Guide for Authors

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 Editorials do not report unpublished original research and are independently handled when authored by a member of the journal leadership.

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

IJDTDE uses a flexible initial-submission format. Upload one complete main manuscript as an editable Word file (.docx) or PDF. The IJDTDE Word template and IJDTDE LaTeX template package are optional structured starting points. LaTeX authors should upload the compiled PDF as the main manuscript. After acceptance, an editable Word file or complete LaTeX source package is required. The journal assigns volume, issue, article number or pages, DOI, publication dates, and the final license line during production. 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 includes the authors' names and affiliations. IJDTDE uses single-anonymous peer review, so authors should not anonymize the manuscript or its filename.
  • 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.

Peer review model

The journal operates a single-anonymous peer-review process, in which reviewers know the identities of the authors, while reviewer identities remain confidential. Research Articles, Review Articles, Technical Notes, Short Communications, and Case Studies are normally evaluated by at least two independent reviewers. Editorials receive editorial assessment and are not normally sent for external peer review; when an Editorial is authored by journal leadership or another conflict exists, it is handled and approved independently. Authors may suggest suitable reviewers, but the journal is not bound by those suggestions and normally appoints at least one reviewer who was not suggested by the authors.