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Author Guidelines

Prospective authors are encouraged to review the About the Journal page, including the journal's aims and scope and section policies, before preparing and submitting a manuscript. Authors should ensure that their submission is relevant to the journal, complies with applicable ethical and editorial requirements, and has been prepared in accordance with these Author Guidelines.
 
New authors are required to register with the journal before submitting a manuscript. Authors who already have an account may log in and proceed through the online submission workflow. Complete and accurate manuscript metadata, author information, affiliations, and corresponding-author details should be provided during submission.
 
All submissions undergo an initial editorial screening to assess relevance to the journal, originality, scholarly quality, methodological soundness, ethical compliance, clarity of presentation, and adherence to submission requirements. Manuscripts that satisfy the initial screening requirements are normally sent for single-blind peer review by appropriately qualified independent reviewers.
 
Authors are responsible for ensuring that submitted manuscripts are original, have not been published previously in substantially the same form, are not simultaneously under consideration by another journal, and comply with applicable research and publication ethics requirements.
 
 
1. Scope and Suitability
 
Authors should ensure that their manuscript falls within the aims and scope of the journal.
 
Manuscripts should present a clear scholarly contribution and address relevant research questions, problems, methodologies, analyses, applications, systems, models, theoretical developments, empirical findings, or reviews appropriate to the journal.
 
Manuscripts that are clearly outside the journal's scope may be declined during initial editorial screening.
 
 
2. Types of Manuscripts
 
The journal primarily considers the following types of scholarly contributions:
 
• Research Articles
• Review Articles
• Technical or methodological studies, where appropriate
• Case studies, where appropriate
• Other focused scholarly contributions considered suitable by the editorial team
 
Authors should consult the journal's section policies for any journal-specific article categories and requirements.
 
3. Manuscript Preparation
 
a. Language
 
The journal accepts submissions in English.
 
Manuscripts should be written in clear, professional, and academically appropriate English. Authors are responsible for ensuring that grammar, terminology, spelling, and presentation have been carefully checked before submission.
 
b. Initial Submission Format
 
Initial manuscripts may be submitted in Microsoft Word, PDF, or LaTeX format.
 
Upon acceptance, the editorial team will request the corresponding editable Microsoft Word or LaTeX source files for copyediting, typesetting, and final production.
 
 
c. General Manuscript Preparation
 
Manuscripts should be organized in a clear and logical academic structure.
 
Authors should ensure that:
 
• The research problem and objectives are clearly stated.
• The methodology, theoretical framework, or analytical approach is adequately described.
• Results or findings are presented accurately and objectively.
• Claims are supported by appropriate evidence.
• The discussion is linked to the reported findings and relevant literature.
• Conclusions accurately reflect the results and scholarly contribution of the work.
• Figures, tables, equations, references, and supplementary materials are correctly cited.
• Terminology, abbreviations, symbols, units, and formatting are used consistently throughout the manuscript.
 
 
4. Title Page and Author Information
 
The submission should include complete and accurate author information, including:
 
• Full manuscript title
• Full names of all authors
• Institutional affiliations
• Department, institution, city, and country, where applicable
• Email address of the corresponding author
• ORCID identifiers, where available
 
The journal follows a single-blind peer-review process.
 
Under this model, reviewers are informed of the identities and affiliations of the authors, while reviewer identities remain confidential and are not disclosed to the authors.
 
Authors are therefore not required to remove their names, affiliations, email addresses, acknowledgments, or other identifying information from manuscripts submitted for peer review.
 
 
5. Title, Abstract and Keywords
 
The title should be concise, informative, and representative of the principal contribution of the manuscript.
 
The abstract should clearly summarize, where applicable:
 
• Research context or problem
• Objective
• Methodology or approach
• Key results or findings
• Principal conclusion
• Significance or contribution of the work
 
Authors should provide appropriate keywords representing the principal subjects, methods, concepts, technologies, populations, or applications addressed in the manuscript.
 
 
6. Recommended Manuscript Structure
 
Research Articles should normally include sections such as:
 
• Introduction
• Literature Review / Related Work, where appropriate
• Methodology / Materials and Methods / Theoretical Framework / System Model
• Experimental Setup, Data Collection, or Implementation, where applicable
• Results / Findings
• Discussion
• Conclusion
• Declarations
• References
 
The exact structure may vary depending on the discipline, research design, and type of manuscript.
 
Review Articles may use an appropriate systematic, structured, critical, narrative, integrative, or other recognized review approach depending on the nature of the work.
 
 
7. Figures and Illustrations
 
Figures should be clear, legible, accurate, and suitable for electronic publication.
 
