Submission Guidelines

Acta Informatica Pragensia has no restrictions on the length of manuscripts. The text should be concise and comprehensive. Manuscripts in English, Czech or Slovak can only be submitted via the reviewing system, which can be accessed on the Acta Informatica Pragensia webpage, and should meet the following requirements:

  • Manuscripts must be written in good and clear English, Czech or Slovak.
  • Manuscripts must include the author(s) name(s), affiliation(s) and email address(es).
  • Manuscripts must be in the DOCX format (Microsoft Word editor).
  • Figures and diagrams must be provided at a sufficiently high resolution (minimum 1000 pixels width/height, or a resolution of 300 dpi or higher). Figures inserted in the text editor in the JPEG or PNG format are preferred.

Formatting and Preparation of the Manuscript

Basic formatting:

  • Margins should be 2.5 cm on all four sides.
  • The text must be 1.0 spacing, in serif font (11 points), justified left.
  • A maximum of three levels of headings can be used.

Figures: Figures should be centred and numbered consecutively and have to be in print quality (minimum 1000 pixels width/height, or a resolution of 300 dpi or higher; originally in JPEG or PNG format). Figures or diagrams are placed in Word with a title, caption and source below the figure: “Figure 1: Caption. Source: (Author’s surname, year)”.

Tables: Tables should be centred and numbered consecutively. They should be written by a Word tool (not pasted as pictures) and placed in Word with a title, caption and source above the table: “Table 7: Caption. Source: Authors”. To facilitate the copy-editing of larger tables, smaller fonts may be used, but no less than 8 points.

Abbreviations: Any less frequent concepts and abbreviations should be explained in the text.

Footnotes: Footnotes should be placed at the bottom of a page and numbered consecutively.

Source codes: The source code should use Courier New font (10 points).

Equations: Equations should be centred, numbered consecutively and they must be uniformly formatted. Equations should be created using the tools integrated in the Word editor (Times New Roman, 10) preferably Microsoft Equation Editor. Simple equations can be written as Word symbols, e.g. (β = α – 1).

A minimum of formatting is required: Please, only use bold and italics fonts when appropriate (e.g. variables italic, constants not italic, etc.).

 

Manuscript sample with basic formatting.

 

Manuscript Organization

Research manuscripts should comprise:

Front matter: Title, Author list and affiliations, Abstract, Keywords, Acknowledgments.

Research manuscript sections: Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion (optional) – according to the IMRaD structure. Review articles should follow the PRISMA guidelines.

Back matter: Supplementary materials (e.g., appendix with other graphs, figures, source code), References.

Front Matter

Title: The maximum length of the title of a manuscript is 100 characters.

Author list and affiliations: Authors’ full first and last names must be provided. The initials of any middle names can be added. The affiliation of each author consists of the name of the institution, complete address information including city, zip code, country and email addresses.

Structured abstract: The abstract should not exceed 300 words, and it should include the following:

  • Background: The Internet of Things is important... [recommended 1-2 sentences]
  • Objective: The objective of our study was to... [a clear statement of the objectives of the article; recommended 1-2 sentences]
  • Methods: The questionnaire survey was conducted on a representative sample... [a brief description of the methods used]
  • Results: The proposed measurement model exhibited less optimal fit... [a concise summary of the results in close relationship to the objective of the article]
  • Conclusion: The proposed solution had better outputs in... [provide conclusions and important implications of the study that are directly supported by the results]

Do not cite references to literature in the abstract. A structured abstract is not required for Editorial and Miscellanea article types.

Keywords: Five to ten pertinent keywords need to be added after the abstract.

Additional Information and Declarations

Acknowledgments: [Please fill in the required information or delete this item. Only thank you to other people. Don't use this item for funding information. Any use of artificial intelligence generated text (e.g. ChatGPT) or other media must also be mentioned here.]

Funding: [Please fill in the required information or delete this item.] This work was funded by the University XXX, Grant No. YYY.

Conflict of Interests: [The authors declare no conflict of interest or add their conflict of interest.] The authors declare no conflict of interest. OR Author X.Y. has received research grants from Company ABC. Author A.B. works at XYZ company developing the technologies used in this research. Author K.L. is the inventor of patent Y. Other authors declare no conflict of interest.

Author Contributions: [Please add author contributions according to CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy, 14 contributor roles). Please use the author's initials.] A.B.: Conceptualization, Methodology, Software. B.C.: Data curation, Writing – Original draft preparation. X.Y.: Visualization, Investigation. A.K.: Supervision. E.F.: Software, Validation. G.H.: Writing – Reviewing and Editing. OR [In the case of one author.] The author confirms being the sole contributor of this work.

