| GENERAL GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT |
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| The International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology is the official publication of the International Promotion Agency of Culture Technology. The instruction to authors not described thereafter follows the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to IPACT Journals: Writing and Editing for IJACT, which is prepared by IJACT Editors. All papers submitted to the International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology proceed the peer review after checking plagiarism or redundancy by CrossCheck. |
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| 1. Content and publication type |
| It accepts original papers of research results and other invited papers on the undergraduate, graduate and continuing in the field of Culture Convergence and Technology Convergence. Letter to editor is always welcomed on the published articles. |
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| 2. Qualification as authors |
| The first author and corresponding author should be a member of the International Promotion Agency of Culture Technology. If they are not members, they should apply to membership before submission. Please contact the IPACT office to become a member. |
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| 3. Research and publication ethics |
Duplicate Publication: The papers already published to other scientific journals or periodicals are not considered for publication. The published paper to this journal should not be submitted to other scientific journal.
Authorship: Authors who meets all of following conditions can be listed: 1) substantial contributions to conception and design, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data; 2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and 3) final approval of the version to be published, and 4) agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.
Conflict-of-Interest Statement: If there are any conflicts of interest related to individual author’s commitments or project support, it should be clarified and described in the manuscript.
For the policies on the research and publication ethics not stated in these instructions, International standards for editors and authors (http://publicationethics.org/international-standards-editors-and-authors) can be applied. If there are any ethical issues from the manuscripts, they should be first reviewed by Editorial Board and the recommendations should be processed by the Research Ethics Committee. If anyone does not agree or accept the decision by the Research Ethics Committee in the process of ethical issues, those may be referred to the National Research Foundation of Korea (http://www.nrf.re.kr) or appropriate Committee of the corresponding institutes.
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| 4. Submission of manuscript |
| The manuscript should be sent to the institution’s homepage(http://www.ipact.kr/eng/iconf/ijact/sub02_04.php) through an online manuscript submission system, with copyright transfer agreement, author’s checklist, and brief Curriculum Vitae Samples of the corresponding author via email only. The copyright transfer agreement should be signed by all co-authors. File for accompanying letters can be downloaded from the homepage (http://www.ipact.kr/eng/iconf/ijact/sub02_04.php). |
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| 5. Publication interval and receipt of manuscript |
| It is published quarterly on the last day of March, June, and September, December of each year. Manuscript can be received at any time. The manuscript that does not keep the instruction to authors may be rejected before review. Certificate of receipt of manuscript is issued to the corresponding author via email. |
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| 6. Peer review |
Every manuscript received is circulated to three peer reviewers. The author's name and affiliation are not disclosed during the review process to reviewers. The review process can be repeated three times if the request of revision is suggested by reviewers. If the re-review is repeated more than three times, it may not be considered for publication. If two reviewers do not agree to accept the journal, it may not be also considered for publication. Usually, the first review process ends within one month.
Manuscript Editing: The finally accepted manuscript will be reviewed by the manuscript editor for the consistency of the format and the completeness of references. The manuscript may be revised according to the opinion of the manuscript editor. |
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| 7. Fees for peer review and page charges |
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After the manuscript has been accepted for publication, the author needs to pay a mandatory page charge of USD 150 for a regular request of the first 6 pages and USD 300 for an urgent request. The 7th and 8th pages will be USD 30 per printed page for a regular paper or USD 60 per page for an urgent paper. Fees for more than 8 pages will be USD 40 per printed page for a regular paper or USD 80 for an urgent paper. Detailed instructions will accompany the payment request. Electronic versions of the publication present and past will be available to paid subscribers on the IJACT Web site. Fee should be paid by the corresponding author before printing.
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| Payment : Bank Account Transfer |
BANK ACCOUNT DETAILS
Bank Account No.: 515501-01-252802
Name of Bank: KOOKMIN BANK (국민은행 www.kbstar.com)
Name of Account Holder:
 The International Promotion Agency of Culture Technology
 (사) 국제문화기술진흥원
You may need the following details required for a SWIFT transfer.
SWIFT Code: CZNBKRSE (or CZNBKRSEXXX if needed)
Address: 115, Yeouigongwon-ro, Yeongdeungpo-gu, SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (Postal Code:07241)
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| [Waivers and discounts] |
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IJACT offers waivers or discounts to authors as stated below on the basis of "World Bank Country Classifications by Income Level".
1) Authors from Low-Income Countries are eligible to receive a full waiver(No charge) on the article processing charges(APCs).
2) Authors from Lower-Middle-Income Countries are eligible to receive a 70% discount on the article processing charges(APCs).
3) Authors from Upper-Middle-Income Countries are eligible to receive a 50% discount on the article processing charges(APCs).
*Authors must request their waiver or discount by email to the journal office(ipact@ipact.kr) within two days of submitting their manuscript.
