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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 submission is the Author's original work and has not been previously published before in its current or a substantially similar form.
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
  • References are in Oxford Author-Date style. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is double-spaced; uses 11-point arial 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.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.

Author Guidelines

Author’s guideline – Open Access Journal

 

Title

-       centred

-       top

-       capitalised

-       bold

 

Abstract

-       300 words

-       Italics

 

Paper

-       Max. 3500 words

 

Font & format

-       Arial 11

-       Double spaced

-       A4

-       Margins 2.5 inches all around

-       Adjusted

 

Footers

-       page numbers bottom right

-       first initial and name bottom left

-       font Arial 8

 

Reference style (bibliography and footnotes)

-       Oxford – Author Date

 

Keywords

-       max. of 10

 

End of article

-       first initial and surname in capitals

-       affiliation

-       email address

-       right adjusted

-       single spaced

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

    1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
    2. 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.
    3. 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).

 

Authors retain control over their work, and may request that their paper is removed from this collection in the future by contacting the journal hosting service.