General Considerations 

All manuscripts must be submitted online through the website. First time users will have to register at this site. Registered authors can keep track of their articles after logging into the site using their user name and password.

If you experience any problems, please contact the editorial office by e-mail at ijts@usc.ac.ir

Ethical Considerations 

The ethical policy of Journal is based on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines and complies with International Committee of Journal Editorial Board codes of conduct. Readers, authors, reviewers and editors should follow these ethical policies once working with Journal. The ethical policy of journal is liable to determine which of the typical research papers or articles submitted to the journal should be published in the concerned issue. The publishing decision is based on the suggestion of the journal's reviewers and editorial board members.  Authors should ensure that their submitted research work is original and has not been published elsewhere in any language. Applicable copyright laws and conventions should be followed by the authors. Any kind of plagiarism constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable. 

For information on this matter in publishing and ethical guidelines please visit http://publicationethics.org.

Authorship Criteria:

 To ensure authorship for the submitted manuscripts, the contributors should meet the following three conditions:

• Conception and design, acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data has been done by the author 
• Either drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content has been done by the author
• The final approval of the version to be published has been given by the author. Each contributor should have participated sufficiently in the work to be allowed to take public responsibility for suitable portions of the content

 Article Processing Charge:

As University of Science and Culture has supported all of the publishing costs of IJTCS, article processing charge and any other publication fees in the journal are free for authors.

Terms and conditions for manuscript submission

•  Article submission is only possible through the journal website, and the publication refuses the acceptance of any articles manually or by e-mail. 
•  Articles submitted to this journal for review and publication, must not have previously been published in other domestic and foreign journals or submitted to other domestic or foreign journals for review at the same time.
•  The journal is free to reject, accept and edit the article.
• The sender of the article must be the responsible author of the article and all the necessary correspondences and follow-ups regarding the article will be done with the responsible author, obviously any other correspondences other than the responsible author's, will be disregarded.
• The order of the authors' names is based on the order in which the author's information is registered during the article's submission on the journal website. The responsible author must enter the names of all authors correctly and completely on the publication site.
• Submitted articles must be prepared in accordance with the paper preperation guide, otherwise the article will be returned to the author and will not be included in the evaluation process.
• In case of cancellation of the article's review process, the responsible author is required to send his/her withdrawal request through the publication site (request to withdraw the article), the cancellation letter must be signed by all authors and then sent as a PDF file.
• Completion and submission of the commitment form, conflict of interest and the authors information is mandatory (refer to the forms menu to receive the forms).