Submissions
Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.- The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
- The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
- Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
- The text is single-spaced; uses a 11-point Times or Times New Roman font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
Abstract
The abstract should give readers concise information about the content of the article and indicate the main results obtained and conclusions drawn. The abstract is not part of the text and should be complete in itself; no table numbers, figure numbers, references or displayed mathematical expressions should be included. It should be suitable for direct inclusion in abstracting services and should not normally exceed 200 words in a single paragraph.
Abstract template
Please download Abstract Template on Google Drive
Articles
Format
- Written in Microsoft Word.
- Using the English language.
- Comprising of 6-15 pages (3000 - 5000 words, including bibliography).
- Written on A4 standard paper size (width: 210 mm and height: 297 mm).
- Using font Times New Roman(11 pt.), 1 spacing and 40 mm for top, 25 mm for bottom, right, and left margin.
- Written in single columns.
- Do not add any headers, footers or page numbers to your paper
Structure
- Title of article
Title should be specific and direct and comprehensively describing the article’s content. Title should not exceed 10 words.
- Author’s name and affiliation
Author’s name and affiliation contain the given name(s) and family name(s) of each author, the authors’ affiliation, the full postal address of each affiliation (including the country name), the e-mail address of each author. Indicate all affiliations with lower-case superscripts letter after the author’s name and in front of the appropriate address.
- Abstract
The abstract should give readers concise information about the content of the article and indicate the main results obtained and conclusions drawn. The abstract is not part of the text and should be complete in itself; no table numbers, figure numbers, references or displayed mathematical expressions should be included. It should be suitable for direct inclusion in abstracting services and should not normally exceed 200 words in a single paragraph.
- Keywords in English
Keywords chosen should be compiled alphabetically and amounting to 5 words/phrases.
- Introduction
Introduction describes the adequate background of the study, the state of the art (previous studies of the subject), the research gap and position of the work, the objectives of the work. Avoid a detailed literature review or a summary of the results.
- Methodology
Methodology provides the theoretical framework / the model development, the research procedure (such as the instrument development, the data collection) that depends on the research strategy (such as the experiment, the case study, the survey).
- Results and Discussions
This section consists of the information how the collected data is analysed, the findings (present them in tables or figures), the explanation of the findings, followed by the comparison of the findings with the hypothesis and the previous studies. The practical and theoretical implications of the study are written in this section.
- Conclusions
The conclusion section provides the concise statements that are supported by the findings and linked to the objective of the study. This section also provides the further research.
- References
List all references that were cited in the article. Every citation in the text must match up to an entry in the reference list and vice-versa. Referencing and quoting should be listed alphabetically from the last (family) name of the authors. A complete reference should provide the reader with enough information to locate the article concerned, whether published in print or electronic form, and should, depending on the type of reference, consist of:
- name(s) and initials;
- date published;
- title of journal, book or other publication;
- titles of journal articles may also be included (optional);
- volume number;
- editors, if any;
- town of publication and publisher in parentheses for books;
- the page numbers.
ICoHDES uses the Taylor&Francis-APA reference system as a reference style.
Citation in text
- Use the last name of author and year of publication: Ronen(1993) or (Ronen, 1993).
- Only two authors can be cited as Persson & Göthe-Lundgren (2005) or (Persson & Göthe-Lundgren, 2005).
- When there are more than two co-authors of a cited paper, use the abbreviation “et al.”: Archetti et al. (2012) or (Archetti et al., 2012).
List of references
- Journal
Archetti, C., Bertazzi, L., Hertz, A., & Grazia Speranza, M. (2012). A hybrid heuristic for an inventory routing problem. INFORMS Journal on Computing, 24(1), 101–116.
Persson, J. A., & Göthe-Lundgren, M. (2005). Shipment planning at oil refineries using column generation and valid inequalities. European Journal of Operational Research, 163(3), 631–652.
- Textbook
Baesens, B., Backiel, A., & Broucke, S. vanden. (2015). Beginning Java ® Programming: The Object-Oriented Approach.
- Online references
Lmariouh, J., Hachemi, N. el, Jamali, A., & Bouami, D. (2014). The multi-vehicle mutli-product inventory-routing problem: A case study. 2014 International Conference on Advanced Logistics and Transport, ICALT 2014, 319–323. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAdLT.2014.6866332
- Acknowledgement
Authors wishing to acknowledge assistance or encouragement from colleagues, special work by technical staff or financial support from organizations should do so in an unnumbered Acknowledgments section immediately following the last numbered section of the paper.
Manuscript template
Please download Template on Google Drive
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