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Information For Authors

Interested in submitting your work to the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Agent Systems (IJAIAS)?

Authors are encouraged to review the About the Journal page for journal-specific aims, scope, and section policies, along with the detailed Author Guidelines, before preparing a submission. Authors must register with the journal prior to submission or, if already registered, may log in and proceed through the standard online submission process.

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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 300 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, or tables

  • 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 journal to which they are submitted

 

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 complete LaTeX source files for manuscript preparation

Content Expectations

Manuscripts, particularly empirical, computational, and applied AI studies, should clearly address:

  • A concise statement of principal findings

  • The strengths and limitations of the study, including methodological considerations

  • The implications of the findings for research, industry, policy, or society (where applicable)

  • A discussion of unanswered questions and directions for future research

For AI systems and agent-based research, authors are encouraged to clearly describe evaluation methodologies, benchmark datasets, safety considerations, limitations, and reproducibility aspects where relevant.

Author Rights and Licensing

Femington journals operate under a sustainable open-access publishing model. Authors retain copyright and scholarly usage rights to their work. By publishing with a Femington journal, authors grant the journal a license to publish and identify itself as the original publisher, in accordance with the journal’s licensing agreement.

Fee Structure

Publication and Support Model

Femington journals operate under an inclusive Open Access model. To support the sustainability of high-quality publishing:

  • Flexible Article Processing Charges (APCs) apply to accepted manuscripts

  • No subscription or access fees for readers for Open Access Journals

 

Code of Ethical Conduct

Authors submitting to IJAIAS are required to adhere to the principles of ethical research conduct, fostering an environment of intellectual honesty, integrity, and responsible scholarship. The journal’s ethical framework is grounded in internationally recognised principles of responsible research and responsible AI development.

Principles of Responsible Research Conduct

Honesty

Present research findings truthfully and accurately.

Methodological Soundness

Employ appropriate, defensible, and scientifically rigorous research methods.

Transparency

Clearly disclose methodologies, datasets, model architectures, evaluation protocols, limitations, and potential conflicts of interest.

Fairness

Properly acknowledge contributors, datasets, prior work, and intellectual influences.

Accountability

Comply with ethical, legal, institutional, and regulatory requirements applicable to the research.

Respect

Ensure ethical treatment of participants, communities, animals, and the environment where relevant.

Responsible AI Development

Consider issues relating to AI safety, fairness, bias, explainability, robustness, and societal impact during system design and evaluation.

Engagement with Indigenous Communities

Respect and appropriately engage Indigenous knowledge and communities where relevant.

Correction of Errors

Address errors in published work promptly and transparently.

Criteria for Authorship

Authorship is reserved for individuals who have made substantial intellectual contributions to the research and who agree to be accountable for the published work.

Significant contributions may include:

  • Conceptualisation and study design

  • Development of algorithms, models, or system architectures

  • Dataset creation, acquisition, or curation involving intellectual judgment

  • Experimental design, evaluation, and interpretation

  • Data analysis and interpretation

  • Drafting or critically revising the manuscript

  • Inclusion of domain-specific or Indigenous knowledge where appropriate

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

AI Research Integrity and Reproducibility

Given the increasing importance of reproducibility in AI research, IJAIAS strongly encourages authors to provide:

  • Dataset availability information

  • Model and code repositories where appropriate

  • Experimental configurations and hyperparameters

  • Evaluation protocols and benchmark details

  • Information regarding computational resources used

  • Documentation of safety testing, robustness evaluation, or alignment procedures where relevant

Authors should clearly disclose the use of proprietary models, external APIs, synthetic data generation, or automated content-generation tools when these materially influence the research outcomes.

Plagiarism and Research Misconduct Policy

Femington takes research integrity seriously.

All submissions are screened using plagiarism detection tools.

The publisher actively identifies and prevents:

  • Plagiarism

  • Citation manipulation

  • Data fabrication or falsification

  • Image manipulation

  • Benchmark manipulation or misleading performance reporting

  • Undisclosed use of generated or synthetic research content

If misconduct is identified at any stage, the manuscript may be rejected, corrected, or retracted, and further investigation may be undertaken in line with publishing ethics standards.

Acknowledgements and Funding

Contributions that do not meet authorship criteria should be acknowledged.

All sources of funding, computational support, cloud credits, industry sponsorship, and the role of funding bodies must be clearly disclosed.

Declaration of Interest

All authors must disclose any financial, commercial, institutional, or personal relationships that could reasonably be perceived as influencing their work. This includes affiliations with AI vendors, model providers, technology companies, or organizations that may benefit from the reported findings.

Research Data, Code, and Models

IJAIAS encourages authors to share datasets, source code, trained models, evaluation scripts, and supporting materials where appropriate to promote transparency, reproducibility, and scientific progress.

Where sharing is restricted due to privacy, security, licensing, or legal considerations, authors should provide a clear explanation of the restrictions and, where possible, alternative access mechanisms.

Ethics Approval and Consent

Manuscripts reporting studies involving human participants or animals must include:

  • A statement of ethics approval

  • The name of the approving ethics committee

  • Reference numbers where applicable

Studies involving human-AI interaction, user evaluations, surveys, behavioral experiments, or collection of personal data should clearly describe consent procedures and participant protections.

 

Essential Submission Checks

Before submission, authors must ensure that:

  • The manuscript is the final version

  • The work is not under review or published elsewhere

  • Permissions have been obtained for reused material

  • The manuscript is submitted in the required file format

  • No abbreviations or citations appear in the abstract

  • Non-standard abbreviations are defined on first use

  • All supplementary files are included

  • All AI-generated content, datasets, or tools used in the research have been appropriately disclosed where relevant

Following review, authors may be requested to provide editable files, higher-resolution figures, source code, supplementary materials, model documentation, or revisions to align with the journal style and reporting standards.