Submissions
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.- The manuscript is an original research result (no plagiarism). 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 Microsoft Word, rather than RTF, OpenOffice, or WordPerfect document file format, less than or equal to 2 mb of file size.
- Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
- The text is single-spaced, 10 pages maximum, A4 page size, 3 cm left margin, 2.5 cm other margins (top, bottom, right); uses a 12-point font Times New Roman; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); 2 columns Justify; and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end/Appendices.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic (references) requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
- Authors must write 5 suggested reviewers (names and email addresses) in provided Comments to the Editor at the bottom of submission page. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
Sections
The common sections.
Vol 6, No 2 (2020): November 2020
Eight titles are from internal and external authors, in English only.
Vol 7, No 1 (2021): May 2021
Eight titles are from internal and external authors, in English only.
Copyright Notice
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
a. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a License Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
b. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
c. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).
d. Authors hold the copyright and retain publishing right of articles without restrictions.