Carefully review each item listed below before submitting your article. Article submissions that do not follow the guidelines below will be returned to draft or immediately rejected.

The manuscript should be written in Korean or English. For Korean manuscript, however, the keywords, references, and all captions and contents for tables and figures should be written or described in English; and in addition, the English title and English abstract are required.

Copyright Statement and Manuscript Declaration

It is the policy of the KICS to own the copyright to the publications of the technical contributions. Author(s) is(are) required to obtain company clearance before submission. The author(s) may make their papers available on their own websites, with acknowledgement of the KICS copyright. This manuscript should not have been published in the past and/or submitted to other academic journals with the purpose of publication. Nor should be there any plan for such submission.

Submission Procedure

Submission procedure proceeds totally online through the J-KICS submission and editorial system (hereafter, referred to as the system). The system will guide you step-by-step during all the steps of submission procedure. All correspondences including notification of the editor’s decisions and comments including the reviewers’ comments, and requests for revision, take place by e-mail.

Submission guides for the initial manuscript

1. 1. Must-read: The author(s) who is(are) going to submit the manuscript for publication to the J-KICS published by the KICS must read and understand the following two items:

• KICS Publication and Manuscript Ethics Bylaws

• J-KICS Guidelines for Submission and Publication

2. 2. Please proceed the manuscript submission through the J-KICS submission and editorial system, in accordance to stepwise guides and tips.

Submission guides for the revised manuscript

1. 1. Please login the submission and editorial system again, and confirm the manuscript title and authors’ information by clicking the concerned manuscript number.

2. 2. Please proceed the submission of the revised manuscript through the submission and editorial system, in accordance with stepwise guides and tips. 

• Notice: Even in the revised manuscript, delete any author-identifiable information. Any disclosure to any author-identifiable information may be subject to disadvantageous actions

3. 3. Please upload the separate “Response to the Request for Revision” file into “the Attachment Field” on the system.

Submission guides for the final manuscript

1. 1. Please login the submission and editorial system again, and confirm the manuscript title and authors’ information by clicking the concerned manuscript number.

2. 2. In case of title and/or authors’ information changes, please edit the final manuscript as you want. But, you should submit the Reason to Change(s)” to the editor in charge and acquire an approval from the editor. (*Notice: Once the final manuscript has been submitted, further author change(s) shall not be allowed anymore.)

3. 3. Please upload the separate “Reason to Change(s)” file into “the Attachment Field” on the system again.