Welcome to Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology

We expect the following in a Quality Paper to have high chance of acceptance for publication in the journal.

 Paper should be rich in content and data.
 Follow a proper well defined research method or approach.
 Should effectively introduce the area and sub areas under investigation.
 Critique available literature on the topic.
 Present a clear research problem derived from literature
 Present a valid detailed solution to the identified problem.
 Develop / Adopt/ Adapt a clear validation method/criteria.
 Follow a proper protocol for validation and should present concrete and decisive evidence in from of research results. Discusses and evaluates the results in comparison to literature
 Provide clear limitation and assumptions to achieve the solution or results presented.
 Provide clear conclusion and deduction based on work carried out and data presented.
 Provide clear Future Research Directions

Peer Review Criteria
Kindly visit the journal home page www.jatit.org to have a good look at what reviewers have in mind when conducting double blind review.

Allowed Paper Length
Number of pages is never a criteria to judge a paper but the content and its effective presentation matters. Following is just a guide for presentation of enough technical content.
Minimum Length
Minimum length to present sufficient technical content is 08 pages or more in journal format. Under 08 pages in journal format will not qualify for an external review and shall be rejected in initial editorial screening
Maximum Length
Maxim allowed length is 45 pages in journal format to ensure authors are not cramped for space when presenting their findings and provide detailed and rich technical content.

Manuscript Formatting Guidelines

1. TEXT AND TYPE AREA (Margins)

• This one basic requirement must be adhered to:
• Type area on a page is standard Letter( 8.5'' x 11''). All text should be fully justified. Margins for this type area: top 1.3'', bottom 0.6'; left 1.25, right 1.25. Manuscript following abstract an keywords should be prepared in two column format with column width 2.8'' and space between the columns be 0.2''. No text or figures should fall out of this text page area.

2. TITLES FORMAT

• Paper Title: CAPITAL LETTERS. 16 point type (Times Roman)
• Author(s): CAPITAL LETTERS, 10 point type (Times Roman)
• Affiliation(s): Capitalize Each Word case, 10 point type (Times Roman)
• Head: BOLD CAPITAL LETTERS. 10 point type (Times Roman)
• Sub Head (if applicable): Capitalize Each Word case, 10 point (Times Roman)
• Leave 2 line spaces between title and author names/affiliation.
• Leave 2 line spaces between author/affiliation and start of abstract head
• Your manuscript should begin with an Abstract and keywords after the title, authorship claims and affiliations.
• Paper Title, Autor Names/Affiliations, Abstract and Keywords should be in single column format followed by the rest of the paper in two column format.

3. TEXT

• Text type should be 10 point Times Roman. Text should be single spaced. First line of all paragraphs should be indented and there should be one line gap between consecutive paragraphs.

4. HEADS / Sub Heads

• Levels of subheads should be easily distinguishable from each other with the use of numbers. There should be one line spaces before each subhead.

Examples of Subhead Style:

l. FIRST LEVEL HEAD

(10 point bold, upper case, numbered )

1.1. Second Level Subhead

(10 point bold, first letter capital case, numbered)

1.1.1. Third level subhead

(10 point bold, lower case, flush left)

Use all lowercase for section headings.

5. FIGURES (Line Art Drawings) AND TABLES

FIGURES

Figures and tables may appear printed directly in the text and should be black and white or grayscale.

Figure should appear soon after the citation in the text or if it is too large at the end of the manuscript or in middle of text in singly column format.

Legends/Captions for figures

• Text type should be 9 point Times Roman italic (eg; Figure 1. Caption). A caption should be provided for each figure. The legend should be typed into the manuscript, directly beneath the figure.
• Legends are to be listed in numerical order, labeled as Figure 1, Figure 2, etc.

TABLES

• Indent tables slightly from the left column margin, if it is necessary to use the full width of the page.

Titles/Captions for tables

• The table caption should be typed to the width of the table itself and typed above the table. Text type of table caption should be 9 point Times Roman italic (e.g., Table 1.Caption) on top of the table. Number the titles of the tables consecutively in the order of their first citation in the text. Be sure that each table caption is headed as Table 1, Table 2, etc. within each section.

Both figures and tables must be cited in the text.

6. REFERENCES

• References text type should be 10 point (Times Roman) at the end of each paper.
• Vancouver style referencing is accepted: Sample( Author Name (s), Paper Title, Conference/Journal Title (Vol & Issue number), Date, Page Numbers
  Indexed in text and references accordingly as they appear in text. i.e. [1],[2]). Consistency is maintained throughout the manuscript.
• References should be listed in the order in which they appear in the manuscript text (cited by numbers).

Manuscript Guidelines
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