Author Guidelines

EDITORIAL POLICY

  • Manuscripts submitted to JORCAPS must be original and must not have been previously published or simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere, in whole or in part.
  • Authors retain copyright of their published articles. By submitting to JORCAPS, authors grant the journal a non-exclusive, irrevocable, worldwide licence to publish, reproduce, distribute, and make the article available across all formats and platforms.
  • All manuscripts are subject to rigorous double-blind peer review.
  • The journal operates an open-access policy. No part of any publication may be reproduced without proper citation and appropriate acknowledgement of the original work.

The Editorial Board endeavours to ensure accuracy and quality; however, sole responsibility for the correctness and integrity of data, code, results, and statements rests with the authors.

ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS

  • Authors must declare any actual or potential conflicts of interest.
  • Research involving human participants or sensitive data must comply with applicable ethical standards and have obtained all required approvals.
  • Plagiarism and code/data fabrication in any form are unacceptable and will result in outright rejection or retraction.

MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION

  • File Format: Microsoft Word (.docx)
  • Font: Times New Roman, 12 pt
  • Spacing: Double line spacing
  • Margins: 2.5 cm (1 inch) on all sides
  • Page Setup: A4 size, single column
  • Page Numbering: Bottom centre of each page
  • Line Numbering: Continuous, restarting on each page

Manuscripts should conform to the following structure:

  1. Article Title
  2. Authors' Names and Affiliations
  3. Corresponding Author's Contact Details
  4. Abstract (maximum 250 words)
  5. Keywords (4–6 words or phrases)
  6. Introduction
  7. Related Work / Literature Review
  8. Methodology / Proposed System / Framework
  9. Results and Discussion
  10. Conclusion and Future Work
  11. Acknowledgements (if applicable)
  12. Conflict of Interest Statement
  13. Funding Acknowledgement (if applicable)
  14. References

Title

Should be concise, technically specific, and clearly descriptive of the manuscript's subject matter.

Authors and Affiliations

Provide full names of all authors, their institutional affiliations, and country. The corresponding author should be marked with an asterisk (*) and must supply an email address and ORCID iD (where available).

Abstract

A single, self-contained paragraph of not more than 250 words, summarising the research problem, objectives, methodology, principal findings, and conclusions. The abstract should be comprehensible without reference to the full text.

Keywords

Provide 4–6 relevant technical keywords suitable for indexing and database retrieval.

Introduction

Clearly articulate the research problem, motivation, and objectives. Situate the work within existing literature, identify the knowledge or technology gap being addressed, and state the paper's contributions.

Related Work / Literature Review

Provide a critical review of relevant prior work. Clearly distinguish the proposed approach from existing methods and justify the novelty of the contribution.

Methodology / Proposed System / Framework

Describe the research design, algorithms, system architecture, datasets, experimental setup, and evaluation metrics in sufficient detail to enable reproducibility. Pseudocode, flowcharts, or architecture diagrams are encouraged where appropriate.

Results and Discussion

Present experimental results clearly and concisely. Analysis and discussion should interpret findings in relation to the stated objectives and compare performance against relevant baselines or prior work.

Conclusion and Future Work

Summarise the key findings and contributions, highlight limitations, and identify promising directions for future research.

Figures, Tables, and Code

  • High-resolution figures (minimum 300 dpi for images; 800 dpi for graphs and diagrams).
  • All tables and figures must be numbered consecutively with clear, self-explanatory captions.
  • Code snippets, where included, should be formatted in a monospace font and kept concise. Lengthy implementations should be shared via a public repository (e.g., GitHub) and linked in the manuscript.

References

Use APA 7th Edition referencing style throughout. In-text citations should follow these formats:

  • One author: (Michael, 2002)
  • Two authors: (Ogbe & Segun, 2009)
  • Three or more: (Haruna et al., 2005)

Examples:

Journal Article:
Lecun, Y., Bengio, Y., & Hinton, G. (2015). Deep learning. Nature, 521(7553), 436–444. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14539

Conference Paper:
Vaswani, A., Shazeer, N., Parmar, N., & Uszkoreit, J. (2017). Attention is all you need. In Proceedings of the 31st Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) (pp. 5998–6008). Curran Associates.

Book:
Russell, S., & Norvig, P. (2020). Artificial intelligence: A modern approach (4th ed.). Pearson.

Thesis/Dissertation:
Ajik, E. (2024). Efficient intrusion detection in IoT networks using ensemble machine learning [Doctoral dissertation, Federal University Dutsin-Ma].

ABBREVIATIONS AND UNITS

Use SI units and internationally accepted technical standards. Abbreviations should be defined at first appearance in the text and used consistently thereafter.

SUBMISSION

All manuscripts must be submitted electronically via the journal's online submission portal. The use of the email jorcapseditorialteam@gmail.com is strictly for communication purpose. Authors must ensure the manuscript is complete and fully conforms to these guidelines before submission.

PROOFS

Page proofs will be forwarded to the corresponding author as a PDF file. Corrections must be returned within 48 hours.

PUBLICATION

  • The journal publishes bimonthly.
  • Accepted papers are published online within seven (7) days of formal acceptance.

IMPORTANT NOTES

  • Submission of a manuscript and payment of the processing fee constitutes acceptance of the journal's terms and conditions.
  • Authors bear full responsibility for any copyright infringement or legal issues arising from their submitted work, including the use of third-party code, datasets, or figures.
  • Authors should confirm that their institution or funding body recognises this journal prior to submission.

Editor-in-Chief:
Journal of Research in Computing and Applications (JORCAPS)
Federal University Dutsin-Ma, Katsina State, Nigeria
E-mail: jorcapseditorialteam@gmail.com

Website: https://jorcaps.esrgngr.org