JNCIST

GENERAL GUIDELINES

This guideline provides a summary of the information necessary for preparing and submitting a manuscript. Authors must carefully read the aims and scope section of this Journal and refer to the complete version of the [Author Guidelines].

1. Contents

The Journal accepts original research and critical review manuscripts in the academic and industrial fields of converged technologies related with Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and other applied fields in arts, humanities, sociology, technical and service-related areas, and other convergence areas to investigate specific methodologies and develop technologies that will contribute to the development of the future industry and economy. An original research article encompasses a comprehensive, detailed, self-contained description of a research effort. A review article is required to provide an updating of any area of technology pertinent to the scope of this journal.

2. Qualification as Authors

Any researcher can submit a manuscript provided that the scope of the manuscript is appropriate . At least one among all authors of each submitted manuscript should be a registered member of the Next-Generation Convergence Information Services Society (NCISS).

3. Manuscript Submission

The manuscript electronic version (MS Word, HWP, or PDF) intended for publication should be written in either English or Korean language and prepared as described in the “Manuscript Preparation”. Authors must use the paper template [TEMPLATE (PDF)] for preparing their manuscripts which is available on JNCIST homepage. All manuscripts should be submitted through the online manuscript submission page. If you have concerns during submission, contact the NCISS office.

4. Manuscript Preparation

The main criteria for manuscript acceptance will be the appropriateness to the scope of the Journal, as described in the JNCIST Aims and Scope, taking into account the merit of the content and presentation. The submitted manuscripts are limited to 14 pages. Manuscripts should be clearly written. Abstracts should be self-contained and informative of what was obtained from the research. Rigorous arguments and presentations are expected throughout.

There is no strict limit on the number of articles that may be submitted by the same author(s). However, it is the journal's policy to provide an opportunity for all interested and quality authors to publish their research results in the journal. Thus, the Editorial Board retains the right to reject submissions of the same author(s) that appear too frequently during the course of the year.

   4.1 General requirements

    The general requirements for the manuscript preparation are as follows:

• The manuscript should be prepared in an MS Word (docx) or HWP file format.
• The manuscript text should be single-spaced on 18.5cm × 25.0cm paper with a top margin of 1.5cm, bottom margin of 1.0mm, and left and right margins of 2.0cm.
• Remove the author’s names and affiliations on the manuscript pages during submission.
• Only standard abbreviations should be used. Abbreviations and symbols should be avoided in the manuscript title. Abbreviations should be defined when first used in the discussions. For example, Information and Communications Technology (ICT), and limit the use of abbreviations throughout the contents.
• The tables and figures must be cited in the text by its number, such as “[Table 3]” or “[Fig. 2]”. Do not refer to it by its position relative to the text (e.g., “the Figure below”) or its page number (e.g., “the Table on page 6”).
• When citing from other sources (references), a reference number enclosed in square brackets, such as [1] or [2], should be cited on the same line as the text with space before the bracket.

   4.2 Contents

    The following elements must be included:

• Title of the Article
• Names of authors, their affiliations, complete addresses, and email addresses.
• The full information of the corresponding author.
• A brief abstract. The abstract should be one concise paragraph of 10 or more lines in a structured format including purpose, methods, results, and conclusion. Abbreviations, symbols, or references are not allowed in the abstract.
• Important Keywords. 4 to 5 keywords should be listed at the bottom of the abstract to be used as index terms.
• Main Contents.
  
