Submissions

Author Guidelines

- Cover Page Template: MS-Word

- Paper/Manuscript Template: MS-Word

Thank you for choosing to submit your paper to Journal of Impact. These instructions will ensure we have everything required so your paper can move through peer review, production and publication smoothly. Please take the time to read and follow them as closely as possible, as doing so will ensure your paper matches the journal’s requirements.

Preparing Your Paper:

Structure
Your paper should be compiled in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion; references; appendices (as appropriate); table(s), figure(s) and equation(s) appears within the main text.

Word Limits
Please include a word count for your paper. A typical paper for this journal should be between 5000-6000 words (excluding figures, tables, references, and appendices), although high-quality articles that exceed 7000 words will be considered.

Style Guidelines
Please refer to these quick style guidelines when preparing your paper, rather than any published articles or a sample copy. These general article layout guidelines will help you to format your manuscript so that it is ready for you to submit it to a Journal of Impact. If your article is accepted for publication, the manuscript will be formatted and typeset in the correct style for the journal.

Artical layout guide:
Font: Times New Roman, 10-point, single-line spaced. Use margins of at least 2.5 cm (or 1 inch).
Title: The Article Title which uses Size-16, with an initial capital letter for any proper nouns, Line Spacing, Fixed-20pt.
Paragraph: uses spacing: above Paragraph-10pt, below Paragraph-10pt.
Abstract: The abstract paragraph is unstructured, the abstract word limits typically range from 150 to 250 words.
Keywords: Please provide keywords to help readers find your article which uses low case, comma. The keywords typically range from 5 to 6.
Headings: Please indicate the level of the section headings in your article:

1. First-level headings (e.g. Introduction, Conclusion) should be in bold, with an initial capital letter for any proper nouns.
2. Second-level headings should be in bold italics, with an initial capital letter for any proper nouns.
3. Third-level headings should be in italics, with an initial capital letter for any proper nouns.
4. Fourth-level headings should be in bold italics, at the beginning of a paragraph. The text follows immediately after a full stop (full point) or other punctuation mark.
5. Fifth-level headings should be in italics, at the beginning of a paragraph. The text follows immediately after a full stop (full point) or other punctuation mark.

Figures and Tables:
Figures and tables should placed within the text at the appropriate points. You can find details of the journal Editor’s preference in the Instructions for Authors or in the guidance on the submission system. Ensure you have permission to use any tables or figures you are reproducing from another source.

Running heads and received dates are not required when submitting a manuscript for review; they will be added during the production process.

Spelling and punctuation
Each journal will have a preference for spelling and punctuation, which is detailed in the Instructions for Authors. Please ensure whichever spelling and punctuation style you use, you apply consistently.

Format-free submission
An increasing number of Journal of Impact allow format-free submission, which means that, as long as your article is consistent and includes everything necessary for review, you can submit work without needing to worry about formatting your manuscript to meet that journal’s requirements. The ‘Instructions for authors’ for your chosen journal will tell you whether it operates format-free submission.
Please use British (-ise) spelling style consistently throughout your manuscript.
Please use single quotation marks, except where ‘a quotation is “within” a quotation’. Please note that long quotations should be indented without quotation marks.

Formatting and Templates

Manuscript may be submitted in Word or pdf formats. To assist you in preparing your manuscript, we provide formatting template(s). Word templates are available for this journal. Please save this cover page template (which include paper title and full author/s name with affiliation only) as well as the manuscript template (which include the manuscript without full author/s name with affiliation) to your hard drive, ready for use.

Reference formatting
The reference style used by the journal is APA style. Where applicable, author(s) name(s), journal title/ book title, chapter title/article title, year of publication, volume number/book chapter and the article number or pagination must be present. Use of DOI is highly encouraged. Note that missing data will be highlighted at proof stage for the author to correct. The format of the references should arranged according to the following examples:

APA (American Psychological Association)

Text:
Citations in the text should follow the referencing style used by the American Psychological Association (APA). You are referred to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Sixth Edition, ISBN 978-1-4338-0561-5, copies of which may be ordered from http://books.apa.org/books.cfm?id=4200067 or APA Order Dept., P.O.B. 2710, Hyattsville, MD 20784, USA or APA, 3 Henrietta Street, London, WC3E 8LU, UK. 

List:
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., placed after the year of publication.

Reference Examples:

Reference to a journal publication:
Van der Geer, J., Hanraads, J. A. J., & Lupton, R. A. (2010). The art of writing a scientific article. Journal of Scientific Communications, 163, 51–59.

Reference to a book:
Strunk, W., Jr., & White, E. B. (2000). The elements of style. (4th ed.). New York: Longman, (Chapter 4).

