Submissions

Author Guidelines

Authors should submit only manuscripts that have been carefully proofread and polished. Manuscripts are accepted with the understanding that they are original or extended version of previously published papers in conferences and/or journals and that, if the work received an official sponsorship, it has been duly released for open publication. Before submission please make sure that your manuscript is prepared using the journal paper template. The authors must refer to IJFTE Journal for writing format and style (Please download and use as a template for initial manuscript submission in .docx  or .tex. Use of a tool such as EndNote, Mendeley, or Zotero for reference management and formatting, and choose IEEE style. This will ensure fast processing and publication.

You can use this list to carry out a final check of your submission before you send it to the journal for review. Please check the relevant section in this Guide for Authors for more details.

1. The manuscript should be written in IJFTE format.  At this stage, it is not that essential that you  follow every detail of IJFTE format. Please try to follow the format as closely as possible.
2. The title adequate and abstract shoud be correctly written. The title of paper is max 20 words, without Acronym or abbreviation. The Abstract (MAX 200 WORDS) should be informative and completely self-explanatory (no citation in abstract), provide a clear statement of the problem, the proposed approach or solution, and point out major findings and conclusions.
3. Authors are suggested to present their articles in the sections structure: Introduction - The Proposed Method/Algorithm/Framework/Procedure specifically designed (optional) - Research Method - Results and Discussion – Conclusion. Authors may present complex proofs of theorems or non-obvious proofs of correctness of algorithms after introduction section (obvious theorems & straightforward proofs of existing theorems are NOT needed).
4. Introduction section: explain the context of the study and state the precise objective. An Introduction should contain the following three parts:

   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. 

   The 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 reading. Experience shows that for this part a few lines are often sufficient.

   The 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, 10 references (recently journal articles) are referred in this section to show lack of previous research studies, and the uniqueness or novelty of the research on the topic.
5. Method section: the presentation of the experimental methods should be clear and complete in every detail facilitating reproducibility by other scientists.
6. Results and discussion section: The presentation of results should be simple and straightforward in style. This section report the most important findings, including results of statistical analyses as apropriate 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 suitable references.
7. 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?
8. Language. If an article is poorly written due to grammatical errors, while it may make it more difficult to understand the science.
9. Ensure that the manuscript is up to date. We will usually expect a minimum of 15 references primarily to journal papers, depending on the length of the paper. 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. It is expected that up to 80%  of references are to recent papers (last 10 years).
10. The manuscript is clearly written, exciting and the content flows well from one section to another.   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). Notice, that if reviewers have difficulties, then other readers will face the same problem and there is no reason to publish the manuscript.
11. 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. Authors also must explain what the reader should look for when using the table or figure. Focus only on the important point the reader should draw from them, and leave the details for the reader to examine on her own.

    Figures:

    • All figures appearing in article must be numbered in the order that they appear in the text.
    • Each figure must have a caption fully explaining the content
    • Figure captions are presented as a paragraph starting with the figure number i.e. Figure 1, Figure 2, etc.
    • Figure captions appear below the figure
    • Each figure must be fully cited if taken from another article
    • all figures must be referred to in the body of the article

    Tables:

    • Material that is tabular in nature must appear in a numbered captioned table.
    • All tables appearing in article must be numbered in the order that they appear in the text.
    • Each table must have a caption fully explaining the content with the table number  i.e. Table 1, Table 2, etc.
    • Each column must have a clear and concise heading
    • Tables are to be presented with single horizontal line under: the table caption, the column headings and at the end of the table.
    • All tables must be referred to in the body of the article
    • Each table must be fully cited if taken from another article
12. 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, as such: [1], [3], [5] or [4]-[8]. 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]."

    Sutikno [10] has argued that...

    Several recent studies [7], [9], [11]-[15] have suggested that....

    ...end of the line for my research [16].

13. Self-citations: to control for 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.
14. Please be aware that for the final submission of regular paper you will be asked to tailor your paper so the last page is not half empty.