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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 manuscript represents original work that has not been published previously and is not under consideration elsewhere, and it falls within the Aims and Scope of J. Comput. Mech. Manag.
  • The appropriate article type has been selected (Original Research Article, Systematic or Methodological Review, Short Communication, or Editorial - Editorials by invitation only), and the manuscript is structured, formatted, and within the length guidance of the Author Guidelines for that article type.
  • The manuscript is written in clear, professional English, is prepared in an acceptable file format (Microsoft Word, Rich Text Format, or LaTeX), and follows the journal's IEEE reference style.
  • The manuscript includes an unstructured abstract of 250–300 words and 4–6 relevant keywords.
  • All listed authors meet the four ICMJE criteria for authorship, have approved the final version of the manuscript and its submission, and have declared their contributions using the CRediT taxonomy. The corresponding author has registered an ORCID identifier.
  • All required declarations have been included where applicable, including conflicts of interest, funding sources, ethics approval and informed consent (for research involving human participants, animals, or sensitive data), data availability, and the use of artificial intelligence tools in manuscript preparation.
  • If any author holds an editorial role with the journal or is in the active reviewer pool, this has been declared in the cover letter so that the Editorial Submissions Policy can be applied. Editorial submissions have been anonymised for double-blind external review.
  • The corresponding author has read and accepts the journal's Copyright and Licensing terms, the Open Access Policy, and the Article Processing Charges applicable to the submission, including the dual-tier rate schedule and the waiver provisions.

Author Guidelines

The Journal of Computers, Mechanical and Management welcomes submissions of original research, systematic reviews, and short communications at the convergence of computing, mechanical and industrial engineering, and management science. These guidelines describe what authors should know before, during, and after submission. Authors are also asked to consult the Submission Checklist before submitting.

1. Before submitting

2. Article types and length

  • Original Research Article — a full-length empirical or methodological contribution. Typical length 5,000 to 9,000 words including references; up to 8 figures or tables; abstract up to 250 words.
  • Systematic or Methodological Review — a structured synthesis following PRISMA or comparable methodology. Typical length 6,000 to 12,000 words; abstract up to 300 words.
  • Short Communication — a concise report of a focused finding. Typical length up to 4,000 words; up to 4 figures or tables; abstract up to 200 words.
  • Editorial — invited only.

3. Manuscript structure

Original Research Articles and Short Communications should follow the structure: Title, Authors and Affiliations, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Methods (or equivalent for theoretical work), Results, Discussion, Conclusions, CRediT Author Contribution Statement, Conflicts of Interest, Data Availability, Use of AI Tools (if applicable), Acknowledgements, Funding, References. Systematic Reviews follow PRISMA structure.

4. Title and abstract

  • The title should be specific, informative, and free of unnecessary jargon. Up to 20 words is typical.
  • The abstract should be a single paragraph summarising the motivation, methods, key results, and conclusions. Avoid undefined abbreviations and references in the abstract.
  • Provide 4 to 6 keywords below the abstract for indexing.

5. Language and style

Manuscripts must be in clear, professional English. Either British or American English is acceptable, applied consistently. Authors who are not native English speakers may use a language-editing service before submission. The journal does not provide language editing during peer review.

6. Figures and tables

  • Figures should be high-resolution: vector graphics for line art and 300 dpi minimum for raster images.
  • Tables should be editable text and not embedded as images.
  • Each figure and table should have a caption that allows it to be understood without reference to the body text.
  • Where third-party content is used in figures, authors are responsible for obtaining and supplying the necessary permissions.

7. References

References use a numbered IEEE-style citation system. References are listed in the order of first citation in the body text. Each reference should provide complete bibliographic information, including DOI where available. Authors are responsible for the accuracy of references and for verifying that all cited works exist (this is particularly important where literature search has been assisted by AI tools — see the AI Use Policy).

8. Equations and notation

Use a consistent notation throughout. Equations should be numbered if referenced in the body text. LaTeX submissions should use standard math packages; Word submissions should use the equation editor.

9. Required ethical declarations

The manuscript must include:

10. Templates

Authors are strongly encouraged to use the journal's manuscript templates, available on the Manuscript Templates page.

