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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 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, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • 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.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

Manuscript Requirements

The authors who want to submit their manuscripts should follow these guidelines:

Language

Manuscript must be in English (American or British is accepted individually, but not a mixture of these). 

Format

The files should be in Microsoft Word format (docx). The font style and size should be Time News Roman and 12 with Signal Line spacing. The article must follow APA (7th Edition). You can find the sample papers on the APA Style from their official website (https://apastyle.apa.org)

Article Length

The word count of an article should be between 4000 to 8000 words (including references, appendices etc.)

Title Page

  1. Title should be concise and informative and should not be more than 19 words.
  2. The author/authors details should be within 150 words.
  3. In case of co-authorship, the authors should be mentioned in order of their contribution.

The following information is required:

  1. Name and affiliated institute with complete address
  2. E-mail address of author(s)
  3. Corresponding author 

Abstract

Abstract should consist of 200 to 250 words. It must describe the intent, objectives, scope, significance, methods, major results, conclusions and implications of the research. An abstract is often presented separately from the article, so it must be able to stand alone. For this reason, References should be avoided. You should also avoid nonstandard or uncommon abbreviations; if necessary you should explain before mentioning them.

Keywords

Author/s should provide between five keywords in alphabetical order, which accurately identify the objective, subject, method, and focus of the research.

 Full Length

The text should be divided into the following sections; Introduction, Literature Review, Theoretical Framework, Methodology, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgements, and References. APA 7th edition’s guidelines should be followed. The contemporary style of dividing the content will also be acceptable if it covers all the relevant and necessary areas of discussions.

Headings

The headings should be clear and concise and followed by APA (7th Ed.) as:
References

For further guidance on APA 7th Edition, please follow the link: http://pu.edu.pk/images/journal/pols/pdf-files/APA_Guide-7thEdition.pdf

Foot Notes & End Notes

Avoid unnecessary footnotes or endnotes. Only add if very important and must be numbered in the text.

Disclosing Funding Source

If your research is funded by any organization, you are requested to describe the role of sponsors during the development of the research like their contribution in the study design, data collection, analysis and interpretation, report writing and the decision of submission for publication. If the research is not funded, you should mention it. If you have no external funding, you are required to mention “no external funding”.

 Submission

Submission of a research paper to this journal proceeds online. This journal follows the OJS system.

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