Submissions
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.- The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
- The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
- Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
- Formatting: The text is 1.5 line-spaced, uses a 12-point font, employs italics (not underlining, except for URLs), and places figures/tables within the text with captions. It follows the CFST template.
- The manuscript meets all stylistic, structural, and bibliographic requirements in the Author Guidelines, including word count (2,000+ words, max 10 A4 pages), IEEE reference style, and recent references (80% from last 10 years, min. 15 sources).
- The work is original, free from plagiarism, and discloses any conflicts of interest.