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1. Manuscript Preparation and Format
All manuscripts must be in grammatically correct English and should be created using MS Word. It must be double-spaced and written in an A4 page format. Do not leave a space between paragraphs. Only a single font (preferably Times New Roman) should be used in 11 point with margin of 2.5 cm. Latin origin words should not be italicized and all pages including the title page should be paginated consecutively. All numbers should be written in Arabic numerals throughout the manuscript except for the first word of the sentence. Texts should be justified on both sides and not hyphenated and headings should be in bold letters, aligned in the center. If possible, avoid using abbreviated words in the beginning of sentences. Figures as separate files, in EPS, TIFF, Adobe Photoshop (PSD), JPEG, or PPT format and All table and figure numbers are found in the text.
2. Cover Letter and Title page
Cover Letter
It should include the following information.
- 1) Title of the paper and corresponding author details
- 2) Summary of your findings: Summarize the most important findings of your study
Title page
The title page should include the following information.
- 1) Category of article
- 2) The title of the article
- 3) Name of the authors
- 4) Institutional affiliation including name of department(s) and institution(s) of each author, full address of the institutional affiliation, telephone and fax numbers, and email address of the corresponding author
- 5) A running title not exceeding 60 characters.
- 6) Abstract
- 7) Information on financial support, including the source(s) of the grant.
- 8) ORCID of all authors are recommended to be provided. To have ORCID, authors should register in the ORCID web site available from: http://orcid.org/. Registration is free to every researcher in the world.
3. Main Text
The title page should include the following information.
- 1) The title of article
- 2) Abstract : An abstract should be concise and not exceed 250 words
- 3) Keywords : 3-6 relevant keywords are required.
- 4) Main Text Section : The main text of the manuscripts should have sections for the Introduction, Material and Methods, Results and Discussion/Conclusion.
- 5) Conflicts of Interest
- 6) Acknowledgment If any
- 7) Appendices: If there is more than one appendix, they should be identified as A, B, etc.
- 8) References: References listed in proper format. All references listed in the reference section are cited in the text and vice versa.