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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

Carefully read the submission guidelines as follows:

A. General Requirements

The minimum standard requirements of International Journal of Soft Computing and Metaheuristics must be

  1. Written in English.
  2. The submitted paper is at least 12 pages and no more than 16 pages. Editors will evaluate if a paper needs more than 16 pages.
  3. Use a tool such as Zotero, Mendeley, or EndNote for reference management and formatting, and choose the IEEE style
  4. Make sure that your paper is prepared using the Template

B. Structure of The Manuscript

The manuscript must be prepared and suggested present following the structure:

  1. Title. The title of the paper should describe the research aims, method/model, and objective without Acronyms or abbreviations.
  2. Abstract. The Abstract has 230 to 250 WORDS; with No citation; the abstract states a primary objective, research design, methodology, main outcomes, results, and conclusions.
  3. Section structure. Authors are suggested to present their articles in the section structure: Introduction -  Method - Results and Discussion – Conclusion.
  4. References. Expect a minimum of 30 references primarily with a minimum of 80% to journal papers published between 2018 and 2022.

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  • They are authorized by their co-authors to enter into these arrangements.
  • The work described has not been formally published before, except as an abstract or as part of a published lecture, review, thesis, or overlay journal. Please also carefully read IJSCM's Posting Your Article Policy.
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  • The work has been approved by all the author(s) and by the responsible authorities – tacitly or explicitly – of the institutes where the work has been carried out.
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Authors who publish with the International Journal of Soft Computing and Metaheuristics agree to the following terms:

  1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY-SA 4.0) that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal. 
  2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.
  3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.

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