Author Guidelines

These guidelines explain how to prepare and submit a manuscript to Applied Information System and Management (AISM) (e-ISSN 2621-2544, p-ISSN 2621-2536). Manuscripts that do not follow the guidelines and the AISM template are returned to the authors before review.

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1. Before You Submit

• The manuscript reports original work in the field of applied Information Systems or Information Systems Management, within the journal's Focus and Scope.
• It has not been published before and is not under consideration by another journal or conference.
• It is written in English and prepared with the AISM template.
• It has a maximum of six authors, each meeting the Authorship Criteria.
• Manuscripts are submitted only through the online submission system, not by email. No submission fee is charged; a publication fee applies only after acceptance (see Publication Fees).

2. Article Types

Type	Description
Full research paper	Original empirical, design, or technical research with a complete method, results, and discussion.
Review paper	Systematic literature review, bibliometric analysis, meta-analysis, or structured synthesis, with a transparent search and selection protocol (e.g., PRISMA).
Short communication	Concise report of preliminary findings, a technical note, or an applied innovation.

A full research paper is about 12 pages in the AISM template, including tables, figures, and references.

3. Manuscript Structure

Part	Requirements
Title	About 10–15 words; specific and informative; no unexplained abbreviations or promotional wording.
Authors and affiliations	Full names without academic titles; institution, department or faculty, city, and country; email address of each author; ORCID iD (strongly recommended). Mark the corresponding author with an asterisk and use an active institutional email address.
Abstract	One paragraph of 150–200 words in English, stating the problem, objective, method, main results, and contribution. No citations, tables, figures, or undefined abbreviations.
Keywords	3–5 terms that support indexing, separated by commas.
Introduction	Background, problem, urgency, research gap, novelty, objective, and contribution.
Related Work	A critical comparison and synthesis of previous studies, mainly from journal articles, not a list of summaries.
Research Method	Research design, data, instruments, participants or sample, tools, and analysis, in enough detail to allow replication. Ethics approval and informed consent are reported here when human participants are involved.
Results and Discussion	Findings presented with tables and figures and interpreted against the objective and previous studies, including limitations.
Conclusion	Answers the objective, states the contribution and implications, and suggests future work. No new data, and not a repeat of the abstract.
Acknowledgment	Optional. Thanks to people or institutions that helped the research.
Declarations	Six required statements (see Section 4).
References	IEEE style; only sources cited in the text (see Section 6).

4. Declarations

Every manuscript includes the following six statements, placed after the Acknowledgment and before the References. If a statement does not apply, say so explicitly. Examples are given in the template.

Statement	Content
Author Contributions	The role of each author, preferably using the CRediT taxonomy. See Authorship Criteria.
Funding	All sources of funding with grant numbers, and the funder's role; or "This research received no external funding."
Conflict of Interest	Any financial or non-financial interest that could influence the work, or a statement that there is none. See Conflict of Interest.
Generative AI Use	Whether AI tools were used; if so, the tool and version, purpose, and confirmation that the authors reviewed the output. See Generative AI Policy.
Ethics Approval and Informed Consent	The approving ethics committee and approval number, and confirmation of informed consent, for research involving human participants or personal data (including questionnaires and interviews).
Data Availability	Where and how the data supporting the findings can be accessed, or why they cannot be shared. See Data Availability.

5. Tables, Figures, and Equations

• Number tables and figures consecutively and cite each one in the text (e.g., "Table 1", "Fig. 1").
• Place table titles above the table and figure captions below the figure.
• Use editable tables, not images of tables. Figures must be clear and readable at print size (at least 300 dpi).
• Third-party figures or tables require permission and a source note in the caption (see Copyright and License).
• Number equations consecutively in parentheses at the right margin, e.g., (1), and define all symbols.

6. References and Citation Style

• Use the IEEE style: cite sources in the text with numbers in square brackets, in order of first appearance, e.g., [1], [2]–[4].
• Use a reference manager such as Mendeley, Zotero, or EndNote.
• Use at least 30 references, with at least 80% published within the last five years, preferably from reputable journals, preferably Scopus-indexed.
• Include the DOI of each reference where available. List only sources cited in the text.
• Self-citation should be relevant and limited.

Examples

7. Ethics and Screening

• Every manuscript is checked for similarity with Turnitin (below 20%) and for AI-generated text (below 30%) before review.
• Authors follow the Publication Ethics, Plagiarism Policy, and Generative AI Policy. AI tools cannot be listed as authors.
• Suspected misconduct is handled under the Research Misconduct policy.

8. How to Submit

1. Register an account on the journal website with the Author role, and complete your profile (affiliation, country, and ORCID iD).
2. Click Make a New Submission and choose the article type.
3. Upload the manuscript in .docx format, prepared with the template.
4. Enter the metadata: title, abstract, keywords, references, and all authors with their affiliations and countries, exactly as in the manuscript.
5. Upload supplementary files, if any, and confirm the submission. You will receive an acknowledgment by email.

9. After Submission

• Manuscripts pass editorial screening and are then reviewed double-blind by at least two reviewers (see Peer Review Process). The first decision is usually made within about two months.
• Revised manuscripts are due within 14 days for minor revisions and 30 days for major revisions, with a response to each reviewer comment.
• Accepted manuscripts are copyedited and typeset, and the corresponding author checks the proof before publication. The time from submission to publication is around four months.
• Articles are published open access under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, and authors retain copyright.

Questions about preparing a manuscript can be sent to aism.journal@apps.uinjkt.ac.id.