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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

All journals must be submitted via our online submission system.

Please prepare your manuscripts in the English language. Either British and American English are accepted but be consistent in spelling and usage throughout the article and avoid mixing both. Before submitting the papers, authors are strongly encouraged to conduct language editing by native-level readers.   

Provide the following data on the title page.

  • Title. Concise and informative. Titles are often used in information-retrieval systems. Avoid abbreviations and formulas where possible.
  • Author names and affiliations. Present the authors’ affiliation addresses (where the actual work was done) below the names. Indicate all affiliations with a lower-case superscript letter immediately after the author’s name.
  • Corresponding author. Clearly indicate who is willing to handle correspondence at all stages of refereeing and publication, also post-publication.
  • Abstract. A concise and factual abstract is required (maximum length of 200 words). The abstract should state briefly the purpose of the research, the principal results and major conclusions. 
  • Keywords. Immediately after the abstract, provide a maximum of 5 keywords

 Article Structure

  • Subdivisions. Divide your article into clearly defined and numbered sections. Subsections should be numbered 1., 2., (then 1.1, 1.1.1, 1.1.2), 1.2, etc. (the abstract is not included in section numbering).
  • Figures. High-resolution graphics files must also be provided separately from the main text file. Ensure that each illustration has a caption. Supply captions separately, not attached to the figure. Keep text in the illustrations themselves to a minimum but explain all symbols and abbreviations used.  
  • Tables. Number tables consecutively in accordance with their appearance in the text all tables must be in size 10 of Times New Roman font.
  • Acknowledgement. Place acknowledgements, including information on grants received, before the references, in a separate section. 
  • References should be arranged first alphabetically and then further sorted chronologically if necessary. More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year must be identified by the letters “a”, “b”, “c”, etc. reference style is APA format of 7th Edition.

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Copyright Notice

In accordance with academic and professional protocols, GMJSD cannot accept an article if it is not the author’s original work, has been published before or is currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. The article must not contain any libellous or unlawful statements or in any way infringe the rights of others. The author must be the owner of the copyright and be entitled to sign the Author Copyright Agreement, if applicable. In submitting an article, the author complies with these conditions.

Copyright assignment does not apply to articles designated by authors as Open Access. Authors of Open Access articles are not required to sign the Author Copyright Agreement.

All our journals allow the author of an Open Access (OA) article to retain the copyright in their article. Authors of OA articles retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the article simultaneously made available on repositories under a Creative Commons licence to allow others to freely access and use the OA article without any period of embargo.

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