Authors’ Guidelines
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Authors are to follow the below guidelines for a successful manuscript submission
Author’s Manuscript Guide
Manuscripts Originality
Paper submitted for publication should be an original and unpublished paper. Any manuscript submitted which has already been published or under review in another Journal for publication will not be considered.
Manuscripts Submission
Manuscripts should be submitted in MS-Word using the Journal website https://internationalpublishersijmrasfp.com
Once the Manuscript is received by the Journal, an acknowledgement email stating the Manuscript ID and Personal Journal (IJMRASFP) ID for all authors will be sent to the email address of the authors, after which further correspondence will be sent to the corresponding author for further communications.
Manuscripts Structure
The manuscript should contain the title of the paper, author(s) full names, titles, affiliation, contact addresses (e-mail and telephone numbers), followed by the abstract.
The Abstract should not be more than 250 words showing the motivation of the study, methodology, findings, conclusion and recommendation. The abstract should be simple and concise without any technical econometric or statistical indices.
Six (6) Keywords relating to the paper should be indicated after the abstract
The maximum length for each manuscript including tables, figures and references is 15 gallery-proof pages. However, a little above 15pages will be considered.
Manuscript should be Times New Roman 12 point font size, 1.5 line spacing. Tables should be single line space, having 1 inch or 2.54cm margin on all sides.
Tables are to be typed on separate pages. Tables and Figures are to be numbered Table 1.1, Table 1.2, Figure 1.1, in their arithmetical progression, depending in/on the chapters they appear.
Table and Figures titles should be above the Table/Figure and must be short and self-explanatory.
Each table must have an accompanying explanation and its source below it. Descriptions such as table below or above should be avoided.
Manuscript should be written in English (either US or UK English is accepted, but not a mixture of both).
The manuscript should be divided into twelve (12) segments, namely:
Title
Authors Details
Abstract
Keywords
Funding (If any)
Introduction
Literature Review
Methodology
Data Analysis and Discussions of Findings
Conclusions and Recommendations
Acknowledgement (If any)
References
Title
Title of the manuscript which should be bold and typed in font size of 14 and containing the characters not more than 24 words
Authors Details
a. All authors name (Maximum six authors) and their affiliation should be mentioned (Example: Department, University, District, State and Country name).
b. In case of same Department/Institution is involved authors name should be linked to relevant Department/Institution by placing consecutive numbers in superscript after relevant name of authors
c. An asterisk (*) must be placed as superscript after the corresponding author’s name.
Abstract
This section must contain a short information on the introduction, research problems & objectives, methodology, results & discussions and conclusion. It should be typed in single space not more than 250 words for full Article. Authors are to avoid diagrams, citations and images in abstract.
Keywords
Minimum 3 and maximum 6 keywords must be given at the bottom of the abstract
Introduction
In this section authors should mention the background and purpose of the study, the research gaps and objectives of the study.
Literature Review
Authors should include a brief conceptual and theoretical framework, include all articles used with appropriate in-text citation and show the identified gaps.
Methodology
This section should show information relating to methods employed in data analysis, which must be reproducible. Models and equations expression should be shown and properly typewritten, with all symbols aligned. Special symbols and Greek letters used must all be identified. Equations or formulae should be numbered serially on the right-hand side by Arabic numerals in parentheses.
Data Analysis and Discussions of Findings
This section shows the data analysis, results and discussions. In the data analysis, show the analyses of data conducted and concisely present the results, observations and the statistical significance of the findings appropriately. In the discussions include the implications of findings and their limitations if any. A comparison between findings and the result from previous works should be given.
Conclusions and Recommendations
This section should contain a brief summary of key findings of the study and the concluding statements. This should bring out the novelty and implementation of the paper.
Acknowledgement (If Any)
A brief acknowledgement can be kept before the references section in the manuscript if any.
References
The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) for references used are to be added to each reference whenever available.
References must follow the current edition of the American Psychological Association (APA) 7th Referencing Style typed with single line spacing within a reference. References should be cited in Alphabetical order.
The following sequence of numbering (headings) should be used: 1, 1.1., 1.1.1., 1.1.2., (then 1.2, 1.3,). Kindly avoid the use of a fourth level numbering (headers). Footnotes are not permitted. However, they should be properly included in the in-text.