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 before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
- The submission file is in Microsoft Word file format.
- Use Gopika two font for Gujarati Language font size = 13, Mangal or Kautilya font size= 13 for Hindi, and Times new roman for English language font size 12.
- Margin 1” on all sides. Single-spaced typing. Please avoid mistakes in the typed paper.
- The text is formatted according to the template of the journal and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
- Plagiarism will be checked, and the author is fully responsible for any plagiarism found in the paper.
- Follow the APA (7th Edition) citation style.
- Figures, tables, and graphs are placed in the document where it’s located initially.
- After the paper is received, it will be sent to the two editorial board members for blind review and the final decision of the paper publication will be taken as per the reviewer’s recommendations.
- This process takes 4 to 5 weeks.
- There are no publication charges for the accepted paper.
- Submission Checklist
- You can use this list to carry out a final check of your submission before you send it to the journal for review. Please check the relevant section in this Guide for Authors for more details.
- Ensure that the following items are present:
- One author has been designated as the corresponding author with contact details:
- E-mail address
- Full postal address
- Manuscript
- Include keywords
- Paginate the manuscript from the Abstract to the Reference section
- All figures (include relevant captions)
- All tables (including titles, description, footnotes)
- Ensure all figure and table citations in the text match the files provided
- Indicate clearly if color should be used for any figures in print.
- Further considerations
- • Manuscript has been ‘spell checked’ and ‘grammar checked’
- All references mentioned in the Reference List are cited in the text, and vice versa
- Permission has been obtained for the use of copyrighted material from other sources (including the Internet)
- A competing interests statement is provided, even if the authors have no competing interests to declare
- Journal policies detailed in this guide have been reviewed.