AUTHORS' GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION

Authors should submit their manuscripts electronically through the Journal website submission system to the editorial team. JEASD Website: https://jeasd.uomustansiriyah.edu.iq/index.php/jeasd

            

1. PREPARATION OF MANUSCRIPTS

Manuscripts must be submitted only in English. Manuscripts should be written according to sound grammar and proper terminology. Manuscript submission must be applied once in order to obtain only one submission ID number. More than one submission for a single manuscript can lose the chance of manuscript consideration. The manuscript must be accompanied by a Title Page including the title and author(s) name and their affiliation. The author(s) must use the journal's template, provided in this paragraph, to prepare and present the manuscript. The template form can be downloaded from the following links:

                                         English Template       

 

 1-1: English Language Writing

All publications in the JEASD are in the English language. Authors whose first language is not English should make sure their manuscript is written in idiomatic English before submission. Please write your text in good English (American or British usage is accepted, but not a mixture of these). No language and copy-editing services are provided by the JEASD; hence, authors who feel their manuscript may require editing to eliminate possible grammatical or spelling errors are encouraged to obtain such services prior to submission. Authors are responsible for all costs associated with such services. 

 1-2: New Submissions

Submission to JEASD journal proceeds totally online and authors will be guided stepwise through the creation and uploading of the manuscript files. As part of the manuscript, authors may choose to submit the manuscript as a single file to be used in the refereeing process. This can be a Word document (*.docx), that can be used by referees to evaluate the manuscript. All figures and tables are encouraged to be embedded and included in the main manuscript file.

 

1-3: References

References list must be provided according to the format of the JEASD reference in a consistent style. Where applicable, author(s) name(s), article title, year of publication, journal abbreviation, article/chapter/book title, volume/issue number, and the pagination must be present. The use of DOI is highly encouraged. The author(s) are advised to use the following link to match references to DOIs using Crossref Metadata search:

https://search.crossref.org/references

 1-4: Formatting requirements

All manuscripts must contain the essential elements needed to convey your manuscript, for example, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion, Acknowledgement, Conflict of Interest, and References. Please ensure all figures and tables should be embedded and included in the main manuscript file. To avoid unnecessary errors the authors are strongly advised to use 'spell-check' and 'grammar-check' for the submitted manuscript.

 1-5: Manuscript Submission and Declaration

While submitting a manuscript to JEASD, all contributing author(s) must verify that the manuscript represents authentic and valid work and that neither this manuscript nor one with significantly similar content under their authorship has been published or is being considered for publication elsewhere including electronically in the same form, in English. All authors have agreed to allow the corresponding author to serve as the primary correspondent with the editorial office, to review the edited manuscript and proof.

 1-6: Manuscript Submission and Verification

Manuscripts are assumed not to be published previously in print or electronic versions and are not under consideration by another publication. Copies of related or possibly duplicated materials (including those containing significantly similar content or using the same data) that have been published previously or are under consideration for another publication must be provided at the time of online submission.

2. MANUSCRIPT STRUCTURE

Manuscript literature and tenses must be structured as Title; Abstract; Keywords; Introduction; Materials and Methods; Results and Discussion; Conclusion; Acknowledgements and References submitted in a file with limited size.

 2-1: Title Page

The first page of the manuscript includes the title (UPPERCASE) of the article. The title should be limited to 15 words or less and should not contain abbreviations, followed by one-line space and the names of all authors (no degrees) and their affiliations for correspondence, including the e-mail address of the corresponding author. The first letter of each name and main word should be capitalized. The title, author's name, and affiliation should be centered on the width of the typing area.

 2-2: Manuscript Title

The title of up to 15 words should not contain the name of locations, countries, or cities of the research as well as abbreviations. Avoid complicated and technical expressions and do not use vague expressions.

2-3: Abstract

An abstract of 150 to 250 words that sketches the purpose of the study; basic procedures; main findings; novelty; discussions and principal conclusions, should not contain any undefined abbreviations or references.

2-4: Keywords

Provide 4 to 8 keywords that can be used for indexing purposes. Keywords should not repeat the words of the manuscript title or contain abbreviations and shall be written in alphabetical order and separated by semicolons. Abbreviations should be defined at first mention and used consistently thereafter throughout the text.

2-5: Introduction

Describe briefly the background of the investigation with updated information, and state the aim of the study.

2-6: Materials and Methods

Provide sufficient details to enable the experiments to be reproduced. Metric and standard international units should be used in this section and throughout the manuscript. Specify the computer software used for statistical analysis and define statistical terms, abbreviations, and symbols applied.

