Authors Guidelines

IJSFT welcomes contributions from researchers, scientists, academicians, professionals, innovators, and interdisciplinary scholars working in science and future technology-related fields. Submissions should demonstrate originality, scientific rigor, methodological clarity, and relevance to multidisciplinary science, applied research, or emerging technological development.

The journal welcomes manuscripts in the following areas: physical sciences, chemical sciences, biological sciences, environmental sciences, earth sciences, materials science, nanotechnology, renewable energy, computational science, artificial intelligence in scientific applications, data science, quantum science, space science, and other future-oriented scientific fields.

For detailed subject coverage, authors should review the Aims and Scope before submission.

Tips for Preparing Your Manuscript

  • Ensure your manuscript aligns with the journal’s aims and scope
  • Use clear, concise, and scientifically accurate language
  • Present findings with appropriate tables, figures, equations, models, and scientific illustrations
  • Include accurate citations and references
  • Follow manuscript formatting requirements carefully
  • Ensure originality, research integrity, and ethical compliance
  • Disclose funding sources and conflicts of interest
  • Include data availability information where applicable
  • Proofread the manuscript carefully before submission

Reporting Guidelines

Authors are encouraged to follow relevant reporting and research standards according to the study type and discipline. Where applicable, authors should use recognized reporting frameworks for systematic reviews, experimental studies, computational studies, environmental research, data-driven research, animal studies, and interdisciplinary scientific investigations.

For example:

  • Systematic reviews should follow an appropriate review reporting framework, where applicable
  • Animal studies should include ethical approval and relevant animal research reporting details
  • Studies involving human participants should include ethics approval and informed consent, where applicable
  • Computational and modeling studies should provide sufficient methodological details for evaluation and reproducibility
  • Data-driven studies should include data sources, preprocessing methods, analytical procedures, and data availability information where applicable

Manuscript Assessment Criteria

Manuscripts submitted to IJSFT will be evaluated based on the following factors:

  • Originality:  The manuscript should present new ideas, methods, findings, models, theories, applications, or interpretations relevant to science and future technologies.
  • Scientific Significance:  The research should contribute meaningfully to scientific knowledge, interdisciplinary understanding, technological advancement, or sustainable innovation.
  • Methodological Soundness:  The study design, methods, experiments, simulations, models, or analyses should be scientifically appropriate, transparent, and reliable.
  • Relevance to Scope:  The manuscript should clearly fit the journal’s focus on multidisciplinary science, emerging scientific methods, applied sciences, or future-oriented technologies.
  • Quality of Presentation:  The manuscript should be well-structured, clearly written, properly referenced, and prepared according to academic publishing standards.

Papers that do not meet these criteria may be returned for revision or rejected.

Manuscript Structure and Formatting

To meet IJSFT standards, authors should prepare their manuscripts according to the journal template and formatting requirements.

Manuscript Template

Authors should use the official journal template where available. The manuscript should include appropriate sections such as title, abstract, keywords, introduction, literature review or background, methodology, results, discussion, conclusion, acknowledgments, funding statement, conflict of interest statement, data availability statement, and references.

The submitted manuscript should be provided as a clear, complete, and editable Word document. The file should not be encrypted or password-protected.

If the official template is not used, authors should submit a clearly formatted manuscript using readable academic formatting, proper headings and subheadings, numbered figures and tables, and a consistent reference style.

Abstract and Keywords

The manuscript should include a concise abstract of approximately 150–250 words summarizing the purpose, methods, results, and significance of the study.

Authors should provide 4–6 keywords that reflect the main topic, scientific field, methods, and contribution of the manuscript. Keywords should support discoverability and indexing.

Length and Format

There is no strict page limit; however, manuscripts should be concise, focused, and appropriate for the article type. Authors should avoid unnecessary repetition and ensure that the manuscript provides sufficient detail for scientific evaluation.

Figures and Tables

Figures and tables should be clear, properly labeled, and cited in the main text. Authors should provide high-resolution figures where applicable. Tables should be editable and should not be submitted only as images.

All figures and tables must include captions and should be numbered sequentially, such as Figure 1, Figure 2, Table 1, and Table 2. Tables must be referred in the text as “Table 1.” and figures must be referred as “Fig.1” or “Figs 1, 2” for more than one figure.  For detailed formatting, please check the template.

Equations, Models, and Notations

Equations, models, and scientific notations should be clearly presented and sequentially numbered where applicable. Symbols, variables, parameters, and abbreviations must be defined clearly.

