Author Guidelines

Jurnal Computech & Bisnis (JCB)
Published by STMIK Mardira Indonesia

1. General Information

Jurnal Computech & Bisnis (JCB) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by STMIK Mardira Indonesia. The journal publishes original scholarly research in computer science and informatics, with particular emphasis on computational methods, software engineering, information security, computational intelligence, and intelligent information systems.

JCB aims to disseminate research that advances computational theories, algorithms, methods, software technologies, security mechanisms, and intelligent systems through scientifically sound methodologies and rigorous evaluation.

The journal welcomes submissions from researchers, academics, and practitioners whose work demonstrates originality, methodological rigor, technical relevance, and a clear contribution to the advancement of computer science and informatics.

Authors are required to read these guidelines and the journal’s Focus and Scope, Peer Review Process, Authorship Criteria, Publication Ethics, Plagiarism Policy, Conflict of Interest Policy, Copyright, and Licensing policies before submitting a manuscript.

Compliance with the author guidelines is required for editorial consideration but does not guarantee acceptance or publication.

2. Focus and Scope

JCB considers manuscripts in the following research areas:

Computational Methods and Algorithm Development.
Software Engineering and Software Systems.
Information Security and Cybersecurity.
Computational Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Data Mining.
Intelligent Information Systems and Decision Support.
Internet of Things and Intelligent Computing Applications.
Data Engineering and Intelligent Data Processing.

Manuscripts must demonstrate a clear relationship to computer science or informatics and provide a meaningful scientific, methodological, technical, empirical, or analytical contribution.

Studies that merely describe routine software development or apply existing technologies without sufficient methodological justification, evaluation, or scientific insight may be considered unsuitable for publication.

Authors should explain the research problem, identify the gap in existing knowledge, describe the methodology, present appropriate evidence, and articulate the contribution of their work.

3. Types of Manuscripts

JCB considers the following manuscript types.

3.1 Original Research Articles

Original research articles present new findings derived from empirical, experimental, analytical, computational, or theoretical investigations.

Manuscripts should identify a clear research problem, explain the research gap, describe the methodology, report the results, critically discuss the findings, and state the scientific contribution.

3.2 Computational Methods and Algorithm Studies

These manuscripts develop, improve, analyze, or evaluate computational methods, algorithms, models, or optimization techniques.

Authors should explain the methodological contribution and provide appropriate analytical or experimental evidence. Comparisons with relevant existing methods are encouraged when they are appropriate to the research objectives.

3.3 Software Engineering and System Evaluation Studies

These manuscripts investigate software development methods, software architecture, testing, verification, quality assurance, software performance, or system reliability.

System development papers should explain the technical design and provide an appropriate evaluation of the proposed system. A description of implementation alone may be insufficient to establish a scholarly contribution.

3.4 Information Security Research

These manuscripts investigate cybersecurity methods, secure software, intrusion detection, vulnerability assessment, cryptographic techniques, privacy protection, or related security technologies.

Authors must describe the research methodology and evaluation procedures clearly and ensure that security testing is conducted with appropriate authorization.

3.5 Computational Intelligence and Data Mining Studies

These manuscripts investigate machine learning, deep learning, pattern recognition, data mining, evolutionary computation, intelligent optimization, or related computational intelligence methods.

Authors should explain the dataset, experimental design, evaluation metrics, baseline methods, and limitations where applicable.

3.6 Intelligent Information Systems and IoT Research

These manuscripts investigate intelligent information systems, decision-support systems, IoT architectures, embedded systems, edge computing, intelligent automation, or integrated computational applications.

Authors should provide appropriate technical or empirical evidence demonstrating the effectiveness, reliability, performance, or contribution of the proposed method or system.

The editorial team determines the final manuscript classification based on the content and contribution of the submission.

4. Originality and Research Contribution

Submitted manuscripts must represent original scholarly work and must not have been published previously in substantially the same form or be under consideration by another journal at the same time.

Authors must disclose any relevant prior dissemination of the manuscript, including conference publications, preprints, repository deposits, or related publications, where applicable. The editorial team will determine whether such dissemination is compatible with the journal’s publication policies.

Every manuscript should demonstrate a clear contribution to the relevant research field.

Depending on the research topic, an appropriate contribution may include:

A new computational method or substantial improvement to an existing method.
A novel or rigorously evaluated software engineering approach.
An improved information security mechanism or evaluation method.
A meaningful computational intelligence model or analytical finding.
A systematic empirical comparison of existing methods.
New evidence concerning the performance, reliability, limitations, or generalization of a computational approach.
An intelligent system that provides a demonstrable technical or scientific contribution beyond routine implementation.