Each figure should:
 
• Be numbered sequentially.
• Be cited in the manuscript text.
• Have an informative caption.
• Contain readable labels, legends, axes, and units where applicable.
• Maintain appropriate image quality and aspect ratio.
 
Composite figures should use clearly identified panel labels such as (a), (b), and (c).
 
Raster figures should normally be supplied at approximately 300 dpi or higher where publication-quality resolution is required.
 
 
8. Tables
 
Tables should be numbered sequentially and cited in the manuscript text.
 
Each table should have a clear title or caption, appropriate column headings, and clearly identified units where applicable.
 
Tables should preferably be submitted as editable text rather than images.
 
 
9. Equations, Symbols and Units
 
Mathematical expressions should be presented clearly and consistently.
 
Important equations should be numbered where they are referred to in the manuscript.
 
Variables, symbols, and abbreviations should be defined at first use.
 
Standard scientific notation and SI units are recommended where appropriate.
 
 
10. References and Citations
 
References must be accurate, complete, relevant, academically appropriate, and traceable.
 
Authors are responsible for verifying all references before submission.
 
Krrish Scientific Publications journals follow a numeric/Vancouver-style citation and reference system. References should normally be numbered according to the order in which they first appear in the manuscript.
 
Examples of in-text citations:
 
• A previous study reported similar findings [1].
• Related investigations have been reported in [2], [3].
• Several studies have examined this problem [4]–[7].
• Chan [1] reported that ...
• Chan and Xiao [2] demonstrated that ...
• Le et al. [3] observed that ...
 
The reference list should:
 
• Include only sources cited in the manuscript.
• Number references according to the order of first citation.
• Include complete bibliographic information.
• Include DOI information wherever available.
• Include reliable or persistent URLs where appropriate.
• Use academically appropriate and traceable sources.
 
Excessive self-citation, irrelevant citation, coercive citation, fabricated references, and citation manipulation are not acceptable.
 
 
11. Authorship and Contributions
 
Authorship should be limited to individuals who have made substantial scholarly contributions to the work and who accept responsibility for the published article.
 
All authors must approve the submitted manuscript and agree to its publication.
 
The journal encourages the use of the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT), where appropriate, to describe individual author contributions.
 
Gift authorship, honorary authorship, guest authorship, ghost authorship, and other misleading authorship practices are not permitted.
 
 
12. Conflict of Interest
 
Authors must disclose any actual or potential financial, professional, institutional, personal, or other competing interests that could influence, or reasonably be perceived to influence, the research, analysis, interpretation, or publication of the manuscript.
 
Where no conflict exists, authors may state:
 
Conflicts of Interest: The authors declare no conflict of interest.
 
 
13. Funding Statement
 
Authors must disclose all financial or material support associated with the research.
 
Where funding was received, authors may state:
 
Funding: This research was supported by [funding agency/institution] under grant number [grant number].
 
Where no external funding was received, authors may state:
 
Funding: This research received no external funding.
 
 
14. Data Availability Statement
 
Authors are encouraged to provide a Data Availability Statement where relevant.
 
Examples include:
 
• Data are publicly available in a recognized repository.
• Data are included within the article or supplementary materials.
• Data are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
• Data are restricted for ethical, privacy, confidentiality, legal, or contractual reasons.
 
Where data cannot be shared publicly, authors should provide an appropriate explanation.
 
 
15. Research Ethics
 
Research involving human participants, animals, sensitive personal information, or other ethically regulated activities must comply with applicable institutional, national, and professional ethical requirements.
 
Where required, authors must obtain appropriate ethical approval before conducting the research and provide the approval details in the manuscript.
 
Informed consent must be obtained where applicable.
 
 
16. Generative AI and AI-Assisted Technologies
 
Authors remain fully responsible for all content submitted to the journal, including material prepared with generative AI or other AI-assisted technologies.
 
Generative AI tools cannot be listed as authors or co-authors.
 
Substantial use of generative AI or AI-assisted technologies for manuscript preparation, translation, code generation, analysis, image generation, data processing, or other scholarly activities should be appropriately disclosed where relevant.
 
Authors must independently verify AI-assisted content, including references, quotations, equations, code, calculations, factual statements, results, and interpretations.
 
AI tools must not be used to fabricate data, generate false references, conceal plagiarism, falsify results, or create misleading evidence.
 
 
17. Originality and Plagiarism
 
Manuscripts submitted to the journal must represent original scholarly work.
 
The journal does not accept plagiarism, inappropriate textual reuse, duplicate publication, fabrication, falsification, manipulated data, fraudulent authorship, peer-review manipulation, or citation manipulation.
 
Submissions may undergo similarity and originality screening during editorial assessment.
 
Similarity is evaluated according to the nature, extent, location, and context of overlapping material rather than relying exclusively on a fixed numerical percentage.
 
