Title, Abstract, and Metadata

1. Is your manuscript written in IPMU format? At this stage, it is essential that you follow every detail of the IPMU format. Please try to follow the format as closely as possible. Be sure to carefully review our most up-to-date manuscript submission guidelines. The following checklist corresponds to the journal template to help you prepare your manuscript to present as close as possible to the journal standard.
2. Is your title adequate and is your abstract correctly written? The title is the part of a paper that is read the most, and it is usually read first. The title is max 10 words, without acronyms or abbreviations.
3. The length of submitted paper is at least 4 pages and no more than 20 pages
4. Provide complete authors name without any abbreviation and complete their affiliation information.
5. One authors should provide their contact information as corresponding authors as representative to communicate with the editor. To be eligible for authorship, each individual must have contributed to at least one of the following: conceptualization, methodology, formal analysis, or investigation, as well as at least one aspect of writing (either original draft preparation or writing reviews and editing).
6. Provide five to ten keywords representing the main content of the article. To enhance the article discoverability:
   • Include a few of your article’s keywords in the title of the article
   • Do not use long article titles
   • Pick 5-10 keywords using a mix of generic and more specific terms on the article subject(s)
   • Use the maximum number of keywords in the first two sentences of the abstract
7. The Abstract (MAX 200 WORDS) should be informative and completely self-explanatory (no citation in the abstract), provide a clear statement of the problem, the proposed approach or solution, and point out major findings and conclusions.

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Sections and Presentation

1. Authors are suggested to present their articles in the sections structure: 1. Introduction – 2. Proposed Method/Algorithm/Procedure specifically designed (optional) – 3. Research Method – 4. Results and Discussion – 5. Conclusion. Authors may present complex proofs of theorems or non-obvious proofs of the correctness of algorithms after the introduction section (obvious theorems & straightforward proofs of existing theorems are NOT needed).
   • Introduction section: explain the context of the study and state the precise objective. An Introduction should contain the following three parts (within 3-7 paragraphs):
     • Background: Authors have to make clear what the context is. Ideally, authors should give an idea of the state-of-the-art of the field the report is about.
     • Problem: If there was no problem, there would be no reason for writing a manuscript, and definitely no reason for reading it. So, please tell readers why they should proceed with reading. Experience shows that for this part a few lines are often sufficient.
     • Proposed Solution: Now and only now! – authors may outline the contribution of the manuscript. Here authors have to make sure readers point out what are the novel aspects of authors’ work.
     • Authors should place the paper in proper context by citing relevant papers. At least 15 references (recent journal articles) are used in this section.
   • Method section: the presentation of the experimental methods should be clear and complete in every detail facilitating reproducibility by other scientists. For studies involving animal or human subjects, an ethics approval statement must be included in this section. For more details, refer our policies and publication ethics.
   • Results and discussion section: The presentation of results should be simple and straightforward in style. This section reports the most important findings, including results of statistical analyses as appropriate and comparisons to other research results. Results given in figures should not be repeated in tables. This is where the author(s) should explain in words what he/she/they discovered in the research. It should be clearly laid out and in a logical sequence. This section should be supported with suitable references.
   • Conclusion section: Summarize sentences the primary outcomes of the study in a paragraph. Are the claims in this section supported by the results, do they seem reasonable? Have the authors indicated how the results relate to expectations and to earlier research? Does the article support or contradict previous theories? Does the conclusion explain how the research has moved the body of scientific knowledge forward?
2. Language. If an article is poorly written due to grammatical errors, it may make it more difficult to understand the science.
3. Figures and Tables. Relation of Tables or Figures and Text: Because tables and figures supplement the text, all tables and figures should be referenced in the text. Avoid placing figures and tables before their first mention in the text. Authors also must explain what the reader should look for when using the table or figure. Focus only on the important points the reader should draw from them and leave the details for the reader to examine on her own.
   • Figures:
     a. All figures appearing in the article must be numbered in the order that they appear in the text.
     b. Each figure must have a caption fully explaining the content
     c. Figure captions are presented as a paragraph starting with the figure number i.e. Figure 1, Figure 2, etc.
     d. Figure captions appear below the figure
     e. Each figure must be fully cited if taken from another article
     f. all figures must be referred to in the body of the article
   • Tables:
     a. Material that is tabular in nature must appear in a numbered captioned table.
     b. All tables appearing in the article must be numbered in the order that they appear in the text.
     c. Each table must have a caption fully explaining the content with the table number i.e. Table 1, Table 2, etc.
     d. Each column must have a clear and concise heading
     e. Tables are to be presented with a single horizontal line under the table caption, the column headings, and at the end of the table.
     f. All tables must be referred to in the body of the article
     g. Each table must be fully cited if taken from another article
4. Please be sure that the manuscript is relevant, up-to-date, balanced, dynamic, concise, and direct. Please ensure that all statements are supported by appropriate and up-to-date references.
5. Is the manuscript clearly written? Is the article exciting? Does the content flow well from one section to another? Please try to keep your manuscript on the proper level. It should be easy to understand by well-qualified professionals, but at the same time please avoid describing well-known facts (use proper references instead). Often manuscripts receive negative reviews because reviewers are not able to understand the manuscript, and this is the authors’ (not the reviewers’) fault. Notice that if reviewers have difficulties, then other readers will face the same problem and there is no reason to publish the manuscript.

