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Author Guidelines

The submitted manuscript should adhere to the following general guidelines. Alternatively, the author can simply use the manuscript template.

1. LAYOUT Paper is in two-column format. Page margins are 1.78 cm top and down; 1.65 cm left and right. Each column width is 8.89 cm and the separation between the columns is 0.51 cm.
2. UNITS The use of SI units is encouraged. Other units system may be used as  secondary units (given in parentheses)
3. FIGURES Place figure captions below the figures. If your figure has two parts, include the labels “(a)” and “(b)” as part of the artwork. Make sure the figure has at least 300 dpi quality
4. TABLES Do not abbreviate “Table.” Tables are numbered with Roman numerals. Place table titles above the tables.
5. HEADINGS The heading must be concise and indicative of the corresponding content. Use all capital letters and Roman numeral.
6. REFERENCES Publications must be cited in the text numbered consecutively in square brackets [1]. Multiple references [2], [3] are each numbered with separate brackets [1]–[3]. When citing a section in a book, please give the relevant page numbers. In sentences, refer simply to the reference number, as in [3]. Do not use “Ref. [3]” or “reference [3]” except at the beginning of a sentence: “Reference [3] shows ....”

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.

1. 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).
2. The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
3. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
4. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
5. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

1. Submission of an original  manuscript to the journal will be taken to mean that it represents original work not previously published, that it is not being considered elsewhere for publication; that the author is willing to assign copyright to the journal as per this agreement and, if accepted for publication, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in any language, without the consent of the editor.
2. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication, with the work 12 months after publication simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
3. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
4. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) 12 months after the publication date, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

Privacy Statement

The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.

Author Fees

This journal charges the following author fees.

Article Processing Fee: 1500.00 (USD)
The Article Processing Fee is implemented to support the open-access policy of the journal. The fee will be applied after the paper has been accepted for publication with the journal. The payment of the fee therefore does not in any way affect the decision of acceptance.

The first author affiliated with the institutions in the low-income countries defined by the World Bank will have an opportunity to waive the fee. The publisher enforces the policy to reduce the publication barrier of quality work. Also, for the convenience of all authors, the Article Submission Fee has been automatically waived.