Before submitting your paper, please make sure you read and understand the full guidelines for submission below carefully before submitting your paper to ensure successful submission of your paper. This is a checklist to ensure you have followed the guidelines closely. Please note that we will return any papers that do not follow these guidelines for the errors to be corrected before the paper can be considered for suitability for our journals:
- Ensure you read and understand the various aspects of our publishing ethics policy and guidelines carefully in terms of authorship, research integrity and follow all aspects of our research conducts particularly the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
- Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N. B. Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper was not originally copyrighted and if it has been completely re-written).
- All papers submitted for publication in WASD journals are refereed through a double blind process.
- Please submit your paper in the form of an MS Word (not other format) file online.
- You have indicated the type of paper (see below different types of paper).
- You have produced a structured abstract (see below).
- You have included 6-10 keywords for your paper.
- Your paper is 3,000-5,000 words in length (see typescript preparation).
- Your paper does not have any author details. Author details should be provided in a separate document, including affiliation and email addresses.
- You have provided a short biography of 50-100 words for each author.
- You have provided HD photos for all authors.
Submission Preparation Checklist (all items required)
- The submission has not been previously published in English nor is it before another journal/book for consideration; or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor.
- The text meets the formatting requirements outlined above.
- The submission file is in Microsoft Word document file format.