Guide for Authors

Guide for Authors

 

The Iranian Journal of Numerical Analysis and Optimization (IJNAO) publishes original papers of high scientific value in all areas of numerical analysis and optimization. All research articles accepted and published by IJNAO are immediately freely available online to read, download and share, without any subscription charges or registration barriers.

 

Audience

Applied Mathematicians in the following four subject areas

  • Computational Mathematics,
  • Control and Optimization,
  • Modeling and Simulation,
  • Numerical Analysis.

 

Types of paper

IJNAO publishes papers including original, research papers, and review articles (Surveys).

 

Page charges 
Iranian Journal of Numerical Analysis and Optimization has no page charges.

 

Submission checklist

In this section, we have provided you with a list of items for the final check and review of your manuscript before you send it to the journal.

Please make sure that the following items are present:

One author has been designated as the corresponding author with contact details:

  • Email address
  • Full postal address
  • The affiliation(s) of the author(s), i.e. institution, (department), city, (state), country
  • If available, the 16-digit ORCID of the author(s)

All necessary files to be uploaded;

Manuscript:

  • Include keywords
  • All figures (include relevant captions)
  • All tables (including titles, descriptions, and footnotes)
  • Ensure all figure and table citations in the text match the files provided

Supplemental files (where applicable)

Conflict of Interest declaration and author agreement form Declaration of interests

Copyright transfer agreement: Copyright Agreement

 

Further considerations

  • Manuscript has been 'spell checked' and 'grammar checked'
  • All references mentioned in the Reference List are cited in the text, and vice versa
  • A competing interests statement is provided, even if the authors have no competing interests to declare
  • Journal policies detailed in this guide have been reviewed

 

Publication Ethics

Before you begin, for more information on Publication Ethics, Please visit our IJNAO Ethics.

Declaration of interest

All authors are requested to disclose any actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial, personal or other relationships with other people or organizations within three years of beginning the submitted work that could inappropriately influence, or be perceived to influence, their work.

Submission declaration and verification

Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis or as an electronic preprint), that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere including electronically in the same form, in English or in any other language, without the written consent of the copyright holder. To verify originality, your article may be checked by the originality detection services. All submitted manuscripts, after being sent to the Iranian Journal of Numerical Analysis and Optimization, will be evaluated by Technical Editors in terms of scope and format of the journal, and all manuscripts submitted to IJNAO are tracked by using "iThenticate" for possible plagiarism.

 

Changes to authorship

Authors are expected to consider carefully the list and order of authors before submitting their manuscript and provide the definitive list of authors at the time of the original submission. Any addition, deletion, or rearrangement of author names in the authorship list should be made only before the manuscript has been accepted and only if approved by the Editor-in-Chief. To request such a change, the Editor must receive the reason for the change in the author list, and written confirmation (e-mail, letter) from all authors that they agree with the addition, removal, or rearrangement. In the case of the addition or removal of authors, this includes confirmation from the author being added or removed.

 

Submission process

Submission to IJNAO proceeds totally online and you will be guided stepwise through the creation and uploading of your files. Please note that even though we apply the PDF file of the manuscript at submission for the review process, but all source files are needed for further processing after acceptance. All correspondence, including notification of the Editor's decision and requests for revision, takes place by Email. When a manuscript is returned for revision prior to final acceptance, the revised version must be submitted as soon as possible after the author's receipt of the referees' reports. Revised manuscripts returned after four months will be considered new submissions subject to full re-review.

 

Peer review

Iranian journal of numerical analysis and optimization (IJNAO) operates a single-blind side review process. All contributions will be initially assessed by the editor for suitability for the journal. Papers deemed suitable are then typically sent to a minimum of two independent expert reviewers to assess the scientific quality of the paper. The Editor is responsible for the final decision regarding the acceptance or rejection of articles. The Editor's decision is final.

 

Template

It is strongly recommended to set up the manuscript by Latex or Tex Template(PDF), Template(TEX), using the template provided on the website of the Journal. Manuscripts should be typed double-spaced with wide margins to provide enough room for editorial remarks. We DO NOT accept those manuscripts written in Word documents (such as .docx, .doc and etc.) or any files generated by other word processing software.

 

Article structure

Subdivision - numbered sections

Divide your article into clearly defined and numbered sections. Subsections should be numbered 1.1 (then 1.1.1, 1.1.2, ...), 1.2, etc. (the abstract is not included in section numbering). Use this numbering also for internal cross-referencing: do not just refer to 'the text'. Any subsection may be given a brief heading. Each heading should appear on its own separate line.

 

Introduction

State the objectives of the work and provide an adequate background, avoiding a detailed literature survey or a summary of the results.

 

Material and methods

Provide sufficient details to allow the work to be reproduced by an independent researcher. Methods that are already published should be summarized, and indicated by a reference. If quoting directly from a previously published method, use quotation marks and also cite the source. Any modifications to existing methods should also be described.

 

Theory/calculation

A Theory section should extend, not repeat, the background to the article already dealt with in the Introduction and lay the foundation for further work. In contrast, a Calculation section represents a practical development from a theoretical basis.

