Submissions

Author Guidelines

Authors must prepare their manuscripts using the latest Journal Software, Hardware, and Information Technology (SHIFT) manuscript template:

The template contains all the styles required for writing. Submit the manuscript in Microsoft Word format (*.doc or *.docx), not in PDF, so that it can be edited easily during review and copyediting.

Language

Starting from Volume 7 No. 1 (2027), all manuscripts must be written entirely in English. Authors are encouraged to ensure that their manuscripts meet academic English writing standards before submission. The editors may request language editing for manuscripts that do not meet the required language quality.

Manuscript Types and Article Structure

Journal Software, Hardware, and Information Technology (SHIFT) accepts original research articles and review articles (see Manuscript Types). Original research articles must follow the structure Introduction, Method, Results and Discussion, and Conclusion. Review articles may follow the structure Introduction, Discussion (which may be divided into several thematic sections), and Conclusion, provided that the Discussion contains a dedicated section presenting the authors' own critical analysis and original contribution. All manuscripts end with the Declarations and References.

General Format

The manuscript must be written on A4-sized paper with top, bottom, left, and right margins of 3 cm, using Calibri 11 pt, single spacing, and justified alignment. The manuscript length is 8 to 20 pages, including figures, tables, and references. Foreign terms must be written in italics.

Title

The title must be concise, specific, and informative, accurately reflecting the content and main findings of the article in no more than 20 words. It is written in Title Case, Segoe UI 16 pt, bold, and centered. Avoid phrases such as "Case Study of", "Implementation of", "Design and Development of", or "Effect of", and avoid stating the research location unless it is essential to the substance of the study.

Author Names and Affiliations

Author names are written in full, without academic titles or positions, and separated by commas. Each affiliation must be written in full, without abbreviations, and must include the name of the department, the institution, the city, and the country. Superscript numbers (1, 2, 3, ...) refer to different affiliations, not to individual authors; if all authors share the same affiliation, no superscript numbers are used. Mark the corresponding author with an asterisk (*). The e-mail addresses of all authors are listed below the affiliations, without numbers, in the same order as the author names. Author names, affiliations, and e-mail addresses must be identical in the manuscript and in the article metadata on the journal website.

Example (one affiliation):
First Author*, Second Author, Third Author
Department of Informatics Engineering, First University, City, Country
[email protected], [email protected], [email protected]

Example (several affiliations):
First Author¹*, Second Author², Third Author^2
1 Department of Informatics Engineering, First University, City, Country
² Department of Information Systems, Second University, City, Country
[email protected], [email protected], [email protected]

Abstract and Keywords

The abstract must be written in English, in Segoe UI 10 pt, italic, and consist of 150 to 250 words in a single paragraph. It must state the background or importance of the research (if relevant), the objective, a brief description of the method, the main findings, and a brief conclusion. The abstract is written in the past tense and must not contain citations, references to figures or tables, bulleted lists, or undefined abbreviations. Provide 3 to 5 keywords that reflect the main concepts of the article, separated by commas and listed in alphabetical order.

Introduction

The Introduction must present the background and motivation of the research, a sufficient state-of-the-art review of relevant previous studies, the research gap or justification of the novelty, and a clearly stated research objective. References should be drawn from recent primary scientific sources. The Introduction generally constitutes 10–20% of the paper.

Method

The Method section explains how the research was conducted, including the research design, data and data collection procedure, the proposed method or algorithm (presented as pseudocode, equations, or diagrams where appropriate), the experimental setting, and the evaluation or testing procedure, with sufficient detail to allow replication. This section describes the research methodology, not the system development methodology; the system development steps may be presented as part of the research stages. Research involving human participants (for example questionnaires, interviews, or usability testing) must describe how informed consent was obtained and how participant data were protected. This section generally constitutes 20–30% of the paper.

Results and Discussion

This section presents the research findings and provides an in-depth discussion of their meaning. Results may be presented in figures, tables, or graphs. The discussion must interpret the findings, relate them to existing concepts or theories, and critically compare them with relevant recent studies. It may be divided into several subsections. This section is the most substantial part of the paper, generally constituting 50–65% of the content.

Conclusion

The Conclusion must answer the research objective stated in the Introduction and emphasize the new or important findings, supported by the research results. It is written in paragraph form, not as a list, and must not repeat sentences from the abstract or contain further discussion. Recommendations for future research may be included.