11. How to submit

  1. Register an account on the journal site (or log in to an existing account).
  2. Click Make a Submission and follow the steps in the OJS submission wizard.
  3. Upload the manuscript file, anonymised for double-blind review (no author names or affiliations on the manuscript).
  4. Upload supplementary files separately, including a non-anonymised title page with author details, the cover letter, and any data or code files.
  5. Complete the submission metadata, including title, abstract, keywords, and author information with ORCID identifiers.
  6. Confirm compliance with the Submission Checklist.
  7. Submit.

12. After submission

Authors receive an automated acknowledgement of submission. The Editor-in-Chief or a delegated editor performs an initial check (typically within 7 days), after which the manuscript either enters peer review or is returned. Updates are communicated through the OJS notification system. The full peer-review process is described on the Peer Review Policy page.

13. Fees

Information on article processing charges is on the Article Processing Charges page.

14. After acceptance

For information on production, proofs, and publication, see the After Acceptance page.

Original Research Articles

Original Research Articles report full-length empirical or methodological contributions at the convergence of computing, mechanical and industrial engineering, and management science. Manuscripts must present substantive, previously unpublished findings supported by rigorous methodology and adequate evidence. Authors should confirm scope-fit by consulting the journal's Aims and Scope before submitting.

Specifications

  • Length: 5,000 to 9,000 words including references
  • Abstract: up to 250 words, unstructured
  • Figures and tables: up to 8 combined
  • Keywords: 4 to 6

Required structure

Title, Authors and Affiliations, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, CRediT Author Contribution Statement, Conflicts of Interest, Data Availability, Use of AI Tools (where applicable), Acknowledgements, Funding, References.

Peer review

All Original Research Articles undergo single-blind external peer review in line with the journal's Peer Review Process. Manuscripts authored by members of the Editorial Team or the active reviewer pool are handled under the Editorial Submissions Policy and undergo double-blind external review.

Before submission

Authors should also review the journal's Author Guidelines, Publication Ethics, and Article Processing Charges.

Systematic or Methodological Review

Systematic or Methodological Reviews present structured syntheses of existing literature or rigorous methodological evaluations within the journal's scope. Submissions must follow PRISMA or a comparable established methodology, with the search strategy, inclusion and exclusion criteria, and synthesis approach reported transparently and reproducibly. Narrative literature reviews without a documented methodology are out of scope for this section. Authors should confirm scope-fit by consulting the journal's Aims and Scope before submitting.

Specifications

  • Length: 6,000 to 12,000 words including references
  • Abstract: up to 300 words, structured (Background, Objectives, Methods, Results, Conclusions)
  • Figures and tables: up to 10 combined, including the PRISMA flow diagram
  • Keywords: 4 to 6
  • Required supplementary material: completed PRISMA checklist; full search strings for each database queried

Required structure

Title, Authors and Affiliations, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Methods (including review protocol, registration where applicable, search strategy, eligibility criteria, data extraction, and synthesis methods), Results (including PRISMA flow diagram and study characteristics), Discussion, Limitations, Conclusions, CRediT Author Contribution Statement, Conflicts of Interest, Data Availability, Use of AI Tools (where applicable), Acknowledgements, Funding, References.

Protocol registration

Authors are encouraged to pre-register their review protocol with PROSPERO, the Open Science Framework, or a comparable registry, and to cite the registration in the Methods section. Pre-registration is not mandatory but is treated as a positive indicator of methodological rigour.

Peer review

All Systematic or Methodological Reviews undergo single-blind external peer review in line with the journal's Peer Review Process. Reviewers are selected for both subject expertise and methodological expertise in evidence synthesis. Manuscripts authored by members of the Editorial Team or the active reviewer pool are handled under the Editorial Submissions Policy and undergo double-blind external review.

Before submission

Authors should also review the journal's Author Guidelines, Publication Ethics, and Article Processing Charges.

Short Communication

Short Communications are concise reports of focused, self-contained findings that merit rapid dissemination but do not require the depth of a full Original Research Article. Suitable contributions include preliminary results from work in progress, novel methods or techniques with a single clear application, brief case studies with broader methodological relevance, and timely findings on topics of immediate interest to the journal's readership. Short Communications must still present substantive, previously unpublished findings supported by adequate evidence; preliminary does not mean unfinished. Authors should confirm scope-fit by consulting the journal's Aims and Scope before submitting.

