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Authors submitting work must take care to ensure that the main text of the submission does not contain any of their names or their affiliations.

Before the main text, the submitted work must contain a title page. It must contain the following information:

• Title of Submitted Work in brief and without abbreviations or acronyms
• Names and Affiliation of Author or Authors
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• Name and complete contact information of one corresponding author who will act as the focal point of communication with the Journal.
• Names and details of any entity that has supported or sponsored the research presented in the work.

The Title Page should be followed by an abstract that contains a succinct summary of the objectives of the research presented in the submitted work, the methodology used, the results obtained, and the conclusions reached by the author or the authors. Authors are advised not to use any references in the abstract. In the event you do, the reference must be cited in full and must then not appear in the list of references at the end of the work. It is important for authors to note that the abstract must not exceed 200-300 words.

Following the abstract are a set of keywords to be submitted by the authors. Authors are advised to submit no more than eight keywords and not include plurals or complex or multiple concepts in the keywords.

Authors must make clear divisions in their articles in terms of subsections to enable easy reading.

In case your work contains any tables, figures or graphs, you are advised that they be presented within the body of the main text. Please do not submit them separately.

The main text, including figures, tables or graphs, must be formatted according to the APA style.

A list of references used by the authors must be provided following the main text of the submitted work.

Authors are advised to adhere exactly to the APA style of citations for their references. The complete details of this style of formatting can be found here.

It is important that authors ensure that all references cited in the main text of their submitted work be reflected in the list of references. All references appearing in the list of references at the end, must also appear in the body of the main text. In case you wish to use any unpublished material or personal communications, they must not be cited in the list of references. If any of the aforementioned unpublished material are about to be published, they can be cited as ‘in press’. 1

When ordering your list of references, please order then first alphabetically and then chronologically.

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