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Author Guidelines

Submissions must be original, lawful, within scope, not published as a journal article and not under consideration elsewhere. Disclosed preprints, theses and reports are evaluated under the journal's prior-version policy. Authors must provide an anonymized review manuscript and complete contributor metadata separately in OJS.

Rights and electronic consent

Submission does not transfer copyright. After acceptance and before production, every copyright owner must electronically sign agreement CA-CRA-1.0 assigning transferable article copyright to AlphaTech Systems LLC, operating through AlphaTech Scholarly Press. A corresponding author may sign for another owner only with documented authority. Government, employer, institutional or funder restrictions must be disclosed for the documented exception process. No manuscript may enter final production or publication without verified rights consent.

Required manuscript elements

  • Concise title, structured abstract, keywords and a clear contribution statement.
  • Methods, data sources, evaluation design, limitations and threats to validity described in enough detail for critical assessment.
  • Funding, CRediT contribution, competing-interest, ethics, consent, data/code availability and material AI-assistance declarations.
  • Persistent citations for datasets, software, standards and prior research when available.

Double-anonymous preparation

Remove names, affiliations, acknowledgements, grant identifiers and self-identifying links from review files and document metadata. Submit the identifying title page separately. Use neutral self-citation language without weakening reproducibility.

Responsible security research

Do not include live credentials, unnecessary personal data, weaponized exploit material or disclosure that creates disproportionate risk. Explain coordinated-disclosure status and any proportionate redactions.

Submission Preparation Checklist

Every submission must satisfy the following requirements.

  • The manuscript is original, has not been published as a journal article and is not under review elsewhere; any preprint, thesis, report or related manuscript is disclosed.
  • The review files are anonymized, including document properties, comments and tracked changes.
  • All authors approved the submission, authorship order and contributor declarations.
  • The corresponding author confirms that every copyright owner is identified and understands that, after acceptance and before production, each owner must electronically sign agreement CA-CRA-1.0 assigning transferable copyright to AlphaTech Systems LLC or complete the documented exception process.
  • Funding, competing interests, ethics approval or exemption, consent, data/code availability and material AI assistance are disclosed where applicable.
  • References are complete and include persistent identifiers when available.
  • Figures, tables, datasets, code and third-party materials may lawfully be reviewed.
  • Potential dual-use or coordinated-disclosure risks are explained to the editor.
  • The corresponding author understands there is no submission fee and the approved standard APC is USD 1,200 only after acceptance; payment collection is disabled.

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Copyright Notice

After final editorial acceptance and authenticated electronic consent under agreement CA-CRA-1.0, transferable article copyright is assigned to AlphaTech Systems LLC, operating through AlphaTech Scholarly Press. The assignment is not effective for rejected or withdrawn manuscripts. Published articles are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0). Authorship credit and non-transferable moral rights remain with the authors.

Privacy Statement

Cybersecurity Advances and AlphaTech Scholarly Press, a scholarly publishing imprint operated by AlphaTech Systems LLC, process account details, contributor metadata, manuscripts, reviews, decisions, correspondence, copyright-owner and electronic-signature records, agreement version and hash, timestamps, audit history and workflow files to operate submission, peer review and rights administration. Source IP addresses and hashed user-agent evidence may be retained with electronic consent where lawfully collected. Access is authenticated and restricted by editorial role. First publication is disabled, so no article or issue record is public.

This notice does not state a physical controller address, processor geography, transfer mechanism, fixed retention period, legal certification or transfer approval because those facts are not established in the authoritative project sources. Privacy questions may be sent to editorial@atspress.org; manuscripts must be submitted only through OJS.