Author Guidelines
General:
In accordance with academic and professional protocols, IJAHVSN cannot accept a paper if it is not the Author’s original work, has been published before, or is currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. The paper 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 Agreement. In submitting a paper, the Author complies with these conditions.
Submission:
Manuscripts should be submitted by one of the authors of the manuscript through the online
Manuscript Tracking System. Regardless of the source of the word-processing tool, only electronic Word (.doc, .docx) files can be submitted through the MTS. Only online submissions are accepted to facilitate rapid publication and minimize administrative costs. Submissions by anyone other than one of the authors will not be accepted. The submitting author takes responsibility for the paper during submission and peer review. If for some technical reason submission through the MTS is not possible, the author can contact
support@ijahvsn.net for support.
The Manuscript should be prepared in English language by using MS Word. Article can be up to 12 pages inclusive references and abstract.
Paper: A4 size format.
Margins: Leave margins of your article 1" (2.5 cm) at the top, bottom, left and right sides of each and every page.
Font Size & Style: 10pt Times new roman, and typed in single space. Number all pages sequentially at footer (right).
Title and Authorship Information:
The following information should be included
Paper title: title of the paper should be center text, in bold face, font size 20, font type times new roman.
Authorship information: name of the authors should be center text, in normal face, font size 11, font type times new roman.
Address: department, name of institution, full postal address and email address for each author.
Abstract:
The abstract should be self-contained, citation-free, single spaced and should not exceed 200 words. The abstract should tell the context, basic procedure, main findings and principal conclusions. It should emphasize new aspect of study or research. Please minimize the use of abbreviations.
The Introduction section should be written in a way that is accessible to researchers without specialist knowledge in that area and must clearly state - and, if helpful, illustrate - the background to the research and its aims. The section should end with a brief statement of what is being reported in the article. Provide background, nature of the problem and its significance. It should not include data or conclusions from the work being reported. This section should be concise, with no subheadings.
Main manuscript text:
Main manuscript test should include the main text of the article, headings can be used to describe the section contents but should be short.
Results & Discussion:
The result should be present in a logical sequence by using various tools like graph, tables, text, charts and illustrations. The data should not be repeated in table or any other tool if it is in text. Most important observation should be put first in sequence. All tables graph photos should be clean and of good resolution. When summarize result, it should also be in absolute number not only as derivative like (percentage, approximate etc). In discussion emphasize should be given to new ideas and important aspect of study. The data which you have produce in method or result should not be repeated. In experimental study you can compare and contrast the result with other empirical study.
This should state clearly the main conclusions of the research and give a clear explanation of their importance and relevance. In addition, the conclusion has to include the research future work.
Conclusion:
This should state clearly the main conclusions of the research and give a clear explanation of their importance and relevance. In addition, the conclusion has to include the research future work.
Acknowledgments:
Please acknowledge anyone who contributed towards the article by making substantial contributions to conception, design, acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data, or who was involved in drafting the manuscript or revising it critically for important intellectual content. Please also include the source(s) of funding for each author, and for the manuscript preparation and publishing.
Endnotes:
Endnotes should be designated within the text using a superscript lowercase letter and all notes (along with their corresponding letter) should be included in the Endnotes section. Please format this section in a paragraph rather than a list.
Figures:
Upon submission of an article, authors are supposed to include all figures in the doc file of the manuscript. All figures should be cited in the order they are first mentioned in the text. Figures should be supplied in either vector art formats (Illustrator, EPS, WMF, FreeHand, CorelDraw, PowerPoint, Excel, etc.) or bitmap formats (Photoshop, TIFF, GIF, JPEG, etc.). Bitmap images should be of 300 dpi resolution at least unless the resolution is intentionally set to a lower level for scientific reasons. if colour is essential to the figure please send a good quality colour image.
Figure legends should be included in the main manuscript text file rather than being a part of the figure file. For each figure, the following information should be provided at the end of the manuscript text: 1. Figure number (in sequence, using Arabic numerals - i.e. Figure 1, 2, 3 etc. 2. Short title of figure in sentence case (maximum 15 words - required). 3. Detailed legend (up to 300 words - optional).
Each figure should be closely cropped to minimize the amount of white space surrounding the illustration. Cropping figures improves accuracy when placing the figure in combination with other elements, when the accepted manuscript is prepared for publication on our site.
Please note that it is the responsibility of the author(s) to obtain permission from the copyright holder to reproduce figures or tables that have previously been published elsewhere. Permission should be indicated in the figure legend, and the original source included in the reference list.
Useful software to prepare the figures
Enhancement of digital images using image-editing software can increase clarity of figures and is acceptable practice .There are many software packages capable of converting to and from the major graphics formats. Good general tools for image conversion and enhancement include Adobe Photoshop (Mac/Windows), GraphicConverter (Mac only), PaintShop Pro (Windows only). A variety of cross-platform open-source software is also available for this purpose, including ImageMagick, GIMP, and ImageJ. Each of these packages runs on Mac,Windows and Linux.
