Publishing process

Procedure for Receiving Manuscripts from Authors

Manuscripts must be submitted through the Journal's online system in accordance with the area of the article. Manuscripts must adhere to the objectives, scope, and submission policies set forth by the Journal.

Authors commit that the manuscript has not been simultaneously submitted to multiple journals and has not been previously published in other journals or publications.

Manuscripts must undergo the preliminary review process and satisfy the requirements outlined in the preliminary review (aligned with the purpose, scope, and guidelines) to proceed to subsequent steps.

The procedure for receiving manuscripts is carried out through the following steps:

Step 1: Receive the manuscript from the author through the Journal's online submission system.

Step 2: Notification of the Journal's receipt of the manuscript via email on the Journal's online submission system (Pre-filled content and online system automatically populate information fields left blank).

Step 3: Journal editors will conduct a preliminary review of the submitted manuscript on the OJS system. The review process includes the following:

Regarding compliance with the principles and objectives of the Journal as published;
Regarding compliance with the scope of the Journal as published;
Regarding compliance with the guidelines of the published article;
Regarding the necessary information provided by Authors and other commitments requested by the Journal;
Regarding similarity as per the Journal's regulations for articles.

Step 4: Preliminary Review Results

Scenario 1: If all the above review contents are fully met, the Journal's Editorial Assistant will send an email informing the author of the acceptance of the article. This moment is considered the submission time.

Scenario 2: If the manuscript does not meet the compliance regarding any of the above contents or does not provide sufficient required information from the Authors and other commitments requested by the Journal, the manuscript will not be accepted.

Rejection: If it does not comply with the principles, objectives, or scope of the Journal as published; or if it repeats the process and the manuscript still does not meet the review criteria; or if the Authors refuse to make revisions as requested by the Editorial Office.

Supplementary, Adjustments, Resubmission: In cases where there are discrepancies in guidelines or lack of information requested by the Journal or failure to ensure the similarity of the manuscript as per regulations, the Editorial Assistant will respond with a request for Authors to revise, adjust, and resubmit. This cycle will repeat until the manuscript is confirmed by the Editor or Editorial Assistant via email through the Journal's online system. This time is considered the official submission time.

Peer Review Process

After passing the initial screening, the manuscript enters the peer review stage, consisting of the following steps.

Step 1: The Editor-in-Chief assigns or delegates to the Handling Editor/Section Editor to invite reviewers based on the approved reviewer list. The maximum response time for both the Handling Editor and the reviewers is 3 days.

Step 2: The journal implements a double-blind peer review policy. Authors and reviewers remain anonymous. All communication between reviewers and authors must go through the journal's online platform. The Editors and Editorial Assistants oversee and control this process.

The review phase is counted from the acceptance of the reviewer's invitation to perform the review tasks by the Editorial Office. The maximum time for one reviewer to complete one round of review is 20 days, the second round is 7 days (except for special cases).

Step 3: After receiving the first round of reviews, based on the recommendations of the Reviewers, the Editor is authorized to decide the manuscript's fate with 4 options:

Accept the article without revisions;
Require revisions and resubmission;
Require revisions and resubmission for further review (round 2);
Reject the article.

A manuscript may undergo one or two rounds of review based on the recommendation of the first-round reviewers and at the discretion of the Editor-in-Chief or delegated Handling Editor.

All decisions by the Editor-in-Chief or Handling Editor regarding review outcomes are reflected in the manuscript status bar and notified to the authors via email.

Once the manuscript completes the review process, the manuscript status will indicate "awaiting editing": The manuscript proceeds to the editing stage after peer review.

Editing Process

After the manuscript has passed the peer review stage, it will proceed to the editing stage following the peer review process, which includes the following steps:

Step 1: The Editor-in-Chief assigns or delegates to the Handling Editor/Section Editor to carry out the editing of a specific article through the journal's online editing system. Editors will receive an email notification and be provided with an account, password (if they are new editors who have not updated the list). From this point, the Editor is responsible for editing, monitoring, making decisions on the manuscript until submission for approval by the Editor-in-Chief.

Step 2: After receiving the review results, the Editor will make decisions (which can be discussed with the Reviewers) regarding acceptance or rejection of the manuscript, or resubmission with revisions, rebuttal for round 2. The decision period is 03 days from the receipt of the review results.

Step 3: Authors must make revisions according to the reviewers' and Editors' requests. The resubmission date is the date when the Author completes the revisions according to the Editors' requests and submits back to the editorial office (editing time is 10 days from receiving the editing content from the Editors).

Step 4: Check for plagiarism, provide conclusions on the manuscript based on the results of plagiarism detection, and notify the results to the Authors; or suggest the Authors to review, edit to ensure compliance with the standards of plagiarism.

Step 5: Pre-publishing editing and formatting. Authors must cooperate with Editors to make edits according to the Editors' requirements; review the manuscript to ensure that all conditions for publication are met.

Publication Approval and Publishing Process

After completing the pre-publishing editing stage, the article continues through the publication approval and publishing process, consisting of the following steps:

Step 1: Section Editors compile the results of completed articles from the previous editing stage for publication approval and publishing. The Managing Editor consolidates completed articles similarly and prepares them for submission for approval by the Editor-in-Chief.

Step 2: The Editor-in-Chief reviews all publication approval criteria of the articles in the role of Editor-in-Chief and ensures that all articles meet the publishing criteria of the Journal. The time for Editor-in-Chief approval is the time stated in the article information.

Step 3: The Managing Editor organizes and arranges the articles that have been approved for publication and develops a tentative publishing plan (online publication, print publication, issue allocation, sequence in the issue), submits for approval of publication by the Editor-in-Chief.

Step 4: Implementation of publishing tasks, layout tasks, waiting for online publication (in press), online publication, file transfer to the printer, proofreading, print confirmation, archival submission, and release.