Submissions

Author Guidelines

Author Guidelines

• The journal publishes scholarly research papers in Arabic or English that follow the research methodology and steps recognised internationally and that have not been published before.
• The manuscript is submitted typed on A4-size pages, in a single copy of approximately 5,000 to 8,000 words. Authors must observe the following:

• The file must be prepared in Microsoft Office Word.
• Font: Traditional Arabic for papers in Arabic, and Times New Roman for papers in English.
• Font size: 14 for the main text, 12 for footnotes, and 16 for main headings.
• Line and paragraph spacing: 1.0.

• An abstract must be provided in Arabic and another in English, each on a separate page of about 200 words, and each including the title of the paper.
• The first page of the paper must contain the author's name and address and affiliation, in both Arabic and English, together with the author's e-mail address.
• For the purposes of double-blind peer review, the first page containing the author details listed above must be submitted as a separate file from the manuscript. The manuscript file sent for review must contain no information that identifies the author, such as names, institutional affiliations or acknowledgements, and no explicit self-references in the text, footnotes or reference list, and author details must be removed from the file properties.
• Keywords must be provided in both Arabic and English, and there must be no fewer than five.
• The journal follows the American Psychological Association (APA) style for sources and references.
• All sources are indicated by footnote numbers, with the notes placed at the end of the paper, and accepted scholarly conventions of documentation and citation must be observed.
• Any scholarly or non-scholarly body that funded the research or assisted in preparing it must be acknowledged.
• The journal has the right to translate the papers published in its issues into other languages without referring to the author.
• Authors must comply with the journal's Policy on the Use of Artificial Intelligence Tools. AI tools may not be listed as authors. Any use of such tools must be disclosed in a note placed before the reference list, stating the name and version of the tool and the purpose for which it was used. Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy of the content and the references.
• By submitting a paper, the author agrees to its publication under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) in accordance with the journal's Open Access Policy, and retains copyright in the work. Authors must obtain permission to publish any copyrighted material included in the paper, such as images and tables.
• Papers undergo confidential evaluation to determine their suitability for publication. Papers are not returned to their authors, whether accepted or not, and the procedure is as follows:

1. Authors are notified that their submitted paper has been received within two weeks at most from the date of receipt.
2. Authors of accepted papers are notified of the editorial board's approval to publish and of the expected publication date.
3. Papers that the reviewers consider to require amendments or additions before publication are returned to their authors with specific comments, so that they can prepare them in final form for publication.
4. Authors of rejected papers are notified without any obligation to state the reasons for rejection.

• The journal is not obliged to publish papers that fail to meet any of these conditions.