Author Guidelines

You can use submission preparation checklist to carry out a final check of your submission before you send it to the journal for review. Please see the template for research article and template for review article.

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. For more information detail please check our pages on author guideline

Title page *

• A title page must be submitted as a separate 'Title page' file designation and should contain the manuscript title; author names, institutions and addresses; acknowledgements, author contributions, data availability statement and conflict of interest statement.
• Please check all authors' details are up to date before submitting

Manuscript *

• The main manuscript file can be submitted in Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx)
• Please ensure that no author names/identifiable information is included in the document/file
• A short informative title containing the major key words. The title should not contain abbreviations
• The full names of the authors with institutional affiliations where the work was conducted, with a footnote for the author’s present address if different from where the work was conducted;
• Acknowledgments;
• Abstract
• 3-7 keywords;
• Main body: formatted as introduction, materials & methods, results, discussion, conclusion
• References;
• All figures (include relevant captions)
• All tables (including titles, description, footnotes)

Covering Letter

When submitting the manuscript, it is mandatory to include a covering letter to the editor. The covering letter must state:

• the article title
• a paragraph describing why their findings are novel (for research articles and meta-analyses) or why a review on this subject is needed,
• Authors should disclose details of preprint posting, including DOI and licensing terms, upon submission of the manuscript or at any other point during consideration at ASD. Once the preprint is published, it is the author’s responsibility to ensure that the preprint record is updated with a publication reference, including the DOI and a URL link to the published version of the article on the journal website.

Copyright Transfer Statement

The copyright of this article is transferred to Current Applied Science and Technology journal  with effect if and when the article is accepted for publication. The copyright transfer covers the exclusive right to reproduce and distribute the article, including reprints, translations, photographic reproductions, electronic form (offline, online) or any other reproductions of similar nature.

The author warrants that this contribution is original and that he/she has full power to make this grant. The author signs for and accepts responsibility for releasing this material on behalf of any and all co-authors.

Here is the link for download: Copyright transfer form.pdf

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