Guidelines/Author Guidelines
Guidelines for authors
Use these instructions if you are preparing a manuscript to submit to The Journal of Advanced Computing and Technology (JACT) .
(JACT) considers all manuscripts on the strict condition that:
1.the manuscript is your own original work, and does not duplicate any other previously published work, including your own previously published work;
2.the manuscript has been submitted only to The (JACT) .
3. it is not under consideration or peer review or accepted for publication or in press or published elsewhere.
4. the manuscript contains nothing that is abusive, defamatory, libelous, obscene, fraudulent, or illegal.
Please note that (JACT) uses CrossCheck software to screen manuscripts for unoriginal material. By submitting your manuscript to The (JACT) you are agreeing to any necessary originality checks your manuscript may have to undergo during the peer-review and production processes.
Submission checklist
Authors are invited to submit original research articles, review papers, and technical notes that align with the scope of the (JACT). All submissions must represent original work that has not been previously published or concurrently submitted elsewhere.
1.Read the Aims & Scope to gain an overview and assess if your manuscript is suitable for this journal.
2.Use the Word template for Title Page and Word template for Anonymized Document to prepare your manuscript.
3.Make sure that issues about publication ethics, copyright, authorship, figure formats, data and references format have been appropriately considered.
4.Ensure that all authors have approved the content of the submitted manuscript.
Manuscript preparation
1.Topic and content of the manuscript must fit the aims and scope of (JACT) .
2.Manuscripts are accepted only in English. British English spelling and punctuation is preferred. The language will be evaluated by our editors to decide if it is of sufficient quality. It is strongly recommended to have your manuscript checked by a native speaker
or an English language specialist before submission, in order to ensure that the language is acceptable.
3.The (JACT) has a strong preference for articles to be no more than 68000 words. In exceptional circumstances, however, the Editor handling the manuscript may be willing to agree some latitude here with the author. Inclusive of tables, references, figure captions, footnotes, endnotes, appendices, etc. Manuscripts that greatly exceed this will be critically reviewed with respect to length.
4.The structure of the manuscript should be organized as follows: title, author(s), affiliation(s), abstract, keywords, introduction, body text (the main text should include previous research on the subject, methodology and/or theoretical framework, results of the research, and discussion and interpretation of results obtained), acknowledgements(can be added if necessary), disclosure statement, references.
5.The title of the manuscript should not exceed 15 words.
6.Abstracts of 150 to 250 words are required for all manuscripts submitted.
7.Each manuscript should have 6 to 10 keywords.
8.Section headings should be concise and numbered sequentially, using a decimal system for subsections. Please note that Introduction, Conclusions and References should not be numbered.
9.All authors of a manuscript should include their full names, affiliations (department, faculty, university, etc.). One author should be identified as the corresponding author. Please give the affiliation where the research was conducted. If any of the named co- authors moves affiliation during the peer review process, the new affiliation can be given as a footnote. Please note that no changes to affiliation can be made after the manuscript is accepted. Please note that the email address of the corresponding author will normally be displayed in the article PDF and the online article.
10.All persons who have a reasonable claim to authorship must be named in the manuscript as co-authors; the corresponding author must be authorized by all co-authors to act as an agent on their behalf in all matters pertaining to publication of the manuscript, and the order of names should be agreed by all authors.
11.People who contributed to the work should be listed in the Acknowledgments, along with their contributions. You must ensure that anyone named in the acknowledgments agrees to being named.
12.Please supply all details required by any funding and grant-awarding bodies as Funding in a separate paragraph as follows:
13.For single agency grants This work was supported by the <Funding Agency> under Grant [number xxxx].
14.For multiple agency grants This work was supported by the <Funding Agency #1> under Grant [number xxxx]; <Funding Agency #2> under Grant [number xxxx]; and <Funding Agency #3> under Grant [number xxxx].
15.Authors must also incorporate a Disclosure statement which will acknowledge any financial, professional, personal interest or benefit they have arising from the direct applications of their research.
16.Acknowledgements, Funding, Disclosure statement, and Contribution should be provided in a separate file in order to ensure author anonymity. The information will be included in the manuscript after peer-review process.
17.For all manuscripts non-discriminatory language is mandatory. Sexist or racist terms must not be used.