 
18. Copyrighted and Third-Party Material
 
Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyrighted or third-party material where permission is required.
 
This may include:
 
• Figures
• Photographs
• Tables
• Maps
• Datasets
• Questionnaires
• Research instruments
• Substantial text extracts
• Other protected material
 
Appropriate attribution must be provided in all cases.
 
 
19. Peer Review and Editorial Decisions
 
Suitable manuscripts are normally evaluated by at least two appropriately qualified and independent reviewers using a single-blind peer-review process.
 
Under this model, reviewers are informed of the identities and affiliations of the authors, while reviewer identities remain confidential and are not disclosed to the authors.
 
Possible editorial decisions include:
 
• Accept
• Minor Revision
• Major Revision
• Resubmit for Review
• Reject
 
The final publication decision rests with the Editor-in-Chief or an appropriately designated editor.
 
Editorial decisions are based on scholarly merit, originality, methodological quality, relevance to the journal, ethical compliance, reviewer assessments, and overall suitability for publication.
 
 
20. Revised Manuscripts
 
Authors requested to revise a manuscript should normally submit:
 
• A revised manuscript
• A point-by-point response to reviewers and editors
• A clear explanation of the modifications made
• A reasoned response where a suggested change has not been adopted
 
Authors should clearly identify how each reviewer and editor comment has been addressed.
 
A request for revision does not constitute acceptance.
 
Revised manuscripts may undergo further editorial assessment or peer review where appropriate.
 
 
21. Copyright, Licensing and Open Access
 
The journal is an open-access journal.
 
Articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).
 
Authors retain copyright subject to the journal's publication and licensing arrangements.
 
Readers may share and adapt published content for non-commercial purposes, provided appropriate attribution is given, a link to the license is supplied, and any modifications are indicated.
 
Commercial reuse is not permitted under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license without appropriate authorization from the relevant rights holder.
 
 
22. Article Processing and Publication Charges
 
The journal does not charge Article Processing Charges (APCs), submission fees, withdrawal fees, or standard publication fees.
 
Authors are not required to pay fees for manuscript submission, editorial screening, peer review, or standard publication.
 
The absence of publication charges does not influence editorial or peer-review decisions.
 
 
23. Preprints and Self-Archiving
 
Manuscripts previously deposited on legitimate preprint platforms may be considered, provided that authors disclose the relevant preprint at the time of submission.
 
Authors may archive permitted versions of their articles in institutional, subject, or other appropriate repositories in accordance with applicable copyright and licensing requirements.
 
 
24. Grievances and Complaints
 
Any allegation of misconduct, questionable practice, complaint, or publication-ethics concern arising during the pre-publication or post-publication stages should be reported to the Publisher's Office.
 
Publisher's Office:
editor@krrishpub.com
 
The journal will consider and address such matters in accordance with its Ethics & Policies and the relevant COPE Core Practices.
 
All complaints and allegations will be reviewed fairly, confidentially, and objectively.
 
Where appropriate, the journal may request supporting documentation or clarification from the concerned parties before reaching an editorial decision or taking corrective action.
 
 
25. Ethical and Editorial Policies
 
Authors are strongly encouraged to review the journal's complete Ethics & Policies before submitting a manuscript.
 
The journal's ethical and editorial policies address matters including:
 
• Authorship and contributorship
• Conflicts of interest
• Peer review
• Plagiarism and textual overlap
• Research integrity
• Data and reproducibility
• Corrections and retractions
• Complaints and appeals
• Generative AI and AI-assisted technologies
• Copyright and licensing
• Publication misconduct
• Other relevant publication-ethics matters
 
Submission of a manuscript indicates that the authors agree to comply with the journal's applicable editorial and publication policies.
 
 
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Publisher's Editorial Office
Krrish Scientific Publications
 
Editorial Email:
editor@krrishpub.com
 
Support Email:
support@krrishpub.com

Submission Preparation Checklist

Thank you for considering the Journal of Applied Sciences and Modelling (JASM) for your manuscript.

Before beginning your submission, please ensure that:

• The manuscript falls within the aims and scope of JASM.
• The work is original and is not under consideration by another journal.
• All authors have approved the submitted version and agreed to authorship.
• All required ethical approvals, permissions, and consents have been obtained.
• The manuscript has been prepared according to the JASM Author Guidelines.
• Figures, tables, references, declarations, and supplementary materials have been checked carefully.

JASM conducts an initial editorial screening before external peer review. Manuscripts that satisfy the journal's scope, quality, ethical, and submission requirements are normally considered for single-blind peer review.

You may save an incomplete submission and return to complete it later.

Please review the Author Guidelines and Ethics & Policies before proceeding.

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