2-7: Results

Present the results and their significance clearly. Graphs and tables should be self-explanatory. Do not repeat in figures or in the text the data presented in tables. Tables and figures should be numbered in the order of their mention in the text.

2-8: Discussion

Deal with critical review and interpretations of the results, and is supported by relevant updated references. Repetition of data should be avoided. It should end with brief conclusions. In Short Communications, Results and Discussion may be combined.

2-9: Conclusion

This section should highlight the major, firm discoveries and state the added value of the main finding, without literature references.

 2-10: Acknowledgements

Acknowledgments of people, grants, funds, etc. should be placed in a separate section before the reference list. The names of funding organizations should be written in full. Financial support affiliation of the study, if exists, must be mentioned in this section. Thereby, the Grant number of financial support must be included.

 2-11: Conflict of Interest

A conflict of interest statement must be placed in the manuscript as below: "The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest regarding the publication of this manuscript".

Author Contribution Statements

The Author Contributions section should specify the exact contributions of each author in a narrative form. For instance:

Authors A.B. and C.D: proposed the research problem.

Author A.B.: developed the theory and performed the computations.

Author C.D.: verified the analytical methods and investigated [a specific aspect] and supervised the findings of this work.

Both authors discussed the results and contributed to the final manuscript.

Data Availability 

This section is optional and can be added by the author(s) if applicable, to address the availability of non-standard data used in the paper.

 

Reference 

If you use reference management applications like EndNote, Mendeley, or LaTeX, simply use IEEE style for referencing. If not, you can follow the guideline below:

Basic format for periodicals:

10. K. Author, “Name of paper,” Abbrev. Title of Periodical, vol. x, no. x, pp. xxx-xxx, Abbrev. Month, year, doi: 10.1109.XXX.1234567.

 

Periodicals using article numbers:

10. K. Author, “Name of paper,” Abbrev. Title of Periodical, vol. x, no. x, Abbrev. Month, year, Art. no. xxxxx, doi: 10.1109.XXX.1234567.

 

Examples:

• U. Duncombe, “Infrared navigation—Part I: An assessment of feasibility,” IEEE Trans. Electron Devices, vol. ED-11, no. 1, pp. 34–39, Jan. 1959, doi: 10.1109/TED.2016.2628402.
• P. Wigner, “Theory of traveling-wave optical laser,” Phys. Rev., vol. 134, pp. A635–A646, Dec. 1965.
• Kopyt et al., “Electric properties of graphene-based conductive layers from DC up to terahertz range,” IEEE THz Sci. Technol., to be published, doi: 10.1109/TTHZ.2016.2544142. (Note: If a paper is still to be published, but is available in early access, please follow ref [5]).)
• Fardel, M. Nagel, F. Nuesch, T. Lippert, and A. Wokaun, “Fabrication of organic light emitting diode pixels by laser-assisted forward transfer,” Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 91, no. 6, Aug. 2007, Art. no. 061103. 
• Comite and N. Pierdicca, "Decorrelation of the near-specular land scattering in bistatic radar systems," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., early access, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2021.3072864. (Note: This format is used for articles in early access. The doi must be included.)
• V. Habi and H. Messer, "Recurrent neural network for rain estimation using commercial microwave links," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 59, no. 5, pp. 3672-3681, May 2021. [Online]. Available: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9153027

 

Basic format for books:

1. K. Author, “Title of chapter in the book,” in Title of Published Book, xth ed. City of Publisher, (only U.S. State), Country: Abbrev. of Publisher, year, ch. x, sec. x, pp. xxx–xxx.

 

Examples:

• O. Young, “Synthetic structure of industrial plastics,” in Plastics, 2nd ed., vol. 3, J. Peters, Ed. New York, NY, USA: McGraw-Hill, 1964, pp. 15–64.
• -K. Chen, Linear Networks and Systems. Belmont, CA, USA: Wadsworth, 1993, pp. 123–135.
• Philip B. Kurland and Ralph Lerner, eds., The Founders’ Constitution. Chicago, IL, USA: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1987, Accessed on: Feb. 28, 2010, [Online]. Available: http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/

 

Basic format for handbooks:

Name of Manual/Handbook, x ed., Abbrev. Name of Co., City of Co., Abbrev. State, Country, year, pp. xxx-xxx.

