Author Guidelines

GUIDELINES AND PUBLICATION PROCESS FOR AUTHORS

SAJSSH PEER REVIEW PROCESS

All the papers submitted to SAJSSH journal are fully peer-reviewed by the reviewers and editors assigned by the journal management. Editorial boards are comprised of highly qualified teachers and scholars selected based on their experience and expertise in a particular subject area.

Authors must submit their papers to SAJSSH journal via online portal https://acspublisher.com/journals/index.php/sajssh/about/submissions. Papers are then directed to Editors according to subject area.

Editors make a preliminary assessment of whether the paper is suitable for the journal. This assessment takes into account the quality of the manuscript and the relevance of the subject matter. If the manuscript does not fulfil these criteria, it is rejected immediately. If it does, the Editor will send the paper out for review to a minimum of two Reviewers. 

Reviewers review the manuscript in the specified time period and based on these reviews, the Editor decides whether to:

(a) Accept the manuscript without further revisions

(b) Request further minor or major revisions

(c) Reject the paper

If further revisions are requested, the authors are asked to complete these before resubmitting their manuscript to the Editor. If necessary, the revised manuscript is sent once again for review by the Reviewers. The Editor then makes a final decision whether to accept or reject the manuscript.

SAJSSH adheres to a ‘double-blind’ peer review; author names are revealed to the reviewers however, reviewer identities remain anonymous. 

MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION

Authors are cordially invited to submit manuscripts to the editorial office through online portal to: https://acspublisher.com/journals/index.php/sajssh/about/submissions

Acknowledgement will be sent immediately upon receiving of a manuscript.
All manuscripts submitted to the South Asian Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities are subject to double-blind peer review. The manuscripts are evaluated by external reviewers and refereed within one month (average time for review; might varying from 2 weeks to 4 weeks).

It is mandatory for all the authors to fill, sign and submit the SAJSSH’s Copyright Form along with the manuscript. You can download this form from the Author Guidelines section.
Download CR form

BEFORE YOU BEGIN

Authors should observe the following codes of conduct when they intend to submit/publish a paper.

  1. Conflict of Interest: Contributors should reveal any actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial, personal or other relationships with other people or organizations within three years of beginning the submitted work that could inappropriately influence, or be perceived to influence, their work.
  2. Authors are required to provide a complete list of references cited in their paper.
  3. The journal cannot bear plagiarism and fraudulent data in any paper. It has a strict policy against plagiarism, which is checked through two methods: reviewer check and plagiarism prevention tool (Turnitin) and it should be less than 15%. All submissions will be checked before being sent to reviewers.
  4. All papers are reviewed by a minimum of two reviewers.
  5. It is assumed that all authors have significantly contributed to the submitted paper, if there is a co-author(s) in the submitted manuscript.
  6. In case of presence of any fraudulent information in an article, its authors will be responsible for providing retractions or corrections of mistakes.
  7. It is strictly prohibited to publish the same research in more than one journal.
  8. Changes to Authorship: This policy concerns the addition, deletion, or rearrangement of author names in the authorship of accepted manuscripts. Before the accepted manuscript is published in an online issue, requests to add or remove an author, or to rearrange the author names, must be sent to the Journal from the corresponding author of the accepted manuscript and must include: (a) the reason the name should be added or removed, or the author names rearranged and (b) written confirmation (e-mail) from all authors that they agree with the addition, removal or rearrangement. In the case of addition or removal of authors, this includes confirmation from the author being added or removed. Requests that are not sent by the corresponding author will be forwarded by the Journal to the corresponding author, who must follow the procedure as described above. Any requests to add, delete, or rearrange author names in a published article will not be taken into account.

