Submissions

Author Guidelines

1. General Information

The Ninevah International Journal of Information Technology welcomes original scholarly manuscripts in the field of Information Technology and related computing disciplines. Authors are required to prepare and submit manuscripts in accordance with the journal’s aims and scope, publication ethics, citation policy, formatting requirements, and peer-review procedures.

Ninevah International Journal of Information Technology accepts only manuscripts that are original, scientifically sound, ethically prepared, clearly written, and not under consideration elsewhere. Submission of a manuscript to Ninevah International Journal of Information Technology indicates that all authors have approved the submission and agree to comply with the journal’s editorial and publication policies.

 

2. Before Submission

Before submitting a manuscript to Ninevah International Journal of Information Technology , authors must ensure that the manuscript is complete, ethically prepared, technically sound, and consistent with the journal’s aims and scope. Submissions that do not comply with the journal requirements may be returned before peer review or rejected during the initial editorial screening stage.

Authors must ensure that:

1. The manuscript is original, has not been previously published, and is not under consideration by another journal, conference, book, or publisher.
2. The manuscript falls within the aims and scope of Ninevah International Journal of Information Technology and presents a clear contribution to Information Technology or related computing disciplines.
3. The manuscript is prepared according to the official Ninevah International Journal of Information Technology template and follows the required structure, formatting, and citation policy.
4. The language is clear, academic, precise, and free from grammatical, spelling, typographical, and formatting errors.
5. All figures, tables, equations, algorithms, datasets, and supplementary files are complete, readable, properly labelled, and cited in the manuscript text.
6. Ethics approval, informed consent, funding information, conflicts of interest, data availability, code availability, and AI-use statements are provided where applicable.
7. The manuscript complies with Ninevah International Journal of Information Technology ’s publication ethics, citation ethics, plagiarism policy, peer-review policy, and authorship requirements.

 

3. Language

Manuscripts must be written in clear academic English. Either American or British English may be used, but the two styles must not be mixed within the same manuscript. Authors are responsible for ensuring that the submitted text is understandable, accurate, professionally edited, and appropriate for scholarly publication.

Manuscripts with weak language, unclear expression, excessive typographical errors, or poor academic style may be returned to the authors for language improvement before peer review. Language editing does not guarantee acceptance, and scientific quality remains the primary basis for editorial decisions.

 

4. Article Types

Ninevah International Journal of Information Technology accepts two main article types. Authors must select the appropriate article type during submission and prepare the manuscript according to the expectations of that category.

4.1 Research Paper / Original Paper

A research paper reports original theoretical, experimental, computational, or applied research. It should clearly present the research problem, literature gap, objectives, methodology, results, analysis, discussion, limitations, and conclusion.

A research paper must provide a new scientific or technical contribution. Manuscripts that merely repeat known methods without meaningful evaluation, improvement, comparison, or practical contribution may be rejected during editorial screening.

4.2 Review Paper

A review paper provides a critical, comprehensive, and well-structured analysis of previously published research on a specific topic within the journal’s scope. It should synthesize existing knowledge, identify major trends, compare methods or models, discuss limitations, and define open research gaps.

Review papers must go beyond descriptive summaries and should provide analytical insight, taxonomy, comparative evaluation, methodological discussion, and future research directions.

 

5. Manuscript Structure

Manuscripts should be organized in a clear, coherent, and logical structure. The recommended order is:

Title Page; Abstract; Keywords; Introduction; Related Work; Methodology or Materials and Methods; Results and Discussion; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Required Declarations; References; Appendices or Supplementary Materials, where applicable.

The structure may be adapted when justified by the nature of the study, but all essential scientific components must be included.

5.1 Title Page

The title should be concise, informative, specific, and reflective of the main contribution of the manuscript. The title page should include the full names of all authors, institutional affiliations, ORCID iDs where available, and the name and email address of the corresponding author.

Authors should ensure that names and affiliations are accurate at the time of submission because changes after acceptance are not normally permitted unless justified and approved by the editorial office.

5.2 Abstract

The abstract should be between 150 and 250 words and should be understandable as a stand-alone text. It should briefly summarize the research objective, research problem, methodology, main results, and conclusion.

Citations, undefined abbreviations, equations, and broad background statements should be avoided. The abstract should accurately reflect the content of the manuscript and should not include claims that are not supported by the results.

5.3 Keywords

Authors should provide 5 to 8 keywords that accurately describe the manuscript and support indexing, discoverability, and database search. Keywords should be specific, relevant, and should not merely repeat words from the title unless necessary.

5.4 Introduction

The introduction should explain the research background, problem statement, motivation, significance, literature gap, study objectives, and main contributions. It should include relevant and up-to-date references directly related to the manuscript topic.

The introduction should clearly answer why the study is needed, what problem it addresses, and how it contributes to the field.

5.5 Related Work

The related work section should critically review the most relevant and recent studies connected to the manuscript topic. Authors should organize the reviewed literature thematically, methodologically, or chronologically where appropriate, and should explain the strengths, limitations, and research gaps of previous work.

This section must not be a simple list of citations. It should demonstrate how the proposed study differs from, extends, or improves upon existing approaches. All cited works must be directly relevant to the research problem, methodology, dataset, theory, evaluation, or discussion.

5.6 Methodology / Materials and Methods

This section must provide sufficient detail to allow the work to be evaluated, verified, and reproduced by independent researchers. Previously published methods should be summarized and properly cited.

For computational and Information Technology research, authors should describe datasets, preprocessing procedures, algorithms, models, system architecture, implementation environment, parameter settings, experimental setup, evaluation protocol, and statistical or computational analysis where applicable.

