JAIAS invites submissions in all areas of artificial intelligence applied to autonomous systems. Articles published in JAIAS must meet the highest quality standards as measured by the originality and significance of the contribution. The journal publishes full-length original articles, research notes, survey articles, and special tracks. Research notes are concise papers that extend or evaluate previous work. Survey articles provide tutorials or literature reviews with analysis that advances our understanding of the field. Special tracks contain collections of articles on specific topics, edited by guest editors. All articles must adhere to the standards outlined in JAIAS’s editorial charter.
We strongly encourage authors to be concise. Papers should be thoroughly proofread and polished before submission. Clearly unacceptable papers will be returned without review.
All claims should be well-articulated and supported by empirical experiments or theoretical analysis. When relevant, authors should implement their work and demonstrate its utility on significant problems; any reported experiments must be reproducible. Theoretical papers should discuss practical implications. It must be clear how the work advances the field and why it is important.
Authors must acknowledge prior work. New terminology or techniques should be justified. Submissions must be original; they cannot be published or under review elsewhere. Papers extending prior conference work must include substantial new content and should not infringe copyright.
Published articles may include online appendices with data, demonstrations, source code, or instructions for obtaining code. If an appendix contains source code, authors must sign a release form before publication. Online appendices are not included in the review process.
Submissions using color are welcome, but all figures should be understandable in grayscale.
Policy on AI tools: Authors are responsible for the originality, accuracy, and integrity of submitted content. AI tools may assist research, but core contributions must come from the authors. AI systems cannot be credited as authors. Any AI usage must comply with ethical and scholarly standards.
To submit a paper to JAIAS, authors must first register for an account (Register) and then submit their paper online(Submit). The submission form requires basic paper information (title, authors, abstract, etc.) and completion of mandatory survey questions. Authors must confirm several declarations about submission requirements. Submissions are free, and there are no publication fees.
Very large files (over 15 MB) should be avoided due to potential issues with mailers and printers. Papers should follow the formatting requirements outlined below.
JAIAS acknowledges receipt of submissions within three business days. If no confirmation is received, authors should contact the editorial office.
Once accepted, authorship changes require explicit permission from the Editors-in-Chief.
JAIAS aims to review submissions and return decisions within 8-12 weeks. Longer papers or submissions during major conferences may take longer. JAIAS provides transparent submission metrics, including evaluation likelihoods and decision times.
Reviewers recommend acceptance, minor revisions, rejection with resubmission encouraged, or outright rejection. Papers requiring major revisions will not be accepted. Resubmission does not guarantee review by the same referees or acceptance. Papers may only be resubmitted once.
Authors should return revised papers promptly. Normally, two months are allowed for revisions. Revised papers may be re-reviewed. Accepted papers are published electronically upon receipt of the final version.
All submissions are confidential. Reviewers remain anonymous to authors and other reviewers. Only the handling editor has access to reviewer identities. Reviewers receive anonymized copies of all reviews for a given submission.
If a paper requires substantial revisions, the editor may reject it but encourage resubmission. Authors must use the standard submission procedure for resubmissions, identifying the paper as a resubmission.
Authors must submit a PDF formatted according to JAIAS’s guidelines. Submissions in non-compliant formats will be rejected without review.
Authors are responsible for final formatting. The editorial team provides guidance, but the primary responsibility lies with the authors. Formatting instructions and templates for LaTeX and Word are available.
All JAIAS articles are open access under the Creative Commons CC BY license. Authors may upload their papers to arXiv but must include proper metadata referencing the JAIAS publication details.
Authors may publish "forward pointers" to subsequent articles on the same topic by contacting the managing editor.