Authors should note that:

  1. A paper which is going to be submitted to this journal should be according to the journal’s Paper Submission Guideline as explained below.
  2. The submission must not have been previously published, nor should it be under consideration for publication elsewhere. We also have a strict policy against plagiarism. Plagiarism is checked through two methods: reviewer check and plagiarism prevention tool (Turnitin). All submissions will be checked by online software before being sent to reviewers. Only papers having less than 15% of plagiarism will be considered for further process.
  3. It is mandatory for all the authors to fill, sign and submit the SAJSSH’s Copyright Form along with the manuscript. You can download this form from the Author Guidelines section.
    Download CR form

 

  1. General Requirements

1.1 Language

Please write your text in proper English. American or British usage is accepted, but not a mixture of both. We only accept manuscripts written in English.

1.2 Length of Paper

There is no word/page limit in a manuscript.

  1. Word Processing Formats

The manuscript file should be provided in Microsoft Word format only.

  1. Organization of Manuscript

The manuscript should follow the following order in Justified, 1.5 spacing, A4 paper layout:

  1. Title (Bold, Center aligned, Times New Roman, 16pt)
  2. List of authors, their affiliations and email addresses (Bold, Center aligned, Times New Roman, Italic, 12pts)
  3. Abstract (Justified alignment, Times New Roman, 12pts, 1.0 spacing)
  4. Keywords (Minimum 5 keywords with Justified alignment, Times New Roman, 12pts, 1.0 spacing)
  5. Title of Figures and Tables (Justified alignment, Times New Roman, Italics, 12pts)
  6. Introduction (Justified alignment, Times New Roman, 12pts)
  7. Literature review (Justified alignment, Times New Roman, 12pts)
  8. Methodology (Justified alignment, Times New Roman, 12pts)
  9. Results & Discussion (Justified alignment, Times New Roman, 12pts)
  10. Limitations of the study (Justified alignment, Times New Roman, 12pts)
  11. Conclusion (Justified alignment, Times New Roman, 12pts)
  12. References (Justified alignment, Times New Roman, 12pts) APA 7th style

 

3.1 Title

The title should be a concise and informative description of the work that accurately reflect the main scope and content of the paper. It should be no more than 12 words in length and must not contain abbreviations.

3.2 List of Authors, Affiliations, Orcid IDs and Email Addresses

Please indicate the full names and affiliations of all the authors clearly. Affiliations should include department, university, country, orcid id (if available), and the e-mail address. One of the authors should be designated as the corresponding author, and their email address needs to be included.

3.3 Keywords

The author should provide appropriate and short keywords Immediately after the abstract. The maximum number of the keywords is 5-8. Listing your keywords will help researchers find your work in databases.

3.4 Abstract

It should be strictly written within 200-250 words under the following subheadings. So that article can be easily followed by readers. If abstract quality not satisfactory, it will be returned for revision at the first stage only.

  1. Purpose of the study: In simple words tell readers about the aim of this study. No discussion, no story, only aims of this study.
  2. Methodology: Give name, brand, type of tools, methods, software, review, and survey that has been used to do this study. No discussion or explanation.
  3. Main Findings: Write only the main results in a few words. No discussion or explanation.
  4. Applications of this study: where this study can be useful, give the name of area, disciplines etc.
  5. Novelty/Originality of this study: what is new in this study that may benefit readers or how it is advancing the existing knowledge or creating new knowledge in this subject.

3.5 Table and Figures

Use good quality image and give caption below the image Fig 1: Example.

The caption for the table should be above the table. Table 1: Example.

3.6 Introduction

This section should provide the background of the study in easy words. In this section, the author should discuss the research problem in very clear words. Also, discuss the motivation of the study. Provide in-text citations in APA 7th style for all the facts that are presented here.

