Author Guidelines

AUTHOR GUIDELINES

Submission (Initial Submission) and Peer Review Process:

  1. The submitting author is required to complete, sign and upload the Copyright form.
  2. Manuscripts, submitted to JISDT, are reviewed by the members of the journal’s editorial board and other scholars who are selected from the local as well as international academic institutions.
  3. Upon receiving the manuscript, the editorial board decides whether a manuscript falls within the journal’s scope and subject or otherwise.
  4. Once given manuscript passes that level, the editorial board then appoints a minimum of two reviewers chosen for their knowledge of experience in the subject of the manuscript;
  5. JISDT uses double blind review process, in which the process of reviewing manuscripts is based on the anonymity of the author and the confidentiality of reviewers’ and editors’ reports. In this process, reviewers do not know about the authors of given papers, while authors do not know the reviewers of their manuscript,thus authors of given manuscripts are advised to avoid self-references.
  6. The review process is expected to be completed within four weeks, but conflicting recommendations and unpredictable events may cause some delay. In certain instances, a manuscript is accepted in principle, but that does not mean full acceptance; only when the necessary changes and improvements suggested by given reviewers are satisfactorily included, then the status of the paper changes from principle acceptance into acceptance.
  7. The editorial board reserves the right to edit given manuscripts to make it more readable.
  8. JISDT uses online database, and thus respective authors are advised to submit their manuscripts online, by uploading manuscripts directly to: http://journals.iium.edu.my/kict/index.php/jisdt

Submission process (Revised manuscript based on reviewers' comments)

  1. Submitting author should log in IIUM JISDT.
  2. Upload the revised manuscript as an Article text
  3. Authors are also required to submit Reviewer response along with revised manuscript Replying to reviewers’ comments
  4. Authors  are requested to use the reviewer form.  

Steps of article submission:

  1. For first time author, click register and do the registration.
  2. Login using your Author Username and password.
  3. Go to User Home.
  4. Click on New Submission.
  5. Click Choose File, click Upload, click Save and Continue.
  6. Enter Author information (click Add Author to add a new author), enter title and abstract, select language (en for English), copy and paste references, and click Save and Continue.
  7. Click Choose File, click Upload, click Save and Continue.
  8. Check your uploaded files and click on Finish Submission.

JISDT Manuscript Submission Guidelines

JISDT welcomes original manuscripts and research papers that have not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. Authors must comply with the following formatting and submission requirements.

1. Document Layout

a) Page Layout

  • Paper size: Letter (8.5" × 11")

  • Margins: 

    • Top and Bottom: 1" (2.54 cm)
    • Left and Right: 1.25" (3.17 cm
  • Paragraph/text width: 6" (15.25 cm) 
    • All content (text, figures, and tables) must fit within this width.
    • Use landscape orientation only when necessary (e.g., for wide tables or figures)

b) Page Alignment

  • Title: centered
  • Main text: justified

c) Font, Spacing, and Paragraphs

  • Title: Arial 16, Bold; Leave two line-space above title for submission code
  • Abstract heading: Arial 14, Bold, Italic
  • Abstract text: Arial 11, Italic
  • Heading 1 (e.g., Introduction): Arial 14, Bold (* No roman numerals)
  • Heading 2: Arial 12, Bold, Italic (* No roman numerals)
  • Heading 3: Arial 11, Bold (*No roman numerals)
  • Body Text: Arial 11, Regular
  • Line spacing: single
  • All other text: Arial 11
  • Line spacing, Single
  • Paragraph:No indent; separated by additional spacing

d) Page Numbering

  • Pages should be numbered at the bottom right corner.

2. Manuscript Structure and Order

  1. Title
  2. Abstract
  3. Keywords
  4. Main Text (Typically from Introduction to Conclusion; section numbering is allowed)
  5. References (APA Style – see: https://www.apastyle.org/)
  6. Bibliography (if applicable)
  7. Appendices (if applicable)
  8. List of Acronyms (if applicable)

3. Formatting Elements

a) Footnotes

  • Indicate with superscript numbers in-text.
  • Display on the same page as the reference.
  • Font: Arial 10, single-spaced.

``b) In-Text References (APA Style)

  • Single author: (Fichman, 2004)
  • Two authors: (Lyytinen & King, 2004)
  • Three or more authors: (Rossi et al., 2004)

c) Figures

  • Place figures after the paragraph where first mentioned.
    • If space is insufficient, place the figure on the next page.
  • Figure Titles:
    • Placed below the figure
    • Font: Arial 11, center-aligned
    • Title format: Fig. 1. Example of Figure Appearance

d) Tables

  • Place tables after the paragraph where first mentioned.
    • If space is insufficient, place the table on the next page.

  • Table Titles:

    • Placed above the table
    • Font: Arial 11, white font in a black box
    • Box height:
        • 0.25" for single-line titles
        • 0.45" for two-line titles
    • Title alignment: Left-aligned, vertically centered
  • Table alignment: Center-aligned; cell content alignment is at the author's discretion.
  • Table font (entries): Arial 10 or smaller

Table 1: Example of Table Appearance

Station

System Type

Length [m]

Diameter [m]

Mass [kg]

1

ABC-9X

2.951

0.123

66.00

2

ABC-10Y

4.466

0.145

144.88

3

ABC-100Z

3.011

0.167

155.99