 

Examples:

• Transmission Systems for Communications, 3rd ed., Western Electric Co., Winston-Salem, NC, USA, 1985, pp. 44–60.
• Motorola Semiconductor Data Manual, Motorola Semiconductor Products Inc., Phoenix, AZ, USA, 1989.
• J. Hijmans and J. van Etten, “Raster: Geographic analysis and modeling with raster data,” R Package Version 2.0-12, Jan. 12, 2012. [Online]. Available: http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=raster

 

Basic format for reports:

1. K. Author, “Title of report,” Abbrev. Name of Co., City of Co., Abbrev. State, Country, Rep. xxx, year.

 

Example:

• E. Reber, R. L. Michell, and C. J. Carter, “Oxygen absorption in the earth’s atmosphere,” Aerospace Corp., Los Angeles, CA, USA, Tech. Rep. TR-0200 (4230-46)-3, Nov. 1988.

 

Basic format for conference proceedings:

1. K. Author, “Title of paper,” in Abbreviated Name of Conf., City of Conf., Abbrev. State (if given), Country, year, pp. xxxxxx.

 

Examples:

• B. Payne and J. R. Stern, “Wavelength-switched passively coupled single-mode optical network,” in Proc. IOOC-ECOC, Boston, MA, USA, 1985, pp. 585–590.
• Ebehard and E. Voges, “Digital single sideband detection for interferometric sensors,” presented at the 2nd Int. Conf. Optical Fiber Sensors, Stuttgart, Germany, Jan. 2-5, 1984.
• PROCESS Corporation, Boston, MA, USA. Intranets: Internet technologies deployed behind the firewall for corporate productivity. Presented at INET96 Annual Meeting. [Online]. Available: http://home.process.com/Intranets/wp2.htp

 

Basic format for electronic documents (when available online):

Issuing Organization. (year, month day). Title. [Type of medium]. Available: site/path/file

 

Example:

• S. House. 102nd Congress, 1st Session. (1991, Jan. 11). H. Con. Res. 1, Sense of the Congress on Approval of Military Action. [Online]. Available: LEXIS Library: GENFED File: BILLS

 

Basic format for patents:

1. K. Author, “Title of patent,” U.S. Patent x xxx xxx, Abbrev. Month, day, year.

 

Example:

• Brandli and M. Dick, “Alternating current fed power supply,” U.S. Patent 4 084 217, Nov. 4, 1978.

 

Basic format for theses (M.S.) and dissertations (Ph.D.):

1. K. Author, “Title of thesis,” M.S. thesis, Abbrev. Dept., Abbrev. Univ., City of Univ., Abbrev. State, year.
2. K. Author, “Title of dissertation,” Ph.D. dissertation, Abbrev. Dept., Abbrev. Univ., City of Univ., Abbrev. State, year.

 

Examples:

• O. Williams, “Narrow-band analyzer,” Ph.D. dissertation, Dept. Elect. Eng., Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA, USA, 1993.
• Kawasaki, “Parametric study of thermal and chemical nonequilibrium nozzle flow,” M.S. thesis, Dept. Electron. Eng., Osaka Univ., Osaka, Japan, 1993.

 

Basic format for the most common types of unpublished references:

1. K. Author, private communication, Abbrev. Month, year.
2. K. Author, “Title of paper,” unpublished.
3. K. Author, “Title of paper,” to be published.

 

Examples:

• Harrison, private communication, May 1995.
• Smith, “An approach to graphs of linear forms,” 2014, arXiv:2105.02824.
• Brahms, “Representation error for real numbers in binary computer arithmetic,” IEEE Computer Group Repository, Paper R-67-85.

 

Basic formats for standards:

1. a) Title of Standard, Standard number, date.
2. b) Title of Standard, Standard number, Corporate author, location, date.

 

Examples:

• IEEE Criteria for Class IE Electric Systems, IEEE Standard 308, 1969.
• Letter Symbols for Quantities, ANSI Standard Y10.5-1968.

 

Basic format for datasets: 

Author,  Date, Year. “Title of Dataset,” distributed by Publisher/Distributor, http://url.com (or if DOI is used, end with a period)

 

Example: 

• S. Department of Health and Human Services, Aug. 2013, “Treatment Episode Dataset: Discharges (TEDS-D): Concatenated, 2006 to 2009,” U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Office of Applied Studies, doi: 10.3886/ICPSR30122.v2.

 

Basic format for code:

Author,  Date published or disseminated, Year. “Complete title, including ed./vers.#,” distributed by Publisher/Distributor, http://url.com (or if DOI is used, end with a period)

 

Example: 

• D’Martin and S. Soares, 2019, “Code for Assessment of Markov Decision Processes in Long-Term Hydrothermal Scheduling of Single-Reservoir Systems (Version 1.0),” Code Ocean, doi: _1.24433/CO.7212286.v1

Appendix – A (Optional)

If there is a need for some derivations or equations which is important to support the research, they should be inserted after the references. The equations are numbered according to the type of appendix. For example