Author guidelines

Submission package

• Title, abstract, keywords, and article type.
• Complete author list, affiliations, and ORCID identifiers where available.
• Manuscript text and relevant figures, tables, supplementary files, or source material.
• Methodology, data/evaluation description, limitations, and research-ethics information where applicable.
• Accurate, traceable references in MLA style. Authors should verify every citation before submission.
• A data and code availability statement where the work reports empirical or computational results.
• Disclosure of conflicts of interest and material AI assistance where applicable.

House style: MLA, 9th edition

MLA is the journal's standard for citations, the works-cited list, and manuscript formatting. Submit double-spaced text in a 12 pt serif face, with in-text parenthetical citations and a list headed Works Cited.

MLA style guide with worked examples Article types and lengths

Figures

Figures are generated from your data, so the published figure and the numbers behind it cannot drift apart. Write a chart block in the manuscript and the journal draws it as a vector figure, numbered and captioned automatically:

```chart
type: radar
title: Quantum advantage across task families
caption: Normalized score across five task families (illustrative).
axes: Classification, Sampling, Optimization, NLP, Simulation
max: 10
Classical baseline: 6, 5, 7, 4, 5
Quantum model: 8, 7, 9, 6, 8
```

• Types: radar (also written spider) for several subjects scored on the same bounded dimensions; bar for comparisons across categories; line for change over an ordered sequence.
• Every line that is not a setting is a data series: Label: number, number, …. A blank entry is drawn as a gap, not as zero.
• Optional settings: title, caption, max, min, unit.
• Figures are published as SVG, so they stay sharp in print and at any size, and readers can download each one.
• Refer to them in your prose as Figure 1, Figure 2, in the order the blocks appear.

Revisions and resubmission

When an editor requests revisions, the manuscript returns to you and becomes editable again.

• Saving your revision is the resubmission. There is no separate submit step, and the editorial office is notified automatically.
• Each revision creates a new numbered version. The version label travels with the citation, so a reader always knows which text is meant.
• Attach the revised file with the revision itself. Afterwards you can still add a response to reviewers, supplementary material, or figures — but the manuscript text is with the editor and cannot be replaced from your side.
• A manuscript may go through more than one round of review.
• A manuscript that is not accepted can no longer be edited. If you believe a decision rests on a factual error, use the complaints and appeals policy; an editor reopens the manuscript only if an appeal succeeds.

Do not submit a manuscript elsewhere while it is under consideration or under appeal here.

Citing your own manuscript before publication

Every manuscript receives a permanent identifier and a generated MLA citation as soon as the draft is created, and the citation is restated at each workflow stage — submitted, under review, accepted, published. Use it in grant reports and CVs, with the stage label intact: a manuscript under review must never be cited as a published article.