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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.

  • Author details. All authors of an article should contain their full name and affiliation. One author will need to be chosen as the corresponding author, with their email address. Authors’ affiliations are the affiliations where the research was conducted. Please note that no changes to affiliation can be made after your paper is accepted.
  • Abstract should contain an unstructured of maximum 200 words and 3 to 6 keywords.
  • Funding Sponsor. Please supply all details required by your funding sponsor and grant-awarding bodies
  • Disclosure statement. Please acknowledge any financial interest or benefit that has arisen from your research
  • Figures. Figures should be high quality (1250 dpi for line art, 700 dpi for grayscale, and 350 dpi for color, at the correct size). Figures should be supplied in one of our preferred file formats: JPEG, GIF, PNG, or Microsoft Word (DOCX).
  • Tables. Tables should capture new information rather than duplicating body text. Readers should be able to understand the table without reference to the text. Please ensure that the table is editable.
  • Equations. If you are submitting your manuscript as a Word document, please ensure that equations are editable

Author Guidelines

Structure

Your manuscript should be written in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion; acknowledgments; declaration of interest statement; references; appendices (as appropriate); table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figures; figure captions (as a list).

Page Limits

Your manuscript should be between 6 to 8 pages, inclusive of the abstract, tables, references, figure captions, footnotes, endnotes. If the paper exceeds 8 pages, then it would be charged for additional fees.

Language and Quotations

Please use the American English style consistently throughout your article.

Please use double quotation marks, except where “a quotation is ‘within’ a quotation”. Please note that long quotations should be indented without quotation marks.

Formatting and Templates

Papers should be submitted in MS-Word document; in A4 paper format, font Times New Roman 12 point with one-columns and 1.5-space, page number, and must be between 6 to 8 pages. Paper margin should be set as follows:
Normal margins:
Left margin: 2 cm Right margin : 2 cm
Top margin  : 2 cm Bottom margin: 2 cm.

Put the title page on center with font style Times New Roman 14 point bold. Section title/heading style should be presented using bold or bold-italics and do not use any numbering.
Section title/heading format should conform to the prescribed style as follows:
Section title/heading 1 (all capital, bold, left-aligned)
Section title/heading 2 (capital-small, bold, left-aligned)
Section title/heading 3 (capital-small, bold-italics, left-aligned)

Download the template here.

References and Citations

Please use this IEEE Format when preparing your citations and references.

Author(s) must use Mendeley as a reference management software to avoid mistakes in references

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 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).