Authors should explain how their research differs from relevant previous studies and why the contribution matters.

The novelty of a manuscript must be supported by appropriate scholarly references and evidence rather than by unsupported claims.

5. Manuscript Template and Formatting

All manuscripts must follow the official JCB manuscript template.

Official template: Authors should use the template provided through the JCB Author Guidelines page. The template must be used as the primary formatting reference for the manuscript.

Authors are required to follow the template’s instructions concerning:

Page layout and margins.
Font type and size.
Paragraph formatting and line spacing.
Article title and author information.
Abstract and keywords.
Section headings and subsection numbering.
Tables, figures, diagrams, and equations.
In-text citations and reference formatting.
Acknowledgments and other required statements.

The primary manuscript file must be submitted in Microsoft Word format (.doc or .docx).

Unless otherwise instructed by the editorial team, PDF files must not be submitted as substitutes for the required editable manuscript file.

Manuscripts that do not follow the official template or required file format may be returned for technical correction before further editorial consideration.

Authors should not alter the template in ways that conflict with the journal’s formatting requirements.

6. Manuscript Language and Writing Quality

Manuscripts must be written in clear, formal, and academically appropriate English.

Authors are responsible for ensuring the accuracy of grammar, spelling, terminology, technical descriptions, tables, figures, and references.

The manuscript should be logically structured, concise, and sufficiently detailed to allow readers to understand the research problem, methodology, findings, and contribution.

Submissions that are difficult to evaluate because of inadequate language quality or unclear presentation may be returned for improvement.

Language editing does not guarantee acceptance.

7. Manuscript Structure

The structure should follow the official JCB template and be appropriate to the manuscript type and research methodology.

For original research articles, the following structure is generally recommended.

7.1 Title

The title should be concise, specific, informative, and representative of the research content.

It should identify the central topic or contribution without unnecessary abbreviations, unsupported claims, or overly broad wording.

7.2 Author Information

The submission metadata should contain the full name of each author, institutional affiliation, and other information requested by the OJS submission system.

The corresponding author must provide a valid email address and be authorized to communicate with the editorial team on behalf of all authors.

For double-blind peer review, the main manuscript file must not contain author names, affiliations, acknowledgments, or other information that directly identifies the authors.

Author details should be entered in the appropriate OJS fields or supplied through a separate file if required by the submission system.

7.3 Abstract

The abstract should summarize the research problem, objective, methodology, principal findings, and main contribution.

It should be self-contained and accurately reflect the manuscript.

Authors should avoid unsupported claims, unnecessary background information, and undefined abbreviations.

The abstract length and formatting must follow the official JCB template.

7.4 Keywords

Authors should provide relevant keywords that represent the main research topic, method, technology, or application area.

Keywords should improve the discoverability of the article and complement rather than simply repeat the title.

The required number and formatting of keywords must follow the official template.

7.5 Introduction

The introduction should explain the research context, problem statement, significance, relevant background, research gap, objectives, and expected contribution.

Authors should use relevant scholarly literature to establish the need for the research.

The introduction must clearly explain what remains unresolved in existing research and how the submitted study addresses that gap.

7.6 Research Methodology

The methodology should describe the research design and procedures in sufficient detail for readers and reviewers to evaluate the validity of the study.

Depending on the research area, this section may include:

Research design and objectives.
Data sources, dataset characteristics, or research participants.
Data collection and preprocessing procedures.
Computational methods, algorithms, or mathematical models.
Software architecture and system design.
Experimental environment and implementation details.
Baseline methods and comparison procedures.
Evaluation metrics and statistical analysis.
Hardware, software, and relevant computational resources.
Ethical approval or authorization, where applicable.

Authors should explain why the selected methods are appropriate and how the experiments or evaluations address the research objectives.

7.7 Results

The results section should present the principal findings in a clear, logical, and accurate manner.

Results may be presented through text, tables, figures, diagrams, equations, or other appropriate forms of evidence.

Authors should ensure that all reported results are consistent with the described methodology and supported by the available data.

Results must not be fabricated, falsified, or selectively presented in a misleading manner.

7.8 Discussion

The discussion should interpret the findings and explain their significance in relation to the research objectives and previous studies.

Authors should discuss the contribution of the work, the strengths and limitations of the proposed approach, possible explanations for the results, and the implications for computer science or informatics.

Where appropriate, the discussion should compare the proposed method with existing methods and explain the conditions under which the method performs well or poorly.