Specifications

  • Length: up to 4,000 words including references
  • Abstract: up to 200 words, unstructured
  • Figures and tables: up to 4 combined
  • Keywords: 3 to 5
  • References: up to 30

Required structure

Title, Authors and Affiliations, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction (brief), Methods, Results, Discussion (combined with Results where appropriate), Conclusions, CRediT Author Contribution Statement, Conflicts of Interest, Data Availability, Use of AI Tools (where applicable), Acknowledgements, Funding, References.

Peer review

All Short Communications undergo single-blind external peer review in line with the journal's Peer Review Process. The journal aims to provide a first decision on Short Communications within four weeks of submission, recognising the value of rapid dissemination for this article type. Manuscripts authored by members of the Editorial Team or the active reviewer pool are handled under the Editorial Submissions Policy and undergo double-blind external review.

Before submission

Authors should also review the journal's Author Guidelines, Publication Ethics, and Article Processing Charges.

Copyright Notice

Authors retain copyright of their published articles. By submitting to the Journal of Computers, Mechanical and Management, authors confirm and agree to the following:

  1. The work is original, has not been published elsewhere, and is not currently under consideration by any other journal.
  2. All listed authors have read and approved the submitted manuscript and meet the four ICMJE criteria for authorship as set out on the Authorship and Contributorship page.
  3. Upon acceptance, the article will be published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) licence. Authors retain copyright; the journal is granted a non-exclusive licence to publish, distribute, archive, and deposit the article with indexing partners and preservation archives.
  4. Where the article includes content for which the authors do not hold the rights (third-party figures, tables, or extended quotations), the authors have obtained or will obtain the necessary permissions before publication.

Full terms governing copyright, licensing, third-party content, and reuse are on the Copyright and Licensing page.

Privacy Statement

This Privacy Statement sets out how the Journal of Computers, Mechanical and Management, published by AAN Publishing, collects, uses, retains, and shares personal data of authors, reviewers, editors, and registered readers. The journal is committed to protecting the privacy of its users and to handling personal data lawfully, transparently, and only for purposes that are necessary to operate the journal.

This statement is informed by the principles of data minimisation, purpose limitation, and storage limitation that underpin internationally recognised data-protection frameworks, and by the guidance of the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) for journals operating on Open Journal Systems.

1. Who we are

The data controller for personal data collected through the journal's website is AAN Publishing, the journal's publisher. The journal's editorial operations are conducted by the editorial team led by the Editor-in-Chief. Both the publisher and the editorial team are bound by this Privacy Statement.

For data-protection inquiries, write to:

2. What personal data we collect

The journal collects personal data only where necessary to operate the editorial workflow. The categories of data collected are:

  • Account data: name, email address, affiliation, country, ORCID identifier (where supplied), and a password (stored as a one-way hash and not visible to the journal).
  • Profile data: reviewing interests, biographical statement, and any additional fields the user chooses to complete in their journal profile.
  • Submission data: manuscript files, cover letters, declarations, and correspondence associated with a submission.
  • Review data: review reports, review history, and reviewing performance metadata.
  • Editorial data: decision letters, editorial correspondence, and workflow records.
  • Server-side technical data: IP addresses, browser identifiers, and access timestamps, captured by the web server in the standard course of operating an online platform.

The journal does not collect special-category personal data (such as data concerning health, ethnicity, political opinions, or religious beliefs) and does not request such data through any form on the journal site. Where any such data is incidentally provided in a manuscript (for example, in a study on a clinical population), it is handled as confidential research material under the journal's Publication Ethics and editorial-confidentiality protocols, not as the user's own personal data.

3. Why we collect it

Personal data is processed for the following purposes only:

  • Operating the editorial workflow (receiving submissions, assigning editors, inviting reviewers, communicating decisions, producing the published version of record);
  • Communicating with users about their submissions, reviews, accounts, or registered interests;
  • Sending notifications of new issues and major announcements to users who have registered to receive them;
  • Maintaining the integrity of the editorial record (publication history, retracted articles, corrections, expressions of concern);
  • Meeting the journal's obligations to indexing services, preservation archives, and registries;
  • Complying with applicable law and responding to legitimate requests from regulatory or legal authorities.