Mathematical expressions and equations should be editable and should not be inserted only as images.

References

Authors must use one consistent referencing style throughout the manuscript. IJSFT recommends a clear and widely recognized academic referencing style suitable for scientific research, unless otherwise stated in the journal template.

References should be accurate, complete, traceable, and based on scholarly or credible sources. The number of references should be appropriate to the article type, subject area, and depth of the research.

Manuscripts containing fabricated, unverifiable, misleading, or inappropriate references may be returned for correction or rejected.

Supplementary Materials

Authors may submit supplementary materials, such as additional figures, datasets, tables, methods, code, multimedia files, or technical appendices, that support the understanding or verification of the research.

Supplementary materials should be clearly labeled and referenced in the manuscript.

Author Details and Affiliations

All authors must provide complete and accurate author information.

Required author details include:

  • Full Name: All authors must provide their complete names
  • Affiliation: Department, institution/university/company, city, and country
  • ORCID: Authors are encouraged to provide ORCID iDs. The corresponding author should provide an ORCID iD where available
  • Corresponding Author: The corresponding author should be clearly identified and will serve as the main contact for manuscript-related communication
  • Email: The corresponding author’s email address is required. Other author emails may be provided where appropriate
  • Biography: Author biographies may be requested for published articles, depending on the journal format. Author photographs are optional and should not be required for manuscript evaluation

Submission Process

Authors should prepare their manuscript according to the journal guidelines and submit it through the IJSFT online submission portal.

Before submission, authors should ensure that:

  • The manuscript fits the aims and scope of IJSFT
  • The manuscript is original and not under consideration elsewhere
  • All authors have approved the submission
  • Ethical approval and informed consent information are included where applicable
  • Funding and conflict of interest statements are included
  • References are accurate and complete
  • Figures, tables, equations, and supplementary files are properly prepared

For submission assistance, authors may contact the editorial office at:

Email: ijsft@journovapublishing.com

 

Privacy Policy

The names, affiliations, email addresses, ORCID iDs, and other information entered on the IJSFT website or submission system will be used only for the stated purposes of the journal. These purposes may include manuscript submission, peer review, editorial communication, publication processing, indexing preparation, and journal administration.

IJSFT is committed to maintaining the confidentiality, privacy, and security of user data. Personal information will not be shared with third parties for unrelated purposes.

For inquiries regarding this privacy statement or to exercise data protection rights, please contact:

Email: ijsft@journovapublishing.com

Peer Review Process

All research articles, review articles, short communications, interdisciplinary studies, theoretical papers, computational studies, and scientific application papers submitted to IJSFT undergo editorial screening followed by peer review.

IJSFT follows a double-blind peer-review process, in which the identities of authors and reviewers are concealed from each other. Manuscripts that pass initial editorial screening are normally evaluated by at least two independent reviewers with relevant expertise.

Final editorial decisions are made by the Editor-in-Chief or assigned editor based on reviewer comments, journal scope, originality, ethical compliance, methodological quality, scientific contribution, and clarity of presentation.

Editorials, invited commentaries, announcements, or non-research content may be reviewed internally according to journal policy.

Review Process

  1. Initial editorial screening
  2. Plagiarism and similarity check
  3. Assignment to subject experts
  4. Double-blind peer review
  5. Editorial evaluation and decision
  6. Author revision, if required
  7. Final acceptance and publication

Editorial Decisions May Include

  • Accept
  • Minor revision
  • Major revision
  • Reject

The journal is committed to fairness, confidentiality, transparency, and academic integrity throughout the peer-review process.

For manuscripts requiring minor or major revision, authors must submit a revised manuscript with a detailed response to reviewer comments. Major revisions may be sent for an additional round of review. Rejected manuscripts may be resubmitted only when substantially revised and when the new submission clearly addresses the reasons for the previous rejection.

Correspondence regarding editorial matters should be directed to:

Email: ijsft@journovapublishing.com

How to Submit

Manuscripts intended for publication should be submitted through the journal’s online submission portal:

Submission requires the corresponding author to create an account and provide full contact details. The author must confirm that the manuscript has not been previously published and is not currently under consideration by another journal.

If the submission is an expanded version of a conference paper, workshop paper, preprint, thesis chapter, or earlier working paper, the author must disclose this information and clearly explain the differences between the submitted manuscript and the earlier version.

IJSFT supports the use of ORCID identifiers for researchers and scholars. Authors are encouraged to include ORCID iDs with their submissions.