INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

BEFORE YOU BEGIN
Ethics in Publishing
Conflict of Interest
Changes To Authorship
Copyrights & Licensing
Open Access
Digital Archiving and Repository Policies
Article Processing Charges

PREPARATION
Language
Helpful Hints for Getting Published
Formatting Guidelines

HOW TO SUBMIT
Submission Checklist
Submission Declaration
Submit Your Paper

REVIEW PROCESS
Peer-Review Process

AFTER ACCEPTANCE
Early View
Offprint Copies & Discounted Subscriptions
Author Services

AUTHOR INQUIRIES

BEFORE YOU BEGIN

Ethics In Publishing

International Journal of Scientific and Statistical Computing (IJSSC) adhere the policies and principles recommended by Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

For information on ethics in publishing and ethical guidelines for journal publication, please refer to Publishing Ethics

Conflict of Interest

Authors are required to disclose possible conflict of interest including financial or personal (if any). IJSSC requires that sources of institutional, private and corporate financial support for the work within the manuscript must be fully acknowledged under the separate headings of 'Source of Funding' and 'Conflict of Interest' at the end of your manuscript. If author does not include a conflict of interest statement in the manuscript then it is assumed by default that there is no conflict of interest.

Changes To Authorship

A proper acknowledgement of the work should be given where applicable. Author should mention correct author names, their affiliation and primary author. Request to add or remove an author, or to rearrange the author sequence/order can also be made after acceptance.

Copyrights & Licensing

In CSC-OpenAccess environment, it is necessary to ensure a proper balance between the scholarly rights which authors retain and the rights granted to CSC Journals for review and publication purpose. While submitting the paper, authors should understand that their submission will be considered as Open Access submission (OAS) to which certain agreement policies will be applicable. For Open Access Publications (OAP), permitted reuse is defined through Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For more information, please refer to Copyrights & Licensing.

Open Access

IJSSC publications are open access and published under CSC-OpenAccess policy. All articles published under CSC-OpenAccess are immediately and permanently available for everyone to read and download. For more information, please refer to CSC-OpenAccess.

Digital Archiving and Repository Policy

As an open access journal, IJSSC allow its authors to self-archive their article right after the acceptance of their paper or after the final publication of their article. Moreover, IJSSC works closely with its authors to ensure that its publications are digitally and permanentaly archived and can be accessed despite any accidental loss of data in its personal archival records. Please refer to Digital archiving and repository preservation policies. to find more on how IJSSC digitally archive and preserve its publications at metadata level, article information level and preservation of published PDF files.

Article Processing Charges (APC)

IJSSC require authors to pay Article Processing Charges (APC) for open access publications. For more information about APC, publication choices, waiver requests, and withdrawal policy, please refer to Article Processing Charges (APC).

PREPARATION

Language

Author should understand that besides producing quality research work, it is important to present the work well and according to journal guidelines because a well presented work, free of grammatical mistakes, reflect correct meaning of what author intend to present. Please write your text in good English. If possible ask colleagues with good English-language skills and experience of writing scientific papers to read your manuscript and provide constructive feedback.

Helpful Hints For Getting Published

In order to assist authors properly, CSC Journals has created design guidelines and helpful hints on writing for publication & getting an article published in IJSSC. Please refer to Helpful Hints For Getting Published for more information and guidance to publish in IJSSC.

Formatting Guidelines

To ensure accuracy and to avoid production delays, we ask that author follow the formatting guidelines for manuscript preparation. These guidelines represent instructions for preparing all parts of manuscript. Manuscript Preparation Guidelines.

HOW TO SUBMIT

Submission Checklist

The submission into IJSSC require three files:

1. Cover Letter to Editor-in-Chief (EiC) explaining about your research, findings and recommendations to consider your manuscript for publication.
2. Manuscript File   (DOWNLOAD MANUSCRIPT TEMPLATE)
3. Submission Declaration Form   (DOWNLOAD)
These and other necessary files including Helvetica font can also be downloaded directly from Author Dashboard.

Submission Declaration

Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis, that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, that the submission is considered as Open Access Submission (OAS) under CSC-OpenAccess Policy, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, including electronically without the written consent of the copyright-holder.

Submit Your Paper

Author must register first and then submit the paper through 'Submit Manuscript' option available in Author Dashboard. Submission to IJSSC proceeds totally online and you will be guided stepwise through the creation and uploading of your files. Submissions by email are completely ignored and are not consider by IJSSC Editors.

Once the paper is submitted into IJSSC, all correspondence including notification of the Editor's decision and requests for revision takes place by e-mail removing the need for a paper trail.

To proceed with submission, first Login or Register as Author.

REVIEW PROCESS

Peer-Review Process

IJSSC has single blind peer-review process and take an average time of THREE (3) months from submission to final publication. For accurate dates, please refer to IJSSC Call For Papers.

Find more about IJSSC Peer-Review Process.

AFTER ACCEPTANCE

Early View & Proof Reading

Author should ensure that changes in the manuscript are made according to the review comments. Other information including authors & their affiliations, author sequence, keywords must be checked prior to camera ready submission (final version of updated manuscript).

When author submit the camera ready manuscript file, our production staff update the manuscript information accordingly and inform author to verify manuscript information and copyedited file through Early View.

Upon final confirmation from corresponding author, Early View manuscript is then directly published as Online Open Access Publication (OAP).

Offprint Copies & Discounted Subscriptions

According to the publishing agreement between an author and CSC Journals, IJSSC publications are made immediately and freely available online through CSC-OpenAccess Library.

The corresponding author is also entitled for ONE (1) free IJSSC printed issue copy in which he/she is publishing the paper. The free printed copy can be requested by paying only delivery charges of $50 along with the publication fee.

IJSSC authors enjoy a discount of 50% on each additional printed copy if the order is made at the time of publication.

For more information on author discounts on off-prints and subscriptions, please refer to Discounted Subscriptions For Authors.

Author Services

IJSSC provide several services to its authors to ensure the efficient and smooth execution of submission, peer-review, publication and all the steps in between that are needed for quality publication. A complete list of IJSSC services for authors can be accessed through Author Services.

AUTHOR INQUIRIES
You can track your paper at any time through you Author Dashboard.

IJSSC team provide fast reply to author inquiries. Please contact us at cscpress@cscjournals.org if you require any assistance or information about the journal.