The journal does not use personal data for marketing, advertising, profiling, or sale to third parties. The journal does not sell mailing lists.

4. How we share it

Personal data is shared only where necessary to operate the journal and only with parties that handle the data under their own confidentiality obligations:

  • Within the editorial team: author, reviewer, and submission data are accessible to editors involved in the handling of a specific manuscript. Reviewer identities are concealed from authors during peer review under the journal's Peer Review Policy.
  • With reviewers: manuscripts and associated metadata are shared with reviewers invited to assess them. Reviewers are bound by the journal's confidentiality obligations as described on the Reviewer Guidelines page.
  • With Crossref: article metadata, including author names and ORCID identifiers, is deposited with Crossref to register Digital Object Identifiers and to enable persistent linking. Crossref's privacy practices are at crossref.org.
  • With ORCID: where users authenticate via ORCID, the journal exchanges authentication tokens with ORCID. ORCID's privacy practices are at info.orcid.org.
  • With preservation archives: published articles and their metadata are deposited with preservation services for long-term access, as described on the Archiving and Preservation page.
  • With indexing services: article metadata is harvested by indexing services (Scopus, Google Scholar, ROAD, and others) through the journal's OAI-PMH endpoint, the journal site, and Crossref.

The journal does not transfer personal data to any other third party except where required by law.

5. Cookies and tracking

The journal site uses session cookies to maintain authenticated sessions and to remember user preferences within a session. The site does not use third-party tracking cookies, advertising cookies, or behavioural-profiling cookies. Server logs retain access information for operational and security purposes only.

6. How long we keep it

Personal data is retained for as long as it is needed for the purpose for which it was collected. Specifically:

  • Account data: retained for the lifetime of the account, plus a reasonable period after closure for audit purposes.
  • Submission and review data: retained as part of the editorial record for the lifetime of the journal, in keeping with indexing and audit requirements. Reviewer identities are not disclosed in the editorial record beyond what the journal's review policy provides.
  • Published article data (including author names and affiliations): retained in perpetuity as part of the scholarly record.
  • Server-side technical data: retained for a short rolling period (typically up to 12 months) for operational and security purposes, then purged.

7. Your rights

Users have the right to:

  • Access the personal data the journal holds about them;
  • Correct inaccurate or incomplete data;
  • Request deletion of their account, subject to the journal's obligation to retain the editorial record of any submissions they have made;
  • Withdraw consent to receive announcement notifications at any time, by updating the relevant preference in their journal profile or by writing to the editorial office;
  • Receive an export of the personal data they have provided, in a machine-readable format.

To exercise any of these rights, write to journalmanager@jcmm.co.in. The journal aims to respond to such requests within 30 days. Note that account closure does not retract or remove published articles; published articles remain part of the scholarly record under the licensing terms in force at the time of publication.

8. Security

The journal site operates over HTTPS with current security practices for an Open Journal Systems installation. Passwords are stored as one-way hashes. Access to personal data within the editorial workflow is limited to users with the relevant editorial role for a specific submission. The journal cannot guarantee absolute security of any internet-based service, but applies reasonable measures to protect data in transit and at rest.

9. International transfers

The journal's hosting infrastructure and editorial operations are based in different countries (the publisher in Malaysia, the editorial team in India, hosted infrastructure in regions selected by the publisher). By using the journal site, users acknowledge that their personal data may be transferred to and processed in any of these jurisdictions, in accordance with this Privacy Statement.

10. Children

The journal's services are intended for use by researchers, students, and scholarly readers. The journal does not knowingly collect personal data from children. Where the journal becomes aware that data of a child has been provided without appropriate consent, the data is deleted.

11. Changes to this Privacy Statement

This Privacy Statement is effective from 25 April 2026. Material revisions are dated, and the previous version is preserved for audit purposes. Where revisions affect users' rights or the way data is handled, registered users are notified through the journal's notification system.

12. Contact

For any inquiry related to privacy or personal data, write to journalmanager@jcmm.co.in. The Editor-in-Chief at editor@jcmm.co.in is the alternative contact for inquiries about editorial-process data.