Author Guidelines

Preparing your manuscript

Writing a paper requires a lot of hard work and a great deal of time. Our guidelines aim to make authors' submissions as easy as possible. In fact, we only ask authors to submit their papers in Microsoft Word (template) format (please do not submit PDF files) and not to include personal information identifying the authors. We do suggest though that authors use Times New Roman, 12pt font with single or 1 ½ paragraph spaces. Headings (up to 3 levels) should be clearly marked and numbered. Also, if there are tables and diagrams included, these should be placed within the body of the paper near the text that refers to them. These suggestions will allow for easier reading of the papers by the editors and the reviewers.

Please also note that we are likely to reject:

• papers that are less than 4000 words,
• presented in bullet points,
• with missing sections (i.e. hypothesis development, discussion),
• without explicitly explained methodological steps (if quantitative study SEM study, authors should provide reliability/validity coefficients, CFA and SEM model fit indices)
• without any theoretical contribution and the application to a wider research
• without the analysis of findings and future research suggestions if review paper

 

If a paper is accepted, the authors will be expected to submit their final manuscript to the editor in Microsoft Word. If there are additional requirements (e.g. the editor may ask authors to submit separately high quality version of any diagrams used) these will be arranged between the editor and the corresponding author.

Citation Style: Citations should follow the American Psychological Association (APA) 5th edition style. For more information please visit: http://www.apastyle.org.