Institutional Review Board Statement: [Please add the institutional review board statement, including the approval number if your research involves humans or animals. Delete this item if the research did not involve humans or animals.] This study was approved on XX July 202X by the University of YYY Institutional Review Board, protocol number 21-2985-2. OR Ethical review and approval were waived for this study due to… [Please provide detailed reasons.]

Informed Consent Statement: [Please add the informed consent statement if your research involves humans or animals. Delete this item if the research did not involve humans or animals.] Informed consent was obtained from all subjects involved in the research. OR Patient consent was waived due to… [Please provide detailed reasons.]

[Any research in which an individual or a group of individuals can be identified needs these participants' written informed consent for publication.] Written informed consent has been obtained from all participants to publish this article.

Statement on the Use of Artificial Intelligence Tools: The authors declare that they didn't use artificial intelligence tools for text or other media generation in this article. [If you used ChatGPT, for example, please follow our Ethics Policy – Policy for Artificial Intelligence Generated Text or Other Media]

Data Availability: [Please fill in the required information or delete this item if the research did not use any own dataset. You can add a link to your original data.] The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author. OR The data that support the findings of this study are openly available in Zenodo at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5gk521.

Research Manuscript Sections

Introduction: This part should briefly place the study in a broad context and highlight why it is important. Introduction includes clearly stated goals, research questions and/or hypotheses. The current state of the research field (or theoretical framework) should be reviewed carefully and key publications cited. The state of the research field can be in a special section.

Methods: This part should describe the methods, samples and other necessary information related to data gathering.

Results: Should provide a concise and precise description of the results and their interpretation.

Discussion: Authors should discuss the results and how they can be interpreted in the context of previous studies. Future research directions and limitations of the work may also be mentioned.

Conclusion: This section is not mandatory.

Back Matter

Appendices: Supplementary material with other graphs, figures, and source codes, or it can contain a transcript of interviews and other supporting text material.

References: To cite sources in the References section, use the APA style, seventh edition (https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples). Include the digital object identifier (DOI) for all references where available. The contribution should primarily refer to relevant scientific journals and conferences that are indexed in the Web of Knowledge and Scopus. References have to be sorted alphabetically. All references have to be cited in the text (uncited papers must not be included in the reference list).

For links to references in the text, use the following examples using the author's last name and year of publication with punctuation (also pages in the case of a book):

  • 1 author – Berg (2014, pp. 55-57) pointed out the problem… The problem is well-known (Magel, 2013a, p. 47) and further expanded in other papers (Lateg, 2013; Magel, 2013b; Apple, 2012).
  • 2 authors – Joergen and Jones (2009) improved the methods… Nevertheless, the CUW method is used in practice (Kang & Kent, 2002).
  • More than 2 authors – Skalova et al. (2010) provide the solution… The solution already exists (King et al., 2014).
  • A series of citations should be listed in alphabetical order and separated by semicolons, e.g., (Lateg, 2013; Magel, 2013b).

 

Examples of a list of references

Below are examples of the most commonly used sources:

Book:

Berg, S. (2014). Services marketing management. Routledge.

Magel, J. (2013a). Mastering data mining. Academia.

Magel, J. (2013b). Mastering GUHA. Stockholm School of Economics. https://doi.org/10.55412/7452584

 

Article in journal:

Joergen, P., & Jones, K. (2009). Random data analysis and measurement procedures. Journal of Systems Integration, 5(2), 55–85.

Kang, O., Tucin, J., & Kent, K. (2002). CUW methods for marketing management. Journal of Information Management, 54(3), 1502–1535. https://doi.org/10.7160/jim.2002.06784

 

Conference contribution or chapter of the book:

Skalova, U., Hopstal, H., Kuruc, T., & Krebs, W. (2010). The role of anomalous data in knowledge acquisition. In J. Jicinsky & P. Trejbal (Eds.), Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Informatics (pp. 248–310). Walter Verlag.

King, U., Smith, L., Jones, E., Kain, W., & Wright, V. (2013). Power-law distributions in empirical data. In J. Rais (Ed.), The design and analysis of spatial data structures (pp. 45–122). Spungal. https://doi.org/10.15225/king0125

 

Reference to the web page or e-document:

Anders, Q. (2014, October 21). Most-trusted brands. http://googleblog.blogspot.cz/anders-brands-2014

Apple. (2012, April 15). CFNetwork Programming Guide. Apple. https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Networking/Conceptual/CFNetwork/CFNetwork.pdf

 

Article in other periodicals (newspapers):

Lateg, R. (2013, March 25). A survey of data provenance in e-science. New York Review, B5-B6.

Casen, B. G., & Baron, N. (2017, March 14). Lawmakers Ask Apple App Makers About Privacy. New York Times.

 

Any manuscript which will not conform to those basic requirements may be returned to the author(s)!