Cybernetics and Information Technologies

Call for papers

Submission

Please submit your manuscripts to "Cybernetics and Information Technologies" via email to: cit.bas.bg@gmail.com.

All the requirements for paper formatting are described in the document Instructions for Authors.

Submission of a manuscript to the journal signifies that work has not been previously published and that it has not been submitted or accepted for publication elsewhere.

We check all manuscripts for plagiarism and self-plagiarism in order to ensure that the content published is original and trustworthy.

Selection

Submitted manuscripts are subject to a peer-review procedure. The reviewing is made by the Editorial Board, substantially supported by a pool of additional reviewers proposed by the journal Editorial Board (announced in the journal). The decision on whether or not to accept the paper is made by journal Editor-in-Chief according to the review results.

Publication

The author(s) of accepted papers will receive a LICENSE TO PUBLISH to sign and send it to the Editorial office.
The journal publishes 4 regular issues and some additional special thematic issues (no more than two) per annum.
The normal review period is about 6 months. The accepted papers are published in the next 1-2 months after the reviewing period.

Page charges

An article processing charge (APC) for all papers submitted after 30 October 2023 is 300 EUR. APC applies only to papers accepted after peer review. This article processing charge is to cover the costs of peer review, technical and language copyediting, typesetting, long-term archiving, indexing, hard-copy publishing, and journal management. A limited number of papers (up to 2-3 in an issue) could be processed by a fast-track mode in order to publish the paper in the next journal issue (if the papers are submitted at least 1 month before publication date). The APC for fast-track processing is 600 EURO per paper; it is paid only if a submitted paper is positively reviewed.
Invoices along with detailed information on how to pay an invoice are emailed shortly after acceptance to the payment contact provided by the authors.

Special thematic issues

The additional thematic issues are intended to present extended variants of selected papers presented at international scientific events. The event organizers send to CIT Editor-in-Chief (dochev@iinf.bas.bg) a proposal for publishing a thematic special issue that contains the proposed title of the issue, the event description (link), names and detailed CV’s of proposed guest editors and expected numbers of papers in the issue. The special issues must contain 8-20 papers with the paper length of 10-15 pages (up to 200-250 pages in total). The selected papers should be written by authors from different countries and no more than two papers with the same author(s) are allowed to be included into the special issue.

The cost for publishing a special thematic issue is: 450 EURO per paper (including a preface) for up to 12 papers and 400 EURO per paper (including a preface) for more than 12 papers. The cost should be covered by the event organizers.

The guest editors are responsible for reviewing and selecting high quality papers to be published in the thematic issue and for writing a preface of the issue. The selected papers must not exceed 30% coincidence with publicly available sources. All reviews (at least two per paper) should be sent to CIT Editor-in-Chief for approval.

After both sides agree on all the details a contract with the organizing university/institution is signed for publishing the special issue. The special issue will be published up to 2 months after receiving the final texts in the required journal format and the Licenses to publish from the authors.

Open Access Statement

The journal is an Open Access journal that allows a free unlimited access to all its contents without any restrictions upon publication to all users.

Open Access License