Reference to a chapter in an edited book:
Mettam, G. R., & Adams, L. B. (2009). How to prepare an electronic version of your article. In B. S. Jones, & R. Z. Smith (Eds.), Introduction to the electronic age (pp. 281–304). New York: E-Publishing Inc.

[dataset] Oguro, M., Imahiro, S., Saito, S., Nakashizuka, T. (2015). Mortality data for Japanese oak wilt disease and surrounding forest compositions. Mendeley Data, v1. http://dx.doi.org/10.17632/xwj98nb39r.1.

Checklist: What to Include:

1. Author details. All authors of a manuscript should include their full name and affiliation on the cover page file only (i.e., separated from the manuscript file), because of the double-blind review, the authors’ information should not be included in manuscript file. One author will need to be identified as the corresponding author, with their email address normally displayed in the article PDF and the online article. Authors’ affiliations are the affiliations where the research was conducted. If any of the named co-authors moves affiliation during the peer-review process, the new affiliation can be given as a footnote. Please note that no changes to affiliation can be made after your paper is accepted. 

2. Should contain an unstructured abstract between 150-250 words.
3. NB: Abstract: You should also include a short (max. 100 words) statement in your abstract that indicates the practical contribution your article might have on policymaking in general or on supporting progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goal 17 (Revitalizing the global partnership for sustainable development).
4. Between 5 and 6 keywords, including information on choosing a title and search engine optimization.
5. Funding details. Please supply all details required by your funding and grant-awarding bodies as follows:
   For single agency grants
   This work was supported by the [Funding Agency] under Grant [number xxxx].
   For multiple agency grants
   This work was supported by the [Funding Agency #1] under Grant [number xxxx]; [Funding Agency #2] under Grant [number xxxx]; and [Funding Agency #3] under Grant [number xxxx].
6. Disclosure statement. This is to acknowledge any financial interest or benefit that has arisen from the direct applications of your research.
7. Biographical note. Please supply a short biographical note for each author. This could be adapted from your departmental website or academic networking profile and should be relatively brief (e.g. no more than 200 words).
8. Data availability statement. If there is a data set associated with the paper, please provide information about where the data supporting the results or analyses presented in the paper can be found. Where applicable, this should include the hyperlink, DOI or other persistent identifier associated with the data set(s).
9. Data deposition. If you choose to share or make the data underlying the study open, please deposit your data in a recognized data repository prior to or at the time of submission. You will be asked to provide the DOI, pre-reserved DOI, or other persistent identifier for the data set.
10. Supplemental online material. Supplemental material can be a video, dataset, fileset, sound file or anything which supports (and is pertinent to) your paper.
11. Figures should be high quality (1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for colour, at the correct size). Figures should be supplied in one of our preferred file formats: EPS, PS, JPEG, TIFF, or Microsoft Word (DOC or DOCX) files are acceptable for figures that have been drawn in Word.
12. Tables should present new information rather than duplicating what is in the text. Readers should be able to interpret the table without reference to the text. Please supply editable files.
13. If you are submitting your manuscript as a Word document, please ensure that equations are editable.
14. Please use SI units (non-italicized).

Using Third-Party Material in your Paper
You must obtain the necessary permission to reuse third-party material in your article. The use of short extracts of text and some other types of material is usually permitted, on a limited basis, for the purposes of criticism and review without securing formal permission. If you wish to include any material in your paper for which you do not hold copyright, and which is not covered by this informal agreement, you will need to obtain written permission from the copyright owner prior to submission.

Submitting Your Paper
If you are submitting in LaTeX, please convert the files to PDF beforehand (you will also need to upload your LaTeX source files with the PDF). Please note that Journal of Impact uses Turnitin to screen papers for unoriginal material. By submitting your paper to Journal of Impact you are agreeing to originality checks during the peer-review and production processes. On acceptance, we recommend that you keep a copy of your Accepted Manuscript.

Publication Charges
There are no submission fees, publication fees or page charges for this journal. Color figures will be reproduced in color in your online article free of charge. If it is necessary for the figures to be reproduced in color in the print version, a charge will apply.

Open Access
Please contact support@impactresearch.center if you would like to find out more.

My Authored Works
On publication, you will be able to view, download and check your article’s metrics (downloads, citations and Altimetry data) via journal online system. This is where you can access every article you have published with us. We are committed to promoting and increasing the visibility of your article.

Article Reprints
You will be sent a link to order article reprints via your account in our production system. For enquiries about reprints, please contact the Journal of Impact Author Services team at support@impactresearch.center. You can also order print copies of the journal issue in which your article appears.

Copyright Options
Copyright allows you to protect your original material, and stop others from using your work without your permission. Journal of Impact offers a number of different license and reuse options, including Creative Commons licenses when publishing open access. 

Queries
Should you have any queries, please visit our journal website or contact us here.

Updated 15-09-2020.