Authors Guidelines

Interested in submitting to this journal? We recommend that you review the About the Journal page for the journal’s section policies, as well as the Author Guidelines. Authors need to register with the journal prior to submitting or, if already registered, can simply log in and begin the process.

  • 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.

  • Article Type- Single column
  • 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).
  • Manuscripts should be written in English.
  • Title, author(s), and affiliations should all be included on a title page as the first page of the manuscript file, followed by a 100-150 words abstract and 3-5 keywords. The order they follow is: Title, Authors, Affiliations, Abstract, Keywords (5-7).
  • The submission file is in MS-Word, OpenOffice, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text should have Times New Roman font with a 12-point font size; employs italics for underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points with lables.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
  • Zero tolerance plagiarism policy. Articles can be accompanied with Turnitin /I-Authenticate report.
  • If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
  • Referencing Style: APA format for both in-text and end-text references.

After following all the compliance, norms and policies, the author/s should submit their original, the best quality articles to submission.ijtmss@gmail.com