Author Guidelines for Manuscript

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• The manuscript must be sent in MS Word. Please do not send PDF.

• All articles must be submitted in English.

• The manuscript must be proofread before submission.

• The manuscript should not exceed 10 pages (approximately 6000 words).

• Abstract should have maximum 200 words.

• Figures and tables should be placed in the right place within the article, according to content.

• When figures and tables are taken from another source, the reference mus be placed under the caption (for example: Source: (Smith, 2018)).

• When figures and tables present the results obtained by the author(s), the source must indicate "Author(s)" (for example: Source: Author(s))

• For references (bibliography), APA style sixth edition must be used (see APA style basics here).

• Minimum number of references: 10.

• Format: 1.5 spacing , Times New Roman 11, A4 with 2.5 cm edges. Footnotes: Times New Roman 10. Headings: Times New Roman 11 Bold. Figures and Tables captions: Times New Roman 10 Bold.

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What to submit

 

Authors should submit for every manuscript (article) the following three files:

• One full copy of the paper (in Microsoft Word) .

• One separate page (in Microsoft Word) with the following information: Title, Author(s) and their affiliation, Abstract.

• One separate page (in Microsoft Word) with all figures, graphs, charts, diagrams, tables, including their respective captions and titles (to assist with layout editing).

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Quality Expectations

 

All manuscripts submitted to Research Focus are expected to:

• Refer to previous relevant published works;

• Be of a high professional standard;

• Be proof-read and publication ready*;

• Have the article structure of the relevant submission type; and

• Comply with the format guidelines.

 

​*It is expected that manuscripts have been proof-read and are publication ready. No typos, misspelling, grammatical errors. For this type of checking we recommend Grammarly. It is also expected that the manuscript is original (see Plagiarism).

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Submissions that do not meet these initial requirements will be returned to authors for correction before being sent for review.

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Plagiarism

All submitted papers, regardless of the type of article, will be checked for plagiarism using the PlagiarismDetector software. Read more.

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