 

Results

Results should be clear and concise.

 

Discussion

This should explore the significance of the results of the work, not repeat them. A combined Results and Discussion section is often appropriate. Avoid extensive citations and discussion of published literature.

 

Conclusions

The main conclusions of the study may be presented in a short Conclusions section, which may stand alone or form a subsection of a Discussion or Results and Discussion section.

 

Title page information

  • Title. Concise and informative. Titles are often used in information-retrieval systems. Avoid abbreviations and formulae where possible.
  • Author names and affiliations. Please clearly indicate the given name(s), family name(s), and affiliation address of each author, and check that all names are accurately spelled. Provide the full postal address of each affiliation, including the country name and, if available, the e-mail address of each author.
  • Corresponding author. Clearly indicate who will handle correspondence at all stages of refereeing and publication, also post-publication. This responsibility includes answering any future queries about Methodology and Materials. Ensure that the e-mail address is given and that contact details are kept up to date by the corresponding author.
  • Present/permanent address. If an author has moved since the work described in the article was done, or was visiting at the time, a Present address (or 'Permanent address') may be indicated as a footnote to that author's name. The address at which the author actually did the work must be retained as the main, affiliation address.

 

Abstract

A concise and factual abstract is required. The abstract should state briefly the purpose of the research, the principal results, and major conclusions. An abstract is often presented separately from the article, so it must be able to stand alone. For this reason, References should be avoided, but if

essential, then cite the author(s) and year(s). Also, non-standard or uncommon abbreviations should be avoided, but if essential they must be defined at their first mention in the abstract itself.

 

Keywords

Immediately after the abstract, provide a maximum of 6 keywords, avoiding general and plural terms and multiple concepts. Be sparing with abbreviations: only abbreviations firmly established in the field may be eligible. These keywords will be used for indexing purposes

 

Abbreviations

Define abbreviations that are not standard in this field in a footnote to be placed on the first page of the article. Such abbreviations that are unavoidable in the abstract must be defined at their first mention there, as well as in the footnote. Ensure consistency of abbreviations throughout the article.

 

Acknowledgements

Collate acknowledgments in a separate section at the end of the article before the references and do not, therefore, include them on the title page, as a footnote to the title or otherwise.

 

Please do not:

  • Supply files that are optimized for screen use (e.g., GIF, BMP, PICT,WPG); these typically have low number of pixels and limited set of colors;
  • Supply files that are too low in resolution;
  • Submit graphics that are disproportionately large for the content.

 

Figure captions

Ensure that each illustration has a caption. Supply captions separately, not attached to the figure. A caption should comprise a brief title (not on the figure itself) and a description of the illustration. Keep text in the illustrations themselves to a minimum but explain all symbols and abbreviations used.

 

Tables

Please submit tables as editable text and not as images. Tables can be placed either next to the relevant text in the article, or on separate page(s) at the end. Number tables consecutively in accordance with their appearance in the text and place any table notes below the table body. Be

sparing in the use of tables and ensuring that the data presented in them do not duplicate results described elsewhere in the article.

 

References

Citation in text

Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list (and vice versa). Any references cited in the abstract must be given in full. Unpublished results and personal communications are not recommended in the reference list but may be mentioned in the text. If these references are included in the reference list they should follow the standard reference style of the journal and should include a substitution of the publication date with either 'Unpublished results' or 'Personal communication'.

 

Web references

As a minimum, the full URL should be given and the date when the reference was last accessed. Any further information, if known (DOI, author names, dates, reference to a source publication, etc.), should also be given. Web references can be listed separately (e.g., after the reference list) under a different heading if desired, or can be included in the reference list.

 

Reference style

 This journal uses a standard numbering style that:

 

In-text citations: Indicate references by number(s) in square brackets in line with the text. The actual authors can be referred to, but the reference number(s) must always be given. Example: “..... as demonstrated [3, 6]. Barnaby and Jones [8] obtained a different result ....

 

 Reference list: Number the references (numbers in square brackets) in the list in the order in which all references should be arranged in alphabetical order by the surname of the first author as examples below:

[1] Brunner, H. A survey of recent advances in the numerical treatment of Volterra integral and integro-differential equations, J. Comput. Appl. Math. 8 (1982), 213-229.

[2] Stoer, J. and Bulirsch, R. Introduction to numerical analysis, Springer-Verlag, New York, 2002.

 

Online proof correction, AFTER ACCEPTANCE

 To ensure a speedy publication process, we request the corresponding author to provide us with proof corrections within two days. Sending the proof file of the article to the user account will be notified by email. All parts of the paper should be checked carefully and all corrections should be marked on the proof file and finally sent it back via the user account.

You can still choose to annotate and upload your edits on the PDF version. All instructions for proofing will be given in the e-mail we send to the corresponding author.

We will do everything possible to get your article published quickly and accurately. Please use this proof only for checking the typesetting, editing, completeness, and correctness of the text, tables, and figures. Significant changes to the article as accepted for publication will only be considered at this stage with permission from the Editor. Please check carefully before replying, as the inclusion of any subsequent corrections cannot be guaranteed. Proofreading is solely your responsibility.