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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

GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS

Submission of manuscripts on subjects with relevance to the journal is welcomed but not limited to the two issues per year (June and December). Upon request to the editorial team members, the journal may publish issues that will complement the two issues each year. The submission should adhere to our guidelines in the template. Download manuscript template here.

The manuscripts are preferably written in English but when written in another language (Eg: Malay), provision of the English title, abstract and keywords are compulsory.

Manuscripts are accepted on the understanding that they have not been and will not be published elsewhere. All submissions will be peer-reviewed. The editors have the final decision on publication. Accepted manuscripts become the copyright of the journal. The journal published all manuscripts with an e-ISSN number.


Peer Review Guidelines

All submitted articles are subject to assessment and peer review to ensure editorial appropriateness and technical correctness. In order for an article to be accepted for publication, the assigned Editor will first consider if the manuscript meets minimum editorial standards and fits within the scope of the journal. If an article is within scope, then the Editor will ideally solicit at least two external peer reviewers (whose identities will remain anonymous to the authors) to assess the article before confirming a decision to accept. Decisions to reject are at the discretion of the Editor.

Our Research Integrity team will occasionally seek advice outside standard peer review, for example, on submissions with serious ethical, security, biosecurity, or societal implications. We may consult experts and the academic editor before deciding on appropriate actions, including but not limited to: recruiting reviewers with specific expertise, assessment by additional editors, and declining to further consider a submission.

Referees

Please read the requirements for submitting reviewers thoroughly and completely before preparing an appropriate list of referees to submit online with your manuscript. Failure to meet the requirements will result in the rejection of your article.


REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMITTING REVIEWERS

(1) Please prepare a list of 3 (three) proposed reviewers. You MUST include Full Names, Department, University, Country and Email Addresses for each proposed reviewer. It should be a globally geographically diverse list of potential reviewers; there should be no more than two suggested referees from any particular area/region/country. If you, or any of your co-authors, have submitted to our offices previously, to any of our journals, please note that you must have a different list of reviewers for each manuscript submitted. All proposed reviewers MUST be fluent in English to ensure the integrity of each review and the correct processing of all manuscripts.

(2) Author(s) may download suggested potential reviewers form here. Fill in and submit together with your manuscript.

(3) Proposed reviewers MUST BE knowledgeable in your area of research and these reviewers should not be persons with whom any of the authors have in the past or currently have a personal/working/professional relationship (i.e., instructors, co-workers, advisors, students, former co-authors, etc.).

(4) Reviewers MUST NOT be a member of our Journals’ Journal of Mathematical Sciences and Informatics Editorial Boards.


Article Processing Charges

There are no Article Processing Charges (APC) for publication in JMSI. The journal is Open Access that allows the publisher to make articles immediately available online to anyone to read and reuse upon publication.     


Preparation of Manuscripts

JMSI accepts research/original article and review articles. All manuscripts should adhere to the scope and policy of JMSI and should relate to mathematical sciences, computer sciences and informatics.

Manuscripts should be typed (with a wide margin and 1.5 lines spacing, Calibri (Font 12) on one side of A4 (30 x 21 cm) paper. A full-length research paper is between 8,000 to 15,000 words, a review paper may range between 8,000 to 20,000 words. For special purposes, such as distinguishing source code text or Mathematical equation, please use a 12-point italic Cambria Math font. Right margins should be justified, not ragged.

In the text, scientific names should be italicised. In general, manuscripts should be organized in the following order:

Research/Original Article

Title (should be clear, descriptive and concise)

Name of authors

Complete postal address of affiliations

E-mail address of the corresponding author

Abstract

Keywords (indexing terms): 4-5 items

Introduction

Material studied, area descriptions, methods and techniques

Results and discussion

Conclusion

Conflict of interests

Acknowledgements (additional information concerning research grants)

References


Review Article (It does not have a method or result section, no study to describe & no data to be analysed)

Title (should be clear, descriptive and concise)

Introduction (where the topic or problem is introduced & previous research is described)

Discussion (main points are discussed)

Conclusion (article’s strengths & weaknesses)

References


Language (usage and editing services)

Please write your text in good English (American or British usage is accepted, but not a mixture of these). Authors who feel their English language manuscript may require editing to eliminate possible grammatical or spelling errors and to conform to correct scientific English may wish to use the English Language Editing service.
The manuscript written in a good Malay version is acceptable. Authors may download the manuscript template for the Malay version here. Title, abstract, and keywords should be written in bilingual.

 

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Publication Ethics

PUBLICATION ETHICS AND MALPRACTICE STATEMENT

Journal of Mathematical Sciences and Informatics (JMSI) is dedicated to follow the best practices on ethical matters, errors and retractions. The prevention of publication malpractice is one of the important responsibilities of the editorial board. Any kind of unethical behaviour is not acceptable, and the Editorial Board of this journal does not tolerate plagiarism in any form. Authors submitting articles to the JMSI affirm that manuscript contents are original.

The following duties outlined for the editors, reviewers, and authors are based on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) codes of conduct.


DUTIES OF EDITORS/ASSOCIATE EDITORS

  1. The Editors/Associate Editors are responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published;
  2. The Editors/Associate Editors may discuss with other editors or reviewers in making a decision;
  3. The Editors/Associate Editors evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors;
  4. The Editors/Associate Editors must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate;
  5. The Editors/Associate Editors should ensure a fair and appropriate peer review process;
  6. Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used by anyone who has a view of the manuscript in his or her own research without the express written consent of the author;
  7. The Editors/Associate Editors should guard the integrity of the published record by issuing corrections and retractions when needed and pursuing suspected or alleged research and publication misconduct.

 

DUTIES OF REVIEWERS

  1. Information regarding manuscripts submitted by authors should be kept confidential and be treated as privileged information;
  2. Reviews should be conducted objectively. There shall be no personal criticism of the author. Reviewers should express their views clearly with supporting arguments;
  3. Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that had been previously reported elsewhere should be accompanied by the relevant citation;
  4. Reviewers should request to the Editors attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge;
  5. In case, any reviewer feels that it is not possible for him/her to complete review of manuscript within stipulated time then the same must be communicated to the editors, so that the same could be sent to any other reviewer;
  6. Reviewers should not review manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

 

DUTIES OF AUTHORS

  1. The Authors should submit papers only on work that has been conducted in an ethical and responsible manner and that complies with all relevant legislation;
  2. The Authors present their results clearly, honestly, and without fabrication, falsification or inappropriate data manipulation;
  3. The Authors should endeavour to describe their methods clearly and unambiguously so that their findings can be confirmed by others;
  4. The Authors should adhere to publication requirements that submitted work is original, is not plagiarized, and has not been published elsewhere;
  5. The Authors must certify that the manuscript is not currently being considered for publication elsewhere;
  6. The Authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others this must be appropriately cited;
  7. The Authors should take collective responsibility for submitted and published work;
  8. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Duplicitous or expressively inaccurate statements constitute unethical behaviour and are unacceptable.
  9. Proper acknowledgements of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work;
  10. The Authors should ensure that the authorship accurately reflects individuals’ contributions to the work and its reporting; and where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged;
  11. The Authors should disclose relevant funding sources and any existing or potential conflicts of interest. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed;

When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editors and the editor to retract or correct the paper.