Author Guidelines
The authors are requested to prepare their manuscripts as per the instructions/specifications given below. It should be noted that the review process is solely depend upon the significance of the work and the care used by authors to represent it, in the form of their manuscripts. Therefore, authors are strongly encouraged to read these instructions carefully before preparing/submitting their manuscript for publication.
Manuscript Submission
1. Submission implies that the manuscript has not been published previously, and is not currently submitted for publication elsewhere.
2. Submission also implies that the corresponding author has consent of all authors.
3. Whenever applicable, submissions must include the following elements: title, authors, affiliations, contacts, abstract, introduction, main text, conclusions, acknowledgement, references.
4. Upon acceptance for publication, author(s) will be requested to pay a mandatory publication charge.
5. Manuscripts should be written in English. Other languages will not be accepted.
6. All the papers should ideally not exceed 30 pages.
7. Authors may suggest 2-4 reviewers when submitting their works, by providing us with the reviewers' title, full name and contact information. The editor will decide whether the recommendations will be used or not. Please read our Publication Ethics before submitting.
Article submission implies author(s) agreement with this policy.
Revised and Final Version
Revised version should follow the same requirements as for the final version to format the paper, plus a short summary about the modification’s authors have made and author's response to reviewer's comments.
Authors are requested to use the Journal Style for preparing the final camera-ready version. An example paper is available. Template in MS word can also be downloaded. Authors are requested to strictly follow the guidelines specified in the template. Only PDF format, DOC and DOCX format is acceptable. The PDF document should be sent as an open file, i.e. without any data protection. Authors should submit their revised paper electronically to the Journal's submission address. Please always quote the paper ID in the submissions and any further enquiries.
Authors will receive the notification of acceptance by email from our Editor-in-Chief, with the guidelines of how to finalize the other publication procedures.
Copyright and Licensing
JCSAI publishes all articles under an open-access license, which means that the articles remain accessible to all without charge and without technical or legal barriers and that they can be reused with proper acknowledgment and citation. Financial support for the open access publication is provided by the authors’ institutions or by research funding agencies in the way of article processing charge (APC) once manuscripts have been accepted. More specifically, JCSAI publishes articles under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license. JCSAI is committed to open access publishing as a means to foster the exchange of research among scientists, especially across disciplines.
The copyright and other proprietary rights related to papers published by JCSAI are retained by the authors. If the authors reproduce any text, figures, tables, or illustrations from the papers published by JCSAI in their own future research, they must cite the originally published version. They are further asked to inform JCSAI’s editorial office of any exceptional circumstances in this regard at the time of submission, for which exceptions may be granted at the discretion of the publisher.
Articles published in JCSAI are likely to contain material republished with permission under a more restrictive license. When this situation arises, it should be indicated; it is the responsibility of the authors to seek permission for reuse from the copyright holder.
Article Processing Charge
All articles in Journal of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence are published in full Open Access. An article processing charge (APC) is applied to all accepted articles after peer review; authors are asked to pay 299 USD per processed paper for production cost and Open Access fees. The publication charges are mandatory.
Authors can order extra hard copies of the issue with a price of 100 USD for 1 hard copy. And the delivery will be free of charge.
Rejected articles are free of charge.
Please note that the article processing charge for each paper. There are no surcharges based on the length of an article, figures or supplementary data.
Discounts and Waivers
Automatic discounts are given to authors from low-income countries or lower-middle-income countries (classified by the world bank, learn more, click: https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/906519-world-bank-country-and-lending-groups).
Waivers may be considered on a case-by-case basis, taking into account the quality of the research article and the authors' financial need.