Instructions for Authors
The Computer Science Journal of Moldova (CSJM) is issued three times a year by the Vladimir Andrunachievici Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science of Moldova, Moldova State University.
The journal publishes articles and short communications on Theory of Software, Theory of Data, Theory of Computing, Computing Methodologies and Applications, Discrete Mathematics (concerning Computer Science), Artificial Intelligence, Algorithms in Computer Science, and related topics.
Survey papers are published at the invitation of the editorial board only. Articles must contain new, original results in the areas listed above. Papers that only describe applications of existing methods to solve a specific problem are not accepted. Due to the increased demand for publication in our journal, to allow more authors to publish, the papers of the same author will be published no more often than once a year. This restriction is applied to co-authored papers, too.
Authors must ensure that the list of authors' names and their order is correct before sending the manuscript to the editor. Changes to the list and/or order of authors' names after the article is submitted are a violation of ethical standards. An attempt by the author(s) to make such changes at any stage of the article's processing by the editors is completely excluded; the consequence of this is immediate rejection of the work.
Authors must adhere to the ethical rules of the journal as well as international standards set for academic publications. In particular, they must mention in the article if they have used artificial intelligence in its development, with the exact specifications of the services it provides. The Cover letter regarding the (possible) use of AI is mandatory.(more information about the Cover letter can be found on the main page of CSJM, section “Using of Artificial Intelligence”).
Papers are submitted in English only.
All information in the paper (including cited references) should be written in the Roman alphabet.
The journal is computer-typeset. We require texts in the form of electronic manuscripts in LaTeX (source .tex file) and the respective variant in .pdf format generated from the source .tex-file. If some specific styles are used for your paper layout, please give the respective .sty files together with the main .tex file containing the paper text. Figures should be in .eps, .png, or .jpg formats. Dimensions of figures and tables should fit the printable area of CSJM: textheight=182mm, textwidth=118mm. Be sure that the formulae and equations (algorithm descriptions, program texts, etc.) in the text do not give overfulls: break them in proper places to fit the text width. To keep these conditions, use csjmol.sty and the CSJM template (the link for its download is provided at the end of these instructions). Papers presented in other styles and formats are not accepted for consideration by the CSJM Editorial board.
The authors are fully responsible for the content, presentation, and global typesetting aspects of the text, figures, tables, and all the attached materials. The length of your manuscript should not be more than 25 pages in CSJM format. The bibliography list of the submitted article should not contain more than 25 items.
The manuscript should contain the following information: fully descriptive title, author’s name/authors’ names, abstract, keywords, the codes for MSC2020 (Mathematics Subject Classification 2020), the main body of the paper including tables and figures, appendices, complete English Language bibliographic information for all cited references, full information about ORCID, affiliation and address (postal and e-mail) for each co-author (at the end of the paper). It is also recommended to provide information on the funding source that supports the presented research.
When writing the author’s name/authors’ names, keep the Western name order:
First Name of the first author Second Name of the first author, First Name of the second author Second Name of the second author, etc.
E.g., William Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway, Abraham Lincoln, etc.
The full first names are preferable, but you can also use initials, keeping the Western name order.
E.g., W. Shakespeare, E. Hemingway, A. Lincoln, etc.
When you prepare the reference list for your paper, please use the IEEE style described in the IEEE REFERENCE GUIDE. The Editorial Board of CSJM (Ed.CSJM) recommends that the authors use the document with some additions, made by the CSJM Editorial board, formulated in Referencing_in_CSJM.docx. In the document, these additions are marked by "(Ed.CSJM)".
The main recommendation concerns the request to provide more detailed information about references, if possible.
NOTE 1. Standard abbreviations for Titles of Periodicals or Publishing Houses are accepted, but full titles are preferred. Necessary information may include List of authors, Title of the publication, Title of the Series (for books, if exists), Volume of the Series (for books, if exists), ISSN, ISBN, Publisher for books, Number of pages for books, Page numbers (for journal articles, articles in conference proceedings, and chapters in books), Volume and Issue for journals, DOI, ArXive (or other types of electronic links), Year of publication. Be sure that all the information about the cited item is written correctly. The submitted articles with items in the bibliography list for nonexisting publications will be rejected.
Please, write in comments before each item of the bibliography, which category it refers to: Periodicals, Books, Chapters in books, Book series, Reports, Handbooks, Published Conference Proceedings, Theses (B.S., M.S.) and Dissertations (Ph.D.), Standards, On-Line Sources (Books, Monographs, Periodicals, Papers Presented at Conferences, Reports and Handbooks, Government Documents, Patents, Manuals/Software), etc.
If some reference is originally published in a language other than English, please provide additional titles (of articles, journals, and books) in the original language and write the language in round brackets. Examples are provided in the CSJM template in respective subsections. Information in the original language will not appear in CSJM (in .tex-file it should be commented). It is needed for metadata that the CSJM Editorial board should provide to international DBs where the journal CSJM is indexed or abstracted.
You can use the BibTeX system to manage your bibliography. In such a case, you should take the IEEE style (use IEEEtran.bst in your LaTeX files).
Download CSJM template: CSJM_template.tex, csjmol.sty, IEEEtran.bst, CSJM_Template.zip, Referencing_in_CSJM.docx.
NOTE 2. The journal has no charges for article submission and processing.
Submit your manuscript to CSJM using the following address: 
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The CSJM Executive Editor, Dr. Galina Magariu, conducts correspondence with authors regarding the receipt of submitted articles and review results.
N.B. Manuscripts prepared in Word are not accepted for consideration. Also, if your manuscript is not prepared in the CSJM journal format (not in LaTeX and not using the CSJM template), it is not accepted for consideration by the CSJM Editorial board.
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