Submissions

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. For more information detail please check our Title Page Template
• Please check all authors' details are up to date before submitting

Manuscript *

• For more information detail please check our Manuscript Template for Review or Research article
• 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

Author Name Change Policy

In cases where authors wish to change their name following publication, the journal will update and republish the paper and redeliver the updated metadata to indexing services. Our editorial and production teams will use discretion in recognizing that name changes may be of a sensitive and private nature for various reasons including (but not limited to) alignment with gender identity, or as a result of marriage, divorce, or religious conversion. Accordingly, to protect the author’s privacy, we will not publish a correction notice to the paper, and we will not notify co-authors of the change. Authors should contact the journal’s Editorial Office with their name change request.

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

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Artificial Intelligence Generated Content

Generative Artificial Intelligence tools (GenAI) – such as ChatGPT and others based on large language models (LLMs) — cannot be considered capable of initiating an original piece of research without direction by human authors. They also cannot be accountable for a published work or for a research design, which is a generally held requirement of authorship, nor do they have legal standing or the ability to hold or assign copyright. Therefore — in accordance the COPE's position statement on AI tools — these tools cannot fulfil the role of, not be listed as, an author of an article.

If an author has used this kind of tool to develop any portion of a manuscript, its use must be described, transparently and in detail in the Methods section if related to the design or conduct of the study, or the Acknowledgments section for anything else. The author is fully responsible for the accuracy of any information provided by the tool and for correctly referencing any supporting work on which that information depends. Tools that are used to improve spelling, grammar and general editing are not included in the scope of these guidelines. It is permissible to use AI for language translation from authors’ main language into English. The final decision about whether use of an AIGC tool is appropriate or permissible in the circumstances of a submitted manuscript or a published article lies with the journal's editor or other party responsible for the publication's editorial policy.

For more information, please visit our AI guidelines for authors here.