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Statements

• Acknowledgements and funding statement. This section should describe the sources of funding that have supported the work. Authors should clearly state how the research described in the article was funded, including any relevant grant numbers if applicable. If no funding was involved, authors should include the following (or similar) statement:
  “The authors state no funding involved.”
• Author contributions. This journal uses the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT) to recognize individual author contributions, reduce authorship disputes, and facilitate collaboration. We encourage authors to include a statement in the paper that shares and accurately describes each author’s contribution. To be eligible for authorship, each individual must have contributed to at least one of the following: conceptualization, methodology, formal analysis, or investigation, as well as at least one aspect of writing (either original draft preparation or writing reviews and editing). And all of them approved the manuscript version to be published. There are 14 role taxonomy that can be used to describe the key types of contributions typically made to the production and publication of research output such as research articles.

Example on how to present your author’s contribution in the manuscript

• Competing interests. To ensure fair and objective decision-making, authors must declare any associations that pose a conflict of interest (financial, personal, or professional) in connection with the manuscript. Non-financial competing interests, including political, personal, religious, ideological, academic, and intellectual competing interests, must also be disclosed. The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. If there are no conflicts of interest, the following statement should be included:
  “The authors state no conflict of interest.”
• Consent for publication If your manuscript includes any personal data (such as details, images, or videos) of an individual, you must obtain their consent to publish. For children, consent must be obtained from a parent or legal guardian. This applies to all case reports. You can use your institution’s consent form, but do not send it with the submission. We may ask to see a copy at any time, even after publication. If your manuscript does not contain data from any individual person, please state “Not applicable” in this section.
• Data Availability Statement: The data that support the findings of this study are available from [repository name, or “the corresponding author upon reasonable request”]. Restrictions may apply to the availability of these data due to [reasons such as privacy, ethical concerns, or proprietary data]. Alternatively, if no data is available, you can use:
  “The authors declare that no data are available.”
  This is How to present your statement data availability:
  • The data that support the findings of this study are openly available in [repository’s name] at http://doi.org/[doi], reference number [reference number].
  • The data that support the findings of this study will be available in [repository’s name] [URL / DOI link] following a [6 month] embargo from the date of publication to allow for the commercialization of research findings.
  • The data that support the findings of this study are available on request from the corresponding author, [initials]. The data, which contain information that could compromise the privacy of research participants, are not publicly available due to certain restrictions.
  • Derived data supporting the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author [initials] on request.
  • The data that support the findings of this study are available from [third party]. Restrictions apply to the availability of these data, which were used under license for this study. Data are available [from the authors / at URL] with the permission of [third party].
  • The authors confirm that the data supporting the findings of this study are available within the article [and/or its supplementary materials].
  • The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author, [author initials], upon reasonable request.
  • Data availability is not applicable to this paper as no new data were created or analyzed in this study.

• Ethics declarations. Manuscripts reporting studies involving human participants, human data or human tissue must:
  • include a statement on ethics approval and consent (even where the need for approval was waived)
  • include the name of the ethics committee that approved the study and the committee’s reference number if appropriate
    Studies involving animals must include a statement on ethics approval and for experimental studies involving client-owned animals, authors must also include a statement on informed consent from the client or owner.
    If your manuscript does not report on or involve the use of any animal or human data or tissue, please state “Not applicable” in this section.
• Guidelines for artificial intelligence (AI) and related technologies
  • Authorship: AI technologies like ChatGPT or DALL-E 2 cannot be listed as authors of a manuscript. Authors must take responsibility for all aspects of their manuscript.
  • Use of AI Content: If authors use AI-generated content (text or images), they must:
    • Check the accuracy of all AI-generated content, including quotes, citations, and figures.
    • Ensure AI-generated content is plagiarism-free.
    • Acknowledge the use of AI in the acknowledgments and methods sections of the manuscript. Include details such as the name, version, model, and source of the AI used.
    • Upload input prompts and outputs from the AI as supplementary files.
  • Manuscript Formatting: Manuscripts should be single-spaced, with page and line numbers, and written in Word or LaTeX. Templates are provided for formatting.

