International Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (ITALIC) is an international peer-reviewed open access journal aiming to bring together scientists representing both approaches and various research communities. ITALIC Journal is published 2 issues per year (Biannual) April and November by Pandawan Incorporation. ITALIC accepts high-quality manuscripts on Artificial Intelligence knowledge and topics including, but not limited to, fields such as Data Science, Green Technology Artificial Intelligence, Web Intelligence Applications & Search, Various Applications, AI in Experimental and Theoretical, Artificial Vision and Robotics.

Manuscripts for submission to ITALIC should be prepared according to the following instructions. Failure to comply with these instructions will result in a return of the manuscript and a possible delay in publication.

Submission & Review Policies

Submission of manuscript

All authors of a manuscript must have agreed to its submission to ITALIC and are responsible for the whole content, including literature citations and acknowledgments, and must have agreed that the corresponding author has the authority to act on their behalf on all matters pertaining to submission, revision, and publication of the paper.

The manuscript should be submitted online to ITALIC via the open journal system on the journal website (https://journal.pandawan.id/italic/about/submissions). Once a corresponding author has logged into their own account, the online system will lead them through the submission process in a step-by-step orderly process.

“Checklist for Submission” helps to ensure that your manuscript follows the author’s guidelines. After entering all the checklist and information about authors, manuscript title, abstract, keywords, and other details, you will be prompted for uploading files.

Peer-review process

All manuscripts are treated as confidential and peer-reviewed by 2 anonymous reviewers selected by the Editor. Selected reviewers who cannot review the article for reasons of expertise, time, or conflict of interest should reply to the Editor immediately. If necessary, the Editor may assign the article to the statistical editor to review statistical methods. The acceptance criteria for all manuscripts are based on the quality and originality of the research and its clinical and scientific significance. When the final revised manuscript is completely acceptable according to the HIR format and criteria, it is scheduled for publication in the next available issue. Rejected papers will not be peer-reviewed again.

Revision of manuscripts

The corresponding author is notified as soon as possible of the Editor’s decision to accept, reject, or request revision of manuscripts. When the reviewer's comments are returned to the corresponding author for revision, she or he should submit the revised manuscript with a letter describing the alterations that have been made in response to the reviewers comments point by point. Failure to resubmit the revised manuscript within 6 (Six) weeks of the Editorial decision is considered as a withdrawal.

Accepted manuscripts

ITALIC will send all page proofs electronically to corresponding authors in PDF format, and the corresponding author must review their e-Proof within 48 hours. This proof stage is not a time for extensive corrections, additions, or deletions. It is ad-vised that editing is limited to the correction of typographical errors, incorrect data, and grammatical errors, and for updating information on references that were in the press. Authors are required to mark up their corrections on e-Proofs and to attach a typed list of corrections (noting PDF page, column, and line of correction). The marked-up pages and itemized corrections list can either be sent by e-mail at italic@pandawan.id.

Publication charges

To help defray the cost of publication, a charge will be made for publication in ITALIC. Authors unable to meet these charges should include a letter of explanation upon acceptance for publication; inability to meet these charges will have no effect on acceptance and publication of submitted papers. A request letter to waive the charges may be sent to the Editor at italic@pandawan.id. However, authors whose research was supported by grants, special funds, or contracts must pay publication charges.

Corresponding authors of articles accepted for publication will receive an email notifying them on how to pay any applicable publication charges. ITALIC requires Article Processing Charges that will be billed by submitting author following the acceptance of an article for publication. Apart from these Article Process Charges, there are no submission charges or color charges. The publication fee is not refundable once the article is published online. The fees to be paid following the acceptance of an article are $100.

 

Preparation of Manuscripts

Publication types

Original articles are papers reporting the results of research that are sufficiently well documented to be acceptable to critical readers.

Review articles provide reviews of subjects of importance to researchers written by experts in informatics, dealing with very active fields of research, current interests, fresh insights, and debates.

Case reports deal with short application cases of informatics interest or innovation such as the application of information technology followed by evaluative studies. This publication type may also cover a scientific paper that records the current state or current position of scientific research and development.

Tutorials consist of a type of review that gives an instruction-al and reasonably thorough coverage of a specific subject or field for researchers to update their awareness and knowledge. Communications include short critical or explanatory notes of perspectives of opinion leaders on important topics or readers’ comments on articles published in HIR and replies from the authors.

Editorials provide a statement of the opinions, beliefs, and policies of the editors or experts in the informatics field, usually on current matters of scientific significance to the academic community or society at large. 

Organization of manuscript

The manuscript should be prepared in the following sequence: cover letter, title page with authors and affiliations, abstract and keywords, main text, acknowledgments, references, tables, figure legends, followed by figures. The cover letter, title page, and figures should be on separate files, and the main texts are differently organized according to the publication type.

