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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 adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

1. Format
Article files should be provided in Microsoft Word format, Cambria font, size 11 pt, 1 spacing, A4 paper size.

2. Article length
The main body of the article, excluding the structured abstract and the list of references, should not exceed 6000 words. If a paper exceeds the word limit, it will be desk-rejected without taking it through the editorial review process.

3. Article title
A concisely worded title should be provided. It should reflect the content, and use the words, terms, abbreviations, formulas, registers as commonly used in the research report.

4. Author detail
Author name. We will reproduce it exactly, so any middle names and/or initials they want featured must be included.
Author affiliation. This should be where they were based when the research for the paper was conducted.
Author email address (institutional preferred).
In multi-authored papers, it’s important that all authors that have made a significant contribution to the paper are listed. You should never include people who have not contributed to the paper or who don’t want to be associated with the research.

5. Abstract
The maximum length of your abstract should be 250 words in total. All submissions must include a structured abstract, following the format outlined below: Purpose, Research Methods, Findings, and Implication.
Keywords: (3-5 words)
JEL Classification

6. Introduction
Introduction should be about one-two page, containing the background, reasons to do the research, problem formulation, purpose of the research and without sub-heading, bullets, or numbering.

7. Literature Review and Hypotheses (if any)
It describes the previously related studies as the primary sources. The use of secondary sources of references should not dominate the total references. Quotation should be maximally one paragraph and/ or the gist of the quoted sources.

8. Research Methods
It comprises the procedures or steps of the research, e.g., from the methods of sampling to the data analysis, and presented in brief and concisely.

9. Results and Discussion
It presents the analysis of the related results, theories, and hypotheses (if any) based on the writer’s reasoning. Data analysis and discussion should be presented in brief but clear and it is not dominated by table presentation. The tables which are presented should not be the rough output but in the processed and brief summary. Tables and pictures are presented consistently in the left and the titles are above the tables or pictures.

10. Conclusion
This section presents the conclusions of the research, limitations of the research, and suggestions for further research. The Conclusion section is written in one or two paragraphs.

11. References
Reference using American Psychological Association (APA) style 7 edition is recommended using Mendeley, EndNote and other reference applications (at least 80% of the primary literature).

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