Author Guidelines

Computational Methods (ISSN: 3048-7447) is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by Jagua Publication. The journal publishes research on computational theories, numerical algorithms, mathematical modelling, data-driven methods, and computational applications across science, engineering, medicine, and industry.

Article Types

The journal considers Original Research Articles, Review Articles, Brief Reports or Short Communications, Technical or Methodological Articles, Case Studies, Letters to the Editor, Editorials, Commentaries, and Perspectives, where appropriate to the journal's scope.

Free-Format Initial Submission

Computational Methods follows a free-format initial submission policy. Authors are not required to use a specific journal template, journal-specific typesetting format, or journal-specific reference style at the initial submission stage.

Authors may submit manuscripts in a clear and consistent Word or LaTeX format. The manuscript should be sufficiently organized and complete to allow editorial assessment and peer review.

Recommended Manuscript Structure

The structure may vary according to the subject and article type. Where applicable, manuscripts should include:

Title and Author Information
Abstract
Keywords
Introduction
Background or Literature Review
Materials and Methods / Methodology
Computational Model, Algorithm, or Experimental Design, where applicable
Results / Findings
Discussion
Conclusions
Funding Information
Author Contributions
Conflict of Interest Statement
Ethical Statement, where applicable
Data Availability Statement, where applicable
Acknowledgements, where applicable

Computational and Mathematical Research

Computational and mathematical manuscripts should provide sufficient information to allow readers and reviewers to understand and evaluate the proposed methods, assumptions, algorithms, models, datasets, experiments, and results.

Where applicable, authors should clearly describe:

mathematical models and assumptions;
algorithms or computational procedures;
parameter settings and boundary or initial conditions;
software, programming environments, or computational tools;
datasets and data-preparation procedures;
evaluation or validation methods;
baseline or comparison methods; and
statistical or numerical procedures used to evaluate results.

Data and Computational Reproducibility

Authors are encouraged to provide sufficient information to permit independent evaluation and, where reasonably possible, reproduction of the computational work.

Where appropriate, authors should provide information about datasets, source code, software versions, computational environments, model parameters, and other materials necessary to understand or reproduce the reported results.

When data or code cannot be made publicly available because of legal, privacy, licensing, security, confidentiality, or other legitimate restrictions, authors should provide an appropriate explanation.

Use of Software and Third-Party Materials

Authors must comply with applicable licenses and permissions when using third-party software, datasets, code, libraries, images, or other protected materials.

Sources, repositories, software packages, and external datasets should be appropriately cited where they materially contribute to the research.

Human Participants and Health-Related Research

Research involving human participants, patients, medical records, identifiable personal information, or health-related data must comply with applicable ethical, institutional, legal, and regulatory requirements.

Where applicable, authors should provide ethics committee or institutional review board information, approval or reference number, informed-consent information, and relevant privacy protections.

Medical research involving human participants should follow the principles of the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki.

Animal Research

Research involving animals must comply with applicable institutional, national, and international animal-welfare requirements. Appropriate ethical approval or authorization should be reported where applicable.

Authors should consult the ARRIVE guidelines when reporting animal research.

Informed Consent and Privacy

Where required, authors must obtain appropriate informed consent from participants. Identifiable personal information, photographs, case details, interviews, or other potentially identifying material must be handled in accordance with applicable consent and privacy requirements.

Reporting Guidelines

Authors should follow recognized reporting standards appropriate to the study design and subject area.

Examples include:

CONSORT – randomized controlled trials
STROBE – observational studies
PRISMA – systematic reviews and meta-analyses
CARE – case reports
ARRIVE – animal research
STARD – diagnostic accuracy studies

Authors may consult the EQUATOR Network Reporting Guidelines for health-related research and should follow recognized professional or methodological standards applicable to other computational, mathematical, engineering, and scientific studies.

Authorship and Contributions

Authorship should reflect substantial contributions to the conception, design, implementation, analysis, interpretation, or other substantive aspects of the work.

All listed authors should approve the submitted manuscript and accept responsibility for their contributions and the integrity of the work.

For biomedical or health-related research, authors are encouraged to follow the ICMJE Recommendations where applicable.

ORCID

An ORCID iD for the corresponding author is required at submission. ORCID iDs for co-authors are strongly recommended.

Originality and Exclusive Submission

Manuscripts must be original and must not be simultaneously under consideration by another journal.

Authors should disclose relevant preprints, conference papers, datasets, software releases, theses, or related publications where these may affect the originality or interpretation of the submitted work.

Funding

All sources of financial support for the research or preparation of the manuscript must be disclosed. Where applicable, authors should state the role of the funding organization.

Conflict of Interest

Authors must disclose actual, potential, or perceived conflicts of interest that could influence, or reasonably appear to influence, the research or its interpretation.

Where no relevant conflict exists, an appropriate declaration should be provided.

Data Availability

Authors should provide a Data Availability Statement where applicable. The statement should explain whether data are publicly available, available through a repository, available upon reasonable request, or restricted for ethical, legal, privacy, security, licensing, or other legitimate reasons.

Artificial Intelligence

Authors must disclose the use of generative AI or AI-assisted technologies when such tools materially contribute to manuscript preparation, analysis, coding, interpretation, image generation, or other aspects of the work.

AI tools cannot be listed as authors. Authors remain responsible for the accuracy, originality, integrity, citations, code, data, results, and ethical compliance of the submitted work.

AI must not be used to fabricate data, results, references, citations, images, or other scholarly information.

Authors should consult the ICMJE guidance on Artificial Intelligence in Publishing where applicable.

References

References must be accurate, complete, and consistently presented. A specific journal-formatted reference style is not required at initial submission.

Authors should verify author names, titles, journal or book information, volume, issue, pages, year, DOI, and other persistent identifiers where applicable.

Peer Review

Computational Methods uses a single-blind peer-review process. Reviewers remain anonymous to authors, while reviewers are aware of the authors' identities.

Authors may suggest three to five potential reviewers. Suggested reviewers must have appropriate expertise and must be independent of the submitted work. The editorial team is not required to use author-suggested reviewers.

Plagiarism and Research Integrity

The journal does not tolerate plagiarism, inappropriate text reuse, fabrication, falsification, duplicate publication, inappropriate image manipulation, manipulation of peer review, or other forms of research or publication misconduct.

Similarity-detection results are considered an editorial screening tool and do not by themselves establish plagiarism. The journal does not apply an automatic fixed similarity-percentage threshold.

Optional Production and Technical Support

After acceptance, authors who require assistance with final manuscript preparation, production-related technical checks, or file preparation may request optional Production and Technical Support from Jagua Publication at a charge of USD 50 per manuscript.

This service is entirely optional and is not a condition of acceptance or publication. Authors who prepare and submit their final files themselves do not need to pay this charge.

The optional service does not influence peer review, editorial assessment, or the final publication decision.

Publication Ethics

Authors must comply with the journal's Ethical Principles and Publication Policy and applicable principles of the COPE Core Practices.