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| [World Bank Country Classifications by Income Level] |
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https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/906519-world-bank-country-and-lending-groups
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| 8. Role of the Editorial Board |
| The decision on the editing of the journal is made by the Editorial Board. The manuscript may be revised for the consistency of the editorial work as far as the content is not affected. No manuscipt submitted will be returned. |
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| 9. Copyright |
| The copyright and the transfer right of the digital content of the published paper and journal is owned by the International Promotion Agency of Culture Technology, with no author reuse beyond fair use. |
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| 10. User(Reader) Right |
IPACT’s Journals and articles are published open access under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CCBY-NC) which permits unresticted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
IJACT has followed the open access policy since 2016.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
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| SPECIFIC GUIDELINE FOR WRITING MANUSCRIPTS |
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| 1. Writing manuscripts |
As part of the printing process your document will be photographed. To ensure that this can be done with one camera setting for all papers and to ensure uniformity of appearance for the Journals, your paper should conform to the following specifications. If your paper deviates significantly from these specifications, the printer may not be able to include your paper in the Journals.
(1) On the first page, the distance from the top edge of the paper to the top of the first line of type (the title) should be 1.57 inches (4.0 cm).
(2) On the second and subsequent pages, the distance from the top edge of the paper to the top of the first line of type should be 1.18 inches (3.0 cm).
(3) The left and right margins should be 1.38 inches (3.5 cm). If you are using A4 paper, set the right margin to 0.79 inches (2.0 cm).
(4) The width of each column should be 21.62 characters.
(5) The distance between the two columns of text should be 2.13 characters.
(6) The space of lines should be 112%.
(7) The distance from the top edge of the paper to the bottom of the last line of type on the page should be no more than 10 inches (25.4 cm).
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| 2. Cover page and title page
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| On the cover page, title, authors' full name and affiliation should be written in English. If the authors are more than or equal to two, there should be a comma between authors. If the affiliation of authors is not identical, the superscript number should be marked to the name and corresponding affiliation. MD and Ph.D should not be written. Bottom of the cover page, the address of corresponding author including your name, telephone, fax, and email address should be described. On the title page, the title in English should be written. Additionally, the abbreviated title should be added. If necessary, presentation in the meeting may be described. |
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| 3. Abstract and Keywords
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| Abstract should be structured as followings: Purpose, Methods, Results, and Conclusion in the order named. The subtitle should be constructed as one paragraph. The description should be sentences. The length of the abstract should be less than 250 words. In the next line of abstract, a list of 4-6 keywords for a subject index should be included on this page. |
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| 4. Text Body
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- The recommended format and the capitalization styles of major headings are as follows: Abstract, Keywords, INTRODUCTION, THEORY, EXPERIMENTS, RESULTS AND DISCUSSION, CONCLUSION, ACKNOWLEDGMENT, REFERENCES.
- Leave a space between word and parenthesis. Special words of Latin or French origin should be in italic (e.g., in vitro, et al.).
- References to published work should be indicated at the appropriate place using brackets (e.g.,[2,6-8]), numbered consecutively, and a list of references in numerical order should be provided at the end of the manuscript.
- Sources of materials and instruments should be clearly presented together with the names of the appropriate cities and countries.
- Units : The SI system should be used for all dimensional quantities. Leave a space between numbers and units except oC and % (e.g., 40 mg/L, 50%, 10 h).
- Equations and symbols : Main symbols used in equations and text should be in italic. Equations must be numbered consecutively using Arabic numbers.
- Tables : Type each table on a separate sheet of paper. The table title should have the first letter of the first word capitalized. Details of all necessary additional information can be included in the table footnotes. Preferred font is Arial or Times New Roman with 10 pt. Table should not contain vertical linings and the captions should be understandable without referring the text.
- Figures : Graphs, figures, and other illustrations should be drawn on separate sheets of paper. The uniformity in size of the figures should be maintained carefully. IPACT encourages both gray and color illustration as JPG/TIFF files. Use 600 dpi/1200 dpi for illustrations for better clarity. When a figure consists of more than one plot, designate each plot as (a), (b), (c), etc. on the upper left-hand side of the plot and refer to it in the text as Fig. 4(a), Fig. 4(b), etc. All figures and lettering must be of a size which remain legible after a 50% reduction of the original. In the figure caption, only the first letter of the first word in each sentence should be capitalized. Photographs will be accepted if essential to the paper, though an additional charge will be levied. A list of figure captions including explanations of legends should be supplied on a separated sheet at the end of the manuscript.
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| References
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All references in this list should be cited at some point in the text. Abbreviate the journal titles as in IEEE Abstracts. References should be presented in the following style :
(1) Journal Articles
H.M. Kwon, V. Kumaran, and S. Gupta, “A New Broadcast Scheduling Scheme,” The Journal of the Institute of Webcasting, Internet and Telecommunication(JIWIT), Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 63-72, June 2011.
(2) Books
B. Sklar, Digital Communications, Prentice Hall, pp. 187, 1998.
(3) Proceedings/Abstracts
M. Franklin and S. Zdonik, “A Framework for Scalable Dissemination-Based Systems,” in Proc. 9th IEE SP Workshop on Statistical Signal, pp. 232-235, Sep.14-16, 2008.
(4) Dissertations
Han, K., A Study of Acetic Acid Formation in Escherichia coli Fermentation, Ph.D. Thesis. University of California, Irvine, CA, USA., 2010.
(5) Patents
Prudden, J. F., Method and agent for treating inflammatory disorders of the gastrointestinal tract. US Patent 4,006,224, 2007
(6) Web URL
The International Promotion Agency of Culture Technology, Submission of manuscript. http://www.ipact.kr
Note: Manuscripts in which references are not in this format will be returned without review. |
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