Guidelines for Submission of Manuscripts

General Instructions

The Journal publishes research papers belonging to the disciplines of Arts, commerce, Management, Sciences (including Computer Science and Applications) and Social Sciences, as a priority. Manuscripts having original research only are encouraged for publication in the journal. Researches in social sciences and management should be covering field data, surveys and personal interviews of the respondents. The Research paper submitted for consideration should not have more than three Authors. The papers will be subjected to blind review by a minimum of two referees.

Title Page

A title page is to be provided and should include the title of the article, author’s name (no degrees), author’s affiliation. The affiliation should comprise the department, institution (usually University, College and Research Organization), City, State and Nation and should be typed as footnote to the Author’s Name, referred by superscript lower-case letters. For office purposes, the title page should include the complete mailing address, telephone number and E-mail address of the one author for communication. The next page of the paper should have only the topic of the study.

Abstract

Abstract should be limited to 200 words, which convey the main points of the paper, methods, sample, findings and conclusions.

Style of Manuscript

The manuscript should be in the order given below and should not exceed 3000 words in Times New Roman 12 font sized with 1.5 spacing.

• Introduction
• Review of related Literature
• Objectives
• Hypotheses
• Methodology
• Statistical Analysis
• Analysis and Interpretation of data
• Discussion and Results

Tables / Charts / Exhibits

Tables should be kept to the minimum and be designed to be as simple as possible in MS word format only. Tables are to be typed single spaced throughout, including heading and footnotes. Each table should be numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals and supplied with heading and a legend. Tables should be self-explanatory without reference to the text. Charts and Exhibits must be legible and fit to size of A4.

Copyright

The copyright of the published papers rests with the Journal. The Author(s) is required to transfer the copyright to the publisher in the attached format.

References

References should be listed at the end of the paper in alphabetical order as APA format. Authors are fully responsible for the accuracy of the references.