Information For Authors
Interested in submitting to this journal? We recommend that you review the About the Journal page for the journal's section policies, as well as the Author Guidelines. Authors need to register with the journal prior to submitting or, if already registered, can simply log in and begin the five-step process.
Document format
The journal accepts both word and LaTEX documents that contain title, abstract, keywords, section headings, references, and appendixes. Schemes, Figures, and Tables are also part of the manuscript.
Microsoft word guidelines: There is no specific template to follow when preparing the manuscripts using Microsoft, LibreOffice or any word processingsoftware. However, the author needs to make sure that the fonts are prepared with 12 pt and 1.5 spacing, justified and the heading levels and sections are clearly defined.
(La)TeX preparation guidelines: Submission of LaTex files are highly encouraged. The journal has its own standardized LaTeX template that can be downloaded from the journal website or it can be accessed from Overleaf should the authors be interested in writing in an online environment. It is important to include all .bib or .bst files used when creating the articles.
Frontmatter of paper: This section contains the title of the article, short title, author(s) names and affiliations or address(s) of associated institutions where the work was carried out and the corresponding author. All these are mandatory for the manuscript to be accepted for publication. The short title is an abbreviated version of the article title and it should be 50 characters or fewer, including spaces that appear at the top of every page of the paper. Published articles may also use
short titles to identify the article for the reader at a glance.
Author names and affiliations: Many articles are authored by multiples of authors because of the growing list of collaborative research projects. These multi-author projects raise the question regarding the order of the authors in research manuscripts and the impact an author list has on the perceptions of the readers. It is, therefore, advisable to order the authors based on their relative contributions. In theory, all authors are equally important to complete the project successfully and should be credited equally, however, due to customs and other practical reasons, some authors are more visible than others. The advisable order of the manuscript for this journal is: The "first author": first author position has more visibility than the others because of various citation rules. In most citations,
it is the first author’s name that is visible, the other names are simply stated as "et al". This is the reason why most readers associate the first author with someone having more importance.
Author for correspondence: The author's correspondence should contain the addresses of the corresponding author. It may contain the physical address of the corresponding address, email and postal addresses.
Abstract: The abstract is a summary of the contents of the article; it should give enough information to make the reader fully understand the article. This is the reason why it needs to be concise. This section highlights the main points of the
article, outlines the methodology followed, results and conclusions and elucidates the significance of the results. It is advisable to avoid citations in the abstract. Citations for the paper’s sources normally appear in the body of the paper.
Keywords: keywords are essential during the submission of the paper. The author needs to make sure he/she uses the same English writing format for the spellings, that is American spelling or British spelling. Avoid plural and general terms and multiple concepts (e.g., avoid “and”, “of”). Only abbreviations firmly established in the field are legible, otherwise, avoid abbreviations. The purpose of the keywords is for indexing reasons.
Abbreviations: Abbreviations that are not standard to the field need to be defined in a footnote and to be placed on the first page of the article. If there are avoidable abbreviations in the abstract, they must be defined at their first mention in the
abstract, as well as in the footnote. It is advisable to make sure the abbreviation styles are consistent throughout the article.
Footnotes: Sometimes footnotes are essential. It is advisable to number them consecutively throughout the article, using superscript Arabic numbers. Many word processors build footnotes into the text, and this feature may be used. If this
is not the case, indicate the position of the footnotes in the text and present the footnotes themselves separately at the end of the article. It is not acceptable to include footnotes in the References list.
Introduction: In the introduction section the authors are expected to present the aim of the research performed to the readers and attract their attention. It should provide the general topic of the article based on the current literature. This
literature review is used to identify the problem and paves the way for the disclosure of the objectives of the manuscript. Once the problems are identified and references are discussed in detail, it should provide recommendations for solutions, indicating the aim of the current research. These are the steps required to track the problem, and its solution from the perspectives of the reader. Otherwise, it is quite difficult to attract the attention of the reader with inadequately written articles.
Materials and methods: In the materials and methods section, the author/s must present the materials and techniques used to achieve the research objectives. The materials of the research include the computational resources, imageries, equipment and lab instruments used for the study. Methods include the datasets, models, computational scripts, modules, statistical and numerical techniques employed for the research study.
Results and discussion: Authors must notify the main findings of the research, providing a clear explanation of their significance and relevance. Its writing should be clear and concise to attract the attention of the reader and conveys the intended message accurately.
Conclusion/s: This section summarizes the paper in a short concluding paragraph. It presents the challenges that arise because of the study, suggests and recommends for future study.
Acknowledgment/s: This section should contain a precise and short acknowledgment text. The author needs to acknowledge the funding organization, data and model sources, colleagues and computational platform providers.
Figures, tables and schemes: There should be no spelling errors in the artwork of the figures. All the figures and tables should be numbered and suitably referenced in the text at their appropriate description, e.g., Figure 1 and Tables 1 and 3. The caption of a figure must appear below the graphic while the caption of tables must be above the table.
References: This section contains abbreviated alphanumeric expressions embedded in the body of an intellectual work that denotes an entry in the bibliographic references section of the work. The purpose of this is to acknowledge the relevance of the works of others to the topic of discussion at the spot where the citation appears.
References to cited literature in the text should be given in the form of an author’s surname and the year of publication of the paper with the addition of a letter for references to several publications of the author in the same year. For two authors,
the surnames are separated by the conjunction “and”; for three or more coauthors, only the first surname is given with the addition of et al. It is desirable to include surnames in the text of a sentence; when this is not possible, they should be given
in parentheses.
The cited literature is given under the title REFERENCES at the end of the paper in alphabetical order of the surname of the first author. For articles with more than eight authors, the surnames and initials of the first eight authors separated by a comma with the addition of et al. are given in a reference. The abbreviated name of the journal in the CASSI system of abbreviations is given, followed by the volume and the first page of publication after a comma, as well as the year of publication in parentheses. For books, the surname(s) and initials of the author(s) or editor(s) (if it is a collection of works), the full title of the book, and, in
parentheses, the publisher, city, and year of publication should be given. In references to papers published in conference proceedings, the conference name and then, in parentheses, editors, publisher, city, year of publication, and its first page should be given. The following examples illustrate the format:
A) Journal Articles:
1. Author 1, G.H and Author 2, I.J. Title of the article. Journal Name Year, Volume, page range.
B) Books and Book Chapters:
2. Author 1, A. and Author 2, B. Book Title, 2nd ed.; Publisher: Publisher Location, Country, Year; pp. 1-10.
3. Author 1, A. and Author 2, B. Title of the chapter. In Book Title, 2nd ed.; Editor 1, A., Editor 2, B., Eds.; Publisher: Publisher Location, Country, Year; Volume 10, pp. 56-70.
C) Conference Proceedings:
4. Author 1, C.D; Author 2, E.F. and Author 3, G.H. Title of Presentation. In Proceedings of the Name of the Conference, Location of Conference, Country, Date of Conference; Editor 1, Editor 2; Publisher: City, Country, Year (if available).
Appendix: If there is an appendix, place it after the References. If there is more than one appendix, add a letter after “Appendix”, e.g., Appendix A, Appendix B, etc.
