Submissions

Submission Preparation Checklist

General guidelines

Nalans considers all manuscripts on the strict condition that:

• The manuscript is your own original work, and does not duplicate any other previously published work, including your own previously published work.
• The manuscript has been submitted only to NALANS; it is not under consideration or peer review or accepted for publication or in press or published elsewhere.
• The manuscript contains nothing that is abusive, defamatory, libelous, obscene, fraudulent, or illegal.

Author guidelines

Create a user account and a profile

• All authors, including corresponding and co-authors, are required to create a user account and update their author profiles.
• Each contributor is required to have an identical ORCID and Nalans Account names so that the OJS processes an article. The spelling of your Nalans Profile name and surname has to match the ones in your orcid account.
• There must be no missing information in your profile.
• Authors are required to keep their profiles extremely up to date.

Some General Rules

• Publication charges: Nalans applies no publication charge.
• Submission fee: There is no submission fee nor article processing charge for NALANS.
• Reproduction of copyright material: Nalans holds the rights of reproduction of copyright material as an open source.

Submission Guidelines

Essential Submission Files

Please submit the following two files SEPARATELY.

• Submit a Title Page
• Submit your manuscript (without contributors’ names)

Title page

• Do not forget to ADD A TITLE PAGE: All authors of a manuscript should include their full names, affiliations, postal addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses on the Title Page. One author should be identified as the corresponding author.
• A Title Page in an article submission is a separate file that provides essential information about the paper, the contributorss’ details and content letter. Make sure you have added a Title Page including: 1. Title of Submission | Abstract & Keywords & Wordcount | Authors' Affiliations | Authors' ORCIDS | Authors' E-Mails | Corresponding Authors' Affiliations | Corresponding Authors' ORCID | Corresponding Author's E-Mails | Authors' Bios.

Acknowledgement, funding agency, grant info

• Please supply all details required by any funding and grant-awarding bodies as an Acknowledgement on the title page of the manuscript, in a separate paragraph, 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]."

Manuscript

• Your manuscript must be anonymous. Please ensure that the manuscript is submitted without the author's name or any identifying information.
• A typical manuscript will be between 6000-7000 words including tables, references, captions, footnotes and endnotes. Manuscripts that greatly exceed this will only be accepted if they are of exceptionally high quality. Authors are recommended to apply a word count with their manuscripts.
• Manuscripts should be compiled in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text; acknowledgements; references; appendices (as appropriate).
• Abstracts should be between 150-250 words.
• Each manuscript should have 5 keywords.
• Titles and section headings should be concise.
• Long quotations of 40 words or more should be indented with quotation marks.
• The language of the submitted works should be academic and non-discriminatory.
• The tables and graphics should be numbered in the order in which they appear in the manuscript (e.g. Table 1, Figure 2).
• The authors are strongly recommended to obey the copyright rules.
• The language of the journal is English. Correct style and word usage, however, are the responsibility of the author(s). Spelling may be British or American, but it must be consistent throughout the text. Manuscripts submitted in poor English may be returned to the author(s) and there will be a delay in publication.

Manuscript Plaint-text Formatting Guidelines 

• The manuscript should be submitted in plain text format with no additional formatting. This includes ensuring that no text alignment (e.g., right-to-left text direction) or other formatting, design, layout or track-change styles are used. Please ensure that the document contains only standard text without any embedded formatting features.

• Font: Times New Roman, 12-point size.
• Margins:
• Left margin: 3 cm
• Right margin: 2.5 cm
• Top margin: 3 cm
• Bottom margin: 3 cm
• Line Spacing: Single spacing throughout the document.
• Paragraph Spacing: 6 pt space after each paragraph.
• Block Quotations:
• Indent 6 cm from the left margin
• Indent 2.5 cm from the right margin
• Title Spacing: 12 pt space before and after all titles

Style guidelines for Nalans

The writing style of the manuscripts in NALANS is APA 7^th. For In-text Citation and Reference List authors must obey The APA Manual (7th ed) or http://www.apastyle.org/manual/ (click on the tab marked author-date to ensure you are using the right style).