Submissions

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.

• The manuscripts should not exceed 4000 words excluding tables, figures, and references for original research papers, 2000 words for review articles, book reviews and short communications, and 10000 words for book chapters written in Times New Roman font size 11 and 1.5 spaced for the body of the manuscript and single spacing for the abstract section. Manuscripts that do not comply with the formatting guidelines, or exceed the length restrictions, may be returned to the authors for amendment.
• Authors should strictly adhere to the styles and formats provided below when organizing their manuscripts for consistency of manuscripts formatting across authors.
• The title should be concise, short and informative. It should not be more than 15 words, should be bold capitalized and centred.
• An abstract is a brief, comprehensive summary of the contents of the paper that pulls readers to read the entire article. The abstract of the manuscript submitted to IJSSB should be 150-250 words and must contain general objective, methods, major findings, conclusion and the way forward for original articles, followed by 3-5 keywords. It should be written in Times New Roman and Italic with font size 11 and single spacing in a structured format.
• Introduction: A brief section usually not more than a page. The introduction acts as a lead-in to a statement of the more specific purpose of the study.
• Methodology: In this section must describe, in detail the approach and design of the study, study participants (sample size and sampling technique if any), data collection techniques, data analysis and interpretation and ethical issues (if necessary).