This guide is written for authors who wish to submit articles to the Journal of Soft Computing and Artificial Intelligence. The publication language for our journals is English.
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Before submitting an article, please review the Journal of Soft Computing and Artificial Intelligence tabs for "Aim & Scope" and "Ethical Principles and Publication Policy." Also, make sure that all the criteria listed below are met in your article file.

Rules for writing
For more details and suggestions on formatting an article, please see our Author's Guide below. After completing the preparation of your manuscript, The following 3 documents must be uploaded to the system.

Research Article

A research article presents the results of original research and evaluates its value to the state of knowledge in a particular field by presenting the relevant facts and conclusions in a systematic and logical format. Research articles should be no longer than 20 pages, include an abstract of no more than 300 words, no more than 60 references, and include no more than 10 figures and tables.

Review Articles

A review article is written to highlight the most current advances, discoveries, and ideas in a variety of fields. Review articles must provide an objective overview of the current state of knowledge of the topic. Review articles should address topics that fall within the journal's purview and are of active, current interest. Review articles should be no more than 20 pages in length, contain an abstract of no more than 300 words, include no more than 120 references, and contain no more than 12 figures and tables in total. Major sections should be numbered consecutively (1. Introduction, 2. Historical Context, etc.), while subsections should be numbered 1.1, 1.2, and so on. All reviews must include an introduction, conclusion, and intervening paragraphs with appropriate section headings. The introduction should emphasise the importance of the topic, while the body and references should be detailed. Reviews must be supported by the author's own previously published work(s).

General Requirements
Articles for this journal should be no longer than 20 pages, including appendices, figures, and tables. Tables and figures should be inserted directly into the article, close to where they are cited. Both tables and figures should be numbered consecutively from 1 to n. Do not start the numbering over for each section of the article. The article should be written in Microsoft Word. It has been our experience that short articles are often better and more logical, so we stick to a fairly strict page limit. It is important that authors follow our instructions carefully. To help you do this, we have written this document in the recommended format, and the Word version above includes embedded style sheets.

Page Limit
The full text should not exceed 20 pages. It should include an abstract of up to 300 words. The 20 pages should include all tables, figures, and references.

Margins
The main text of the article should be 1.15 and justified in Times New Roman font (11 point).  

Spacing
Use a space after punctuation marks such as periods, commas, semicolons, and colons. Do not use a space after periods in abbreviations (e.g., i.e., etc., U.S.).

Title
For main headings, use Times New Roman font, 14 point, bold, with all capital letters capitalized and centered.  For second-level headings, use Times New Roman font, 11 point, and capitalize the first letter of the first word. Please use MS Word fonts for headings. 

Header / Footer
Please do not include headers or footers in your article.

Summary and keywords
Use no more than 300 words in the abstract to indicate the nature of the topic and briefly summarize the findings of the article. In the next cell, write "Keywords:" followed by up to five keywords.

The body of the article
The main body of the article should be paginated in two columns and should be between 5 and 20 pages long, starting with the introduction  and ending with the reference page(s). Page numbers should appear at the bottom of the pages.

Footnotes, figures, and tables
Footnotes
Footnotes are generally not recommended, but may be used when necessary. They should be numbered consecutively and separated from the text at the bottom of the page on which they appear by a line one inch long. Two footnotes on the same page should be separated by a line space. Be sure to follow the margin requirements at the bottom of the page. Footnotes should not be inserted into equations.
Figures and tables
Use 10 pt Times New Roman font for figures and table captions. Figures and tables should be placed immediately after the first citation in the text and should be placed so that they can be easily referred to when reading the text. Try to make them as readable as possible. Captions should be below the figure, centered, not bolded, and there should be no periods after the figure number or at the end of the line. Table captions should be placed above the table, with the table number on the first line, the description on the next line, both lines left justified, and no periods at the end of the table number, or two lines above the table. Leave one line of space between the end of the caption and the table. For both table and figure captions, capitalize only the first letter of the first word, unless the word is normally capitalized. Do not use bold fonts. Do not use periods after table and figure numbers or at the ends of lines. Look at all the tables and figures in the text. Tables should be centered across the page whenever possible, as shown in Table 1. The entries in the cells of the table should be left-aligned. The font used for cell entries is at the author's discretion. In general, tables look better and are easier to read if you minimize the number of vertical lines and use only horizontal lines whenever possible, as shown in the template file.

Reference Quotations
Please use the IEEE Citation Reference to format your references. Books, journals, and other references should be numbered in the main text of the document.

Citations
If a citation has two or more sentences and four or more lines, it should be separated from the main text by 1.5-inch left and right margins.

Formulas
All formulas should be on separate lines, aligned, and numbered consecutively. Make sure all symbols are adequately defined. Identification numbers should be written on the right side of the formula.

Attachments
If it is necessary to include an appendix in your paper, the appendices should follow the main text of the paper and precede the references. Please use appendices judiciously. All tables and figures should be cited in the text and placed in the body of the paper as close as possible to where they are referenced in the text. After appendices, other statements should be written in the following order:

Thanks
If you would like to thank the reviewers, editors, or others who contributed to the study, you should write these acknowledgements under the heading "Acknowledgments" before the references.

Information on the fund or financing
Please provide all the details requested by your funding and donor agencies at Funding: This study is supported by the XXX Scientific Research Projects Coordination Unit. Project number: xxx-xx-xxx. If you have not received support, the note "The author(s) has/have not received financial support for the research, authorship, or publication of this work" must be written under this heading. (The author has not received financial support for the research, authorship, or publication of this study).

Resources
All sources cited in the text should be included in the bibliography, and all entries in the reference list should be given in the text in the style of IEEE. An example of a source list can be found below.

[1] M. Štěpnička, P. Cortez, J. P. Donate, and L. Štěpničková, “Forecasting seasonal time series with computational intelligence: On recent methods and the potential of their combinations,” Expert Syst.  Appl., vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 1981–1992, 2013, doi: 10.1016/j.eswa.2012.10.001.

[2] M. C. Lee, “Using support vector machine with a hybrid feature selection method to the stock trend prediction,” Expert Syst. Appl., vol. 36, no. 8, pp. 10896–10904, 2009, doi: 10.1016/j.eswa.2009.02.038.

[3] M. Yasir et al., “An intelligent event-sentiment-based daily foreign exchange rate forecasting system,” Appl. Sci., vol. 9, no. 15, 2019, doi: 10.3390/app9152980.

[4] D. Shah, H. Isah, and F. Zulkernine, “Stock market analysis: A review and taxonomy of prediction techniques,” Int. J. Financ. Stud., vol. 7, no. 2, 2019, doi: 10.3390/ijfs7020026.

Article file
This file contains the title of the article, abstract, keywords, introduction of the main text, materials and methods, results, discussion, acknowledgements, funding information, conflict-free statement, authors' contribution, ethics committee approval statement, research and publication ethics statement, and references; appendices (if any) should contain information.

ORCID
All authors submitting articles must have an Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) identifier (ID) linked to their affiliated organizations' accounts. We encourage all authors and reviewers to register for a free ORCID ID or link it to their existing ORCID ID account when updating their account, submitting an article, or reviewing an article in our peer review system.