Submissions

Author Guidelines

Preparation of Your Manuscript

Authors must ensure that manuscripts meet the following requirements prior to submission:

• Full names, institutional affiliations (including country), and contact details of all contributing authors must be provided.

• One author must be designated as the corresponding author.

Manuscripts must include:

• An abstract of no more than 200 words

• Up to eight keywords

• Submissions must be spell-checked and grammar-checked before submission

• All references cited in the text must appear in the reference list, and vice versa

• Bibliographic information (reference lists) must be presented

• Authors must obtain appropriate permissions for all third-party images, figures, tables, datasets, or other copyrighted materials

• The language used in the title, abstract, and manuscript body must be clear and comprehensible to a global academic audience

• Manuscripts must align with the scope of the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Agent Systems (IJAIAS)

For AI-related research, authors are encouraged to clearly describe model architectures, datasets, evaluation protocols, computational settings, and limitations where relevant to support transparency and reproducibility.

Manuscript Template

Authors are required to prepare their manuscripts using the official IJAIAS journal template.

Please download the appropriate version below:

• Manuscript Template (PDF) – for formatting guidance and Word-based preparation

• LaTeX Template (ZIP) – includes main.tex, bibliography (.bib) files, and formatting guidelines

Author Rights

The International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Agent Systems (IJAIAS) is published under an open-access model by Femington. Authors retain copyright and scholarly usage rights to their work.

By publishing in IJAIAS, authors grant the journal a license to publish the article and to identify itself as the original publisher, in accordance with the journal’s licensing terms.

Plagiarism and Research Misconduct

IJAIAS is committed to maintaining the highest standards of research integrity. All submissions are screened using plagiarism detection tools as part of the editorial and peer-review process.

The journal takes reasonable and proactive steps to identify and prevent the publication of manuscripts involving research misconduct, including but not limited to:

• Plagiarism

• Citation manipulation

• Data fabrication or falsification

• Image manipulation or misleading visual evidence

• Undisclosed use of generated content that materially affects scholarly claims

• Misrepresentation of experimental results, benchmarks, or evaluation outcomes

Web-based tools and editorial review procedures are used to compare submissions against scholarly publications and publicly available sources. Manuscripts found to violate research integrity standards may be rejected, corrected, or retracted in accordance with accepted publishing ethics practices.

Responsible Conduct of Research and Ethics

Authors submitting to IJAIAS are expected to uphold the principles of responsible research conduct in all aspects of their work. This includes fostering and maintaining an environment of intellectual honesty, scientific integrity, transparency, and ethical scholarly practice.

The journal’s ethical framework is informed by internationally recognised standards for research integrity and responsible AI development. Authors are encouraged to consult the journal’s policies on Responsible Conduct of Research and Authorship Procedures for further guidance.

For research involving artificial intelligence systems, authors should appropriately consider issues such as:

• Transparency and explainability

• Fairness and bias mitigation

• Safety and robustness

• Responsible deployment

• Societal and ethical implications

• Compliance with applicable legal and regulatory requirements

Criteria for Authorship

Authorship is reserved for individuals who have made significant intellectual or scholarly contributions to the research and who agree to take responsibility for the published work.

A significant contribution must include at least one, and typically a combination of two or more, of the following:

• Conception and design of the research project, AI system, model, or scholarly output

• Acquisition, creation, curation, or preparation of datasets involving substantial intellectual judgement, planning, or design

• Development of algorithms, architectures, models, or experimental frameworks

• Contribution of knowledge, including Indigenous knowledge, where appropriate and justified

• Analysis or interpretation of research data and experimental findings

• Drafting substantial portions of the manuscript or critically revising it to enhance interpretation and scholarly quality

All contributors meeting these criteria must be appropriately credited as authors, and all listed authors must approve the final version of the manuscript.

Declaration of Interest

All authors must disclose any financial, professional, institutional, commercial, or personal relationships that could reasonably be perceived as influencing or biasing their work.

Any potential conflicts of interest must be declared at the time of submission.

This includes, where relevant:

• Employment or consulting relationships

• Industry sponsorship

• Commercial AI products or services evaluated within the manuscript

• Ownership interests or intellectual property associated with the reported research

Acknowledgements and Funding

Individuals who contributed to the preparation of the manuscript but do not meet the criteria for authorship should be acknowledged.

Authors must clearly declare all sources of funding, computational support, cloud credits, infrastructure support, industry sponsorship, and the role of funding bodies in the research or publication process.

Research Data, Code, and Reproducibility

IJAIAS encourages authors to share datasets, source code, trained models, evaluation scripts, and supporting materials that underpin their research publications, where appropriate and ethically permissible, to promote transparency, reproducibility, and scientific progress.

Where data, code, or models cannot be publicly released due to privacy, security, licensing, proprietary, or legal restrictions, authors should provide a clear explanation of those limitations.

Authors are encouraged to include sufficient methodological detail to allow independent verification of their findings.

Ethics Approval and Consent

Manuscripts reporting research involving human participants or animals must include a statement confirming ethics approval and informed consent.

The name of the approving ethics committee and the relevant reference number (where applicable) must be provided.

Research involving:

• Human-AI interaction

• User studies

• Surveys or interviews

• Behavioral experiments

• Collection of personal or sensitive data

• AI-assisted decision-making involving human participants

must clearly describe participant protections, consent procedures, and ethical safeguards implemented during the study.

Authors are responsible for ensuring that all applicable ethical, legal, and institutional requirements have been satisfied prior to submission.