Submission Guidelines for Authors
While the Editorial Board welcomes well- researched original manuscripts, contributors should take the following into account:
- All manuscripts received shall be subjected to plagiarism check and the result must not be higher than the journal’s acceptable threshold of 19 percent. Any manuscript with a plagiarism check result that is higher than the acceptable threshold shall not be published even if it receives favourable assessments form the reviewers
- A typical paper for this journal should be between 8,000 and 10,000 words, inclusive of references, footnotes, endnotes and abstracts.
- An abstract should clearly but briefly reveal the following: background/rationale; problem/issues examined (including research questions); details of method(s) used (including sample and sampling technique); results/findings; conclusion; and implication(s)/relevance of the study.
- The abstract should contain four relevant keywords
- The title and author’s biographical details (name, university/department, address, position/title, telephone, e-mail) should be identified on the title page only. It is mandatory to supply telephone and email addresses.
- Font of body text should be Times New Roman Size 12. Alignment should be justified. Paragraphs should be indented with one tab (no block paragraphing). Line spacing should be 1.5 lines.
- Authors should be consistent with either American English or British English.
- Referencing should follow the 6th edition of APA style and all references should be listed, in strict alphabetical order, at the end of the article.
- Figures should be high quality (1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for colour, at the correct size). Figures should be supplied in one of our preferred file formats: EPS, PS, JPEG, GIF, or Microsoft Word (DOC or DOCX).
Copyright Policy
The journals take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. The Editorial Board seeks to protect the rights of contributors and will always investigate claims of plagiarism or misuse of published articles.