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Author Guidelines
Authors must prepare manuscripts in accordance with the journal’s scientific, engineering, ethical, and formatting requirements.
A standard research article should normally contain:
- Title;
- Author Name(s);
- Institutional Affiliation(s);
- Corresponding Author;
- ORCID, where available;
- Abstract;
- Keywords;
- Introduction;
- Related Work or Literature Review;
- Materials and Methods / Research Method;
- System Design / Proposed Method, where relevant;
- Experimental Setup / Implementation, where relevant;
- Results;
- Discussion;
- Sustainability or Engineering Implications, where relevant;
- Limitations;
- Conclusion;
- Acknowledgments;
- Funding Statement;
- Conflict of Interest Statement;
- Author Contribution Statement;
- Data Availability Statement, where applicable; and
Authors must:
- clearly define the research problem;
- state the novelty and contribution;
- apply appropriate methodology;
- provide adequate validation;
- present appropriate comparisons;
- report results accurately;
- acknowledge limitations;
- ensure conclusions are supported by evidence;
- provide accurate references; and
- comply with publication ethics.
For AI, machine-learning, or algorithmic research, manuscripts should provide appropriate evaluation metrics and baseline comparisons.
For engineering prototypes, manuscripts should explain design requirements, system architecture, implementation, testing, performance evaluation, and practical limitations.
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