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Author Guidelines

These guidelines explain how to prepare and submit a manuscript to PatternIQ Mining (PIQM). Please read them together with the journal policies before you submit. Publishing in PIQM is free: the journal charges no submission or publication fees.

Submit a manuscript Download the manuscript template (Word)

Before you submit

By submitting a manuscript, the authors confirm that:

Article types

  • Original research articles: complete reports of original research.
  • Review articles and systematic reviews: critical surveys of a research area.
  • Short communications: brief reports of new results or methods.
  • Technical and methodological papers: descriptions of new methods, tools or systems.
  • Case studies and application-oriented articles: applications of pattern analysis to a specific problem or setting.

Language and format

  • Manuscripts must be written in clear English.
  • Prepare the manuscript in Microsoft Word using the journal template. The template sets the page size (A4, single column, margins of 1 inch), fonts, headings and line spacing.
  • Do not add headers, footers or page numbers. These are added by the journal.
  • Place figures and tables in the text, close to where they are first mentioned, not at the end of the manuscript.

Structure of the manuscript

A research article normally contains these parts, in this order:

  1. Title
  2. Author names, affiliations and the email address of the corresponding author
  3. Abstract
  4. Keywords
  5. Introduction
  6. Related work (literature survey)
  7. Methodology, including the proposed framework and the dataset
  8. Experimental setup and evaluation
  9. Results and discussion
  10. Conclusion and future work
  11. Statements: author contributions, funding, conflict of interest, data availability, ethics approval where applicable, AI disclosure where applicable
  12. Acknowledgements, where applicable
  13. References

Title, abstract and keywords

  • Title: concise, specific and informative. Avoid abbreviations.
  • Abstract: a single paragraph of 150 to 250 words that states the problem, the objective, the method, the main results and the conclusion. Do not include references or undefined abbreviations.
  • Keywords: three to eight keywords that describe the content of the article.

Author information

Give the full name and the institutional affiliation (department, institution, city and country) of every author, and the email address of the corresponding author. Authors are encouraged to provide an ORCID iD. Because peer review is double-blind, the editorial office removes author details from the files sent to reviewers. Please avoid information in the text, the file properties or the acknowledgements that would reveal who the authors are.

Figures and tables

  • Number figures and tables consecutively and refer to each of them in the text.
  • Give every figure and table a clear, descriptive caption.
  • Create tables with the table tool in Word, not as images. Include units in the column headings.
  • Supply figures at a resolution of at least 300 dpi.
  • Give the source of any figure or table that is reproduced or adapted, and obtain permission where it is required.

References

  • Number references in the order in which they are first cited, and cite them in the text with the number in square brackets, for example [1] or [2, 3].
  • Every reference in the list must be cited in the text, and every citation must appear in the list.
  • Include the DOI of each reference where one exists.
  • Cite relevant, recent and reliable sources. Excessive self-citation and citations added to inflate citation counts are not accepted.

Example:

[1] G. Vilone and L. Longo, "Classification of explainable artificial intelligence methods through their output formats," Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 615-661, 2021, doi: 10.3390/make3030032.

Required statements

Place these statements after the conclusion and before the references:

  • Author contributions: what each author did. The CRediT taxonomy is recommended.
  • Funding: the sources of funding and the role of the funder, or a statement that the work received no specific funding.
  • Conflict of interest: any competing interests, or "The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest."
  • Data availability: where the data and code can be found, or why they cannot be shared.
  • Ethics approval: for research involving people, personal data or animals, the approving body, the approval number and a statement on consent.
  • AI disclosure: the generative AI tools used and the purpose, where applicable.

How to submit

  1. Log in to, or register with, the online submission system.
  2. Upload the manuscript file and any supplementary files.
  3. Enter the details of all authors and the abstract and keywords.
  4. Add a cover letter if you wish to draw the editor's attention to anything, for example related manuscripts or previous versions.

Manuscripts can be submitted at any time. If you have difficulty with the submission system, write to editor.piqm@gmail.com.

After submission

Each submission is screened by the editorial office, checked for similarity and, if suitable, sent to at least two independent reviewers under double-blind peer review. The possible decisions are accept, minor revision, major revision and reject. When revising, authors should answer every comment of the reviewers and mark the changes in the manuscript. The full process and the expected timelines are described in the Peer Review Policy.

Fees

PIQM charges no fees: there is no submission fee, no article processing charge and no charge for pages, colour figures or withdrawal. See Article Processing Charges.

Authors keep the copyright of their article. Accepted articles are published open access under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) licence. Authors may deposit any version of their article in a repository at any time. See Copyright and Licensing.

After acceptance

  • The manuscript is copy-edited and formatted by the journal.
  • Proofs are sent to the corresponding author, who should check them carefully and return corrections promptly.
  • A DOI is registered for the article and it is published in the next issue.
  • Errors found after publication are corrected as described under Corrections and Retractions.

Submission checklist

  • The manuscript follows the journal template and is in Word format.
  • The abstract has 150 to 250 words and there are three to eight keywords.
  • All authors, affiliations and the corresponding author's email address are given.
  • All figures and tables are numbered, captioned and cited in the text.
  • All references are cited in the text, are complete and include DOIs where available.
  • The required statements are included.
  • Permission has been obtained for any third-party material.
  • All authors have approved the submission.