Information For Librarians
General Guidelines to Write Manuscript
The general organization of the manuscript should be presented as IMRaD
Introduction
Methods
Results
Discussion
Front Matter of the Paper
At this stage, the basic organization of the manuscript should look like this:
Title Page
The title page should include:
1. A concise and informative title
2. The name(s) of the author(s)
3. The affiliation(s) and address(es) of the author(s)
4. The e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers of the corresponding author
Abstract
This section highlights the main points of the article, outlines the results and conclusions and elucidates the significance of the results (Note that no references should be cited in the abstract). Please provide an abstract of 150 to 250 words. The abstract should not contain any undefined abbreviations or unspecified references. Avoid the use of equation or other mathematical statements in the abstract if possible.
Mathematics Subject Classification (MSC2020) number
Keywords
There should be minimum of three and maximum of five keywords.
Author for Correspondence
The name of the Corresponding Author should contains E-mail addresses and Telephone Number (Both e-mail and Telephone Number are mandatory).
The Body
1. Introduction
Inclusion of specific review of theories in the Introduction section to present theoretical evidences as the basic theories or empirical evidences that review the previous studies is allowed. This section has to elaborate on the background to the study/research, and its aims. It should conclude with a brief note on what has been achieved
2. Methods
In the materials and methods section, the past is more natural because you are describing work that is already complete at the time of writing. Thus, it is simply a description of your actions.
3. Results
This section must present sufficient experimental data to enable the experiments to be repeated or enough examples. It must be presented in a way that the readers can follow. Authors must notify the main findings of the research, providing a clear explanation of their significance and relevance.
4. Discussion
5. Conclusion
This section should contain a short conclusion text. This is where the paper should make clear, its contribution to development.
6. Acknowledgement(s)
This section should contain a precise and short acknowledgement text. Acknowledgments of people, grants, funds, etc. The names of funding organizations should be written in full.
References
1. This section contains abbreviated alphanumeric expressions embedded in the body of an intellectual work that denote an entry in the bibliographic references section of the work. The purpose of these is to acknowledge the relevance of the works of others to the topic of discussion at the spot where the citation appears. Authors must make sure that some of the references are current, published within the last five years adhering to 10-15% of the total references.
Appendices (if any)
Text Formatting
1. Authors are required to use the style template format accordingly before submission.
2. Authors are required to conform to the References Guidelines (APA 2020 style) if they want their manuscript to be considered for publication.
3. All manuscripts should be typed in Microsoft Word (.docx) and single-spaced.
2. Margins are to be set at (2 cm at all sides) and paper size at A4 (21 x 29.7cm).
3. Use a normal, plain font (e.g., 10-point Times Roman) for text.
4. Use italics for emphasis.
5. Use the automatic page numbering function to number the pages.
6. Do not use field functions.
7. Use tab stops or other commands for indents, not the space bar.
8. Use the table function, not spreadsheets, to make tables.
9. Use the equation editor or MathType for equations.
10. Save your file in docx format (Word 2007 or higher) and then its pdf.
Headings
Please use the decimal system of headings with no more than three levels.
Abbreviations
Abbreviations should be defined at first mention and used consistently thereafter.
Footnotes
No page footnote
Scientific Style
Please, always use internationally accepted signs and symbols for units (SI units). Use the standard mathematical notation for formulae, symbols, numerals, operators, and punctuation, and commonly defined functions or abbreviations, e.g., cos, det, e or exp, lim, log, max, min, sin, tan, d (for derivative). Bold for vectors, tensors, and matrices.
Tables
1. All tables are to be numbered using Arabic numerals.
2. Tables should always be cited in text at their appropriate description in consecutive numerical order e.g. Tables 1 and 2.
3. For each table, please supply a table heading (title) explaining the components of the
table.
4. Table heading should begin with the term Table in bold type, followed by the table number, also in bold type.
5. No punctuation is to be included after the number, nor is any punctuation to be placed
at the end of the heading.
6. Identify any previously published material by giving the original source in the form of a reference at the end of the table heading.
7. Footnotes to tables should be indicated by superscript lower-case letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data) and included beneath the table body and not as a page footnote.
Figures
1. There should be no spelling errors\typo in the artwork in the Figures.
2. All Figures are to be numbered using Arabic numerals.
3. Figures should always be cited in the text at their appropriate description, e.g., Figure 1.
4. Figure parts should be denoted by lowercase letters (a, b, c, etc.) e.g., Figure 4a.
5. If an appendix appears in your article and it contains one or more figures, continue the
consecutive numbering of the main text. Do not number the appendix figures separately or as, "A1, A2, A3, etc."
8. Each figure should have a concise caption describing accurately what the figure depicts.
9. Identify any previously published material by giving the original source in the form of a reference at the end of the figure caption.
10. Include the captions in the text file of the manuscript, not in the figure file.
11. Figure captions should begin with the term Figure in bold type, followed by the figure number, also in bold type.
12. No punctuation is to be included after the number, nor is any punctuation to be placed
at the end of the caption.
13. Identify previously published material by giving the original source in the form of a
reference citation at the end of the figure caption.
14. Figures should not be more than 174 mm wide and not higher than 198 mm.
15. If you include figures that have already been published elsewhere, you must obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) for both the print and online format. Please be aware that some publishers do not grant electronic rights for free and that IJDM will not be able to refund any costs that may have occurred to receive these permissions. In such cases, material from other sources should be used.
Electronic Figure Submission
1. Supply all figures electronically.
2. Indicate what graphics program used to create the artwork.
3. For vector graphics, the preferred format is EPS; for halftones, please use TIFF format.
4. MS Office files are also acceptable.
5. Vector graphics containing fonts must have the fonts embedded in the files.
6. Name your figure files with "Fig" and the figure number, e.g., Fig1.eps.
Line Art
1. Definition: Black and white graphic with no shading.
2. Do not use faint lines and/or lettering and check that all lines and lettering within the
figures are legible at final size.
3. All lines should be at least 0.1 mm (0.3 pt) wide.
4. Scanned line drawings and line drawings in bitmap format should have a minimum
resolution of 1200 dpi.
5. Vector graphics containing fonts must have the fonts embedded in the files.
Halftone Art
1. Definition: Photographs, drawings, or paintings with fine shading, etc.
2. If any magnification is used in the photographs, indicate this by using scale bars within the figures themselves.
3. Halftones should have a minimum resolution of 300 dpi.
AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION, SEVENTH EDITION (APA-7)
This reference guide style adopted by IJDM details methods for citing and formatting reference entries in accordance with principles established by the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Seventh Edition (2020). For more information about APA style, visit https://apastyle.apa.org/ and https://apastyle.apa.org/blog
If you have access to the software, a corresponding EndNote output style can be downloaded from
http://endnote.com/downloads/style/tf-standard-apa by searching for the style named TF-Standard APA.
Always use the standard abbreviation of a journal’s name according to the ISSN List of Title Word Abbreviations, see ISSN.org LTWA
You may also use the standard abbreviation of a journal’s name according to the ISI Journal Title Abbreviations
If you are unsure, please use the full journal title.
