Guideline for authors

  How to submit your manuscript Zayed Journal of Multidisciplinary Research (ZJMR)

Author Guidelines

Before submitting to the journal, authors should read through the author guidelines for preparing their manuscript. Starting in 2024, a new layout style will be applied, so please download the  manuscript template. 

Manuscript Format in the site: https://www.zayedjournal.com

The manuscript or research is sent to the journal’s email address:

The manuscript should be in MS Word or LaTeX format. The language of all manuscripts must be English Or French or Arabic and non-English words should be used sparingly. Poor English may lead to article rejection. Authors are encouraged to seek language polishing by a native English speaker or a professional editing service.

Article Types

Please refer to the following for choosing an appropriate type.

Article

Brief Report

Book Review

Commentary

Communication

Editorial

Hypothesis

Perspective

Review

Cover Letter

Gli autori devono allegare una lettera di accompagnamento insieme al testo dell'articolo. Una lettera di accompagnamento dovrebbe contenere una breve spiegazione del significato del loro lavoro e dell'intenzione di svolgere il lavoro. Se il lavoro coinvolge la ricerca sull'uomo e sugli animali, gli autori devono fornire la dichiarazione di consenso informato o l'ID di approvazione etica allegata alla lettera di accompagnamento. La lettera di accompagnamento è confidenziale e sarà letta solo dalla redazione. Non sarà visto dai revisori.

Article Title

Titles should be no more than 50 words, with significant and attractive information for readers. Titles should not include uncommon jargons, abbreviations, and punctuation.

List of Authors

L'elenco degli autori dovrebbe essere organizzato in base al livello del loro contributo, con il contributore principale elencato per primo. Gli autori corrispondenti devono essere contrassegnati con un asterisco (*). Le informazioni di affiliazione devono essere fornite con i seguenti elementi: dipartimento, istituzione, città, codice postale (se disponibile) e paese. È necessario fornire l'indirizzo email di almeno un autore corrispondente. Tutti gli autori devono approvare la versione finale del manoscritto e concordare con la presentazione.

Abstract and Keywords

Depending on the article type, an abstract should be provided, which gives a concise summary of the article. It is usually a single paragraph of about 200–250 words maximum. Between 5–8 keywords should be included. Words and phrases in article titles should be avoided as keywords.

Text

The text of manuscripts should be in MS Word or LaTeX format. Original research articles should include the Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, and Conclusion (optional) sections.

Section Headings

Headings are used to indicate the hierarchy of the sections of the text. No more than three levels of headings should be employed. The first level of heading should be numbered as 1., 2., 3., 4. in boldface. Likewise, the second and third levels of headings should also be in boldface, for example, 1.1., 1.2., 1.1.1., 1.1.2.

Introduction

L'introduzione dovrebbe fornire un contesto che offra al vasto pubblico di lettori una visione generale del campo e della ricerca svolta. Individua un problema e afferma il significato dello studio. L'introduzione può concludersi con una breve dichiarazione sullo scopo del lavoro e un commento sul raggiungimento di tale scopo.

Materials and Methods

Questa sezione fornisce il disegno sperimentale generale e le metodologie utilizzate. L’obiettivo è fornire dettagli sufficienti affinché altri ricercatori possano replicare completamente gli esperimenti. Serve anche a facilitare una migliore comprensione dei risultati ottenuti.

Results

This section can be divided into subheadings. This section focuses on the results of the experiments performed.

Discussion

This section should provide the significance of the results and identify the impact of the research in a broader context. It should not be redundant or similar to the content of the Results section.

Conclusion

The conclusion section can only be used for interpretation, and not be used to summarize information already presented in the text or abstract.

Figures and Tables

Figures (photographs, images, graphs, charts, and schematic diagrams) and tables should be referred to within the main text and numbered consecutively as Figure 1, Figure 2, Table 1, Table 2, etc. They should be placed as close as possible to where they are first cited and center-aligned. Both figure captions and table captions should be center-aligned, with figure captions set underneath the figures and table captions above the tables. When captions are longer than one line, they should be left-aligned.