18.Authors must adhere to SI units. Units are not italicized.
19.When using a word which is or is asserted to be a proprietary term or trade mark, authors must use the symbol or TM.
Figures and tables
Please be sure that all imported tables and figures are at the appropriate resolution:
1200dpi for line art, 600dpi for grayscale and 300dpi for color.
If the size of the final file is too large (more than 10MB), then the manuscript should
contain the figures with minimized resolution, and the original figures must be provided in separate files (formats are indicated below).
Figures and tables should follow the requirements: Tables: font Times New Roman 9pt, line thickness 0.5pt, file formats *.doc, *.docx. Photos and images: resolution no less than 300dpi, file formats *.jpg, *.tiff, *.gif, *.png, *.jpeg, *.bmp, *.svg.
Diagrams, charts and schemes: font Times New Roman from 5 to 8pt, line thickness from 0.3 to 2pt, file formats *.pdf, *.eps, *.cdr, *.xls, *.xlsx, *.dwg. The width of figures and tables should be either 8cm, or 14 16.5cm.
All figures and tables must be placed and cited in the text in consecutive numerical order.
They must be numbered in the order in which they appear in the manuscript (e.g. Fig.1,Fig.2). In multi-part figures, each part should be labelled (e.g. Fig.1a, Fig.1b).
The file name for a graphic should be descriptive of the graphic, e.g. Figure1, Figure2a,Table1, etc. Tables (refer with: Table1, Table2, etc.) should be presented as part of the text and should be editable.
Reference style
The (JACT) uses the IEEE reference style and the list of references should appear at the end of the paper.
Citations within the text
Before submitting the manuscript, please check each citation in the text against the References and vice-versa to ensure that they match exactly. Citations in the text should be formatted as follows: Smith (1990) or (Smith 1990), Smith et al. (1998) or (Smith et al. 1998) and (Smith et al. 1998, 2000, Brock and Gunderson 2001, Felt 2006).
References
It is important to format the references properly because all references will be linked electronically as completely as possible to the papers cited. It is desirable to add a DOI (digital object identifier) number for either the full-text or title and abstract of the article as an addition to traditional volume and page numbers. If a DOI is lacking, it is recommended to add a link to any online source of an article.
Published Papers
Lanine G, Vennet RV (2005) Failure prediction in the Russian bank sector with logit and trait recognition models: Working paper. Ghent University, Belgium.
Accepted Papers
Same as above, but “in press” appears instead the year in parentheses.
Electronic Journal Articles
Goddard JA, Molyneux PM, Wilson JOS (2004) Dynamics of growth and profitability in banking. Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 36 (6): 1069-1090.https://doi.org/10.1353/mcb.2005.0015
Paper within conference proceedings
Donohue P, Power N (2014) Linking career anchors and social cognitive frameworks: developing an interview instrument. In: SIGSIM-CPR ’14 Proceedings of the 52nd ACM conference on Computers and people research, Singapore, 29-31 May 2014.https://doi.org/10.1145/2599990.2600010
Book chapters
Hedge SP, Miller RE (1996) The informational role of debt and the pricing of initial public offerings. In: Levis M (Ed) Empirical issues in raising equity capital. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 151.174.
Books
Gujarati DN (2003) Basic econometrics. 4th ed. New York: McGrawHill.
Book with an institutional author
International Labour Organization (ILO) (2016) Labour overview of Latin America and the Caribbean.ILO, Lima.
PhD thesis
Gumanti TA (2000) Accounting information and the underpricing of Indonesian initial public offerings. PhDs Thesis, Australia: Edith Cowan University.
Link/URL
- ASEAN (2008) ASEAN Economic community blueprint http://asean.org/wp-content/uploads/archive/5187-10.pdf
- All journal titles should be spelt out completely and should NOT be italicized. Provide the publishers name and location when you cite symposia or conference proceedings; distinguish between the conference date and the publication date if both are given. Do not list abstracts or unpublished material in the References. They should be quoted in the text as personal observations, personal communications, or unpublished data, specifying the exact source, with a date if possible. When possible, include URLs for articles
Available online through library subscription or individual journal subscription, or through large international archives, indexes and aggregators, e.g., PubMed Central, Scopus, CAB Abstracts, etc. URLs for pdf articles that are posted on personal websites only should be avoided.