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 manuscripts are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

• Manuscript format and guidelines here.

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What to submit

 

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

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• 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.

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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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