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Author Guidelines

Authors are invited to make a submission to this journal. All submissions are first assessed by an editor to determine whether they meet the aims and scope of the journal. Those considered to be a good fit are sent for peer review before a decision is made.

Manuscript templates. All submissions must be prepared using the official JCoSML template. Two equivalent templates are provided and produce the same page layout:

Please do not alter the page geometry, margins, or type sizes. Manuscripts that do not follow the template are returned before review.

Structure. A research article normally follows the order used in the template: introduction, related work, problem formulation, method, numerical experiments, discussion and conclusion, back matter, appendices, and references. Sections are numbered with Arabic numerals to at most three levels. The title should be concise and the abstract must stand on its own, without citations or undefined abbreviations.

References. References are numbered in order of first citation and must include a DOI where one exists. BibTeX users should cite from the supplied references.bib; Word users may use any reference manager producing the IEEE numeric style.

Reproducibility. For computational contributions, code and data supporting the article should be deposited in a repository with a persistent identifier, or a documented reason for withholding them given. Hyperparameters, stopping criteria, hardware, and software versions must be stated in sufficient detail for the work to be repeated.

Similarity report. A similarity report produced by Turnitin or iThenticate must accompany the submission. The overall similarity index must not exceed 15%, and no single source may account for more than 3%, excluding the reference list.

Permissions and ethics. Before submitting, authors are responsible for obtaining permission to publish any material included with the submission, such as figures, documents, and datasets. All authors identified on the submission must consent to be identified as an author. Where applicable, research must have been approved by an appropriate ethics committee in accordance with the legal requirements of the country in which the study was conducted.

Artificial intelligence. Generative AI cannot be listed as an author. Its use for language editing, code assistance, or literature search must be disclosed in a short statement before the reference list. Authors remain fully responsible for every claim, proof, and citation in the manuscript.

Desk rejection. An editor may reject a submission without review if it falls outside the scope, if the similarity threshold is exceeded, if no reproducibility statement is provided, or if the study design and argument are not articulated clearly enough for reviewers to assess.

When you are satisfied that your submission meets these requirements, please follow the checklist below.

Submission Preparation Checklist

  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration; a preprint posted to arXiv or an institutional repository is not considered prior publication.
  • The manuscript is prepared using the official JCoSML template (Word or LaTeX), and the page geometry and type sizes have not been altered.
  • References are numbered in order of first citation and include DOIs where available.
  • A similarity report from Turnitin or iThenticate is uploaded as a supplementary file, with an overall index below 15%.
  • Code and data supporting the article are deposited in a repository with a persistent identifier, or a reason for withholding them is stated in the manuscript.
  • All named authors have approved the submission, and all competing interests and funding sources are disclosed.
  • Any use of generative AI in preparing the manuscript is disclosed in the manuscript.

Research Articles

Original research articles reporting new methods, analyses, or computational results within the scope of the journal. Submissions to this section are peer-reviewed by at least two independent reviewers under single-anonymised review. Typical length is 15 to 30 pages in the JCoSML template, excluding references and appendices.

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Data controller. The data controller is Assoc. Prof. Dr. Salih Berkan Aydemir, publisher of the Journal of Computational Optimization and Scientific Machine Learning, Amasya, Türkiye. Enquiries about personal data may be addressed to admin.jcosml@gmail.com.

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