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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 or is not under consideration by another journal.
  •  The article is written in English language.
  •  The submission file is in Microsoft Word.
  •  The work has an even number of pages (from 8 to 24).
  •  The article includes: title, authors’ data, abstract, keywords, main text, bibliography.
  •  The submission includes author name(s) in lowercase and surnames in uppercase (e.g., Albert EINSTEIN, Marie SKLODOWSKA-CURIE, Wilhelm Conrad RONTGEN), affiliations, and contact information, including ORCID number.
  •  The abstract does not exceed 250 words nor contains references, briefly describes the aims, materials, methodology and main results and conclusions of the described research.
  •  The number of the keywords should be a minimum of 4-6 important nouns that capture the essence and describe the main topics of the research.
  •  The structure of the article should be as follows: Introduction – The Proposed Method/Algorithm (optional) – Method – Results and Discussion – Conclusion.
  •  All acknowledgments, including supporting grants, presentations etc., are placed at the very end of the paper before the references.
  •  If the AI and AI-assisted technology was used in the work, a proper declaration, providing the name of the tool/service and the reasons of using it, was made.
  •  If used in the work, AI was not credited as an author of the manuscript.
  •  All in-text citation are included in the reference list at the end of the paper and are prepared according to APA 7th style.
  •  The bibliography contain a minimum of 15 references, with at least 60% being journal papers. Please use tools such as Zotero, Mendeley, or EndNote for reference management and formatting.
  •  Units of measurement are presented simply and concisely using System International (SI) units.
  •  Authors of submitted manuscripts are aware of the publishing fees and if the article is accepted for publication – they will cover the fee.

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