Author Guidelines

A. General Requirements

The minimum standard requirements of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence, Computer, Engineering, Science and Technology (JAICEST) must be:

  1. Written in English.
  2. The length of the submitted paper is at least 8 pages for research paper.
  3. The article must include an abstract in English (100–200 words) and be followed by keywords (3–5 words), separated by semicolons.
  4. Use of a tool such as Zotero, Mendeley, or EndNote for reference management and formatting. The citationmust be in the form of in-text and bibliography based on APA 7th Edition (American Psychological Association).
  5. The entire manuscript must use Seravek font — 14 pt bold uppercase centered for the title and 10 pt for the body text.
  6. The manuscript uses A4 paper size, with margins: top (first page) 1.27 cm, top (subsequent pages) 2.54 cm, left, right, and bottom 2.54 cm. The body text uses 1.5 line spacing and justified alignment. The abstract uses single spacing (1.0).
  7. The layout is single column throughout the manuscript.
  8. Make sure that your paper is prepared using the JAICEST manuscript template (manuscript template).

B. Structure of The Manuscript

The manuscript must be prepared and suggested to follow the structure:

  1. Title. The title should briefly and precisely describe the content of the article. Written in uppercase, bold, centered, Seravek 14 pt, with a maximum of 15 words. Do not use acronyms or abbreviations.
  2. Authors and Affiliations. Author names are listed below the title, centered, in Seravek 10 pt. Use superscript numbers to indicate affiliations. Mark the corresponding author with an asterisk (*) and provide the email address.
  3. Abstract. The abstract has 100 to 200 words; no citations. State in the abstract the primary objective, research method, main outcomes and results, and the conclusions. The abstract must be single-spaced.
  4. Keywords. Provide 3 to 5 keywords below the abstract, formatted in italic, separated by semicolons.
  5. Section structure. Authors are suggested to present their articles in the following section structure: Introduction– Methods – Results and Discussion – Conclusion – Acknowledgment (optional) – References.
  6. References. Expect a minimum of 25 references, primarily from reputable journal papers and proceedingswith their DOI or URLs. All references must follow the APA 7th Edition format.

C. In-Text Citation Guidelines (APA 7th Edition)

All in-text citations must follow the APA 7th Edition author-date format:

  • One author: (Bishop, 2006) or Bishop (2006) stated that...
  • Two authors: (Lee & Mitchell, 1994) or Lee and Mitchell (1994) proposed... — use & in parenthetical citations and and in narrative citations.
  • Three or more authors: (Mozaffari et al., 2023) or Mozaffari et al. (2023) demonstrated...
  • Multiple sources: List alphabetically, separated by semicolons: (Bishop, 2006; Hosmer et al., 2013; Lee & Mitchell, 1994).
  • Direct quotation: Include the page number: (Mozaffari et al., 2023, p. 4145). For quotations of 40 words or more, use a freestanding indented block without quotation marks.
  • No date: (Jupyter Development Team, n.d.).
  • Organization as author: First use: (World Health Organization [WHO], 2022). Subsequent uses: (WHO, 2022).

D. Reference List Format (APA 7th Edition)

General rules:

  • Arrange entries alphabetically by the first author's surname.
  • Use a hanging indent of 0.5 inch.
  • Single-space each entry.
  • Use & (not and) before the last author.
  • For 1–20 authors, list all names. For 21+ authors, list the first 19, then ... , then the last author.
  • Italicize journal names, book titles, and volume numbers.
  • Capitalize only the first word and proper nouns in article/book titles; capitalize all major words in journal names.
  • Include DOI in the format https://doi.org/... when available. Do not place a period after the DOI.

Format by source type:

Journal Article: Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Year). Title of article. Journal Name, Volume(Issue), Pages. https://doi.org/xxxxx

Book: Author, A. A. (Year). Title of book (Xth ed.). Publisher. https://doi.org/xxxxx

Chapter in an Edited Book: Author, A. A. (Year). Title of chapter. In B. B. Editor (Ed.), Title of book (pp. xx–xx). Publisher. https://doi.org/xxxxx

Conference Paper / Proceedings: Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Year). Title of paper. In Proceedings of conference name (pp. xx–xx). Publisher. https://doi.org/xxxxx

Thesis / Dissertation: Author, A. A. (Year). Title of thesis [Master's thesis / Doctoral dissertation, University Name]. Database Name.

Webpage / Online Source: Author, A. A. (Year, Month Day). Title of page. Website Name. https://www.example.com/page

Dataset / Software: Author, A. A. (Year). Title of dataset [Data set]. Publisher. https://doi.org/xxxxx

Reference examples:

Bishop, C. M. (2006). Pattern recognition and machine learning. Springer.

Hosmer, D. W., Lemeshow, S., & Sturdivant, R. X. (2013). Applied logistic regression (3rd ed.). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118548387

Guyon, I., & Elisseeff, A. (2003). An introduction to variable and feature selection. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 3, 1157–1182.

Mozaffari, F., Rahimi, M., Yazdani, H., & Sohrabi, B. (2023). Employee attrition prediction in a pharmaceutical company using both machine learning approach and qualitative data. Benchmarking, 30(10), 4140–4173. https://doi.org/10.1108/BIJ-11-2021-0664

Kluyver, T., Ragan-Kelley, B., Pérez, F., Granger, B. E., Bussonnier, J., Frederic, J., & Willing, C. (2016). Jupyter Notebooks – A publishing format for reproducible computational workflows. In Positioning and power in academic publishing: Players, agents and agendas (pp. 87–90). IOS Press.

IBM. (2017). IBM HR Analytics Employee Attrition & Performance [Data set]. Kaggle. https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/pavansubhasht/ibm-hr-analytics-attrition-dataset

Jupyter Development Team. (n.d.). Jupyter Widgets (ipywidgets) documentation. https://ipywidgets.readthedocs.io/

Please contact jaicest.edupedia@gmail.com for any questions.

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.

  1. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration.
  2. The submission file is in Microsoft Word (.docx) or OpenOffice (.odt) document file format.
  3. The entire manuscript uses Seravek font (14 pt for title, 10 pt for body text).
  4. The abstract does not exceed 200 words and is single-spaced.
  5. All in-text citations and references follow the APA 7th Edition style.
  6. The reference list contains a minimum of 25 entries from relevant and up-to-date sources.
  7. All illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end. Tables use the three-line style (no vertical borders).
  8. Where available, DOIs or URLs for the references have been provided.
  9. The text uses italics rather than underlining (except for URL addresses).
  10. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.