Submissions

Author Guidelines

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.

GENERAL GUIDELINES TO WRITE MANUSCRIPT

General Guide to Manuscript Writing:

• Manuscripts should be at least 3,000 words and not more than 7,000 words including references and appendix. Manuscripts that do not adhere to this rule will not be considered for review. Each manuscript must have an abstract between 150-200 words and 5 keywords. Manuscripts submitted to IJPS should neither be published previously nor be under consideration for publication in another journal. The main article types are as follows:

Articles: Original research manuscripts. The journal considers all original research manuscripts provided that the work reports scientifically sound experiments and provides a substantial amount of new information. Authors should not unnecessarily divide their work into several related manuscripts, although Short Communications of preliminary, but significant, results will be considered. The quality and impact of the study will be considered during peer review.

Reviews: These provide concise and precise updates on the latest progress made in a given area of research. 

• Authors are required to send a manuscript in MSword document.
• If your manuscript is in the Urdu language make sure your Abstract, Keywords & References are in the English language.
• To facilitate the blind review process, please ensure that the authors’ names do not appear anywhere in the manuscript or the filename. Authors’ names, designations, and institutional addresses should be in a separate file.
• Authors are to check manuscripts for accuracy of language before submitting them to the journal. The Editorial Board will not edit submitted manuscripts for style or language.
• Papers submitted must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere, either in electronic or printed form. The corresponding author should declare this when submitting the paper to the Editor.
• Upon submission of a paper, the author/authors are to provide the editorial board with the names of three reviewers from different institutions, complete with their addresses, designations, and email addresses.
• The Editorial Board reserves the right to make editorial changes to any manuscript accepted for publication to enhance clarity and style.

Technical guide to manuscript writing

• Authors are to submit their papers electronically by using the online submission.
• Authors are required to conform to the References Guidelines (APA style) as given if they want their manuscript to be considered for publication.

PAPER TEMPLATE

Type your manuscript

a: Author’s Name SURNAME1, b: Name SURNAME, and c: Name SURNAME

a: Author’s Institution, b: Author’s Institution, c: Author’s Institution

(Please avoid more than three names)

Abstract          

The abstract of 150- 200 words should briefly summarize the aim, findings, or purpose of the article. Please minimize the use of abbreviations and avoid citing references in the abstract.

Keywords:

Mention four or five keywords representing the main content of the article.

Introduction

An introduction should explain the background of the study, its aims, a summary of the existing literature, and why this study was necessary.

Literature Review

A literature review is a survey of scholarly sources on a specific topic. It provides an overview of current knowledge, allowing you to identify relevant theories, methods, and gaps in the existing research. A literature review involves collecting, evaluating, and analyzing publications such as books and journal articles that relate to your research question, and depending on the situation, the literature review may evaluate the sources and advise the reader on the most pertinent.

Discussion

For research articles, this section should discuss the implications of the findings in the context of existing research and highlight the limitations of the study. For methodology manuscripts, this section should include a discussion of any practical or operational issues involved in performing the study and any issues not covered in other sections.

For reviews, this should contain the body of the article, and may also be broken into subsections with short, informative headings.

For case studies, this should describe the pros and cons of the intervention, with a realistic evaluation of its feasibility and effectiveness.

Conclusion / Results

This should state clearly the main conclusions and explain their relevance or importance to the field.

If the paper is based on the case studies then the conclusion should state what was learned, what the next steps should be, and, if possible, what contingency planning may be required for those steps. 

Recommendations / Suggestions

The recommendations that you introduce in your research paper are essential to the plans you have to move your field of study forward. Recommendations are the added suggestions that you want people to follow when performing future studies. These are based on what you have found or what you might be interested in doing in the future.
If the paper is based on the case studies then the conclusion should state what was learned, what the next steps should be, and, if possible, what contingency planning may be required for those steps. It contains helpful tips for all research stakeholders that are relevant to the topic and can help them improve it.

PREPARE SUPPORTING INFORMATION

Please make sure you have the following information available before you submit your manuscript.

Author Information
Full names, affiliations, institutional and email addresses, and phone numbers of all authors.

Peer Reviewers
you may suggest potential peer reviewers for IJPS. If you wish to do so, please provide their institutional email addresses and contact numbers, or any information which will help the Editor to verify their identity.

MUST READ BEFORE PAPER SUBMISSION

Submitting your paper to ‘IJPS’ means the author(s) agree that:
• Authors permit SSSARA to publish the article and identify itself as the original publisher.
• Authors also grant any third party the right to use the article freely as long as its integrity is maintained and its original authors, citation details, and publisher are identified.
• All authors have approved the manuscript for submission.
• Confirmation that the manuscript is unpublished and is not submitted elsewhere for publication.
• Submitting your article means you accept the terms and conditions of the journal, ‘International Journal of Policy Studies.

Article Processing Charges

IJPStudies allows the research community and the general public to gain unlimited, free and immediate access to scholarly articles, and to reuse the content freely provided that proper attribution is given to the original authors. Therefore, to cover the cost of publishing and free access to readers, authors have to pay the following fee

Fee for National Contributors: 25000/- 
Fee for International Contributors:  100$