Author Guidelines

The publishing language of the journal is English. Manuscripts submitted for publication should be neither published in any journal before nor submitted simultaneously to another journal. Master or Doctoral Thesis previously shared with the public may be published.

Author Responsibility and Copyright

Authors have the scientific and legal responsibility for the manuscripts. All published works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. It means that authors reserve all proprietary rights such as patent rights and the right to copy and redistribute the material of published works in any medium or format. Also, they have the right to use all or part of the article in their future works (e.g., lectures, press releases, and reviews of textbooks), remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.

Authors bear full scientific and legal responsibility for the content of their manuscripts, including compliance with copyright and intellectual property laws.

Authors retain copyright of their articles. Upon publication, authors grant the publisher the right to publish, preserve, and distribute the work in both print and electronic formats.

The textual content of published articles is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). This license permits reuse, distribution, and adaptation of the article text, provided appropriate attribution is given.

Authors may reuse all or part of their article in future works (e.g., lectures, books, reviews, or derivative research), provided that the original publication in this journal is properly acknowledged

Third-Party Material (Images, Figures, Maps, Tables)

Authors are solely responsible for ensuring that all images, figures, maps, tables, photographs, satellite images, screenshots, and other third-party materials included in their manuscript are either:Authors are solely responsible for ensuring that all images, figures, maps, tables, photographs, satellite images, screenshots, and other third-party materials included in their manuscript are either:

  • original and created by the author(s); or
  • in the public domain; or
  • licensed under terms that permit reuse in an open-access publication; or
  • accompanied by explicit written permission from the copyright holder allowing publication by the journal.

Third-party material is not covered by the Creative Commons license applied to the article unless the rights holder has explicitly granted permission for such licensing.

Images sourced from search engines (e.g., Google Images, Bing Images) or social media platforms do not constitute proof of permission or licence and are not acceptable unless accompanied by verifiable licensing information from the original rights holder.

Authors must clearly indicate the source and licensing status of all non-original material at the time of submission and must retain permission documentation.

Compliance and Removal

The publisher reserves the right to remove, replace, or redact any content (including images or figures) if credible copyright concerns are identified, either before or after publication.

Further details regarding copyright, licensing, and third-party material are available in the journal’s Copyright Statement.

Fees and Charges

The journal is self-financed and does not receive funding from any institution/government. Hence, the journal operates solely through processing charges it receives from the authors. The handling fee is required to meet its maintenance. Being an Open Access journal group, the journal does not collect subscription charges from readers, thus, they may enjoy free online access to the articles. Authors are hence required to pay a fair handling fee for processing their articles. However, there are no submission charges. Authors are required to make payment only after their manuscript has been accepted for publication.

Publication Process/Peer-Review Processing

1) Pre-submission requirements

Please submit your manuscript using the online manuscript submission system. In the unlikely event that you have problems, please email the submission to the editorial office of the journal.

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors who do not adhere to these guidelines.

a) The submission must be original, not previously published, and not under for publication by any other journal (any exceptions should be explained in the Comments to journal editors).

b) Manuscripts must be sent in the format of “Word” document (e.g., .doc, .docx, .rtf, etc.).

c) Visual materials (e.g., figures and photographs) must be sent as Bitmap images (e.g., .JPEG, .TIFF, .GIF, etc.) with a resolution of 300 dpi at least. Each figure must contain a brief caption of no more than one sentence placed under the figure. If required, a legend for charts and graphs should be added to the figure or in the figure caption.

d) Each table must contain a brief caption of no more than one sentence placed above the table. The legend and annotation should be placed below the table. Annotation may be used to explain abbreviations, footnotes, etc. All Tables submitted must be cell-based, editable, and short. Avoid using color shades in the Table. The usage of special characters such as asterisks must be denoted below with the text explaining the denotation. Do not use any hyperlinked text in the tables.

e) It is important that numerical equations are prepared using Microsoft equations or MathType. and tables in the manuscript are submitted in Word (.doc), Excel (.xls), or PPT formats only, not as images.

2) After you submit:

a) Plagiarism screening policy

The editorial office utilizes a web-based software program (iThenticate) to identify potential plagiarism by comparing documents and highlighting similarities. A "similarity rate" of 25% or less is acceptable. If a manuscript has a similarity rate
exceeding 25%, the author will be asked to make corrections.

b) Peer-review
All submitted papers will first be pre-evaluated by the editorial board through a “peer review” system in electronic environment; later the papers will be sent to advisory board members. Manuscripts deemed suitable for the journal will then be
sent to three reviewers in a double-blind process. If necessary, authors may be asked to address certain questions or correct specific issues. The possible outcomes of this review process are acceptance, minor revision, major revision, rejection in the
current form, or outright rejection.

c) If your manuscript is accepted: Next Steps
Upon submission acceptance, you will receive a form containing a copyright agreement along with a request for payment for article publication. Once the payment is processed, your article will move to the copyediting stage where all information and data are thoroughly reviewed and verified. A galley proof of the article, as it will appear in the journal, will then be sent to the authors for proofreading and corrections. After receiving the corrected proofs from the corresponding author, the final paginated and citable articles are published, followed by a publication notification sent to the author.