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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 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.

Author Guidelines

We request the following information for research articles. 

Title page- The first page of the manuscript should contain the following information:

  1. The title of the paper
  2. A short title not exceeding 50 characters for use as a running head
  • Names of authors
  1. Names of institutions at which the research was conducted
  2. Name, address, and email address of the corresponding author.

Abstract

The abstract should not exceed 300 words.  The abstract must include the following:

  • Introduction - the context and purpose of the study
  • Methods- how the study was performed, and statistical tests used
  • Results- the main findings
  • Conclusions- brief summary and implications
  • Keywords- five to ten keywords

Main text

Introduction

The background section should provide a background to the study, a summary of existing literature, and the aims of the study.

Methods

The methods section should include the aims, setting and design of the study

Characteristics of participants

Clear description of process and any interventions

Results

This section should include the findings of the study, including appropriate results of statistical analyses, which must be included in text or as tables and figures.

Discussion

This section should discuss the implications of the findings in the context of existing research and highlight any limitations of the study.

Conclusions

This section should report the main conclusions and provide an explanation of the importance and relevance of the study provided.

Notes on Contributors

Declarations

All manuscripts may have the following:

  • Ethics and consent to participate
  • Competing interest

Intent Research Scientific Journal- (IRSJ) requests authors to declare all competing interests in their work.  All submitted manuscripts may include a ‘competing interests’ section at the end of the manuscript listing all competing interests.  Where authors have no competing interests, the statement may read- ‘The authors declare that they have no competing interests.’

  • Funding
  • Authors contributions
  • Acknowledgements

Citation

Intent Research Scientific Journal- (IRSJ) uses the Harvard reference style for its publications.

 

Plagiarism

Like all academic journals, we take plagiarism extremely seriously. We reserve the right to check articles routinely using appropriate software. If there is a cause for concern the editor will arrange to discuss the potential problem with the contributor. We are happy to consider articles submitted to other journals with the relevant permissions and attribution, and the intellectual property rights of the submitted text remain with the author.

 

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