JCSDA is published by Addis Ababa Science and Technology (AASTU) press. The journal aims to serve as an avenue for communications in the advancement of computational science and data analytics. It is an open journal with free access to the publications to the wider scientific community. Hence, greater visibility.

 

Copyright : contents of JCSDA website are subject to the Ethiopian law on intellectual property and are the exclusive property of the publisher. Articles can be accessed and reproduced on paper or digital media, provided that they are strictly used for personal, scientific or educational purposes excluding any commercial exploitation. Reproduction must necessarily cite the publication.

 

General rules:

The article must be sent to the Issue Coordinator by e-mail (check the Call for Papers) or submitted on the journal submission platform online. The article is then made anonymous and reviewed by three referees (researchers in close related fields). Their comments are synthesized then sent to the author who must produce a revised version of his/her text within 4 to 6 weeks. If accepted by the coordinator, the article is then sent to the executive committee for a last check. The executive committee gives final acceptance (or sends back to the author for minor changes, or possible rejection).

We greatly appreciate that you follow the specifications carefully.

Manuscript formatting:

Structure of the article:

Article length: Between 6000 and 8000 words maximum, including notes and bibliography. Titles and paragraphs

The text needs to be typed with microsoft word:

• Font Times New Roman
• Format 12, Single Line spacing

 

NO LAYOUT.

Do not have ANY layout (with the exception of quotations*): the articles will be directly formatted by the Editorial Board and the in-house editor according to our specific program, therefore all previous styling increases the amount of work.

*Quotations: - verbal quotation (interviews): in Italics

• quotation over 5 lines long: line feed

Text presentation

The manuscript should be prepared in English. Your article should be arranged in the following order :

The title of the article must follow the mention TITLE: followed by title (idem for SUB-title).

Name or Names of author(s) after the mention AUTHOR(S) : followed by Author’s 1st name and Name, discipline, institution, email address.

(example: AUTHORS : Jean Paul, historien, Addis Ababa Science and Technology University, Department of Civil Engineering, 16417 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, email: author@aastu.edu.et)

NB: abstract in English is necessary. KEYWORDS = (min 3 and max 10) Main body of the article:

Each paragraph with its title must follow heading 1 = title of paragraph Title for each subsection must follow heading 2= and heading 3= ...

Notes : Must appear as footnotes, in numerical order (1,2,3,…), in the same font as the rest of the text.

References throughout the text: Author’s name year: page, between brackets. Ex: (Hubert 1986 : 26)

Bibliography

Bibliographic references should be placed at the end of the article, in alphabetical order. NB: only works mentioned in the text are to be placed in the Bibliography.

APA reference style needs to be used

 

Tables and illustrations:

Illustrations must be placed in the body of the text by the author. The text must explicitly refer to the illustration. Refer as follows:

Title

Example : Figure 1 : Objective function values versus iteration number

<<illustration>> (either Word 1997-2003) or JPG) Legend (if necessary)

Credit or Source.

Titles of illustrations must be placed above. Legends must be placed under illustrations.

NB: Authors must be aware that it is impossible to prevent the free circulation of pictures on the internet. However, as a protection, JCSDA inserts a logo on each photo:

Authorship:

The Editorial Board and the Scientific Committee endorse the intention to conform and promote good practices with regards to intellectual property and recognition.

The issue of « authorship » is essential to defend the individual interest of contributors to the journal.

• The conditions required for attributing authorship,
• The order of authors,
• Authorship should be reserved for those, and only those, who have made significant intellectual contribution to the research. Participation solely in the acquisition of funding or general supervision of the research group is not sufficient for authorship. Honorary authorship is not acceptable.

• Everyone who is listed as an author should have made a substantial direct academic contribution (i.e. intellectual responsibility and substantive work) to at least two of the four main components of a typical scientific project or paper:

Conception or design

Data collection and processing Analysis and interpretation of the data

Writing substantial sections of the paper (e.g. synthesizing findings in the literature review or the findings / results section)

• Everyone listed as an author should have critically reviewed successive drafts of the paper and should approve the final
• Everyone listed as an author should be able to defend the paper as a whole (although not necessarily all the technical details).

The person who has made the major contribution to the paper and / or taken the lead in writing, is entitled to be the first author.

Decisions about who should be an author, the order of authors and those included in the acknowledgements should usually be made by the first author in consultation with other authors.

Those who have made a major contribution to the analysis or writing (i.e. more than commenting in detail on successive drafts) are entitled to follow the first author immediately; where there is a clear difference in the size of these contributions, this should be reflected in the order of appearance of these authors.

All other persons who fulfill the criteria for authorship should appear as authors in alphabetical order.

If all the authors feel that they have contributed equally to the paper, this can be indicated in a footnote.

 

Acknowledgement

All persons who make a substantial contribution to a paper without fulfilling the criteria for authorship should be acknowledged, usually in an acknowledgement section specifying their contribution. These may concern interviewers, survey management staff, data processors, computing staff, clerical staff, statistical advisers, colleagues who have reviewed the paper, students who have undertaken some sectional work, the supervisor of a research team and someone who has provided assistance in obtaining funding.

Plagiarism

JCSDA is concerned with the basic rules in ethics of publication and is therefore supporting the law on intellectual property. Every person publishing in JCSDA (author, reviewer, guest editor) must accept and respect intellectual property and avoid plagiarism.

In case of plagiarism, the editorial team will contact the author(s) to discuss the case. The aim is to find a solution and avoid plagiarism in the revised version of the text.

In case plagiarism is not perceived by the program before publication, JCSDA will first check the facts then apologize to the author who has been copied. Moreover the plagiarism will then be brought to institutional level, and the head of the editorial board will contact the head of the institution where the plagiat-author is employed.

May 2023 JCSDA