Submissions

Before Submission

Authors should submit manuscripts that fit the journal scope and are not under consideration by another journal. The title page should include all author names and affiliations, corresponding author contact details, funding information, competing interests, data availability, ethics approval details where relevant, and author contributions.

Article Types and Length

Machine Learning and Applied Artificial Intelligence may consider application studies, deployment reports, benchmark papers, methods papers, negative results, and reviews. The journal does not set a rigid launch-stage word limit, but authors should match article length to evidence. Short reports must still contain enough method detail for evaluation; reviews must state their search or selection logic.

Manuscript Structure

Research articles should normally include:

  • title, abstract, keywords, and a concise statement of the research gap
  • methods or study design with enough detail for assessment
  • results presented without selective reporting
  • discussion that separates evidence from interpretation
  • limitations, data availability, author contributions, competing interests, funding, and references

For this journal, authors should additionally address problem formulation, training data suitability, and baseline and deployment context. Manuscripts that use specialised reporting standards should include the relevant checklist as supplementary material.

Required Statements

Each submission should include:

  • dataset rights
  • code or model availability
  • AI disclosure
  • risk assessment
  • conflicts of interest

Data, Code, Materials, and Supplementary Files

Authors should provide enough data, code, model configuration, and deployment context for reviewers to evaluate the claim even when proprietary data cannot be released. Suitable supplementary material may include source code, model settings, evaluation sheets, deployment checklists, and risk statements. Files should be named clearly, cited from the manuscript, and versioned where possible.

Formatting and References

The launch office may accept Word, LaTeX, or OJS-compatible source files. References may be submitted in any complete style; final files should normalise model, dataset, and software citations. Figures should be readable at single-column width, tables should be editable where possible, and abbreviations should be defined at first use.

Research Integrity and AI Use

Authors must identify prior dissemination, preprints, related submissions, reused figures, and any third-party material. Use of generative AI tools must be disclosed when they materially assisted drafting, coding, image generation, translation, data extraction, or analysis. AI tools cannot be listed as authors.

Editorial Screening

Submissions may be returned before review if they are outside scope, lack required statements, contain excessive overlap, use unverifiable data, or do not meet minimal scholarly standards for applied machine learning. In particular, submissions may be returned if they report only accuracy without domain context, omit baselines, or describe a commercial tool without evaluable evidence.