Submissions

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.

• Articles in English are accepted for publication. The article must be presented in MS Word format.
• Abstract and keywords:
  After the title of the article must be presented an abstract in English and keywords.
  
  Requirements for the abstract and keywords:
  - The abstract must be at least 1800 characters including spaces.
  - The abstract must be no more than 1900 characters including spaces.
  - There should be no more than 10 keywords.
  - The abstract and keywords must not contain abbreviations that are understandable only within the context of the article.
  
• Each article is accompanied by an extended abstract in English and Ukrainian. The Ukrainian abstract is placed at the end of the article file on separate pages and must include the following main elements:
  
  1. UDC (Universal Decimal Classification)
  2. Article title
  3. Text of the abstract, from 1800 to 1900 characters including spaces, which matches the English abstract at the beginning of the article
  4. Lists of keywords (in Ukrainian), which match the keywords in English and do not contain abbreviations understandable only within the context of the article
  5. Author information (in Ukrainian and English): position, academic degree, place of work, research interests, contact address, phone number, and e-mail, as well as ORCID, ScopusID, and ResearcherID identifiers (if available)
• Article Formatting:
  Page format - A4.
  Minimum number of pages – 15 (approximately 60,000 characters including spaces; for reference, this corresponds to about 15 pages of text with a 12 pt font size).
  Article language: English
  
  Special symbols and formulas should be created using equation editors like Mathtype or Microsoft Equation and the Symbol and MT Extra fonts
  
  The list of references is to be prepared in English, and citations from Ukrainian and other Slavic sources should be transliterated into Latin characters, with the author ensuring the absence of Cyrillic letters in the English text using a dedicated website http://invitemsg.com/cyrillic_search.php.
  
  The editorial board of the ICIS journal has chosen the IEEE style for the formatting of scientific articles.
  
  Examples of formatting the bibliography according to the international IEEE Citation Style in the Ukrainian language .
  
  Further information can be found at the following links:
  
  IEEE Editorial Style Manual For Authors
  IEEE Editorial Style Manual For Authors. IEEE Publishing Operations 445 Hoes Lane Piscataway, NJ 08854 USA Updated 20 June 2023. Available: IEEE Editorial Style Manual for Authors.pdf. Accessed on: 20, June 2023.
  
  IEEE Reference Guide
  IEEE Reference Guide. IEEE Publishing Operations 445 Hoes Lane Piscataway, NJ 08854 USA Updated 12 August 2022. Available: IEEE Reference Guide.pdf. Accessed on: 12 August 2022.
  
  Materials submitted for publication in incomplete or non-compliant formats, as specified by these requirements, WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED
• Structure of the article
  
  The requirements for the structure of papers in the IC&IS journal are provided in the document Publication Guidelines file.
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  Further information that organize a typical IEEE journal article can be found at the following links:
  href="https://journals.ieeeauthorcenter.ieee.org/create-your-ieee-journal-article/create-the-text-of-your-article/structure-your-article/" target="_new">Structure IEEE Article .
  
• The Author confirms:
  - that the submitted work has not been previously published (except in the form of an abstract, part of a published lecture, review, or dissertation);
  - that it is not under consideration for publication in other journals;
  - that it has been approved for publication by all co-authors;
  - that it has been approved for publication by the institution or responsible organization where it was conducted.
  
  The Author guarantees that his/her article is original, and he/she is authorized by co-authors to make such a transfer.
  
  Copyright of manuscripts is retained by the authors, after which the authors of the publication retain the right to reuse their articles in their future printed works without prior permission from the journal publisher and to submit their own published articles.
• The article is free from plagiarism.