  • Introduction. Briefly describes the purpose of the research including relevant background information.
  • Related Literature. This includes the discussions of the related studies and existing works that could strengthen the validation of the findings of the research.
  • Methods. This describes the research plan, materials, and methods. The methods of statistical analysis and criteria for statistical significance should be discussed.
  • Results: The presentation of results should be in logical sequence in the text, tables, graphs, and figures.
  • Discussion: The discussion includes observations and interpretations pertaining to the results of the conducted research and other related works. The results and their meaning should be summarized in the concluding paragraph.
  • Conclusion. The summary of findings and significance of the results. Future research directions can also be included.
• Acknowledgments. Persons and institutions who have made substantial contributions are to be acknowledged including sources of funding applicable to the study.
• Appendix. Includes any materials which are not enough to be included in the main text such as survey questionnaires, applicable theorems, and others.
• References. The references should be cited in the text with Arabic numerals in square brackets and numbered in the order of citation. The references should be numbered and listed in the reference section in the order of appearance in the text. A digital object identifier (DOI) should be supplied if it is available. The complete reference guide for each possible source can be found on the paper template.

5. Peer-review Process

The implementation of a double-blind peer review is to guarantee that only respectable knowledge is published in the Journal. It is an objective procedure at the core of noble scholarly publication and is carried out by all reputable scientific journals. Submitted manuscripts will be reviewed in the manner customary with scientific journals before being accepted for publication. Upon receiving a manuscript, the Managing Editor and/or the Associate editor will examine whether the manuscript is out of the Journal’s scope or does not meet the basic criteria for a journal article, it will be immediately rejected without further review (please note that this process may take time to complete due to a large number of submissions). Other members of the Editorial Board may be consulted by the Editor when in doubt. Otherwise, the Editor-in-Chief will solicit reviews from three external referees. In this case, both the Authors and Reviewers’ names and affiliations are not disclosed during the review process. Based on the reviews, the Editor will make the decision on manuscript acceptance or solicit additional reviews if the decision is unclear.

The review consists of 6 components: (1) originality, (2) technical soundness, (3) significance, (4) clarity of presentation, including the style and language, (5) relevance to the JNCIST Journal, and (6) length (relative to the useful contents of the paper).

6. Publication Frequency

The JNCIST publishes accepted manuscripts quarterly, that is, every end of March, June, September, and December.

7. Fee Schedule

The accepted manuscripts will be charged for publication as follows:

• Within 10 pages: USD 200 or KRW 200,000
• 11 pages or more: USD 30 or KRW 30,000 per page starting from page 11
• Organizational Support (when acknowledged): USD 100 or KRW 100,000

8. Waivers and Discounts

Publishing Authors based in developing countries can avail waivers and discounts when publishing in JNCIST to ease the payment of manuscript publication charges and accelerate the dissemination of knowledge through the publication of high-quality research manuscripts. The following waiver policy has been instituted:

• Corresponding authors with primary affiliations based on [Low Income Countries] can apply for a 100% waiver on manuscript publication charge.
• Corresponding authors with primary affiliations based on [Lower Middle-Income Countries] can apply for a 50% waiver on manuscript publication charge.

Corresponding authors must send a waiver application to nciss@nciss.or.kr containing the manuscript number and should state the reason for requesting a waiver.

9. Archiving

All published manuscripts in JNCIST are archived the [National Library of Korea] and [Korea Citation Index] This assures the preservation and maintains the accessibility of published contents whenever this Journal is no longer published.

10. Copyright and Self-Archiving

The Authors keep the copyright of their published manuscript and are allowed to self-archive their work in institutional/disciplinary repositories and/or on the web provided that it should include a citation and link to the published version in JNCIST and note that the work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC-BY-NC 4.0).

11. Open Access Policy

The JNCIST provides open access to its contents making published papers freely available online to the public to support the global exchange of knowledge through research and academic activities. Visit [“All Volumes & Issues”] to access all manuscripts published in this Journal.

The copyright is retained by Authors and published manuscripts are freely distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, permitting others to copy, remix, distribute, edit, adapt, and build upon noncommercially, provided that the original work, published in this Journal, is properly cited, all within the boundaries of copyright law. When citing the JNCIST published manuscript, the complete bibliographic information such as authors, manuscript title, journal name, volume/issue, DOI, date of publication, a link to the original publication (URL), as well as the copyright and license information statement “Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCOmmercial 4.0 International License (CC-BY-NC 4.0)” must be included.