All manuscripts submitted to the Communications in Science and Technology (CST) journal must follow the Focus and Scope and Author Guidelines of this journal. Manuscripts submitted must meet scientific value and/or be novel or new contributions to knowledge in accordance with the focus and scope of this journal.

All manuscripts submitted to this journal must be written in English. Writers for whom English is not their native language are encouraged to check their papers before submission for grammar and clarity or with Professional English Editing. The work may not be published or submitted for publication elsewhere.

All submitted manuscripts must be free from plagiarism content. All authors are advised to use plagiarism detection software to carry out similarity checks. The editor will also check the similarity of manuscripts in this journal using Turnitin software.

Manuscripts submitted to this journal will be peer reviewed by a minimum of 2 (two) or more expert reviewers. Reviewers provide valuable scientific comments to improve the contents of the manuscript. Sometimes (if necessary) a third peer-reviewer is needed to provide critical comments on the submitted manuscript. The review process used in this journal is a single-blind review system.

The final decision on manuscript acceptance is made entirely by the Editor-in-Chief and/or Editor based on the critical comments of the reviewers. The final decision on the manuscript is based solely on the Editor's final review which considers the comments of the peer-reviewers.

Publication of accepted articles including article assignments after the review process will be published based on the order of acceptance and publication date.

The details of the review process in the Communications in Science and Technology (CST) journal are described in the diagram below.

English Editing during Production Process

The accepted manuscript in Communications in Science and Technology after peer-review process should pass a proofread-English editing to ensure the quality of the language of the article thus providing benefits to the reader. For non-native speaker, we request the authors to conduct it by using a professional English Language Editing. The certificate proof of the English language editing should be provided during the copy-editing process before publication. Alternatively, we offer the authors to conduct the English editing through services as follows:

1. English editing service provided by Elsevier
   The authors undergo the service through the link:
   https://webshop.elsevier.com/language-editing-services/
2. English editing service provided by the Publisher
   The authors undergo the service through the link:
   https://kipmi.or.id/scientific-product/