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Author Guidelines

General Guidelines

The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration.

• Use the ITDM guide of authors as Template manuscript must in English and your guideline for preparing your articles.
• Manuscripts are written for ITDM include research results in the field of Information Technology disciplines using English. It is recommended that Authors using Grammarly, QuillBot, or Deep Translator for the English submission before submit their papers.
• ITDM does not accept manuscript by email. Submission must be done via the journal website. For those who has never registered, please register first.
• The length of the manuscript is expected not to exceed 10 pages. Writing the script must follow the rules provided in the template.
• The manuscript writing is recommended with the structural section as follows: Introduction - Literature Review - Research Methods - Results and Discussion - Conclusions.
• Citation and bibliography used preferably in the last 5 years (at least 75%) and derived from reputable journals. References from journals of at least 60% of those written.
• All illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
• When submitting a manuscript, it is also mandatory that Authors read statement of the publication ethics and copyright agreements. The ethics statement of the publication is expected to be read, obeyed and signed before sending.
• Every text in ITDM is reviewed by reviewers with a double-blind review system. All review processes are done online through the web and the progress of the manuscript can be monitored by the author through the website.
• Every manuscript sent until it is accepted by the editor will not be the same time, depending on the review process of each manuscript. It is hoped that the duration may take around three months from the manuscript submission until its acceptance.
• The manuscript is checked by Turnitin, and if the result is more than 20%, it will be rejected.
• It is mandatory that Authors to use Reference Management Software (e.g., Mendeley, EndNote, or Zotero) for managing their bibliography with IEEE citation style.
• Everything related to the citation or use of computer software for making manuscripts or other matters related to intellectual property rights carried out by the manuscript writer, along with the legal consequences that may arise due to it, are the full responsibility of the manuscript writer.

How to Submit Your Manuscript

All manuscripts should be submitted online via the ITDM Website.

First, Register and Login are required to submit items online and to check the status of current submissions. The authors have to create a user account and be registered as an author. They can register by their self as a Reader, an Author and/or a Reviewer at the Registration page. In this registration page, in order to finish and submit the registration data, all fields with an asterisk beside them are mandatory.

Furthermore, you can login to the journal website and edit your profile at a later date, including your password and role within the same journal. To view and edit your profile, login and click the Edit My Profile link from the User Home page. Alternatively, once logged in you can always click the My Profile link from the User Navigation block on the sidebar, if available. From here, you can update your email address, change your account information, or change your password. To reset your password, it is a simple process if you remember it and just want to change it to something else: login, and from your User Home page click the Change Password link. You will have to enter your current password, and then your new password twice. Please, remember your email and use it if you forgot your log in data to ask the data via the system by following several steps:

• Click the Login link on the topmost navigation bar.
• Click the Forgot Your Password link.
• Enter your email address in the box provided, and click the Reset Password link. This will send a confirmation email to your email address (if you do not see an email in your Inbox, check your spam folder).
• The email will include a link to reset your password: click it, and you should return to the journal website.
• On returning to the journal website, you should be notified that an email containing a new password has been sent to your email address. Check for that second email, and use your new credentials to log into the site.
• After successfully logging in, you will be asked to immediately change your password. Enter the email password first (Current Password), and then a new, secret password twice (New Password, Repeat New Password).

Second, the Author can start submission through the Click Here link under the Start a New Submission heading in the Author page and then follow the five submission stages (i.e., Start, Upload Submission, Enter Metadata, Upload Supplementary Files, and Confirmation). Please, contact the Managing Editor of ITDM. The Author is able to track the submission through the review and editorial process by logging in to the journal website. 

Article Types

ITDM accepts types of the articles are:

• Full research papers;
• Review papers, which include meta-analysis and systematic review; and
• Short communications, the scientific point of view a short communication paper may be used if you are working with a hot topic and had discovered something never explored before in the literature. It will be of interest of readers and that will possibly encourage more research in the research field.