Figures can contain multiple panels. They should be numbered by Latin letters with parentheses, e.g., (a), (b), (c), or (A), (B), (C), placed below the image or within the image.

Tables should be in MS Word/Excel table format. Tables containing too much information can be provided as supplementary material.

In the main text, all figures and tables should be cited, e.g., “Table 1 indicates…”, “Figures 1 and 2 shows…”, and “Figure 1a,b shows…”.

Lists and Equations

Both bulleted lists and numbered lists are acceptable (refer to the template). Equations should be center-aligned and equation numbers should be right-aligned. If cited in the text, equations should be labeled with numbers in parentheses, e.g., Equation (1).

Citazioni nel testo

Tutti i riferimenti bibliografici che apportano un contributo importante all'articolo devono essere numerati secondo l'ordine di apparizione. Quando citato nel testo, il numero deve essere posto tra parentesi quadre, ad esempio:

• Negotiation research spans many disciplines [3,4].
• This effect has been widely studied [1–5,7].

Appendix (Optional)

Un'appendice fornisce informazioni supplementari a un articolo ed è inclusa alla fine dell'articolo dopo la sezione Riferimenti e dovrebbe iniziare in una nuova pagina. Per un'appendice, è designata come “Appendice”; per più di un'appendice vengono designate “Appendice A”, “Appendice B”, ecc.

An appendix should be cited in the main text. Tables, figures, and equations should be started with the prefix A (i.e., Figure A1, Figure A2, Table A1, etc.).

Materia posteriore

The sequence of back matter elements in an article is listed below. There is no numeral label for back matter headings. Some of these elements are optional.

Materiali supplementari (facoltativo)

The Supplementary Materials section provides a short description of the supplementary materials. One or more individual supplementary files are allowed and should be submitted in Step 4 during submission. These materials are relevant to the manuscript but remain non-essential to readers’ understanding of the article’s main content. Please ensure the names of such files contain “suppl. info”. Videos may be included in this section.

Author contributions

For original research articles, this section is required, except when there is only one author for the article. The contribution of each co‐author should be reported in this section.

The following statements should be used “Conceptualization, XX and YY; methodology, XX; software, XX; validation, XX, YY and ZZ; formal analysis, XX; investigation, XX; resources, XX; data curation, XX; writing—original draft preparation, XX; writing—review and editing, XX; visualization, XX; supervision, XX; project administration, XX; funding acquisition, YY. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.”

Funding (Optional)

Authors can acknowledge financial support in this section, which is NOT mandatory. If authors provide a funding statement, it should be in the same style as the template.

For example:

“This research was funded by [name of funder] grant number [xxx]” and “The APC was funded by [XXX]”. Please check carefully that the details given are accurate and that the standard spelling of the funding agency’s name in https://search.crossref.org/funding is used, as any errors may affect the authors’ future funding.

Acknowledgments (Optional)

Authors can acknowledge any support and contribution that cannot be included in the Author Contributions and Funding sections. This section is NOT mandatory.

Conflict of interest

Secondo la nostra Politica sui conflitti di interessi, tutti gli autori sono tenuti a dichiarare tutte le attività che possono potenzialmente essere considerate fonte di interessi concorrenti in relazione al manoscritto inviato. Esempi di tali attività includono relazioni ed eventi personali o legati al lavoro. Gli autori che non hanno nulla da dichiarare dovrebbero aggiungere “Nessun conflitto di interessi è stato segnalato da tutti gli autori” oppure “Gli autori dichiarano nessun conflitto di interessi” in questa sezione.

References

This section is compulsory and should be placed at the end of the manuscript. Footnotes or endnotes should not replace a reference list. The list of references should only include works that are cited in the text and that have been published or accepted for publication. Personal communications should be excluded from this section.

The format of author names should be “Last-Name Initial”, e.g., David Smith should be written as Smith D.