5.7 Results and Discussion

Results should be presented clearly, objectively, and logically using appropriate tables, figures, algorithms, charts, and statistical or computational analyses.

The discussion should interpret the results, compare them with relevant previous studies, explain their significance, identify limitations, and clarify practical or theoretical implications. Results and discussion may be combined where appropriate, but interpretation should not simply repeat numerical results.

5.8 Conclusion

The conclusion should briefly summarize the main findings, contributions, limitations, and possible future work. The conclusion must be directly supported by the results and should not introduce new experiments, unsupported claims, or references that were not discussed in the manuscript.

5.9 Acknowledgements

Authors may acknowledge individuals, laboratories, institutions, or organizations that contributed to the work but do not meet the criteria for authorship. Funding bodies and grant numbers should be written clearly and in full.

Acknowledgements should not be used to include individuals who qualify for authorship.

 

6. Formatting and Manuscript Preparation

Ninevah International Journal of Information Technology will use a LaTeX-based manuscript template and a one-column format for submitted manuscripts. Authors should prepare their manuscripts using the official Ninevah International Journal of Information Technology LaTeX template once it is made available by the journal. A Word template may be provided temporarily or for administrative purposes if approved by the editorial office.

The one-column format is intended to improve readability during editorial screening, peer review, and technical checking.

Authors must follow these requirements:

1. Manuscripts should be submitted in LaTeX source format together with a compiled PDF version, according to the official Ninevah International Journal of Information Technology submission requirements.
2. The manuscript should follow the journal template for section numbering, fonts, spacing, margins, captions, tables, algorithms, equations, references, and appendices.
3. Authors should not manually modify the template structure, page layout, margins, citation style, or heading format unless instructed by the editorial office.
4. Main sections should be numbered consecutively, for example, 1. Introduction and 2. Related Work. Subsections should be numbered as 1.1, 1.2, and so on. The References section should not be numbered.
5. Equations, algorithms, tables, and figures should be editable or provided in high-quality source formats whenever possible.
6. Detailed technical formatting instructions may be updated when the official Ninevah International Journal of Information Technology LaTeX template is finalized. Authors should always follow the latest template available on the journal website.

 

7. Figures, Tables, Equations, and Units

Figures must be clear, readable, and of high resolution. Recommended minimum resolutions are 1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale images, and 300 dpi for color images.

Acceptable figure formats include EPS, PDF, TIFF, JPEG, and PNG, depending on the nature of the figure and LaTeX template requirements.

Tables must present information clearly and should not simply duplicate text. Tables should include concise titles and relevant footnotes where necessary.

All figures, tables, algorithms, and equations must be cited in the manuscript text in numerical order. Equations should be written in editable LaTeX format and numbered where necessary.

SI units should be used throughout the manuscript. Units should be written consistently and should not be italicized.

8. References and Citation Policy

References must be accurate, complete, relevant, and formatted in accordance with the Ninevah International Journal of Information Technology reference style. Citations should be numbered consecutively in square brackets in the order in which they appear in the text, such as [1], [2], [3], and [4–6].

Every reference listed in the References section must be cited in the manuscript text, and every in-text citation must appear in the reference list.

Ninevah International Journal of Information Technology applies a strict citation-ethics policy. Authors must comply with the following rules:

1. Citations to articles published in Ninevah International Journal of Information Technology are not permitted in manuscripts submitted to Ninevah International Journal of Information Technology .
2. Self-citation is not permitted. Authors must not cite works authored or co-authored by any author of the submitted manuscript.
3. Irrelevant citations are not permitted. All references must be directly related to the manuscript topic, method, dataset, theory, evaluation, or discussion.
4. Citation padding, citation manipulation, excessive citation, and adding references only to increase citation counts are strictly prohibited.
5. The editorial office may request the removal of inappropriate references, return the manuscript for correction, or reject the manuscript if citation ethics are violated.
6. Unpublished works should be cited only when necessary and clearly marked as “unpublished”. Accepted papers that are not yet published may be cited as “in press”. Authors are responsible for verifying the accuracy of all bibliographic information before submission.

9. Plagiarism, Similarity, and AI-Generated Text

Ninevah International Journal of Information Technology is committed to academic integrity and originality. All submitted manuscripts may be screened using plagiarism-detection and AI-detection tools as part of the editorial evaluation process.

The overall similarity index must be less than 20%. Manuscripts exceeding this limit may be returned for revision or rejected, depending on the nature and extent of the similarity.

AI-generated text must be less than 25% of the manuscript. Authors must not use artificial intelligence tools to generate substantial portions of the manuscript without proper verification, editing, and disclosure. Any use of AI tools for language editing, text improvement, data analysis, image generation, or other research-related purposes must be declared in the manuscript.

AI tools must not be listed as authors. Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, integrity, and ethical compliance of all submitted content.

10. Required Declarations

Each manuscript must include the following declarations where applicable. These statements support transparency, reproducibility, and ethical compliance:

• Ethics approval and consent to participate.
• Consent for publication.
• Availability of data and materials.
• Code availability, where applicable.
• Competing interests.
• Funding.
• Authors’ contributions.
• Acknowledgements.
• Use of artificial intelligence tools, where applicable.

If a declaration is not applicable, authors should state: “Not applicable.”

If there are no competing interests, authors should state: “The authors declare that they have no competing interests.”

11. Use of Artificial Intelligence Tools

Authors must disclose any use of artificial intelligence tools in manuscript preparation, data analysis, image generation, coding, translation, or language editing. AI tools must not be listed as authors because they cannot take responsibility for the accuracy, integrity, or ethical compliance of the work. Authors remain fully responsible for all content submitted to Ninevah International Journal of Information Technology, including text, data, figures, tables, code, and references.