Author Guidelines

SUMMARY OF PRELIMINARY ACCEPTANCE FOR REVIEW

1)    The article should be within the scope and focus of this journal.

2)    The article is sent in Ms.Word format with the following conditions:

  • A4 paper (21 cm x 21,7cm) with the page margin; Left (2,5 cm), top (4 cm), Right (2,5 cm), and bottom (3 cm);
  • Articles may be up to 7,000 words in length excluding indexing. 
  • The paper is written in one column with Times New Romans font 12, except for the title; Times New romans font 16 and Times New Romans font 11 for the abstract
  • Conjunctions in the title (and, in, or with, as well, about, that, against, so, because, then, for the sake,) and prepositions (in, to, from, into, within, by, through) are written in uppercase.

3) Cite all relevant references.

4) Do not include plagiarized obscene, libelous or defamatory material.

5) Please do not insert page numbers.

6) Give credit to other people who have helped or influenced your work.

7) Articles are written with the following regulations.

  • TITLE(Times New Romans  16; contains uppercase on the whole and bold; 1 space).
  • Author(s) Name(Times New Romans  12 and bold; 1 space).
  • Author(s) AffiliationTimes New Romans 12; italic; 1 space), contains the name of the institution/organization/workplace/author’s works/study place.
  • Correspondence(Times New Romans  12; italic; 1 space), contains the first author’s email address only.
  • Abstract (Times New Romans  11; contains uppercase in the first letter and bold; 1 space). The manuscript abstract is written in English only. 
  • Keywords(Times New Romans  11; bold) and their contents (Times New Romans  11), keywords are written in English; with a number of 3-5 keywords.
  • INTRODUCTION(Times New Romans  12 and bold) and its contents (Times New Romans 12; 1 space).
  • METHODS(Times New Romans  12 and bold) and its contents Times New Romans  12; 1 space).
  • FINDINGS (Times New Roman 12 and bold) and its contents (Times New Romans  12; 1 space).
  • DISCUSSION(Times New Roman 12 and bold) and its contents (Times New Romans  12; 1 space). Descriptions of the findings and discussion should be made separately.
  • CONCLUSION (Times New Romans  12 and bold) and its contents (Times New Romans 12; 1 space).
  • REFERENCES (Times New Romans  12 and bold) and reading sources (Times New Romans  12; 1 space). Sources of citations and bibliography must be the same. The writing format of a bibliography refers to the American Psychological Association (APA). Citation and bibliography writing are advised to use the Medley or Zotero application.

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.

  1. 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).
  2. The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
  3. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  4. 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.
  5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
  6. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

 

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish in this journal agree with 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 License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment 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 acknowledgment 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).
  4. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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