Journal

Journals in English:

• Author AA, Author BB, Author CC, et al. Title of the article. Journal Name. Year, Volume(Issue) (if available): Firstpage–Lastpage. doi (if available)

Journals in languages other than English:

Autore AA, Autore BB, Autore CC, et al. Titolo inglese dell'articolo (lingua originale). Nome del diario. Anno, volume (numero) (se disponibile): prima pagina–ultima pagina. doi (se disponibile)

Book

A book without editors:

• Author AA, Author BB. Chapter (optional). Title of the Book, Edition (if available). Publisher; Year. pp. Page range (optional).

A book with editors:

• Author AA, Author BB. Title of the contribution. In: Editor CC, Editor DD (editors). Title of the Book, Edition (if available). Publisher; Year. Volume (optional), pp. Page range (optional).

For a translated book, the translators’ names should be placed after the editors’ names: “Translator AA (translator)” or “Translator AA, Translator BB (translators)”.

If the editors and translators are the same, the format should be as follows:

• Author AA, Author BB. Title of the contribution. In: Editor CC, Editor DD (editors and translators). Title of the Book, Edition (if available). Publisher; Year. Volume (optional), pp. Page range (optional).

Conference

Full citations of published abstracts (proceedings):

In most cases, proceedings will be simply called “Proceedings of the Name of the Conference (full name)” without a book title. In this case, please only add the conference name in the proceedings’ title and keep that in regular font (i.e., do not italicize):

• Author AA, Author BB, Author CC, et al. Title of presentation. In: Proceedings of the Name of the Conference; Date of Conference (Day Month Year) (if available); Location of Conference (City, Country) (if available). Abstract Number (optional), Pagination (optional).

Se gli atti sono pubblicati come libro con un titolo separato (vale a dire, non “Atti del nome del convegno (nome completo)” come titolo), il titolo del libro deve essere incluso:

• Author AA, Author BB, Author CC. Title of presentation. In: Editor DD, Editor EE (editors) (if available). Title of Collected Work, Proceedings of the Name of the Conference; Date of Conference (Day Month Year) (if available); Location of Conference (City, Country) (if available). Publisher; Year. Abstract Number (optional), Pagination (optional).

Oral presentations without published material:

• Author AA, Author BB, Author CC. Title of presentation (if any). Presented at the Name of Conference; Date of Conference (Day Month Year) (if available); Location of Conference (City, Country) (if available); Paper number (if available).

Tesi/Dissertazione

• Author AA. Title of Thesis [Level of thesis]. Degree‐Granting University; Year.

The level of thesis can be called “XX thesis” or “XX dissertation”. Thesis types include but are not limited to the following:

• PhD thesis
• Master’s thesis
• Bachelor’s thesis
• Licentiate thesis
• Diploma thesis

Giornale

• Author AA, Author BB, Author CC, et al. Title of article. Title of Periodical, Complete Date, Pagination (if available).

Patent

• Patent Owner AA, Patent Owner BB, Patent Owner CC. Title of Patent. Patent Number, Date (Day Month Year, the Application granted date).

Opera inedita

• Author AA, Author BB. Title of unpublished work. Journal Title. Year (if available); Phrase Indicating Stage of Publication (submitted, in press, etc.).

Online resources

• Author (if available). Title of content (if available). Available online: http://URL (accessed on Day Month Year).

For a homepage, the access date is not required.

Article Processing Charges (APCs)

Zayed Journal of Multidisciplinary Research charges authors article processing charges (APCs) so as to cover operation costs, such as those arising from the evaluation and production processes. APCs should be paid upon the acceptance of articles and ahead of publication.

APCs of  Zayed Journal of Multidisciplinary research are US$300 Fee covers a standard 10 page manuscript. More than 10 pages an extra fee of US$ 10 per page will be charged. 

Politica di rinuncia e di sconto

Zayed Journal of Multidisciplinary Research ZJMR ritiene che non dovrebbero esserci ostacoli alla diffusione della conoscenza e ZJMR offre esenzioni e sconti APC agli autori provenienti da paesi a basso reddito e agli autori con circostanze speciali. Gli autori dovranno scrivere alla redazione della rivista specifica per richiedere deroghe e sconti. La decisione di approvare tali richieste viene presa caso per caso dal presidente esecutivo dell'ufficio di ricerca multidisciplinare del giornale Zayed.