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 IJISDS to which they are submitted.

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Authors are required to prepare their manuscripts using the official IJISDS 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

Author Rights

The International Journal of Intelligent Systems and Data Science (IJISDS) is published under an open-access model by Femington. Authors retain copyright and scholarly usage rights to their work. By publishing in IJISDS, 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.

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Plagiarism and Research Misconduct

IJISDS 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

Web-based tools are used to compare submissions against databases of scholarly publications. Manuscripts found to violate research integrity standards may be rejected, corrected, or retracted in line with accepted publishing ethics practices.

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Responsible Conduct of Research and Ethics

Authors submitting to IJISDS 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, integrity, and ethical scholarly practice.

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

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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 or scholarly output

• Acquisition of research data involving substantial intellectual judgement, planning, or design

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

• Analysis or interpretation of research data

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

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

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Declaration of Interest

All authors must disclose any financial or personal relationships that could be perceived as influencing or biasing their work. Any potential conflicts of interest must be declared at the time of submission.

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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, including the role of the funding body in the research or publication process.

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Research Data

IJISDS encourages authors to share data, code, and supporting materials that underpin their research publications, where appropriate and ethically permissible, in order to promote transparency and reproducibility.

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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.