Author Responsibilities

Authorship: The following criteria should be fulfilled as authors:

1. Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; AND
2. Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; AND
3. Final approval of the version to be published; AND
4. Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.

Adherence to guidelines: The authors should strictly adhere to the manuscript preparation guidelines:

​Redundant publications (or ‘salami’): Publishing many similar manuscripts based on the same experiment, which are to be rejected if suspected by the editors.

The manuscript should not exceed 10% plagiarism (for common words only). Although for each paper, the plagiarism report will be analyzed, and feedback to be given depending on the respective reports. 

​Positions of all figures and tables need to be indicated serially in the text. Impersonal figures are fine. However, all personal figures (with the person’s face) need to be deleted from the manuscript.

Manuscript must be typed in a single column with double (1.5) line spacing in Times Roman Font (Size: 12) and in A4 size.

All the figures should be in high resolution.

All the tables should be in editable text and should not be photographed.

 Figures and tables should be numbered with captions accordingly, such as no. 1 should be first, then no. 2, no.  3 and so on.

Follow APA style citation and references in the manuscript. ​Please avoid and delete references/citations with more than 6 to 7 years old.

References cited in text and listed references should be the same, with a 100% match.