1) Cover Letter

The cover letter to the Editor must declare that a submitted manuscript has not been published and is not under simultaneous consideration for publication elsewhere in whole or in part in any language except in the form of an abstract. The cover letter must also state that authors understand that the manuscript may be regarded as redundant or duplicated if the manuscript contains any portion (defined as a paper, data, tables, or figures) that overlaps substantially with information that has already been published. The cover letter accompanying the manuscript must specify the type of manuscript and include statements on ethical issues and conflict of interests, and complete contact information for the corresponding author.

2) Title Page

The first page should include the title of the manuscript with a running title (less than 40 characters including spaces), the authors of the manuscript with their highest degrees (e.g., MD, Ph.D.) and their affiliations. It should also include the name, full address, and contact details (phone and email) of each author.

3) Abstract and Keywords

All original, review articles, case reports, and tutorials must include structured abstracts of 200 to 250 words and should be organized and include the Objectives, Methods, Results, and Conclusions of the study. Five keywords should be listed at the bottom of the abstract. Considerable care should be taken in selecting keywords because they will be used for subject indexing in this Journal and in other databases.

4) Main Text

The main body of the manuscript submitted as an original article should be prepared under the designated subheadings: Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion. The other forms of manuscripts are organized in different formats. More details are explained in later sections for the original articles and the other types of manuscripts, respectively. The subheadings for this section are classified as I, 1. 1), and (1) in sequence.

5) Acknowledgments

All names of people who contributed substantially, but have not met the criteria for authorship such as administrative support, technical assistance, and critical reviews of the manuscript, are acknowledged here. All sources of funding applicable to the study should be stated here explicitly.

6) References

ITALIC has adopted the stylistic and formatting recommendations of the IEEE Format, from which highlights are given in the later section. Authors are responsible for the accuracy and completeness of their references and correct in-text citations. In-text Citation should be made by giving consecutive Arabic numerals in brackets such as [1], [2, 3], [4-6], and [2, 7-9]. In the reference section, the references should be numbered and listed in order of appearance in the text. List all authors if there are less than or equal to six authors, and list the first six authors followed by “et al.” if there are more than six authors.

7) Tables and Figures

Each table should be prepared on a separate page. Tables are used to present data that cannot be incorporated conveniently into the text. The number of tables in order of citation in the text and avoid repetition of data. Tables should have a concise and informative title with the table content between horizontal lines. Vertical lines are not used. A table should not exceed one page when printed. Use lower case letters in superscripts a, b, c... for special remarks. Figures and illustrations should be prepared professionally. Graphics should be prepared in high quality with high tones and resolution. Photographs must be of sufficient contrast to withstand the inevitable loss of contrast and detail during the printing process. If a figure is to be reduced, be sure that all elements, including labels, can withstand reduction and remain legible. Microscopic figures must be original or scanned copies from the original, indicating the magnification with a scale bar on each micrograph.

Citations of tables and figures in the text or parentheses are presented as follows; Table 1, Figure 1, Tables 1, 2, Figures 1, 2, Tables 1-3, and Figures 1-3. When the text refers to both figures and tables, they should be mentioned in parentheses, e.g., (Table 1; Figure 2) or (Tables 1-3; Figures 4-6).

 

Main-text guideline

1) Basic structure for original articles

Introduction: Start the introduction on a separate page. The introduction should supply sufficient background knowledge and information to allow the reader to understand and evaluate the value of the study. It must also provide a rationale for the study. Cite references to provide the most salient background rather than an exhaustive review of the topic.

Methods: This section must include sufficient technical information to allow other researchers to be able to reproduce the results. Previously published or standardized techniques can be simply referred to with reference citations. The statistical procedures used should be explained.

Results: Present the results concisely in logical sequence in the text. Tables and figures can be used, but information presented in tables and figures should not be repeated in the text. Extensive interpretation of the results should be moved to the Discussion section. Number tables and figures in the order in which they are cited in the text, and be sure to cite all tables and figures in the text. All statements concerning the significance of differences observed should be accompanied by probability values given in parentheses.

Discussion: The discussion section should provide an interpretation and explanation of the results in relation to existing knowledge. Emphasis should be given to important new findings and new hypotheses should be described clearly. The conclusive remark must be supported by facts or data. The limitation of this current study might be included in this section. This section should not contain extensive repetition of the Results section or reiteration of the Introduction section.

 2) Structure and volume by publication types

Original article: An original article should not exceed the following maximums: word count of the main text, 3,000 words; the number of references, 30; the number of figures or tables, 10.

Review article: The main text for a review article is organized as follows: Introduction, body text, and Conclusion. The body text is written in freestyle. All sections except the body text are in the form described in the original papers.

Case report and tutorial: The main text for a case report and tutorial should be prepared under the designated subheadings: Introduction, Description, and Discussion. The description is written in freestyle. The word count of the main text should not exceed 1,500 words. All sections except the description are in the form described for the original papers.