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References

Do you have enough references? The minimum number of references is 25 to 30 entries (and the 20 entries are recent journal articles) for original research articles, and the minimum number of references is 50 to 55 entries for review papers. Citations of textbooks should be used very rarely and citations to web pages should be avoided. All cited papers should be referenced within the text of the manuscript.
How to present your references:

[1] Journal/Periodicals

Basic Format:
J. K. Author, “Title of paper,” Abbrev. Title of Journal/Periodical, vol. x, no. x, pp. xxx-xxx, Abbrev. Month, year, doi: xxx.
Examples:

• M. M. Chiampi and L. L. Zilberti, “Induction of electric field in human bodies moving near MRI: An efficient BEM computational procedure,” IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., vol. 58, pp. 2787–2793, Oct. 2011, doi: 10.1109/TBME.2011.2158315.
• R. Fardel, M. Nagel, F. Nuesch, T. Lippert, and A. Wokaun, “Fabrication of organic light emitting diode pixels by laser-assisted forward transfer,” Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 91, no. 6, Aug. 2007, Art. no. 061103, doi: 10.1063/1.2759475.

[2] Conference Proceedings

Basic Format:
J. K. Author, “Title of paper,” in Abbreviated Name of Conf., (location of conference is optional), year, pp. xxx–xxx, doi: xxx.
Examples:

• G. Veruggio, “The EURON roboethics roadmap,” in Proc. Humanoids ’06: 6th IEEE-RAS Int. Conf. Humanoid Robots, 2006, pp. 612–617, doi: 10.1109/ICHR.2006.321337.
• J. Zhao, G. Sun, G. H. Loh, and Y. Xie, “Energy-efficient GPU design with reconfigurable in-package graphics memory,” in Proc. ACM/IEEE Int. Symp. Low Power Electron. Design (ISLPED), Jul. 2012, pp. 403–408, doi: 10.1145/2333660.2333752.

[3] Book

Basic Format:
J. K. Author, “Title of chapter in the book,” in Title of His Published Book, X. Editor, Ed., xth ed. City of Publisher, State (only U.S.), Country: Abbrev. of Publisher, year, ch. x, sec. x, pp. xxx–xxx.
Examples:

• A. Taflove, Computational Electrodynamics: The Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method in Computational Electrodynamics II, vol. 3, 2nd ed. Norwood, MA, USA: Artech House, 1996.
• R. L. Myer, “Parametric oscillators and nonlinear materials,” in Nonlinear Optics, vol. 4, P. G. Harper and B. S. Wherret, Eds., San Francisco, CA, USA: Academic, 1977, pp. 47–160.

[4] M. Theses (B.S., M.S.) and Dissertations (Ph.D.)

Basic Format:
J. K. Author, “Title of thesis,” M.S. thesis, Abbrev. Dept., Abbrev. Univ., City of Univ., Abbrev. State, year.
J. K. Author, “Title of dissertation,” Ph.D. dissertation, Abbrev. Dept., Abbrev. Univ., City of Univ., Abbrev. State, year.
Examples:

• J. O. Williams, “Narrow-band analyzer,” Ph.D. dissertation, Dept. Elect. Eng., Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA, USA, 1993.
• N. Kawasaki, “Parametric study of thermal and chemical nonequilibrium nozzle flow,” M.S. thesis, Dept. Electron. Eng., Osaka Univ., Osaka, Japan, 1993.

*In the reference list, however, list all the authors for up to six authors. Use et al. only if: 1) The names are not given and 2) List of authors more than 6. Example: J. D. Bellamy et al., Computer Telephony Integration, New York: Wiley, 2010.

Use tools such as EndNote, Mendeley, or Zotero for reference management and formatting, and choose IEEE style. Each citation should be written in the order of appearance in the text in square brackets. For example, the first citation [1], the second citation [2], and the third and fourth citations [3], [4]. When citing multiple sources at once, the preferred method is to list each number separately, in its own brackets, using a comma or dash between numbers, such as: [1], [3], [5]. It is not necessary to mention an author’s name, pages used, or date of publication in the in-text citation. Instead, refer to the source with a number in a square bracket, e.g. [9], that will then correspond to the full citation in your reference list. Examples of in-text citations

• This theory was first put forward in 1970 [9].
• Zadeh [10] has argued that …
• Several recent studies [7], [9], [11]-[15] have suggested that….
• … end of the line for my research [16].

Self-citations: to control citation manipulation (COPE, 2019), this journal asks that authors keep self-citation to a minimum. We would strongly recommend no more than 5 (including jointly authored publications), or 20% self-citations, whichever number is lower.

Please be aware that for the final submission of a regular paper, you will be asked to tailor your paper so the last page is not half empty.