Guide for authors:

• The following items should be checked before submitting the manuscript to the journal (initial review):
• Attaching all the required files
• Not submitting the manuscript to any national or international journal or conference
• Checking for plagiarism
• Checking the paper against the journal’s scope and aims
• Styling the paper according to the journal’s guidelines and instructions such as authors' profile, page layout, punctuation, and composition
• Files that should be attached while submitting the paper:
• Consent form (download)
• Conflict of interest (download)
• Similarity report (to be downloaded from Samim Noor)
• Extended Persian abstract (1000 to 1200 words)
• Authors' information (authors’ information should be provided in the following format both in Persian and English): academic rank or academic degree, educational or research department, faculty, university, city, and country.
• The structure and format of the article:
• The structure of the paper must be as follows:
• The title of the manuscript (innovation in and compliance with the scope of the journal should be considered)
• Persian abstract (maximum of 250 words and 3-5 keywords)
• English abstract (translation of Persian abstract; Google Translate outputs wouldn’t be accepted)
• Introduction (including the statement of the problem, the significance of the study, background, theoretical framework, and research questions)
• Materials and methods (including research design, method, population, sampling, etc.)
• Research findings
• Discussion and conclusion
• financial sponsor (if any)
• References (at least 20 references should be used in each paper)
• The page layout of the manuscript should feature an A4 page size, 12-pt Times New Roman font, with 2’’ margins from the top, bottom, and left and 3'' from the right.
• The article should be arranged in a single-column format with a page limit between 10 to 15 pages (including tables, maps, and photos) in the above format.
• Customize the manuscript to single-spacing format
• Use metric units for distance measurement;
• The font and size of different sections of the article should be formatted according to the following table:

• The in-text and end-text citations should be based on the APA style. To help follow the citation style, the APA guide is attached.

Download the APA style guide

• In-text citations of English references should be translated into Persian and inserted into the paper using parentheses. In addition, their non-Persian equivalents should be written as footnotes on the same page.
• Note that:
• The author(s) should take the responsibility for the paper.
• It is not possible to change the order and number of authors after the paper is submitted.
• All authors’ information should be included on the journal’s website while submitting the paper.
• The inclusion of geographical maps with strict adherence to the principles of cartography and high-quality images is one of the positive aspects of the papers.
• The journal reserves the right to accept, reject or edit the manuscript.
• The rejected or withdrawn papers will be removed from the journal's archive after three months, and the journal won't bear any responsibility in this regard.