Submissions

Author Guidelines

The Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology (JTIT) has been published quarterly since 2000. It publishes original contributions on a wide range of topics related to telecommunications and information technology, with a focus on experimental research results that advance scientific and technological knowledge. All research articles are peer-reviewed.

JTIT publishes research results that advance the current state of knowledge or add to the understanding of problems concerning modulation, signal design, wireless communications, optical communications, photonic systems, voice communications devices, image and signal processing, transmission systems, network architecture, coding and communication theory, as well as broadly understood information technology. We welcome submissions from authors of diverse backgrounds and from all regions of the world.

Manuscript preparation

LaTeX files are preferred, and the Editorial Office provides style templates that should be used when preparing the manuscript. Microsoft Word and PDF files are also accepted.

Download a sample article and the LaTeX template (ZIP archive). The template is compatible with MiKTeX and Overleaf, and the sample article contains useful snippets that will facilitate the preparation of the manuscript. No Word template is available; authors using Word should follow the layout of articles previously published in JTIT.

Manuscripts are submitted through the online submission system. Both the full version and an anonymized version of the manuscript (with all information identifying the authors removed) must be submitted as PDF files for double-blind review.

A typical article is about 10 pages long (approximately 6,000 words) and must include the following elements:

•       Authors’ names and affiliations – for each author: name and surname, academic title, position held, ORCID iD, e-mail address (preferably in the university or institutional domain), name of the faculty and university (or other institution), and a link to the institution’s website.

•       Abstract of 150–300 words, stating the problem, the assumptions and the methodology, and outlining the results and their significance. The abstract must not include mathematical equations or bibliographic references.

•       Keywords – up to five keywords or phrases describing the content of the article, in alphabetical order and separated by commas.

•       Body of the article, structured as follows: introduction, related work, research conducted, conclusions, acknowledgments, declaration of conflicting interests, and references.

Figures, tables and photographs

Together with the manuscript, authors should submit the graphic files in the highest available resolution (at least 300 dpi for bitmap images). Bitmap (JPG, PNG) and vector (CDR, SVG, PS, PDF) formats are accepted. Figures prepared in LaTeX (e.g. TikZ) may be submitted as source files.

Funding

Authors should include an Acknowledgments section stating the source(s) of funding that supported the research and/or the publication of the article, including the name of the funding institution or programme and the grant or project number. If no external funding was received, this should be stated.

Use of artificial intelligence

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in the preparation of the manuscript must be disclosed at the time of submission and described in the Acknowledgments section. Authors should name the AI tool(s) used, indicate the sections of the article concerned, and explain the purpose and extent of their use – for example, language editing, generation of text, figures or code, or data analysis. If no AI tools were used, this should be stated.

AI tools cannot be listed as authors. Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality and integrity of the manuscript, including all AI-assisted content.

Research ethics and data

Research involving human participants or animals must have been approved by an appropriate ethics committee, and this approval must be stated in the article. Authors are encouraged to make the data and code underlying their results publicly available and to indicate in the article where they can be accessed.

References

Reference examples for the four main types of sources – conference papers, books, journal articles and online sources – are given below. For each item, a DOI or a link to the full text of the cited work should be provided where available.

[1] R.K. Meyers and A.H. Desoky, “An Implementation of the Blowfish Cryptosystem”, 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, 2008 (https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSPIT.2008.4775664).

[2] C.A. Balanis, Antenna Theory: Analysis and Design, 4th ed., John Wiley & Sons, Newark, 2016 (ISBN: 9781118642061).

[3] C. Shorten and T.M. Khoshgoftaar, “A Survey on Image Data Augmentation for Deep Learning”, Journal of Big Data, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 1–48, 2019 (https://doi.org/10.1186/s40537-019-0197-0).

[4] S. Wong et al., “Traffic Forecasting Using Vehicle-to-vehicle Communication”, 3rd Annual Conference on Learning for Dynamics and Control, pp. 917–929, 2021 (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.05528).

[5] 3GPP, “5G; NR; Overall Description; Stage-2”, ETSI TS 138 300 V18.6.0 [Online]. Available: https://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_ts/138300_138399/138300/18.06.00_60/ts_138300v180600p.pdf (accessed: 10.10.2026).

Review process

After submission, the manuscript is first checked by the Journal Editor for completeness and compliance with the formal requirements; authors may be asked to correct any deficiencies. The Editor-in-Chief then decides whether to send the manuscript for peer review or to reject it without review (desk rejection).

The review process usually takes a few months, depending on the topic of the manuscript. The reviews are then sent to the authors, who normally have two weeks to revise the manuscript. The revised manuscript may be returned to the reviewers for re-evaluation, which takes approximately two more weeks. If the reviews are inconsistent, or if further corrections or an additional round of review are needed, the process may be extended by a month or more. Details are given on the Peer review process page.

Editorial work

Accepted manuscripts are copyedited and typeset by the Editorial Office. Before publication, the corresponding author receives the copyedited version for approval.

Licensing and required declarations

Manuscripts submitted to JTIT must not have been published, or be under consideration for publication, elsewhere (see Preprints below). When submitting the manuscript, all authors sign a License Agreement granting the National Institute of Telecommunications an exclusive license to use the article; the license takes effect when the article is accepted for publication. Authors retain the copyright, and the article is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license (see the Copyright Notice below and the Open Access Policy).

The following documents must be signed by all authors and submitted as PDF files together with the manuscript:

•       License Agreement – hand-signed and scanned;

•       Ghostwriting Declaration – a declaration that the paper was written without undisclosed contributions of third parties, that all contributions of other persons, sources of funding and required permissions are indicated in the article, and that all figures are the property of the authors or are properly credited;

•       Declaration of Conflicting Interests – if a conflict of interest exists, it must also be described in the article, in a separate section before the references, under the heading “Declaration of Conflicting Interests” (see Editorial policies).

For convenience, all required documents are also available as a single file.

Publication fees

JTIT is an open access journal. There are no submission charges or article processing charges (APCs), and all published articles are freely available.

Preprints

Manuscripts previously posted as preprints on a non-commercial server (such as arXiv) or in an institutional repository may be submitted to JTIT. This is not considered prior publication; however, authors should inform the Journal about the preprint when submitting the manuscript.