3.7 Literature Review

Literature review can be written as per the requirement of your study i.e. argumentative or systematic or methodological related to the work of previous researchers should be presented. For help see the link - https://libguides.usc.edu/writingguide/literaturereview

Minimum 20 good and recent works (year 2010 onwards) should be presented. This section can be merged with the introduction section as well. Here the author can discuss the research gap that this study is going or willing to cover. Provide in-text citation in APA style as follows:

  • An earlier study in which X and Y were compared revealed that … (Smith, 2017).
  • Smith (2017) shows how, in the past, research into X was mainly concerned with …
  • In 2017, research was carried out by Smith that indicated that

 

3.8 Methodology

For the quantitative study: Present the materials, methods, survey, questionnaire, etc used for the study. The author should explain whether this study is experimental, or review study, or simulation-based or survey-based. Discuss software, hardware used during the study with their brand names. Mention all research conditions, assumptions, theories followed. This section should be easy enough for any reader to repeat the study under similar conditions.

For the qualitative study: Include methodological orientation [grounded theory, discourse analysis, ethnography, phenomenology, content analysis] Sampling [number of participants, Method of approach, where the data was collected] Data collection [interview, Audiovisual, field notes] and data analysis [number of data coders, software, etc.]

3.9 Results and Discussion

Provide logical, and scientific analysis of findings of the study. Present evidence to support your analysis by citing the work of earlier researchers or existing theories. [How your results agree or disagree with previous studies, and why]. 10 to 15 good citations should be given to support arguments.

3.10 Limitations of the Study

No study covers all aspect of the research problem. The author should discuss the limitations or gaps of this study. And also, present future scope or plan of the study.

3.11 Conclusion

The author should clearly explain the important conclusions of the research highlighting its significance and relevance.

3.12 References

All references and in-text citations should be in APA 7th edition and present inside the main body of the article. Don’t put extra references which are not cited. Reference list entries should be alphabetized by the last names of the first author of each work. Please refer to https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples for more information.

 

Here are examples of APA 7th edition references for various sources:

Books:

Single Author:

Author, A. A. (Year). Title of book. Publisher.

Example: Smith, J. D. (2018). The Power of Habits. Random House.

Two Authors:

Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Year). Title of book. Publisher.

Example: Johnson, S., & Patel, R. (2020). The Innovator's Dilemma. Harvard Business Review Press.

Articles:

Journal Article (Print):

Author, A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C. (Year). Title of article. Title of Journal, Volume number(Issue number), page range.

Example: Brown, R., Adams, S., & Lewis, P. (2019). The impact of climate change. Environmental Studies, 5(3), 210-225.

Online Journal Article:

Author, A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C. (Year). Title of article. Title of Journal, Volume number(Issue number), page range. DOI or URL

Example: Miller, T., Clark, L., & Garcia, M. (2021). The role of artificial intelligence in healthcare. Journal of Medical Research, 12(4), 123-135. https://doi.org/10.1234/jmr.2021.12.4.123

Websites:

Webpage with Author:

Author, A. A. (Year, Month Day). Title of webpage. Website Name. URL

Example: Johnson, P. (2022, June 15). Understanding Climate Change. National Geographic. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/climate-change/

Webpage without Author:

Title of webpage. (Year, Month Day). Website Name. URL

Example: APA Citation Guide. (2023, October 29). APA Style. https://apastyle.apa.org/

Newspaper Articles:

Print Newspaper Article:

Author, A. A. (Year, Month Day). Title of article. Newspaper Name, page range.

Example: Robinson, L. (2021, December 5). New developments in renewable energy. The New York Times, pp. A4.

Online Newspaper Article:

Author, A. A. (Year, Month Day). Title of article. Newspaper Name. URL

Example: Garcia, E. (2022, January 20). Education reform in the digital age. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/education-reform-digital-age

Miscellaneous Sources:

YouTube Video:

Author, A. A. [Username]. (Year, Month Day). Title of video [Video]. YouTube. URL

Example: Smith, J. [SmithScience]. (2020, August 10). The Science of Climate Change [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=123456

Tweet:

Author, A. [@username]. (Year, Month Day). Tweet text [Tweet]. Twitter. URL

Example: Doe, J. [@JDoe]. (2023, September 5). Excited to announce our new research project! [Tweet]. Twitter. https://twitter.com/JDoe/status/123456789