The discussion should provide critical analysis rather than merely repeat the results.

7.9 Conclusion

The conclusion should directly address the research objectives and summarize the principal findings and contributions.

Authors should avoid introducing new results or making claims that are not supported by the study.

Limitations and recommendations for future research may be included when relevant.

7.10 References

All sources cited in the manuscript must appear in the reference list, and every reference listed must be cited in the manuscript.

Authors must follow the citation and reference style specified in the official JCB template.

References must be accurate, complete, relevant, and traceable to their original sources.

Authors should prioritize credible scholarly sources, including relevant primary research and foundational publications.

DOI information should be included when available and applicable.

Authors must not fabricate references, misrepresent cited sources, or include irrelevant citations to manipulate citation metrics.

8. Research Methodology and Evaluation Standards

JCB encourages research that is supported by rigorous methods and appropriate evaluation.

The required evaluation depends on the research question, field, and study design.

8.1 Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Data Mining

Authors should explain the dataset, preprocessing, experimental design, model configuration, evaluation metrics, and comparison methods.

Where appropriate, studies should address data leakage, class imbalance, overfitting, reproducibility, and generalization.

Comparisons should use relevant baselines and fair experimental conditions.

A high accuracy score alone does not establish the superiority or scientific contribution of a model.

8.2 Software Engineering

Authors should explain the software engineering problem, design decisions, development methodology, and evaluation procedures.

Where applicable, studies should provide evidence concerning software quality, reliability, performance, maintainability, usability, or testing effectiveness.

Software implementation without adequate technical analysis or evaluation may be insufficient to establish a research contribution.

8.3 Information Security

Authors should describe the security problem, threat model, testing environment, methodology, evaluation metrics, and limitations where applicable.

Security testing must be conducted with appropriate authorization and in accordance with relevant legal and ethical requirements.

8.4 Internet of Things and Intelligent Computing

Authors should explain the system architecture, hardware or software configuration, experimental setup, and evaluation criteria.

Depending on the research objective, evaluation may include latency, energy consumption, reliability, accuracy, throughput, scalability, or resource utilization.

8.5 Intelligent Information Systems

Authors should explain the technical or methodological contribution of the system and provide appropriate evidence of its effectiveness.

Evaluation may include predictive performance, system reliability, decision-support quality, usability, efficiency, or other relevant measures.

These examples are not mandatory metrics for every manuscript. Authors should select evaluation procedures that are appropriate to their research objectives.

9. Tables, Figures, Equations, and Supplementary Materials

Tables and figures must be numbered consistently, have informative titles or captions, and be cited in the manuscript text.

All figures, charts, diagrams, screenshots, and other visual materials must be clear and relevant to the research.

Authors must ensure that visual materials accurately represent the reported results.

Equations, symbols, units, and technical terminology should be presented consistently.

Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyrighted materials when required and for acknowledging the original sources.

Supplementary materials may be submitted when they provide relevant supporting information, subject to the journal’s technical and editorial requirements.

10. Citation and Reference Integrity

Authors must properly cite all sources of ideas, data, methods, quotations, images, figures, tables, and other materials derived from previous work.

Citations should be relevant to the claims they support.

Authors must not fabricate citations, misrepresent the content of cited publications, or manipulate references to increase citation counts.

Excessive self-citation without scholarly justification, coordinated citation manipulation, and coercive citation practices are unacceptable.

Authors should verify references before submission and ensure that the cited works are accessible and accurately represented.

11. Plagiarism and Similarity Screening

All submitted manuscripts are subject to originality assessment and textual similarity screening.

JCB uses Turnitin as a supporting tool in the editorial assessment of textual similarity. An overall similarity score of 20% is used as an initial screening threshold, subject to contextual editorial evaluation and the journal’s detailed Plagiarism Policy.

A similarity score does not automatically establish whether plagiarism has occurred.

Editors evaluate the nature and context of matched text, including quotations, references, standard terminology, methodological descriptions, and overlap with previously published work.

Manuscripts may be returned for revision, subjected to further investigation, or rejected when substantial unattributed overlap, plagiarism, redundant publication, or other ethical concerns are identified.

Authors must ensure that all borrowed material is properly cited and that the manuscript accurately represents their own contribution.

12. Authorship and Author Contributions

All listed authors must meet the journal’s Authorship Criteria and must be able to take responsibility for their respective contributions.

Before submission, all authors should agree on the manuscript’s content, author list, author order, and corresponding author.

The corresponding author is responsible for confirming that all authors have approved the submitted manuscript and agree to its submission to JCB.