Headings, Figures, Tables, Equations, and Source Code

• Section headings are numbered (1. INTRODUCTION, 2. METHOD, ...) and subsections follow the section number (2.1, 2.2, ...). Subsections are not divided further; additional headings within a subsection are written in bold without numbers.
• Figures and tables are centered, numbered consecutively in order of appearance, and cited in the text. Table titles are placed above the table; figure captions are placed below the figure. Figures must have sufficient resolution to remain legible.
• Equations are created with the Microsoft Word Equation editor (not as images) and numbered consecutively in parentheses on the right side.
• Source code is placed in a centered text box using Courier New 6 pt or 7 pt, with a numbered title below it.

Declarations

Before the References, every manuscript must include the following statements:

1. Declaration of Artificial Intelligence Use – a statement on whether generative AI or AI-assisted tools were used in preparing the manuscript, including the name of the tool and its purpose if used, in accordance with the journal's Generative AI Policy.
2. Authors' Contributions – the specific contribution of each author, preferably using CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) roles. All listed authors must meet the journal's Authorship criteria.
3. Funding – the name of the funding agency and the grant number, or an explicit statement that the research received no specific funding.
4. Conflict of Interests – a disclosure of any financial or non-financial interests that could influence the work, or an explicit statement that there are none.
5. Ethics Statement – required for research involving human participants or animals: the name of the ethics committee and the number and year of the ethical approval document; for low-risk studies (for example anonymous questionnaires or usability testing), a statement that informed consent was obtained and participant data were anonymized. Studies that do not involve human participants or animals state "Not applicable".
6. Data Availability (recommended) – where the data, code, or materials supporting the findings can be accessed, or the reason they cannot be shared.

Example statements are provided in the manuscript template.

Citation and References

SHIFT uses the IEEE citation style. In-text citations use Arabic numerals in square brackets, for example [1], [2], or [4]–[7], numbered in order of first appearance. Every cited source must appear in the reference list, and every item in the reference list must be cited in the text. The reference list must contain a minimum of 15 references, predominantly (more than 80%) primary sources (journal articles, conference proceedings, theses, or research monographs) published within the last 10 years. Include the DOI for every reference that has one. Wikipedia, blogs, and news articles are not permitted as references. Authors are strongly encouraged to use reference management software such as Mendeley or Zotero.

Examples of References

Journal articles
[1] J. Ahmad, A. ul Hasan, T. Naqvi, and T. Mubeen, "A review on software testing and its methodology," Manag. J. Softw. Eng., vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 32–38, 2019, doi: 10.26634/jse.13.3.15515.
[2] E. A. Shams and A. Rizaner, "A novel support vector machine based intrusion detection system for mobile ad hoc networks," Wirel. Netw., vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 1821–1829, 2018, doi: 10.1007/s11276-016-1439-0.
[3] S. Aljawarneh, M. Aldwairi, and M. B. Yassein, "Anomaly-based intrusion detection system through feature selection analysis and building hybrid efficient model," J. Comput. Sci., vol. 25, pp. 152–160, 2018, doi: 10.1016/j.jocs.2017.03.006.

Conference proceedings
[4] M. N. Akbar and G. A. P. Saptawati, "Scalable sequential pattern mining based on PrefixSpan for high dimensional data," in Proc. 2016 Int. Conf. Data Softw. Eng. (ICoDSE), Denpasar, Indonesia, 2016, pp. 1–6, doi: 10.1109/ICODSE.2016.7936122.
[5] Y. I. Kurniawan, E. Soviana, and I. Yuliana, "Merging Pearson correlation and TAN-ELR algorithm in recommender system," in AIP Conf. Proc., vol. 1977, 2018, doi: 10.1063/1.5042998.

Book
[6] D. A. Neamen, Semiconductor Physics and Devices, 3rd ed. New York, NY, USA: McGraw-Hill, 2003.

Dataset or software
[7] C. Low, "NSL-KDD dataset," GitHub, 2015. [Online]. Available: https://github.com/defcom17/NSL_KDD (accessed Sep. 13, 2019).

Thesis
[8] D. Handoko, "Sistem pendukung keputusan seleksi penentuan penerima beasiswa dengan metode simple additive weighting (SAW)," Undergraduate thesis, Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta, Surakarta, Indonesia, 2016.

Submission

Manuscripts are submitted online through the journal's OJS system. Authors prepare the manuscript in full according to the template, including author names, affiliations, and declarations, and enter the same author details in the submission metadata. Because SHIFT applies double-blind peer review, the editorial team removes all author names, affiliations, and other identifying information from the manuscript file before it is sent to reviewers. Authors should avoid identifying themselves elsewhere in the text, for example by writing self-citations in the third person ("Musdar et al. [5] showed...") rather than "our previous work [5]". Before submission, authors must ensure that the manuscript follows these guidelines and the template, and that it is not under consideration elsewhere. Manuscripts that do not follow the guidelines will be returned to the authors before peer review.