Guidelines to Authors for Submission of Research Paper
Before Submission of Manuscript to the Editorial Board, Authors must follow these guidelines:
The manuscript submitted must be author’s own work and should not have been published previously
or submitted for publication anywhere.
1) Word Count- Minimum 3000 words.
2) For English Language-
Font Name– Times New Roman
Title of the Research Paper- font size-16, bold font, Uppercase) Headings – font
size-14, bold font, Sentence Case
Regular Font- Times New Roman, Font size-12
3) For Hindi Language-
Font Name– Kruti Dev 010
Title of the Research Paper- font size-18, bold font Headings – font
size-16, bold font
Regular Font- Kruti Dev 010, Font size-14
4) Line Spacing: 1.5
5) Margin: Top, Bottom and Side Margins- 1 inch (each)
Research Paper Format:
- Title of the Research Paper
- Author name, designation, institute name, email id
- Abstract (Min 150 words)
- Keywords (Min 5)
- Introduction
- Literature Review Min 12 (must have author last name (surname only) and year for every review) (Don’t mention title of the research, and words like from this study, it is observed that etc.)
- Objectives of the study/Methodology
- Hypothesis of the study (if any)
- Data Analysis (if any)
- Conclusion/Findings
- References (Min 10, APA style, in alphabetic order (as per author names), All the references must have to match with reviews in the paper.
Don’t give numbering/bulleting to references.
Other Guidelines
- Maximum 3 authors in one research paper
- It is mandatory to send the certificate of originality and plagiarism report of less than 10 percent without which the paper will not be considered for further processing. The similarity index will also be checked by the editorial board before acceptance.
- The authors must also check their paper on Grammarly to avoid grammatical/spelling mistakes.
Please mail us with the Subject- Your name- and Research Paper at: shodhsamarth.sdsuv@gmail.com