Authors should disclose their contributions according to the journal’s authorship policy. Where required or supported by the submission system, the CRediT contributor-role taxonomy may be used.

Individuals who contributed to the work but do not meet the journal’s authorship criteria should be acknowledged appropriately.

Gift, guest, honorary, and ghost authorship are unacceptable.

Changes to the author list after submission require a valid justification and written agreement from all relevant authors, subject to editorial approval.

13. Research Ethics and Integrity

Authors must ensure that their research has been conducted responsibly and complies with applicable ethical, legal, and institutional requirements.

Research involving human participants, personal data, animals, or other ethically sensitive subjects must comply with relevant requirements concerning ethical review, informed consent, privacy, and data protection.

Where applicable, manuscripts should include information about ethics committee approval, approval numbers, informed consent, or other required safeguards.

Authors must not fabricate or falsify data, manipulate results, misrepresent research procedures, or conceal material information necessary to evaluate the work.

Any suspected research misconduct will be handled in accordance with the journal’s publication ethics and research misconduct policies.

14. Use of Artificial Intelligence Tools

Authors must use artificial intelligence (AI) tools responsibly and remain accountable for the accuracy, originality, integrity, and ethical compliance of their manuscripts.

AI tools cannot be listed as authors.

Human authors remain responsible for all manuscript content, including text, references, data analysis, code, figures, and interpretations produced with AI assistance.

Where AI tools make a substantive contribution to the research or manuscript preparation, authors must disclose the tool used, its purpose, and the relevant aspects of its use in accordance with the journal’s AI policy.

AI-generated references, quotations, data, images, or factual claims must be independently verified.

Authors must not present fabricated or unverified material as authentic scholarly evidence.

The use of AI does not exempt authors from plagiarism screening, authorship requirements, research ethics, or responsibility for research misconduct.

15. Data Availability and Reproducibility

Authors are encouraged to make relevant datasets, code, research instruments, computational configurations, and supporting materials available when legally, ethically, and practically appropriate.

Where relevant, authors should provide a data availability statement explaining whether supporting data are available, where they can be accessed, and any applicable restrictions.

Authors should provide sufficient methodological information to enable readers to understand and evaluate the reported findings.

Data containing personal, confidential, proprietary, or otherwise protected information must not be disclosed without appropriate authorization.

Authors must not claim that data, code, or supplementary materials are publicly available unless the stated resources can actually be accessed.

16. Conflict of Interest and Funding Disclosure

All authors must disclose financial and non-financial interests that could reasonably be perceived as influencing the research, its interpretation, or its publication.

Potential conflicts may include employment, consultancy, financial relationships, personal relationships, intellectual property interests, or other relevant professional commitments.

Authors must also disclose relevant funding sources and explain the funder’s role in the research where applicable.

If no conflict of interest exists, authors should provide an accurate statement consistent with the journal’s Conflict of Interest Policy.

17. Copyright and Licensing

Authors must comply with the journal’s Copyright and Licensing policies.

Before submission, authors should review the applicable terms concerning copyright ownership, the journal’s right to publish and distribute the article, and the license under which the published work will be made available.

Authors are responsible for ensuring that submitted materials do not infringe third-party copyright or other applicable rights.

Permission must be obtained for third-party materials where required.

The applicable copyright and licensing terms are stated in the journal’s official policies and, where appropriate, in the published article.

18. Submission Procedure through OJS

All manuscripts must be submitted through the official JCB Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform.

Authors should:

Register for an account or sign in to the OJS platform.
Complete the required submission information.
Select the appropriate manuscript type or section, where applicable.
Enter the title, abstract, keywords, author information, and affiliations accurately.
Upload the manuscript using the official JCB template in Microsoft Word .doc or .docx format.
Upload required declarations or supplementary files when requested.
Confirm that the manuscript complies with the journal’s scope, originality, authorship, ethics, and formatting requirements.
Complete the submission and monitor its progress through OJS.

Authors should ensure that all required metadata are complete and consistent with the submitted manuscript.

Submissions sent through informal channels may be redirected to OJS to maintain a consistent and traceable editorial record.

19. Initial Editorial Screening

Each submission undergoes an initial editorial assessment to determine its suitability for further consideration.

The screening may include:

Relevance to the journal’s Focus and Scope.
Originality and preliminary similarity assessment.
Clarity of the research problem and contribution.
Methodological adequacy.
Compliance with the official template and file requirements.
Completeness of submission metadata.
Authorship and publication ethics requirements.
Availability of required declarations and supporting information.

