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 English grammar has been checked and typographical mistake must be avoided.
- Except for graphical abstract, all submission files are in Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) file format.
- The authors' name, authors' information, author's affiliation, authors' contribution, and acknowledgments should be provided in a separate document named as the Title Page to ensure the double-blind peer-review process.
- The manuscript has been checked by standard plagiarism software (Turnitin) and the similarity index of the manuscript is less than 20%. The editorial office will recheck the similarity index of the submitted manuscript.
- Cover letter to the editor-in-chief has been provided with highlights of the submitted manuscript. The highlights shall include the novelty and critical achievement of the present research work. The corresponding author should state "why the submitted manuscript shall be published in JICS".
- The abstract must be followed by the graphical abstract containing an image (artwork) with appropriate size with up to 9 x 5 cm (in jpeg 300 dpi) and a short description up to 80 words in Palatino Linotype with the font size of 8.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines. All figures, tables, and schemes should be included in the manuscript as one single file with a maximum size of 5 MB.
- The manuscript submission has been neither previously published nor under-reviewed in any other journals (this statement should be clearly stated in the cover letter to editor).
- Three (3) suggested reviewers have been provided in which they are not in the same institution and they have no research collaboration with the corresponding author for the last 3 years.
- When available, DOI of the references should be provided for references and the metadata requirement during the submission process.
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Submitted documents at "Article Components" are as follows:
1. MS-JICS in doc or docx extension as a main manuscript,
2. Title Page in doc or docx extension,
3. Cover Letter in doc or docx extension,
4. Suggested Reviewers in doc or docx extension, and
5. Graphical Abstract in picture file extensions.
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