Tables:
Each table should be numbered and cited in sequence using Arabic numerals (i.e. Table 1, 2, 3 etc.). Tables should also have a title (above the table) that summarizes the whole table; it should be no longer than 15 words. Detailed legends may then follow, but they should be concise. Tables should always be cited in text in consecutive numerical order. Tables should not be embedded as figures. Color and shading should not be use. Parts of the table can be highlighted using symbols or bold text.
References:
Authors are responsible for ensuring that the information in each reference is complete, accurate and properly formatted. Only articles and abstracts that have been published or are in press, or are available through public e-print/preprint servers, may be cited; unpublished abstracts, unpublished data and personal communications should not be included in the reference list.References should be arranged alphabetically without numbering. Authors should prepare the references according to the following guidelines.
References to other publications must be in Harvard style using author and date. References should be gathered together in alphabetical order by author.
Where there is more than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year, references should be identified by suffix letters e.g. (Pearce, 1995a).
Citing in the text
References should be cited in the text either in brackets, e.g. Earlier studies (Pearce, 1989) showed… or using the name as part of a sentence, e.g. Pearce (1989) states…
For two authors the format is: (Huberman and Miles, 1998). For three authors: (Carlsen, Getz, and Soutar, 2001). For four or more authors: (Dwyer et al., 2000).
Groups of references should be listed first alphabetically and then chronologically, e.g.(Crompton, 1979; 1999; Fakeye and Crompton, 1991; Dwyer et al., 2000).
Formats for references
Journal articles
Author. (Year). Title of article. Title of Journal, Volume number (Issue/Part number), Page numbers (do not use ‘p’ before the page number)
Peercy, M. A. and McCleary, K. W. (2010). The Impact of the Year-Round School Calendar on the Family Vacation: an Exploratory Case Study. Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research. 35,147-170.
Author (Year). Title of paper. Title of conference: subtitle. Location and date of conference. Place of publication: Publisher, Page reference for paper.
Jackson, C. and Wilkinson, S.J. (2009). An evaluation of the viability of photovoltaics in residential schemes managed by UK registered social landlords. Proceedings of the RICS Foundation Construction and Building Research Conference, RICS Foundation, London , England , pp. 396-410.
Author, Initials. Year. Title of book. Edition. (only include this if not the first edition). Place of publication (this must be a town or city, not a country): Publisher.
Bullock, S., Manias, E. and Galbraith, A. 2007. Fundamentals of pharmacology. 5th. ed. Frenchs Forest, N.S.W.: Pearson Education Australia.
Book chapters or Edited books
Chapter author(s) surname(s) and initials. Year of chapter. Title of chapter followed by In: Book editor(s) initials and surnames with ed. or eds. after the last name. Year of book. Title of book. Place of publication: Publisher. Chapter number or first and last page numbers followed by full-stop.
Smith, J. 1995. A source of information. In: W. Jones, ed. 2000. One hundred and one ways to find information about health. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Ch. 2.
Roberts, L. 2003. Capital accumulation: tourism and development processes in Central and Eastern Europe. In: D. Hall, ed. Tourism and transition: governance, transformation and development. Oxfordshire : Cabi Publishing, pp. 53-64.
Author/Editor (if it is an editor always put ed after the name). (Year). Title of book. Edition (if not the first edition) [e-book] Place of publication: Publisher. Followed by Available from: include e-book source/database, web address or URL [Date of access].
Mezrich, B. (2010). The accidental billionaires: the founding of Facebook: a tale of sex, money, genius and betrayal [e-book] New York: Anchor Books. Available through: Taylor’s University Library <http://library.taylors.edu.my> [Accessed 18 April 2011].
Author (Year of submission). Title of dissertation. Degree statement. Degree-awarding body.
Godfrey, K.B. (1993). Tourism and Sustainable Development: Towards a Sustainable Framework. PhD thesis, Oxford Brookes University , Oxford , United Kingdom.
Authorship or Source. Year. Title of web document or web page. [Online]. date of update if available. Available at: include web site address/URL (Uniform Resource Locator) [Accessed date].
National Electronic Library for Health. 2003. Can walking make you slimmer and healthier? (Hitting the headlines article) [online] (Updated 16 Jan 2005) Available at: <http://www.library.nhs.uk/rss/newsAndRssArticle.aspx?uri=http%3A%2F%2F www.library.nhs.uk%2Fresources%2F%3Fid%3D66149> [Accessed 18 April 2011].
Author or corporate author. Year. Title of document or page, [type of medium] Available at: include web site address/URL(Uniform Resource Locator) [Accessed date]. Liu, R. and Wassell, I.J. 2008. A novel auto-calibration system for wireless sensor motes. [online] Technical report UCAL-CL-TR-727, Computer Laboratory, Cambridge University, Cambridge. Available At: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-727.pdf [Accessed 18 Sep 2011].
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