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Author’s Checklist for Initial Submission of a Manuscript
Title of the manuscript :
The following list will be useful during the final checking of a manuscript prior to sending it to the journal for review. Please
consult the Information for Authors for further details of any item. Please check below items as √ mark before submission of the
manuscript.
1. Instructions to Authors
□ I/We read the requirements for manuscript submission and the guidelines for manuscript preparation. This manuscript was
written according to the guidelines.
□ The authors’ institutions and the funding body supporting this research have agreed to allow this manuscript to be published.
□ This manuscript has not been published previously in any other journal. Currently, it is not submitted to another journal for
publication.
□ The Copyright Transfer Agreement Form has been signed.
□ One author has been designated as the corresponding author with contact details, e.g., e-mail address(s), full postal
address(s), phone number(s).
2. Manuscript Format
□ The cover letter should include paper title, authors' names and affiliations, corresponding author, his/her contact
information(e.g. phone and fax numbers, postal and email addresses) and subject area.
□ The manuscript is properly prepared with the main sections labeled (e.g., Abstract, Introduction, Materials and Methods,
Results and Discussion, Conclusions, Acknowledgments, and References).
□ The pages are numbered consecutively beginning with the title page.
□ The lines are numbered consecutively beginning with the first line of the title page.
□ References are in the correct format for this journal.
□ All references mentioned in the Reference list are cited in the text, and vice versa.
□ All tables and figures are numbered consecutively in the order of their initial citation in the text.
□ Manuscript has been spell-checked and grammar-checked in English.
□ Permission has been obtained for use of copyrighted material from other sources (including the Web)
Submitted for possible publication in Journal of Advanced Information Technology and Convergence