AUTHOR GUIDELINES

SUBMISSION OF A MANUSCRIPT
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Only original papers will be considered. Manuscripts are accepted for review with the understanding that the same work has not been and will not be and is not currently being submitted elsewhere. As the DMMS is an open-access research journal, the full texts of published articles are freely available to be used, distributed, and reproduced in any medium according to the license: Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). This license requires that the original work is properly cited.

Articles and any other material published in Decision Making in Manufacturing and Services represent the opinions of the author(s) and should not be construed as reflecting the opinions of the Editor.

DMMS follows a strict open access and ethics policy. The authors are required to submit a statement confirming that the submitted manuscript, and/or the data presented in it, have not been sent for publication or published elsewhere and detailing the contribution of each co-author (to prevent ghostwriting). Also, the source of financing of the research presented in the paper or the source of financing of the paper itself needs to be indicated. If redundant publication, plagiarism, fabricated data, ghost, guest or gift authorship, an ethical problem with a submitted manuscript, conflict of interest in a published article as well as other malpractice are suspected, we follow the COPE flowcharts. 

We are using IThenticate to prevent (self)plagiarism. The threshold similarity rate is 15%.

Submission for publication must have been approved by all the authors and by the institution where the work was carried out by submitting the Authors’ copyright declarations to dmms@agh.edu.pl.

There are no article processing charge (APC) for submitting, processing, or publishing an article in DMMS.

PREPARATION OF A MANUSCRIPT

The manuscripts must be clearly written in English. Footnotes and unusual symbols should be avoided. It is strongly recommended to limit the length of a manuscript to less than 25 pages (Times New Roman CE fond type, 12 points, 1.5-spaced format, 2.5 cm margins, left justification, without hyphenation).
Title page (page 1). The top of the title page should contain the article title, names of all authors with affiliations (name of the institution, city, country, ORCID, e-mail) and abstract. The abstract should be a single paragraph of less than Title page (page 1). An abstract is often presented separately, so any references to numbered items in the paper or uncommon abbreviations should be avoided. Any references cited in the abstract must be given in full. After the abstract a list of up to 6 keywords that will be useful for indexing or searching and next primary and secondary 2020 Mathematics Subject Classification or Journal of Economic Literature codes should be included.
Sections. An article should be divided into numbered sections and subsections (1.1, 1.2, etc.). Any subsection may be given a brief heading.
Equations. Equations should be typewritten and the numbers for displayed equations should be placed in parentheses at the right margin. References to equations should use the form ''equation (3.1)'' or simply ''(3.1)''. Automatic numbering of the equations is strongly preferred.
Figures and tables. Tables and figures should be numbered in the order in which they appear in the paper and carry a brief title. Figures must be prepared in a form suitable for direct reproduction. If complicated figures or diagrams are used, the corresponding graphic files should be included, preferably in eps format. Digital artwork of at least 300 dpi resolution is accepted.
Acknowledgements. Acknowledgements, if any, should be placed before the references.
References. The references should follow Harvard style. References should be arranged in alphabetical order and their list should be as free from author macros as possible. Italics is the preferred format for titles of books and journals. The following general rules also apply:
in journal titles the first letter of the first word of the title should be capitalized,
in book titles first letter of each word except ''and'', ''of'' etc. should be capitalised.
Names of journals and references should be in full.
Every reference cited in the text must appear in the reference list and vice versa.
In-text citations should be indicated by the author's last name and year of publication, e.g., (Smith, 2005) or Smith (2005). Works by the same author should be listed in order of publication. More than one reference from the same author in the same year must be identified by the letters "a", "b", "c", etc., placed after the year of publication.

An example of a reference list is given below:

- journal article:
Kaczmarczyk, W., Sawik, T. Schaller A., Tirpak T.M., 2004. Optimal versus heuristic scheduling of surface mount technology lines. International Journal of Production Research, 42(10), 2083-2110.
- book:
Nemhauser, G.L., Wolsey, L.A., 1998. Integer and Combinatorial Optimization. Wiley, New York.
- chapter or article in an edited book:
Shapiro, J.F., 1996. Mathematical Programming Models and Methods for Production Planning and Scheduling. In: S.C.Graves, A.H.G.Rinnooy Kan and P.H.Zipkin (Eds.) Handbook in Operations Research and Management Science: Logistics of Production and Inventory. North-Holland, Amsterdam.

ORCID. Every author must provide an ORCID identifier. Identifiers are requested at submission and are required before a manuscript can be accepted; they are also recorded for each co-author in the author declaration. Authors who do not yet have an ORCID can register free of charge at orcid.org. Identifiers are deposited with the article metadata in Crossref, so that each author's work is correctly attributed to them.

Competing interests. Authors must include a competing interests statement in the manuscript. It should disclose any financial or personal relationship that could be seen to influence the work reported — for example employment, consultancy, research funding, patents, paid expert testimony, or membership of an advisory or governing body. Where there is nothing to disclose, the statement says so.

Data and code availability. Authors are encouraged to make the data and the code underlying their results available to readers, and to include a short statement saying where they can be found. Where data or code cannot be shared — for example because they are commercially confidential or belong to a partner organization — the statement says so and explains why.

USE OF GENERATIVE AI

Authors must disclose any use of generative AI tools in the preparation of their manuscript. Disclosure is made in the author declaration submitted with the manuscript, which asks for the tools used, the stage at which they were applied, and the scope of their use. AI tools cannot be listed as authors. Authors remain fully responsible for the content of their work, including the accuracy of all data, quotations and bibliographic references. Images generated by AI are not accepted.

Reviewers must not enter a manuscript, or any part of it, into a generative AI tool at any stage of the review, because manuscripts under review are confidential. This restriction does not cover spelling, grammar, or translation tools used on text the reviewer has written themselves; reviewers declare their use in the review form.

The journal's full policy is set out in the Journal Policy, and AGH University Press issues the  Authors’ copyright declaration.