Article Structure

It is recommended for Authors of ITDM to stage their article following structure below:

Opening Part

• Title
• Author name
• Author affiliation
• Abstract
• Keyword

• Introduction
• Related Work
• Research Method
• Result
• Conclusion

• References

Writing Guidelines

In general, ITDM paper template is adopted from IEEE journal template. It is why scholars and practitioners who are concern to computer science, information technology, and engineering disciplines may be easy to follow the journal template. It is five recommended stages for Author to write paper for ITDM:

• Read and follow the general guidelines for Author of ITDM;
• Write your paper following the general guidelines for Author of ITDM within as simple as the suggested structure. If you have wrote a paper, you can revise it the paper by adopting the above-mentioned general guidelines;
• Download the ITDM template file;
• Save as the ITDM template into your ITDM paper file;
• Convert your original paper into the ITDM template by using copy-paste technique and then adapt each part following the style menu of the template. Operationally, open three MS. Word files, i.e., the original ITDM template, your original paper, and your ITDM paper. The ITDM template file is used as the standard justification format, your original paper is the main source of the writing, and your ITDM paper is paper which will be submitted to ITDM submission. In detail, you can also search the similar techniques in internet using keywords, for example: how to convert paper into IEEE template.

Besides the format guidelines as it is described in the ITDM template, the following descriptions may help Author of ITDM to prepare their paper writing:

Title

The title of your article is important related to the number of readers that it will attract when they read in the search results. It is a good summary of your work and that it addresses the right audience.

• Determine what kind of information you want to present to readers of your paper. Do you want to declare your research findings (declarative title), to descript your study (descriptive title), or to interrogate your research problem (interrogative title)?.
• Write your paper title which convey your study using the simple, clear, interesting words with around 10 words.
• Specifically, write the title following the journal template.

Author Name

It is compulsory that ITDM only accepts submission with max. 6 authors with their first name and last name. In the simple way, please refer to the academic indexation database which you have already indexed. This may help you in the indexation system. If authors who have single word, they can write their name with double word of the name. For example, if the author name is Muhammad, he has to write his name as Muhammad Muhammad. In detail, please follow the journal template for writing Author name in particular.

Author Affiliation and Email

Please, write correctly your affiliation name, affiliation address, and email following the journal template. You can write your double affiliations if any. In the simple way, please refer to the academic indexation database which you have already indexed. This may help you in the indexation system.

Abstract

Write the short descriptions of the background (which presents the problem statements), objectives, methods, findings/results, and significances of the study within around 150-200 words. Please use the past tenses for elucidating this part, in terms of a post-study which reports the research itself previously. Do not use citation here and symbols, special characters, footnotes, or Math in the paper title and abstract.

Keywords

Write your five (maximum) keywords which present your study. The aim of keyword writing is related to the indexation system of your manuscript in the academic databases, how the readers can find your article when they search literature for their study using specific keywords.

Introduction

• It is recommended that the Introduction section consists of the research program points and closed by the article content description paragraph. Points of the research programs are the background, problem, aim, purpose (if any), method, significancy, and question (if any) of the study. The content description paragraph elucidates a short elucidation about structure of the article to help readers then.
• Please, write the above-mentioned research programs with clear, coherent (interrelated among parts), cohesive (flows between parts), and readable descriptions.
• Authors may explain more deeply the background point with results of their literature study if they did not write the literature review section in their articles.
• Use sufficient references to support your descriptions.

Related Work

• Related Work section are designed to convey an overview of literature sources which Authors have explored around their particular topic and to present significance and position of the study among the similar studies.
• This part elucidates a description, summary, and critical evaluation of these works in relation to the research problem being investigated.
• Please, keep the elucidation points coherent with descriptions of the research program in the Introduction section.
• However, each elucidation may start with a definition, but Literature Review section is not just a definition collection.
• Use sufficient references to support your descriptions.

Research Methods

• This section conveys the methodological points of research implementation which reported in the article. Thus, you have to use past tenses to describe this section.
• The description points may include the approaches, strategies, population, samples, methods, techniques, tools, and procedures of the study.
• Authors may use figure or table to demonstrate the above-mentioned points in order to help Readers understanding the points. However, it is not recommended to describe in text descriptions which has already described by the figure or table.
• Please use the past tenses for elucidating this part, in terms of a post-study which reports the research itself previously.
• Use sufficient references to support your descriptions.

Result

• Please, stage systematically the result and discussion points within the clear, consistent, and coherent elucidations.
• The result demonstrations can be done following the research design used in the study.

Submission Preparation Checklist

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.

1. 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).
2. The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
3. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
4. The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
6. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

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