General guidelines
Declaration of Conflicting Interests:
All manuscripts submitted to the journal must be accompanied by a declaration by the authors that they do not have any conflicts of interest. Conflict of interest disclosure statements should be included in the manuscript under a separate heading entitled ‘Declaration of Conflicting Interests’ directly after your Acknowledgments.
Funding details:
All research articles should have a funding acknowledgment statement included in the manuscript in the form of a sentence under a separate heading entitled ‘Funding’ directly after your Declaration of Conflicting Interests, if applicable.
Please supply all details required by your funding and grant-awarding bodies as follows.
- Sample for single-agency grants
This work was supported by the [Funding Agency] under Grant [number xxxx].
- Sample 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].
A typical manuscript will not exceed 8000 words including tables, references, captions, footnotes, and endnotes. Manuscripts that greatly exceed this will be critically reviewed with respect to length. The submitted manuscripts must follow the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA), seventh edition. We accept only manuscripts written in English.
NOTE: Foreign authors are not supposed to send Persian abstracts.
Submission checklist
The following list will be useful during the final checking of an article before sending it to the journal for review. Please consult this Guide for Authors for further details of any item.
Writing Style Guidelines
- Document size: A4 paper size
- Margins on all sides: 2.5 cm
- Font type and size: Times New Roman, 12 pt.
- Line spacing: single
- Space before paragraph: 0 pt.
- Space after paragraph: 6 pt.
- First-line indentation of all paragraphs except the paragraphs immediately following a heading.
- Headings must be organized in APA (7th edition) format.
- Referencing style: both reference list and in-text citations must be in APA style.
- Tables and figures: Tables and figures must be inserted in the text, and also be in APA format.
- Iranian authors affiliated with Iranian universities and other domestic scientific agencies must deposit all review and publication costs into the following account number held by the Shahreza Branch of the Islamic Azad University.
- Account Number: 0103553271000
- International authors affiliated with universities and other scientific agencies outside of Iran are not required to cover any publication costs for paper submission and publication.