Author Guidelines
Instructions to Authors
Transactions on Smart Electrical and Computational Systems welcomes original research articles, review articles, technical studies, simulation-based studies, experimental investigations, system design papers, computational studies, and application-oriented manuscripts in smart electrical systems, computational engineering, intelligent control, automation, power systems, embedded systems, cyber-physical systems, signal processing, optimization, artificial intelligence applications, and advanced electrical-computational technologies.
Authors must ensure that their manuscripts are original, technically sound, ethically prepared, and not under consideration by another journal at the time of submission. Manuscripts should be written clearly, follow a logical academic structure, and present a meaningful contribution to the subject area of the journal.
Submission Process
Manuscripts must be submitted through the journal’s online submission system. Authors should register or log in to the journal website, select the appropriate submission section, upload the manuscript file, provide complete author details, enter the title and abstract, add keywords, and complete all required submission metadata.
During submission, authors should confirm that the manuscript complies with the journal’s scope, formatting requirements, publication ethics, plagiarism policy, copyright policy, and author declaration requirements.
Manuscript Structure
- Title
- Author names and affiliations
- Corresponding author details
- Abstract
- Keywords
- Introduction
- Literature review or technical background
- Materials and methods, methodology, model, system design, or computational framework
- Experimental setup, simulation environment, or implementation details, where applicable
- Results
- Discussion
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements, if applicable
- Funding statement, if applicable
- Conflict of interest statement
- Data availability statement, if applicable
- References
Abstract and Keywords
The abstract should provide a concise summary of the research problem, objective, methodology, major findings, and conclusion. Authors should avoid unnecessary citations, undefined abbreviations, and excessive background information in the abstract.
Keywords should reflect the main subject of the manuscript. Suitable keywords may relate to smart electrical systems, computational systems, power systems, embedded systems, intelligent control, automation, optimization, signal processing, cyber-physical systems, artificial intelligence, and computational engineering.
Formatting Requirements
- The manuscript should be written in clear academic English.
- Text should be typed with consistent formatting and proper spacing.
- Headings and subheadings should be clearly structured.
- Figures, tables, circuit diagrams, algorithms, models, and workflows should be numbered and cited in the text.
- Equations, symbols, units, and technical notations should be clearly presented and consistently used.
- Abbreviations should be defined at first use.
- References should be complete, accurate, and consistently formatted.
Figures, Tables, Equations, and System Models
Figures, tables, mathematical equations, block diagrams, system architectures, circuit models, simulation outputs, experimental results, and computational workflows should be clear, readable, and relevant to the manuscript. Each item must have a suitable caption and must be referred to in the main text.
References
Authors are responsible for ensuring that all references are accurate, relevant, and properly cited. References should include sufficient bibliographic details so that readers can identify and locate the cited sources. Authors should avoid irrelevant citations, excessive self-citation, and citation manipulation.
Ethical Requirements
Submissions must comply with accepted standards of publication ethics. Authors must avoid plagiarism, duplicate submission, data fabrication, falsification, inappropriate image or result manipulation, undisclosed conflicts of interest, and improper authorship practices.
Submission Checklist
- The manuscript matches the focus and scope of the journal.
- The manuscript is original and not submitted elsewhere.
- The title, abstract, keywords, author details, and affiliations are complete.
- All figures, tables, equations, models, algorithms, and references are properly cited.
- Technical methods, experimental settings, simulations, or computational frameworks are clearly explained.
- Ethical declarations, conflict of interest statement, and funding information are included where applicable.
- The manuscript has been checked for grammar, clarity, plagiarism, and technical consistency.
- All authors have approved the submission.