Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
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The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
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The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
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Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
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The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
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The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
Author Guidelines
A. Manuscript General Requirement
- The manuscript must be written in academic English.
- The length of the manuscript is 4000-7000 words (not including references).
- Prepare your manuscript using the manuscript template.
- The manuscript has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
- The manuscript file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, document file format (don't use another format).
B. Structure of the Manuscript
- TITLE. This is your opportunity to attract the reader’s attention. Remember that readers are the potential authors who will cite your article. Identify the main issue of the paper. Begin with the subject of the paper. The title should be accurate, unambiguous, specific, and complete. Do not contain infrequently used abbreviations.
- AUTHOR INFORMATION. Write Author(s) names without title and professional positions such as Prof. Dr. John Dewey, etc. Do not abbreviate your last/family name. Always give your First and Last names. If you have a one-word name such as Isehu, write Isehu Isehu. Write clear affiliation of all Authors. Affiliation includes the name of department/unit, (faculty), name of university, address, country. Please indicate the Corresponding Author (include email address) behind the name. Author addresses are superscripted by numerals and centered over both columns of manuscripts.
- ABSTRACT. The length of the Abstract is 200-300; No citation; State in the abstract a primary objective, methodology, main outcomes and results, and the conclusions.
- SECTION STRUCTURE. Authors are suggested to present their manuscript in the section structure with IMRaD style: Introduction - Method - Results and Discussion – Conclusion
- Conflicts of Interest. Declare conflicts of interest or state “The authors declare no conflict of interest." Authors must identify and declare any personal circumstances or interests that may be perceived as inappropriately influencing the representation or interpretation of reported research results. Any role of the funding sponsors in the design of the study; in the collection, analyses or interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript, or in the decision to publish the results must be declared in this section. If there is no role, please state “The founding sponsors had no role in the design of the study; in the collection, analyses, or interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript, and in the decision to publish the results.”
- REFERENCES. Expect a minimum of 15 references primarily with a minimum of 80% to journal papers. Ensure that your references are formatted using APA 6th edition style. Please use Reference Manager Applications like EndNote, Mendeley, Zotero, etc.
C. Manuscript Preparation Checklist
Authors must check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
- The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
- The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect format.
- To ensure the paper conforms to the standard of the manuscript template, Please download the paper template in *.docx
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which are found in About the Journal.
- The length of the submitted paper is between 4,000-7,000 words, not including references.
- The references had been formatted in APA 6th edition style using Zotero, Mendeley, or EndNote,
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