Manuscript structure
Manuscript structure
Authors are encouraged to download a JCA-Template (Vietnamese version and English version) to refer for paper preparation before submission to the journal.
Each article has a maximum of 6 pages, a maximum of 6 figures and tables (except overview articles) and must comply with the correct format. The drawings must be clear, high resolution and contain a lot of important information, not containing discrete images (need to combine spectra). References must be fully cited and can be found on the internet. The editorial office will not accept the article if it does not meet the above requirements or if there is a clear violation of academic integrity.
Manuscripts should generally be arranged in the following order: title page, abstract, introduction, materials and methods, results and discussion, conclusion, acknowledgements, and references. Papers in the technological fields may follow rules different from the above but must remain logical.
Title
Concise and informative. Titles are often used in information-retrieval systems. Avoid abbreviations and formulae where possible.
Author names and affiliations
Please clearly indicate the given name(s) and family name(s) of each author and check that all names are accurately spelled. Present the authors' affiliation addresses (where the actual work was done) below the names. Indicate all affiliations with a lowercase superscript letter immediately after the author's name and in front of the appropriate address. Provide the full postal address of each affiliation, including the country name and, if available.
If available, the 16-digit ORCID of the author(s)
A clear indication and an active e-mail address of the corresponding author.
Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, do not currently satisfy our authorship criteria. Notably an attribution of authorship carries with it accountability for the work, which cannot be effectively applied to LLMs. Use of an LLM should be properly documented in the Methods section (and if a Methods section is not available, in a suitable alternative part) of the manuscript.
Corresponding author
Clearly indicate who will handle correspondence at all stages of refereeing and publication, also post-publication. Ensure that the e-mail address is given and that contact details are kept up to date by the corresponding author.
Present/permanent address
If an author has moved since the work described in the article was done, or was visiting at the time, a 'Present address' (or 'Permanent address') may be indicated as a footnote to that author's name. The address at which the author actually did the work must be retained as the main, affiliation address. Superscript Arabic numerals are used for such footnotes.
Abstract
The abstract is a concise, abbreviated version of the paper which tells the reader whether the paper is worth reading at all; it must therefore be informative with respect to aim, methods, procedures, results, discussion, and conclusion. An abstract should not exceed 250 words.
Keywords
Immediately after the abstract, provide from three to five keywords (separated by comma, using American spelling and avoiding general and plural terms and multiple concepts (avoid, for example, 'and', 'of').
Introduction
The introduction should follow the key words and should be as brief as possible; it should concern itself with a clear justification for the work undertaken and the underlying theory and hypothesis; a short review of literature in the field of study is obligatory although any exhaustive review properly belongs to the discussion section.
Materials and Methods
This section describes concisely the methodology/procedures employed so that anyone wishing to replicate the trial can do so and obtain comparable results. Provide sufficient detail so as to remove any possible ambiguities with respect to design, treatments, measurements, analysis, etc. Where methods employed are commonly known in a given field details should be omitted and the reference given instead. Modifications to known methodology must however be clearly described and explained.
Results and Discussion
This section describes clearly the observations made and their concise interpretation. Results should be presented in tables and/or figures whenever possible, but should be clearly explained in the text taking care to avoid unnecessary repetition of tabular data. Information presented in tables should not be repeated in figures, or vice versa. Standard deviations/errors help the reader to follow the trend of results and should be supplied whenever appropriate. The discussion should include references to earlier or contemporary literature relevant to the topic studied; this way, a reviewer can decide on the merits of the manuscript.
Formulas, Illustrations and Figures
Mathematical symbols and formula should be typed clearly and all equations must be numbered consecutively on the right-hand side of each equation. JCA prints its papers in gray. So, if colored illustrations or/and figures are submitted, be sure that they will be well resolved in the printed version.
References
Each reference in the ‘Reference List’ should be numbered according to the order of appearance in the main text. References in languages other than English must be referred to by an English translation. Style file for Endnote is available.
Citation
Reference citations in the text should be identified by numbers in square brackets. Some examples:
Negotiation research spans many disciplines [3].
This effect has been widely studied [1-3, 7].
Reference list
The list of references should only include works that are cited in the text and that have been published or accepted for publication. Personal communications and unpublished works should only be mentioned in the text.
The entries in the list should be numbered consecutively.
If available, please always include DOIs as full DOI links in your reference list (e.g. “https://doi.org/abc”).
Journal article
References to a published paper must include the names of all the authors, the abbreviated journal name, the volume, the issue number in parentheses, the year of publication in parentheses, the first-last pages number or the article number, and full DOI links. Example:
N.A. Thanh, V.T. Nam, T.T. Phuong, Mater. Sci. Eng. C, 33(1) (2023) 2037-2045. https://doi.org/10.1007/s001090000086
Journal abbreviations source Journal names should be abbreviated according to the List of Title Word (If you are unsure, please use the full journal title)
Book:
References to a book must include the names of all the authors, the title, the name of the publisher, the place of the publisher and the year of publication in parentheses. Example:
H.G. Brittain, Polymorphism in pharmaceutical solids, Marcel Dekker Inc, New York (1999).
Conference/workshop proceedings:
References to conference/workshop proceedings must include the names of all the authors, the name of the conference/workshop, the name of the publisher, the year of publication in parentheses and the first-last pages of the cited work.
P. Choi, T. Tomida, Y. Maehara, M. Ueharam, S. Hirosawa, Proceedings of the 2nd Pacific Rim Conference on advanced materials and processing, Elsevier (1995) 1401-1406.
Website:
Cancer Research UK,. Cancer statistics for the UK. https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/health-professional/cancer-statistics-for-the-uk (accessed 20 October 2021).
Permissions
Permission is needed from the rights holder (either from publisher or author) to use or reproduce previously published, copyrighted materials (e.g. figures, charts, tables, photographs). Authors are requested to provide all the permission of re-use approval documents at the time of submitting their manuscript to the journal. Please write “Reproduced with permission from the (journal name) journal [Ref.]” in caption of each re-used work.
