International Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
(IJHAS)
Manuscript Submission Guidelines
Information for Authors
All submissions should be done thorough Word Processing file from which title page (including author name and affiliation and any acknowledgments or author notes) must be removed. After removing the author(s) detail go to the web site here and follow the directions. Each article usually has two part, i. Main Manuscript and ii. Title Page not for Review. The manuscript should include everything (i.e. title, abstract, key words, introduction, literature review, methods, results, findings references, tables and graphs) other then the authors, names, affiliation, addresses, acknowledgements, and any other information that may be used to identify the author(s).
Criteria for Publication
For the publication in IJHAS, a manuscript must make strong theoretical and empirical contributions to the field of engineering and technology. Authors who are interested in publishing with IJHAS should strive to produce original, interesting, valuable, insightful, and important research. The acceptance of article for publication highly depends upon the originality, value, importance, and significance. Submissions that do not have strong theoretical or empirical contribution will not be reviewed.
Each submitted manuscript would be assigned to action editor for evaluation. The action editor will decide whether to forward the manuscript to the reviewers. Typically, papers should be no longer than 40 double-spaced pages (using one-inch margins, left aligned, and Times New Roman 12-point font) including references, tables, figures, and appendixes.
Submission Requirements
Before submitting a manuscript to IJHAS, the authors must make sure and confirm that
- Their manuscript has not already been published, reviewed and submitted to any other journal during the review period at IJHAS. Articles presented and published in the proceedings of any academic conferences or workshops will be considered for publication in IJHAS.
- Their manuscript has not previously been submitted to IJHAS for review.
- The working papers or prior drafts of submitted manuscript that are posted on a website (e.g., personal, departmental, university, organizational) or a database will be taken down during the review process.
Peer Review Process and Time
International Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (IJHAS) operates a strictly anonymous peer-review process in which the reviewers’ names are withheld from the author(s) and, the authors’ name from the reviewer.
Desk Review: On receiving a manuscript, the editor conducts a preliminary screening to assess the degree to which the manuscript fits the criteria in IJHAS’s ‘Aims and Scope’. Submissions that fail to satisfy our criteria may be returned to the authors either as a desk reject or desk edit. In case of desk edit, the authors are asked to edit the manuscript and then resubmit.
Review process: For each manuscript that passes the desk review, the editor assigns an action editor (either him- or herself or an associate editor or a guest editor) and two reviewers. The manuscript’s action editor sends the manuscript to two reviewers who are specialists in their fields for review . After receiving the reviewers’ comments on the manuscript, the action editor makes publication decisions about it. However, these decisions are made in conjunction with recommendations provided by the reviewers. All submission is blind reviewed; manuscripts prepared in a way that compromises blind review may be returned for revision prior to being submitted to the reviewers.
Review Time: The journal strives to provide developmental and constructive feedback to authors within approximately five weeks. The peer-review process usually takes four weeks depending upon the manuscript size and availability of the editorial members. However, the initial quality of the manuscript can dramatically influence both the efficiency and effectiveness of review process. The better developed a manuscript and the ideas it contains, the easier it will be to review, and provide timely feedback to authors. We therefore encourage authors to ask scholarly colleagues to review their work prior to submission to the IJHAS.
The Guidelines for Reviewers can be viewed here.
The submissions made to the conferences organized by our associated organizations generally do not go through peer-review process because the submissions made to our associated conferences already go through a rigorous review process. For manuscripts already presented at our associated conferences, the action editor usually makes a decision for possible acceptance, rejection or revision.
Formatting
IJHAS uses APA style guide for in-text Citations, Tables, Figures/Images, References, and Appendixes. All submissions are required to be formatted according to the guidelines available here. The action editor may return manuscripts that do not commensurate with the formatting guidelines to the authors for revision prior to submission to the full review process.
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