Communication and Editorial: The manuscript includes a title page, text, and references, and the text is written in freestyle. Tables and figures can be included, if necessary. These types of publications should not be longer than 800 words.

Requirements by publication types are summarized in the table below. Any article longer than these limits should be discussed with the Editor.

3) General document format

• The manuscript should be 1.5 lines spaced on 21.6 × 27.9 cm (letter size) or 21.0 × 29.7 cm (A4) paper with margins of 1 inch, preferably using MS Word and Latex. All text should be in  12-point font.

• All manuscript pages are to be numbered consecutively, beginning with the abstract on page 1. Neither the authors' names nor their affiliations should appear on the manuscript pages.

• The use of acronyms and abbreviations is discouraged and should be kept to a minimum. When used, they are to be defined where first used, followed by the acronym or abbreviation in parentheses.

4) Technical format

Units: Standard metric units are used for describing length, height, weight, and volume. The unit of temperature is given in degrees Celsius (^oC). All others are in terms of the International System of Units (SI). All units must be preceded by one space except percentage (%) and temperature (^oC).

Numbers: In the text, numbers should be Arabic numerals, except when beginning a sentence. Numbers greater than 999 should have commas, e.g., 13,970. The 24-hour system is used to indicate time, e.g., 18:00 hr.

Abbreviations: Abbreviations must be used as an aid to the reader, rather than as a convenience of the author, and therefore their use should be limited. Generally, avoid abbreviations that are used less than 3 times in the text, including tables and figure legends. Other common abbreviations are as follows (the same abbreviations are used for plural forms): hr (hour; use 0-24:00 hr for time), sec (second), min (minute), day (not abbreviated), wk (week), month (not abbreviated), yr (year), L (liter), mL (milliliter), μL (microliter), g (gram), kg (kilogram), mg (milligram), μg (microgram), ng (nanogram), pg (pico-gram), n (sample size), SD (standard deviation of the mean), SE (standard error of the mean).

Examples of reference formats

Sample formats for frequent reference types are given below:

 (1) Journal article

1. Chae YM, Yoo KB, Kim ES, Chae H. The adoption of electronic medical records and decision support systems in Korea. Healthc Inform Res 2011;17(3):172-7.
2. Vedel I, Lapointe L, Lussier MT, Richard C, Goudreau J, Lalonde L, et al. Healthcare professionals’ adoption and use of a clinical information system (CIS) in primary care: insights from the Da Vinci study. Int J Med Inform 2012;81(2):73-87.

(2) Proceeding

3. Wolf KH, Marschollek M, Bott OJ, Howe J, Haux R. Sensors for health-related parameters and data fusion approaches. In: Hein A, Thoben W, Appelrath HJ, Jensch P, editors. Proceedings of the European Conference on eHealth; 2007 Oct 11-12; Oldenburg, Germany. p. 155-61.

 (3) Book

4. Wolter J, Dolan MW, Jacobs EB, Walker RA, Burrington-Brown J. The personal health record. Chicago (IL): Ameri-can Health Information Management Association; 2009.

5. Lorenzi NM, Riley RT. Public health informatics and organizational change. In: O’Carroll PW, Yasnoff WA, Ward ME, Ripp LH, Martin EL, Ross DA, et al. Public health informatics and information system. New York (NY):

Springer-Verlag; 2010. p. 179-98. 

(4) Website

6. WHO statistical information system [Internet]. Geneva, Switzerland: WHO; c2011 [cited at 2011 Dec 20]. Available from: http://www.who.int/whosis/en/menu.cfm.

(5) Online publication

7. International Organization for Standardization. Health informatics: quality criteria and methodology for detailed clinical methods. Geneva, Switzerland: International Organization for Standardization; 2009. (ISO/CEN/Working Draft 13972).
8. Hunter MG, Robertson PW, Post JJ. Significance of isolated reactive treponemal chemiluminescence immunoassay results. J Infect Dis 2012 Aug 6 [Epub]. https://dx.doi. org/10.1093/infdis/jis459

(6) Dissertation

9. Min JH. The study of security measures of threat on mobile internet environment [dissertation]. Seoul, Korea: Konkuk University; 2010. 

(7) Others

‘Unpublished data’ and ‘Personal communications’ are not allowed. However, accepted but unpublished papers (not submitted manuscripts) may be listed among the references with the journal name and tentative year of publication, followed by ‘in press.’ If an article has been published online but has not yet been given an issue or pages, the digital object identifier (DOI) should be supplied.

Contact for Inquiry The Editorial Office ITALIC Journal, Jenderal Sudirman Road 40, RT.002/RW.006, Cikokol, Kec. Tangerang, Kota Tangerang, Banten 15117, E-mail: italic@pandawan.id

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