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).
The submission file is in Microsoft Word, RTF or OpenOffice document file format. PDF format is not acceptable at the stage of submission.
Where available, URLs and/or DOI for the references must be provided.
The text should be single-spaced, use a 10-point font, and employ italics rather than underlining (except for URLs). All illustrations, figures, and tables should be placed within the text at appropriate points rather than at the end.
The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
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.'
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.
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).
Author Guidelines
Manuscript submissions
The International Journal on Robotics, Automation and Sciences (IJORAS) welcomes contributions within the journal’s scope. Decisions will generally be made after peer review, normally within two months of receiving the submission.
Types of Submissions IJORAS considers following submission:
Full Paper - The manuscript must include the following sections: Introduction, Methodology, Results, Conclusion, Acknowledgements, Funding Statement, Author Contributions, Conflict of Interest, Ethics Statement, and References (minimum of 3,500 words).
Peer Review Process
Authors bear full responsibility for ensuring that manuscripts submitted to IJORAS have not been published, have not been copyrighted, and will not be submitted or published elsewhere in English or any other language. Each author agrees that copyright for the article will be transferred to the publisher upon acceptance. The Editors reserve the right to decline a submitted manuscript without review if the work reported is not sufficiently novel or important to merit publication in the journal or is of limited interest to the target audience. The Editor seeks advice from experts in the relevant field. All manuscripts are refereed by a minimum of two reviewers, or three in cases of inconsistent recommendations. The final decision on acceptance will be made by the Executive Editor or, in the case of conflict, by the Editor-in-Chief.
Manuscript Layout, Illustrations and References You may refer to the journal template for the details. You may download the template in MS Word format
Plagiarism Check
The overall similarity index of the manuscript, as determined by Turnitin (or another equivalent internet-based plagiarism detection service), is at most 20%.
