Submissions

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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.
  • 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).
  • The submission file is in LaTeX / MS Word / OpenOffice / LibreOffice document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • 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.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.

Author Guidelines

Language: The language of the journal is English.

Submission of manuscripts:

  • Manuscripts can be sent to the Editorial Office e-mail address serdicajcomputing@math.bas.bg or through the OJS interface after registration and login.
  • Upon acceptance an editable version of the paper, prepared by TeX/LaTeX or Word, must be sent through the OJS interface or to the Editorial Office e-mail. An example template can be downloaded here in TeX / DOCX / PDF.
  • Upon acceptance a Copyright Transfer Agreement must be signed.

Anonymous Reviewing Process:

  • Every paper submitted is reviewed by two narrow experts in the corresponding field.
  • As exceptions, the Editor-in-Chief can appoint only one reviewer, or third reviewer.
  • Reviewing is anonymous (single blind).
  • The process usually takes between 3 and 6 weeks.
  • The authors are informed of the editorial board’s decision by an official letter, sent electronically.

Additional Instructions:

  • Each author’s full name, affiliation, postal address and email address (if any) must be indicated, as well as the name, address and telephone number of a contact person with whom the Editorial Board shall discuss all matters related to the submission.
  • A self-contained abstract of no more than 150 words should be included at the beginning, stating the purposes of the study, procedures, findings and conclusions. After the abstract a list of index terms (a total of five to ten key words and phrases) should be given. The authors should also provide a classification according to the ACM 2012 Computing Classification System https://dl.acm.org/ccs and Mathematics Subject Classification 2020 https://zbmath.org/classification/.
  • Footnotes should be numbered consecutively and placed at the bottom of the page where they have to appear. The footnotes related to the title and author’s names must not be numbered.
  • All references should be listed and numbered at the end of the paper by order of citation in the text, in the following format: a) books - author, title, location, year of publication; b) articles in periodicals or collections - author, title of the article, title of the periodical (collection), volume, year, page numbers; c) web sites - author, title, address, date when accessed.
  • The references should be cited in the text by the corresponding number enclosed in square brackets. All entries in the reference list must correspond to citations in the text.

Proofs:

Galley proofs are sent to the specified address for correspondence.

  • The authors will receive a PDF file with the article as published.
  • On demand and after paying the delivery expenses, the author(s) can receive free copies of the journal issue with their paper.
  • The authors will be charged for corrections in the galley proofs exceeding 10% of the text.

Originality and Plagiarism:

The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others, that this has been appropriately cited or quoted. Plagiarism takes many forms, from passing off another person's paper as the author's own paper, to copying or paraphrasing substantial parts of another paper (without attribution), to claiming results from research conducted by others. Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.

Copyright Notice

After acceptance of the manuscript, the corresponding author (as representative of all) must sign Copyright Transfer Agreement.

This copyright transfer form is essential for publication of the article in Serdica Journal of Computing. The completed and signed original of the document must be returned by mail, or a scanned copy of the signed original by e-mail, to the Editorial Office at serdicajcomputing@math.bas.bg.

With this document, the authors agree to transfer the copyright of their article to Serdica Journal of Computing.

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