Asian Journal of Contemporary Science & Technology

Ready to submit your paper to AJCST? Our guide for authors details how to submit your paper and its related files.

Submission checklist

• • All manuscript and supplementary material files have been uploaded.
  • Author names and their affiliations have been provided.
  • One author has been designated as corresponding author.
  • The manuscript title is short and informative.
  • The abstract can be read as stand-alone text, and does not exceed 300 words.
  • The manuscript file contains all essential sections (the order can vary): Title, Abstract,Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, References, Figure Captions, Tables.
  • Manuscript has been checked for spelling and grammar.
  • All references mentioned in the References list are cited in the text, and vice versa.
  • Artwork source files have been provided at the appropriate size and resolution.
  • Permission has been obtained for use of copyrighted material from other sources including the Web.
  • Relevant subject areas have been selected and keywords describing the article have been provided.
  • All necessary declarations have been made.

General notes

Article types

Our scope is inclusive; AJCST publishes articles covering any research discipline. We welcome the submission of manuscripts that report original results of primary research (positive ornegative), describe new methods or other research tools, describe new datasets, or analyze existing data and report novel insights in form of a systematic or scoping reviews. In addition,we publish a selected number of literature reviews. We do not accept pre-submission enquiries, or any type of opinion style piece or case reports.

Language

Please write your text in good English (American or British usage is accepted, but not a mixture of the two). Articles will not receive full copy-editing before publication; if you feel that your manuscript could benefit from editing, please consider the use of an editing service, before submission to ensure your manuscript is understandable and free of grammatical or spelling errors.

Cover letter

A covering letter is not mandatory, as we request all essential information at submission. However, you are welcome to provide a cover letter containing any additional information that you would like us to be aware of, such as information on suggested or excluded editors and referees.

Manuscript organization

We do not have strict formatting requirements, but all manuscripts must contain the essential elements needed to convey the content in clearly defined sections: Title, Abstract, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion and/or Conclusions, Figures and Tables with Captions, and any Supplementary Material required. If your article includes any video, audio or other metadata files, you should include these in your initial submission for peer review purposes. The text should be in single-column format and the layout of the text should be as simple as possible. Please note that the size of each individual submission file must not exceed 150MB; and the collective size of all submitted files must not exceed 700 MB.

Title

Please provide a title that is concise and informative; ideally it should contain no more than 20 words. Titles are often used in information-retrieval systems so please keep in mind that your choice of title may impact how easily readers can discover your article.

Authors

All authors’ full affiliation and contacts must be added before the acceptance of a manuscript.

Abbreviations

Please define all abbreviations at first use.

Abstract

The abstract should state briefly the purpose of the research, the principal results and major conclusions. Abstracts are often presented and read as stand-alone text, so please keep this in mind when writing, and avoid the use of references and abbreviations.

Introduction

Please provide adequate background information, while avoiding a detailed literature review, and state the objectives of your work in light of previous findings.

Theory/Calculation (if applicable)

A Theory section should extend, not repeat, the background information provided in the Introduction, and lay the foundation for further work. In contrast, a Calculation section represents a practical development from a theoretical basis.

Results

Results should be clear and concise.

Discussion

A Discussion should explore the significance of the results of the work, not just repeat them. A combined Results and Discussion section is often appropriate.

Conclusions (optional)

The main conclusion(s) of the study may be presented in a short Conclusions section, as a stand-alone section or in form of a subsection of the Discussion or Results and Discussion section.

Materials and Methods

Please provide sufficient detail to allow the work to be reproduced. Previously published methods should be shown in a reference; you only need to describe relevant modifications.

Acknowledgements

Please collate all acknowledgements in a separate section at the end of the article, before the references.

References

Formatting

There are no strict requirements on reference formatting at submission, however we highly encourage the inclusion of DOIs to ensure references are citable and discoverable. References can be in any style or format as long as the style is consistent. Where applicable, author name(s), journal title/book title, chapter title/article title, year of publication, volume number/book chapter, pagination and the DOI should be included. Journal names should be abbreviated according to the List of Title Word Abbreviations. AJCST’s reference style will be applied to the accepted article at the proof stage. Any missing data will be highlighted at this stage for you to correct.

Citation in text 

Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list (and vice versa). Unpublished results, personal communications and arXiv documents should not be included in the reference list, but may be mentioned in the text. Citation of a reference as 'in press' implies that the item has been accepted for publication; in this case, a copy of the title page of the relevant article must be submitted.

Citing websites

As a minimum, the full URL should be provided, along with the date on which the reference was last accessed. Any further information, if known (DOI, author names, dates, reference to a source publication, etc.) should also be given.

Citing datasets 

AJCST encourages you to cite underlying or relevant datasets in your manuscript by citing them in your text and including a data reference in your Reference List. Data references should include the following elements: author name(s), dataset title, data repository, version (where available), year, and global persistent identifier. Add [dataset] immediately before the reference so we can properly identify it as a data reference. This identifier will not appear in your published article.

Figure captions 

Please provide figure captions at the end of your manuscript. A caption should be self-contained and consist of a brief title and a concise description of the illustration. All symbols and abbreviations used should be explained.

Tables 

We recommend providing tables within your manuscript file where possible, ideally using a single table grid for each individual table, otherwise using tabs to separate columns. Please submit tables as editable text and not as images. You should number tables consecutively in accordance with their appearance in the text and place any table notes below the table body.

Mathematical equations 

Please ensure that mathematical equations are submitted in an editable format and not as images. You should present simple formulae in the line of normal text where possible, and use the solidus (/) instead of a horizontal line for small fractional terms, e.g., X/Y. In principle, variables should be presented in italics. It is often more convenient to denote powers of e by using exp. You should number consecutively any equations that have to be displayed separately from the text (if referred to explicitly in the text).