As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

• The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
• I have stated the article type that best describes this submission, and the manuscript follows the recommended structure for that type.
• For submissions containing images (especially Visual or Photo Essays and Creative Practice Papers), I hold the rights to all images, have obtained consent from identifiable people, have captioned every image, and have disclosed any editing, compositing or use of AI.
• The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines (Style Guide).
• Authors must provide an Acknowledgement and Funding Information for each article. Articles written without funding may state: 'The authors received no funding from any party for the research and publication of this article.'
• Upon the acceptance of publication, authors must consent to assign the copyright in the article to MMU Press, Multimedia University (registered as Universiti Telekom Sdn Bhd).
• The corresponding author should ensure all co-authors have agreed to the manuscript submission for publication. Authors are obliged to participate in the peer review process and cooperate fully by responding to editors’ requests.
• At the time of the submission of the manuscript, all authors must consent to publishing the article under an irrevocable Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) License
• Authors must ensure that all submitted work is original. Plagiarism in any form is unacceptable. Manuscripts with a Turnitin similarity index above 10% may be rejected or returned for revision. Any use of generative AI or AI-assisted technologies must comply with IJCM’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Usage Policy and be disclosed where required.
• When authors encounter significant errors in their own published work, it is their obligation to notify the journal’s editors and cooperate with them to amend the paper.