Submissions
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 before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
- The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
- Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
- The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
Articles
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Copyright and Publishing Rights
- Open Access or Traditional Publishing: Will "Research Journal for Social Affairs" be an open access journal (freely available to everyone) or a traditional subscription-based journal? This will have a major impact on the copyright and licensing options available.
- Copyright Transfer or Retention: Do you want authors to transfer their copyright to the journal upon publication, or do you want them to retain their copyright and grant the journal specific rights (e.g., non-commercial distribution)?
- License Choice: If you're considering an open access model, which Creative Commons license best aligns with your goals? Popular options include CC BY (attribution required), CC BY-NC (non-commercial re-use), and CC BY-NC-ND (no commercial re-use or derivative works).
- Author Rights: How much control do you want authors to have over their work after publication? This could include rights like self-archiving, republishing in other venues, and creating derivative works.
Once I have this information, I can provide you with a more specific and tailored set of copyright and publishing rights for "Research Journal for Social Affairs." This may include:
- Copyright notice: The standard copyright notice that will appear on all published articles.
- Author agreement: A contract outlining the rights and responsibilities of authors and the journal.
- License agreement: A license that defines how users can access and re-use the published articles.
- Open access statement: A clear explanation of your journal's open access policies and commitment.
Privacy Statement
Following guidelines are to be followed strictly by the authors:
- The manuscripts for publication are required to be in clear, concise, and grammatically correct English.
- The manuscript is required to be written in the English language only. However, English translation is required to be provided to incorporate words or text from any other language (indigenous or foreign)
- Journal only consider MS word file submission; pdf files are not acceptable.
- The manuscripts are required to be written with 12 font sizes in Times New Roman font style. The line spacing should be 1 (one) with a 1-inch margin of the page from all sides.
- The font size for the title of the article should be 14 (fourteen).
- Abstract and keywords, along with their headings, should be in 12 (twelve).
- Authors' names and affiliations should be written also in 10.
- The entire content of the article, along with headings and references, should be in 12. The font style for the manuscript is required to be ‘Times New Roman.'
- The heading should be bold and indicated in the article with initial capital letters.
- The first paragraph after each heading should be without indentation. If the heading contains more than one section, after the first paragraph following sections should be with indentation.
- The title of the manuscript is required to be bold with initial capital letters of all the words.
- The detail of the authorship is required to be given on the title page along with their email and affiliations (department, university, city, and country)
- The authorship is required to be given in the same order as you want them to appear in the published paper. No change in the order of the authorship is made later.
- The whole manuscript, with references, is required to be typed single-spaced on one side of the paper.
- All pages should be numbered consecutively in the bottom right starting from the title page.