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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.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it under consideration by another journal (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission files are in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • The submission files (cover letter and manuscript) are prepared according to the ACAE templates to suit the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

Authors and Authors guidelines and responsibilities

Use journal article Word template before submission of paper:

  1. Download and save the template file to your computer
  2. Apply these styles to your paper as appropriate.
  3. Upload your paper under the Make a submission

 

Authorship:

Each author needs to make substantive intellectual contributions to the manuscript. Any dispute in authorship must be resolved by authors and a correction after publication can be published, but requires agreement from all authors with justification.

 

Types of authorship:

The first authors: the person who conducts or supervises the data collection, analysis, presentation and interpretation of the results, and also puts together the paper for submission. Co-author: the person who makes intellectual contributions to the data analysis and contributes to data interpretation, reviews each paper draft, must be able to present the results, defend the implications and discuss study limitations.

 

Acknowledgments:

Authors need to disclose all sources of funding of the study.

 

Conflict of interests:

Authors need to declare any conflicts of interest: direct financial, indirect financial, career and intellectual and personal belief.

 

References:

Authors need to correctly cite another person’s ideas, processes or words. References must be numbered in order of appearance in the text (including table captions and figure legends) and listed individually at the end of the manuscript.

 

Plagiarism, data fabrication, image manipulation simultaneous submission of manuscripts to more than one journal are not tolerated:

If misconduct is detected authors could have their paper retracted (with a note why they were retracted), have a letter of concern or reprimand written on them, and Institutes and funding bodies could carry out disciplinary action.

 

Fees and charges:

All articles published in Journal are published in full open access. There is no fee nor article processing charge (APC) for providing free access to readers, and to cover the costs of peer review, copyediting, typesetting, long-term archiving, and journal management.

Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. The journal will upon manuscript acceptance for publication ensure and pay for English editing service prior to publication.

 

 

 

Copyright Notice

Copyright and access

  • Journal is loyal to open access for academic work. All articles and review papers published in our journal are free to access immediately upon publication, without subscription barriers to access. We do not charge fees for any reader to download articles and reviews.
  • The Journal is indexed in Web of Science Core Collection Emerging Sources Citation Index, CAB Abstract, INSPEC, DOAJ, Applied Science & Technology Source
  • Articles published in the Journal are open access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license and free to access immediately upon publication, without subscription barriers to access.
  • All authors publishing with the Journal accept these as the terms of publication.

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