Primary requirements

• Submissions should be:
  • basically, correct and sound;
  • original (not published elsewhere partly or in full and not submitted to other venues for simultaneous consideration);
  • presented at the conference in any language (at least one author of each article should attend to the conference);
  • strictly in line with the scope of ICon-MaSTEd.
• Up to 2 papers per author (including as co-authors) are accepted.
• Authors utilizing language models (LLMs) to aid in idea generation or drafting of papers should explicitly disclose their usage, providing complete transparency about the LLM employed (including name, version, model, and source) within the submitted paper; such usage must be appropriately documented in the Methods section or acknowledgment section of the manuscript. Authors are urged to verify accuracy and are reminded that, as named authors, they bear complete responsibility for the entire content of the work.
• Authors must ensure citations enhance value, remain unbiased, support relevant points, and avoid superfluous references—particularly to self or others' works—to manipulate citation scores, maintaining ethical standards. The editors reserve the right to exclude excessive citations if these are considered to be potential acts of citation manipulation.
• Please disclose any potential conflicts of interest in the acknowledgments section when you submit your article.
• Authors are encouraged to refer to the Committee on Publishing Ethics (COPE) for all aspects of publication ethics (https://publicationethics.org/) and to conform to the ethical rules described on strictly https://publishingsupport.iopscience.iop.org/ethical-policy-journals/, in particular:
• A single study is not split up into several parts to increase the number of submissions and submitted to various edited book projects or journals or to one journal over time (e.g., "salami-publishing").
• No data have been fabricated or manipulated (including images) to support the manuscript's conclusions.
• No data, text, or theories by others are presented as if they were the author's own ("plagiarism"). Proper acknowledgments to other works must be given (including closely copied material (near verbatim), summarized, and/or paraphrased), quotation marks are used for verbatim copying of material, and permissions are secured for copyrighted material.
• Consent to submit has been received from all co-authors and responsible authorities at the institute/organization where the work has been carried out before submission.
• Authors whose names appear on the submission have contributed sufficiently to the scientific work and share collective responsibility and accountability for the results.

Formatting options

Paper submission

Due to the double blind peer review mode, you need to prepare 2 versions of your article in PDF format, a regular manuscript and an anonymized manuscript. Please remove any identifying information, such as authors' names or affiliations, from your anonymized manuscript before submission. In addition to following the instructions above, other steps need to be taken to ensure the manuscript is correctly prepared for double-blind peer review. The key points to consider are:

• Please don’t use authors name to refer to your previously published article. For example, write “Semerikov and Mintii [1] have demonstrated” rather than “we/the authors have previously demonstrated [1]”.
• Also, make sure that any figures and tables do not contain any reference to author affiliations.
• Choose uploaded file name anonymized.

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