Before submitting a manuscript to the Advanced Journal of Science and Innovation (AJSI), the corresponding author must confirm that all applicable requirements below have been met.
Submissions that do not meet these requirements may be returned to the authors for correction before editorial assessment or peer review.
1. Scope and Article Type
☐ The manuscript falls within the journal’s Aims and Scope.
☐ The most appropriate article type has been selected.
☐ The manuscript presents a clear, original, and scholarly contribution relevant to the journal’s fields.
2. Originality and Prior Publication
☐ The manuscript is original and has not been published previously, in whole or in substantial part.
☐ The manuscript is not under review, accepted, or being considered for publication by another journal, publisher, conference proceeding, or platform.
☐ Any previous dissemination of the work, including preprints, conference abstracts, theses, reports, working papers, or repository versions, has been disclosed to the editor where applicable.
☐ The manuscript does not contain plagiarism, self-plagiarism, duplicate publication, redundant publication, fabricated data, falsified data, manipulated images, or manipulated citations.
☐ All sources, data, ideas, quotations, tables, figures, illustrations, and previously published material have been properly cited or acknowledged.
3. Authorship and Author Approval
☐ All listed authors have made substantial scholarly contributions to the submitted work.
☐ All individuals who meet the journal’s authorship criteria are included as authors.
☐ No individual who has not made a substantial contribution is listed as an author.
☐ The order of authors has been agreed by all authors.
☐ All authors have reviewed and approved the final manuscript.
☐ All authors agree to the submission of the manuscript to AJSI.
☐ One corresponding author has been identified and is responsible for communication with the journal.
4. Manuscript Files and Anonymization
☐ The manuscript has been prepared according to the journal’s Manuscript Preparation requirements.
☐ The manuscript is submitted in an editable Microsoft Word format (.doc or .docx).
☐ A separate Title Page containing author names and affiliations has been prepared.
☐ The Main Manuscript File has been anonymized for peer review and does not contain author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, funding details, institutional identifiers, tracked changes, comments, document properties, or other identifying information.
☐ File names do not include the name of an author, institution, research project, or any other identifying information.
☐ The manuscript includes a title, abstract, keywords, main text, references, tables, figures, figure legends, and appendices or supplementary materials where applicable.
☐ The manuscript has been checked for spelling, grammar, clarity, consistency, and academic language quality.
5. Metadata and Author Information
☐ The article title, abstract, keywords, author names, affiliations, email addresses, and corresponding author details have been entered accurately in the online submission system.
☐ ORCID iDs have been provided for authors where available.
☐ The language of the manuscript has been selected correctly.
☐ Funding details and grant numbers have been entered where applicable.
6. Tables, Figures, and Supplementary Materials
☐ All tables and figures are numbered consecutively and cited in the text.
☐ All tables have clear titles and all figures have clear legends.
☐ Tables, figures, images, illustrations, and supplementary files are clear, complete, and suitable for publication.
☐ Permission has been obtained for any copyrighted table, figure, image, illustration, questionnaire, dataset, or other material reproduced or adapted from another source.
☐ All supplementary materials are clearly labeled and cited in the manuscript.
☐ Supplementary files do not contain confidential, personal, copyrighted, or identifying information that should not be publicly disclosed.
7. References
☐ All references cited in the text appear in the reference list.
☐ All items in the reference list are cited in the text.
☐ References have been prepared in APA 7th edition style.
☐ DOI links or stable URLs have been included where available.
☐ References are accurate, complete, relevant, and free from unnecessary self-citation or citation manipulation.
8. Ethics, Consent, and Research Integrity
☐ The research complies with relevant institutional, national, and international ethical standards.
☐ Ethics approval has been obtained and documented where research involves human participants, human material, personal data, animals, or other ethically sensitive matters.
☐ The name of the approving ethics committee or institutional review board and the approval number are included where applicable.
☐ Informed consent has been obtained from participants where required.
☐ Written consent for publication has been obtained for case reports, identifiable patient information, photographs, videos, or other potentially identifiable material where applicable.
☐ All data, results, images, and analyses are accurate and have not been fabricated, falsified, selectively manipulated, or misleadingly presented.
9. Declarations and Transparency
☐ A conflict-of-interest declaration has been completed for all authors.
☐ All funding sources and the role of the funder have been disclosed.
☐ An author contribution statement has been prepared where applicable.
☐ A data availability statement has been included.
☐ Acknowledgements have been included where appropriate and with the permission of acknowledged individuals.
☐ The use of generative AI or AI-assisted tools for writing, analysis, coding, translation, image generation, or other substantive work has been disclosed where applicable.
☐ No AI tool has been listed as an author.
☐ Any required registration number for a clinical trial, systematic review, protocol, or other registered study has been provided where applicable.
10. Final Confirmation
☐ The authors have read and agree to the journal’s Publishing Ethics, Peer Review Process, Copyright and Licensing, Open Access Policy, Privacy Statement, and Article Processing Charges policy.
☐ The authors understand that submission does not guarantee that the manuscript will be sent for peer review or accepted for publication.
☐ The corresponding author confirms that all information provided during submission is accurate and complete.