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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

Instructions for authors

International Journal of Educational Studies in Social Sciences is a bimonthly (February, April, June, August, October, and December) international, peer-reviewed journal that publishes high quality peer-reviewed articles accross the breadth of educational research in social sciences. Please note that this journal only publishes manuscripts (research articles and literature reviews) in English. 

Preparing your manuscript

  • Your manuscript should be written in accordance with the following elements in the following order: title, abstract, keywords, introduction, literature review, methods, results, discussion, conclusion, acknowledgements, funding statement, references, appendices (as appropriate).
  • It should be between 3000 - 7000 words, including table/figure captions, and references.
  • It should contain an abstract of 250 words (between 3 – 6 keywords).

Formatting your manuscript

  • Title use Calibri, 14 pts. (Use bold for title with an initial capital letter for proper nouns)
  • Author(s) use Calibri, 10 pts.
  • Affiliation(s) use Calibri, 9 pts.
  • Abstract use Calibri, 9 pts.
  • Manuscript body use Lucida Bright, 9 pts.
  • References use Lucida Bright, 8 pts.
  • Spacing use 1.15 line spacing (except Abstract and References, 1 line spacing)
  • Margins use Top 1.31 cm, Bottom 0.51 cm, Left 1.48 cm, Right 1.48 cm

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