Submissions

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Author Guidelines

Before you submit, please check that your manuscript meets the requirements below. The complete guidelines, including structure, notation, and reference style, are on the Author Guidelines page.

  • The manuscript is original, is written in English, and is prepared using the IJoMS template.
  • Research articles follow the IMRaD structure, with an abstract of 150 to 250 words and three to six keywords.
  • Equations are typed with an equation editor or LaTeX, not supplied as images.
  • Citations and the reference list follow APA 7th edition, with a DOI for every reference that has one.
  • The similarity index is below 25%, checked with Turnitin.
  • Author details are complete: full names, affiliations, and the corresponding author's email and ORCID iD.
  • There is no submission fee. A publication fee applies only after acceptance; see Publication Fees.

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • 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 Microsoft Word format and follows the IJoMS manuscript template.
  • The manuscript is written in English and follows the Author Guidelines.
  • The abstract is 150 to 250 words and is followed by three to six keywords.
  • Citations and references follow APA 7th edition, and a DOI is given wherever one exists.
  • The similarity index is below 25%.
  • Where available, URLs and DOIs for the references have been provided.
  • All authors have approved the manuscript and agree to its submission.

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Copyright Notice

Authors who publish in IJoMS agree to the following terms.

  1. The copyright of each article is retained by the author or authors.
  2. Authors grant the journal the right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence, which allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of its authorship and of its initial publication in this journal.
  3. Authors may enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the published version of the work, for example depositing it in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book, with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
  4. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online, for example in an institutional repository or on a personal website, before and during the submission process.

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