mobilus itself remains the most complete index of the corpus.

SAE requires that submitted work be original, unpublished, and not under consideration elsewhere, with all authors aware of and consenting to the submission. Authorship, conflict-of-interest, and correction handling follow standard COPE-aligned publication-ethics practice. Because much SAE research is industry-funded, funding and sponsorship disclosure carries particular weight - state it plainly in the manuscript.