Manuscripts that fall outside the journal’s scope, fail to meet essential requirements, or raise substantial ethical concerns may be rejected or returned for correction without external peer review.

Passing the initial screening does not guarantee acceptance.

20. Peer Review Process

Manuscripts that pass initial editorial screening may be sent for independent external peer review.

JCB applies a double-blind peer-review process in which author identities are concealed from reviewers and reviewer identities are concealed from authors during the review process, subject to the journal’s procedures and the limitations of anonymization.

Research manuscripts undergoing external review are normally assessed by at least two independent reviewers.

Reviewers assess the originality, relevance, methodology, validity of findings, quality of discussion, scientific contribution, and ethical compliance of the manuscript.

The editor makes the final editorial decision based on the manuscript’s scholarly merit, the reviewers’ assessments, and the journal’s policies.

Further details are provided in the journal’s Peer Review Process policy.

21. Editorial Decisions and Revision

Following editorial screening and peer review, the journal may issue one of the following decisions:

Accept.
Accept subject to minor revision.
Major revision required.
Reject.

The available decision categories may be implemented according to the options configured in OJS.

When revision is requested, authors should submit the revised manuscript within the deadline specified by the editor.

Authors should provide a point-by-point response explaining how each editor and reviewer comment has been addressed. If an author disagrees with a comment, the response should provide a clear and evidence-based explanation.

Revised manuscripts may be returned to the original reviewers or assessed by the editor, depending on the nature of the revisions.

A revision request does not guarantee acceptance.

22. Publication and Proofreading

Accepted manuscripts proceed to production and publication after the required editorial, ethical, copyright, and administrative procedures have been completed.

Authors may be asked to review proofs or verify the accuracy of the final article before publication.

Proofreading should focus on correcting production errors and verifying the accuracy of the article. Substantive changes to the accepted manuscript require editorial approval.

Publication scheduling follows the journal’s officially stated publication frequency and production arrangements.

Acceptance does not necessarily guarantee publication in the immediately upcoming issue.

23. Corrections, Retractions, and Post-Publication Concerns

Authors are expected to cooperate with the editorial team if significant errors, ethical concerns, or questions about a published article arise.

If authors discover a material error in their published work, they should promptly inform the editorial team and provide sufficient information for assessment.

The journal may publish a correction, expression of concern, or retraction when warranted, in accordance with its Correction and Retraction Policy.

24. Appeals and Complaints

Authors may appeal an editorial decision when there are substantive grounds to believe that a significant factual error, procedural irregularity, or material misunderstanding affected the decision.

Appeals should be submitted in writing through the journal’s official contact channel or OJS, as directed by the editor.

The appeal should identify the decision being challenged, explain the grounds for the appeal, and provide relevant supporting evidence.

Disagreement with a reviewer’s scholarly opinion alone does not automatically justify an appeal.

Appeals and complaints are handled in accordance with the journal’s editorial procedures, with attention to fairness, impartiality, and conflicts of interest.

25. Submission Checklist

Before submitting a manuscript, authors should confirm that:

The manuscript falls within the journal’s Focus and Scope.
The manuscript is original and is not under consideration by another journal.
The manuscript follows the official JCB template.
The primary manuscript file is in Microsoft Word .doc or .docx format.
The manuscript is appropriately anonymized for double-blind peer review.
The title, abstract, keywords, and author metadata are complete and accurate.
The research gap and contribution are clearly explained.
The methodology and evaluation procedures are appropriate to the research objectives.
All sources are cited accurately and included in the reference list.
Tables, figures, equations, and third-party materials are presented and acknowledged appropriately.
All authors meet the journal’s authorship criteria and have approved the submission.
Applicable research ethics requirements have been met.
AI use has been disclosed when required by the journal’s policy.
Required declarations and supplementary files have been provided.
The manuscript complies with the journal’s plagiarism, copyright, licensing, and publication ethics policies.

Incomplete submissions may be returned to the authors for correction before further editorial consideration.

26. Contact Information

Questions concerning manuscript preparation, submission procedures, or the interpretation of these guidelines may be directed to the editorial team through the official contact information provided on the JCB website.

Authors are encouraged to use OJS for submission-related communication whenever possible to maintain an appropriate editorial record.

27. Final Statement

By submitting a manuscript to Jurnal Computech & Bisnis, authors confirm that they have read and understood these guidelines and the journal’s applicable publication policies.

Authors remain responsible for the accuracy, originality, ethical integrity, and proper attribution of their work.

JCB reserves the right to return, request revisions to, or reject manuscripts that do not comply with the journal’s requirements or fail to meet its academic and ethical standards.