Malaysian Journal of Computing (MJoC)

Manuscripts must be submitted together with the copyright form electronically using the MJoC online submission system at https://mjoc.researchcommons.org/cgi/submit.cgi?context=journal.

The electronic manuscript shall be prepared in accordance with the Manuscript Preparation Guide at https://mjoc.researchcommons.org/journal/styleguide.html.

All submissions will be subjected to a double-blind peer review process by the respective panel of experts.

MJoC practises a double-blind peer review process. Therefore, authors must ensure that the manuscript file does not contain any information that may reveal the identity of the author(s).

Before submission, authors must:

1. Remove all author names, affiliations, email addresses, ORCID IDs, acknowledgements, and funding information from the manuscript file.

2. Avoid self-identifying statements such as “in our previous study” or “as reported in our earlier work”. Such references should be written in a neutral form.

3. Ensure that file names, document properties, comments, tracked changes, and metadata do not contain author-identifying information.

4. Upload the title page or author information separately, if required by the submission system.

5. Include acknowledgements, funding details, author contribution, and conflict of interest statements only in the appropriate section required by the journal or after the review process, where applicable.

Manuscripts that are not properly anonymised may be returned to the authors for correction before being sent for review.

Authors must declare the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools or AI-assisted technologies in the preparation of the manuscript, where applicable.

AI tools should not be listed as authors, as authorship requires accountability, responsibility, and approval of the final manuscript.

Examples of AI use that should be declared include:

1. Generating, editing, or paraphrasing substantial portions of text.

2. Producing images, figures, tables, codes, datasets, or analytical outputs.

3. Assisting with data analysis, interpretation, or literature synthesis.

Suggested declaration statement:

If no AI tool was used, authors may state:

Authors are encouraged to include a Data Availability Statement in the manuscript. This statement should explain whether the data supporting the findings of the study are available, and if so, where and how they can be accessed.

Suggested statements include:

Upon acceptance for publication, copyright of the article will be transferred to the Journal. However, the authors retain publishing rights with respect to the terms of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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MJoC is an open access journal. The articles on this site are available in full-text and free of charge to the readers.

This journal charges a minimal processing fee. More information can be obtained from the article processing charge page.

All works in the manuscript should be free of any plagiarism, falsification, fabrication, or omission of significant material. Authors are expected to explicitly cite others' work and ideas, even if the work or ideas are not quoted exactly or paraphrased.

Self-plagiarism can occur in at least two ways:

1. Authors recycle portions of their previous writings by using identical or nearly identical sentences or paragraphs from earlier writings in subsequent research papers, without quotation or acknowledgement; or

2. Authors create multiple papers that are slight variations of each other, which are submitted for publication in different journals but without acknowledgement of the other papers.

The similarity score must be checked using plagiarism/similarity detection software such as Turnitin or iThenticate. The similarity index MUST NOT EXCEED 25%, including references.

The authors must ensure any articles submitted to MJoC are not published elsewhere and are not under consideration by any other journals. The manuscript must not be submitted elsewhere while it is under consideration at MJoC. The content of the articles must be original and not result of plagiarism or in copyright violation from other works. The Editors reserve the right to reject any articles which do not meet the required quality.

The journal uses a double-blind peer review process, which means both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers and vice versa throughout the review process.

2 issues per year, April and October. Previously, the journal was published in June and December until June 2020.

The usual duration for the peer review process is 2–4 months, depending on the reviewers’ response.