Submissions

Author Guidelines

Authors should prepare manuscripts according to the IJDTDE scope, ethical standards, formatting requirements, and submission checklist. Manuscripts that do not meet the basic requirements may be returned for correction before peer review or rejected during initial editorial screening.

Manuscript types

• Original Research Article: full-length manuscript reporting original theoretical, computational, experimental, or applied engineering research.
• Review Article: critical, systematic, or state-of-the-art synthesis of a defined research area.
• Editorial: invited or editor-authored commentary that presents journal policy, scholarly perspective, or an introduction to a journal, issue, or special collection. Editorials do not report unpublished original research and are independently handled when authored by a member of the journal leadership.
• Technical Note: concise report of a method, dataset, software workflow, validation procedure, or engineering tool with clear scholarly value.
• Short Communication: brief report of significant findings requiring rapid dissemination.
• Case Study: applied engineering study with transferable methodology, validated results, and broader relevance.

Manuscript structure

• Title: concise, specific, and not written entirely in uppercase.
• Authors and affiliations: include full names, institutional affiliations, country, and ORCID where available.
• Corresponding author: identify one corresponding author with email address.
• Abstract: provide a clear summary of the problem, methods, main results, and conclusions.
• Keywords: provide 4 to 6 keywords.
• Main text: use clear section headings appropriate to the article type.
• Methods: provide enough detail to allow critical assessment, reproducibility, or replication where applicable.
• Results and discussion: present findings clearly and interpret them in relation to the research objectives and relevant literature.
• Conclusions: summarize the main contributions, limitations, and implications.
• Declarations: include funding, conflicts of interest, data availability, AI disclosure where relevant, acknowledgements, and author contributions where appropriate.
• References: include complete and accurate bibliographic information, with DOI where available.

Formatting

Authors preparing manuscripts in LaTeX should use the IJDTDE LaTeX template package. The package includes the journal class, an example manuscript, a BibTeX bibliography, sample figures, and preparation instructions. Figures and tables must be numbered consecutively, cited in the text, and accompanied by informative captions. Equations should be editable where possible and numbered when referenced. Units, symbols, abbreviations, and notation should be defined clearly.

Submission requirements

• The manuscript is original and is not under consideration elsewhere.
• The corresponding author confirms that all listed authors meet the authorship criteria, have approved the submitted version and author order, and authorize the corresponding author to act on their behalf. Separate confirmation by every co-author in the submission system is not required.
• The manuscript fits the scope of IJDTDE.
• The manuscript has been anonymized if submitted for double-anonymous review.
• All required ethical approvals, permissions, and consents have been obtained where applicable.
• Conflicts of interest and funding sources have been disclosed.
• A data availability statement is included.
• Any material use of AI or AI-assisted tools has been disclosed.
• References are complete and checked for accuracy.
• Permission has been obtained for any third-party material where required.

Conference-derived manuscripts

Authors submitting work derived from a conference paper, preprint, or earlier public version must disclose the prior version during submission. The journal submission must provide substantial extension, additional validation, new analysis, or significant methodological development, and the earlier version should be cited where appropriate.

Language and clarity

Manuscripts should be written in clear scholarly English. Authors may use language editing services or AI-assisted language tools, but they remain fully responsible for the accuracy, integrity, and originality of the final text.