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Submission Preparation Checklist

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 is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

Aim and Scope

Computing and applied sciences (chemistry, physics, mathematics, biological sciences). Submissions covering interdisciplinary researches in basic and applied sciences with potentials for societal impact are encouraged.

Types of Submissions

Communication, full length original research papers, editorials (by invitations only), policy highlights/briefs (short communication from government or industry experts), and reviews.

Manuscript Preparation

There is no discrimination on the type of English adopted, but there should be consistency. Authors are encouraged to use SI unit system and be consistent throughout the texts. Trade names of chemicals should be accompanied with their IUPAC nomenclature (at least at first mention). At present, only MS Word files (.doc or .docx) are acceptable. Authors should ensure that mathematical equations and formulas are editable.

Manuscript Outline

Authors are free to adopt suitable outlines for reviews and policy highlights. Sections should be numbered. For original research papers, the following main sections should be included:

Title page: The title page should have the title of the manuscript, names and affiliations of the authors as well as the contacts (email, phone, fax, postal addresses, etc.) of the corresponding author. 

Title: Titles of manuscripts should be concise and meaningful. Titles should be limited to a maximum of 20 words and should give an overall description of the content of the manuscript. Titles should be in bold sentence case.
Abstract: Abstracts should be limited to 200 words for original research papers and 250 words for review papers.
Keywords: Keywords should be limited to 5 words or phrases, separated with semicolon.
Introduction: There is no limit to the length of the introductory section. However, it should provide background of the study and concludes with the objectives addressed in the manuscript.
Materials and Method: Details of the materials, equipment and methods used should be
described in the Materials and Method section.
Results and Discussion: Here, the findings of the work should be presented in form of figures and tables and discussed.
Conclusion: In this section, the authors should conclude the findings based on the objectives and results obtained from the study.

References: The IEEE referencing style should be used. Authors are encouraged to provide DOIs of published papers and use referencing software applications such as EndNote, Mendeley or Zotero. For webpage resources, complete URL and current date of access must be provided.

Author credit: Authors are encouraged to provide a short description of the contributions by all authors. Please refer to the CRediT taxonomy for details. Read more about author credit here: https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1210.

Conflict of interests’ statement: Authors must declare personal, financial relationships,
circumstances or interests that may be perceived to affect the representation or interpretation findings presented.

Funding information: Authors must provide funding information where applicable. Where there were no funding for the work, authors should write "None."
Acknowledgements: Contributors, collaborators and assistnce from external organizations should be acknowledged.

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