Author Guidelines

To the Authors, please read this section carefully before making a submission. More detailed information should be available at this link.

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines:

The submission has not been previously published, nor it is submitted for another publication.
The manuscript has been formatted according to the template.
The manuscript should be within six to ten pages, including figures, tables, references, and appendices, after being formatted in our template.
Make sure you have proofread your manuscript. Also, all sentences in images and tables should be translated into English or explained in English.
All references are properly cited and included in the Bibliography.
All tables and/or figures are cited in the manuscript.
Starting May 2022, the paper should have at least twenty references and must contain at least 80% publications from journals, conference papers, or thesis/dissertations, published in the last five years. References from blogs and citizen-journalisms are not acceptable.
All authors should be properly stated, complete with their affiliation and email address. At least one author’s ORCID ID must be stated.
Additionally, it is recommended to check the similarity score of your paper. Please remove all author(s) and their identifications (such as email address, ORCID ID, etc.), headers and footer before checking the similarity score. The journal uses iThenticate for similarity checking, and any manuscript with a high similarity score (more than 30%) will not be accepted.

Manuscript Preparation

The manuscript should be written in English that is clear, concise, and grammatically correct. It is recommended that you have colleagues examine your work before submitting it to ensure that it is of good quality and adheres to a high standard of scientific writing.

Order of Manuscript

The manuscript should be presented in the following order.

Title

This should contain the title of the contribution and the names, institution, and addresses of the authors. The e-mail address of the author who will receive correspondence and check the proofs should be included.

Abstract and Keywords

The abstract must be a concise yet comprehensive reflection of what is in your article. The abstract must be written in English in a single paragraph. The abstract must contain a brief introduction, clear problem statement, methods, results, and conclusions, no more than 250 words. The abstract should not contain displayed mathematical equations abbreviations, footnotes, or references. It is important to avoid over-repetition of such phrases. Ensure that your abstract reads well and is grammatically correct.

Keywords should contain no more than five words or phrases. Be very specific with keywords.

Introduction

The introduction describes a brief background of the research, novelty, state of the arts, and objectives. It should be written efficiently and supported by references. An extensive discussion of relevant works of literature should be included in the discussion, not in the introduction.

Materials and Methods

This section contains all the details (materials, methods, procedures) about how the authors conducted the study. Depending on the study, you may change the section name to provide a better representation of the content. The following list provides what should be presented in this section.

Overview of the experiment
Population and sampling method
Location of the experiment
Materials
Statistical treatment
System architecture
Network architecture

Results and Discussion

Data should be presented in Tables or Figures when feasible. There should be no duplication of data in Tables and Figures.

Conclusion

The discussion should be consistent and should interpret the results clearly and concisely, address the problem and the result, supported with suitable works of literature. The discussion should show relevance between the results and the field of investigation and/or hypotheses. Describe the impacts that can be derived from the conclusion.

Bibliography

The journal uses IEEE style reference. All references must be cited at least once. You can set the style in Ms. Word under the “Citation & Bibliography” menu. We recommend using the build-in Ms. Word feature to add a reference (using “Insert Citation > Add New Source” menu), manage the references (using “Manage Sources” menu), adding a citation (using “Insert Citation” menu) and automatically generate the list of references (using “Bibliography” menu).

References must contain at least 60% publications from journals, conference papers, or thesis/dissertations, and must be in the last ten years. References from blogs and citizen-journalisms are not acceptable.

The template will number citations consecutively within brackets ‘[‘and‘]’. The sentence punctuation follows the brackets. Simply refers to the reference number, for example ‘ [1]’—do not use ‘Ref. [1]’ or ‘reference [1]’ except at the beginning of a sentence: ‘Reference [1] was the first . . .’

Unless there are six authors or more give all authors' names; do not use “et al.”. Papers that have not been published, even if they have been submitted for publication, should be cited as ‘unpublished’. Papers that have been accepted for publication should be cited as ‘in press’. For papers published in translation journals, please give the English citation first, followed by the original foreign-language citation.

Author name must be properly written. Reference is written using capitalization from each word, not all caps. Capitalize only the first word in a paper title, except for proper nouns and element symbols. Below are some examples of references.