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The electronic Word files can be submitted through the mentioned system. Submissions by anyone other than one of the authors will not be accepted. The corresponding author takes responsibility for the paper during submission and peer review. If you have any problem in submission through the MTS for technical reason or etc. please feel free to contact us via <a href="../journal/contact.us">http://www.ijsom.com/journal/contact.us</a></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Peer Review</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">All the manuscripts are subject to a single blind peer review process. <br />After submission of a manuscript, it will be preliminary considered by editor-in-chief to determine whether it fits the scope of the journal and has a scientific merit of publication. Then, technical editor checks the manuscript for properly preparing according to journal format and standards. Also in this step, similarity index of the manuscript will be checked by iThenticate similarity detection service. Result of iThenticate report and manuscript check will be sent to editor-in-chief for more consideration.<br />Manuscript that are not prepared in accordance with author instruction will be returned to the authors for revision or resubmission.<br />All manuscripts that have passed the initial inspection will be assigned to two or more reviewers by editors. The editor cannot designate himself as a peer reviewer. The reviewers suggested by authors can also be considered, but they should not have published with any of the authors last 10 years.<br />Editor-in-chief or editor can also give comments about the manuscripts. Based on the comments and referee’s reports will be make decision to accept, revise (minor and major revision) and reject. The revised papers will be considered by the reviewers again, and will be sent to the scientific editor in order to make decision based on the reviewers' evaluation and his/her opinion. The scientific editor will assign the decision to the editor-in-chief. Final decision about accepting or rejecting will be verified by editor-in-chief.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">You can see peer review process section for more information via <a href="../journal/process">http://ijsom.com/journal/process</a></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Submission declaration</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously, nor is it under consideration for publication elsewhere. Authors also certify that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere, including electronically in the same form, in English or in any other language, without the written consent of the copyright-holder.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Conflict of interest</strong> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The authors should certify that they have no affiliations with or involvement in any organization or entity with any financial interest (such as honoraria; educational grants; participation in speakers’ bureaus; membership, employment, consultancies, stock ownership, or other equity interest; and expert testimony or patent-licensing arrangements), or non-financial interest (such as personal or professional relationships, affiliations, knowledge or beliefs) in the subject matter or materials discussed in this manuscript.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Language of paper</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">All articles must be written in UK English.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Essential Title Page Information</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The following information should be included in a separate paper:</p> <ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li>Paper title (Initial letters must be capitalized)</li> <li>Full author names (which determines the corresponding author)</li> <li>Full institutional mailing addresses</li> <li>Abstract</li> </ul> <p><strong>Font of paper, line spacing, and margin</strong></p> <ul> <li>Title: Times New roman 12 (Initial letters must be capitalized)</li> <li>The Abstract and Main text, Keywords, Affiliation, …, References and Appendixes: Times New Roman 10</li> <li>Figures, Footnotes, Email address, and Table Captions: Times New Roman 9</li> <li>Table Context: Times New Roman 9</li> <li>Formulas: Cambria Math 10</li> <li>Line spacing should be single.</li> <li>Please adjust your manuscript file with this marginal format: 1 cm from the top, 1 cm from left, 1 cm from right, and 1 cm from the bottom.</li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Figures</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">All illustrations, whether diagrams or photographs, are referred to as Figures. Upon submission of an article, authors are supposed to include all figures and tables in the PDF file of the manuscript. Figures and tables should not be submitted in separate files. If the article is accepted, authors will be asked to provide the source files of the figures. Each figure should be supplied in a separate electronic file. All figures should be cited in the paper in a consecutive order and figure caption should be cited under the figure. Figures should be supplied in either vector art formats (Illustrator, EPS, WMF, FreeHand, CorelDraw, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, etc.) or bitmap formats (Photoshop, TIFF, GIF, JPEG, etc.). Bitmap images should be of 300 dpi resolution at least, unless the resolution is intentionally set to a lower level for scientific reasons. If a bitmap image has labels, the image and labels should be embedded in separate layers.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Tables</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Tables should be cited consecutively in the text. Every table must have a descriptive title and if numerical measurements are given, the units should be included in the column heading. The explanation of the table must be written above it.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Article Structure</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The text of the article should include the following:</p> <ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li><strong>Title:</strong>as short as possible, with no abbreviations or acronyms. (Initial letters must be capitalized)</li> <li><strong>Abstract:</strong>This section should be succinct, with no subheadings, approximately 100 words, maximum 200.</li> <li><strong>Keywords</strong>: Right after the abstract, provide 3 to 6 keywords.</li> <li><strong>Text:</strong>Divide your article into clearly defined and numbered sections. Subsections must be numbered 1.1 (then 1.1.1, 1.1.2, ...), 1.2, etc.</li> <li><strong>Conclusion:</strong>The main conclusions of the work may be presented in a short Conclusions section</li> <li><strong>Acknowledgment:</strong> All acknowledgments (if any) should be included at the very end of the paper before the references. Supporting grants, presentations, and so forth may also be included.</li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>References and Notes</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">IJSOM uses the <strong>APA</strong> short reference system for citations in the text with a <strong>detailed alphabetical list at the end of the article</strong>. For example, 'Morse (2000) suggests ...' or ‘Morse and Boyle (1995) found that ...' or 'A study of economic change (Boyle and Morse, 1982) has shown that ...'</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">References should be made only to works that are published, accepted for publication (not merely 'submitted'), or available through libraries or institutions. Any other source should be qualified by a note regarding availability. Full reference should include all authors' names and initials, date of publication, title of article, title of publication (italics), volume and issue number (of a journal), publisher and form (books, conference proceedings) and page numbers.</p> <ul> <li style="text-align: justify;">Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list (and vice versa). Any references cited in the abstract must be given in full.</li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify;">The references formats are as follows:</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><em>Journal article (printed/Online):</em></strong><strong> Author(s) of article’s FAMILY/SURNAME, First letter of the first and middle name in capital. (Publication year in parentheses). Title of article. Title of journal – italicized, Volume number (Issue number/month in </strong><strong>p</strong><strong>arentheses), page numbers of the article.</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Example:</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Yang, H.L., Sarker, B., and Chang C.T. (2013). A two-warehouse partial backlogging inventory model for deteriorating items with permissible delay in payment under inflation. <em>Applied Mathematical Modelling</em>, <em>37</em>(1), 2717–2726.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><em>Book Format</em></strong><strong>: FAMILY/SURNAME, First letter of the first and middle name in capital. (Publication year in parentheses). Book title – italicized. Series title and volume if applicable. Edition – if not the first. Place of publication: publisher.</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Example:</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Bazarra, M.S., Sherali, H.D., and Shetty, C.M. (1993). <em>Nonlinear Programming: Theory and Algorithms</em>. Second ed., New York: John Wiley and Sons.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><em>Dissertation Format</em></strong><strong>: FAMILY/SURNAME, First letter of the first and middle name in capital. (Publication year in parentheses). Dissertation title, University.</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><em>Proceeding and Reports:</em></strong><strong> FAMILY/SURNAME, First letter of the first and middle name in capital. (Conference year in parentheses). Title of Article. Title of Conference, No. of Conference, Followed by the page No.</strong></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Appendix</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">If the work contains more than one appendix, identify them as A, B, etc. Formulae and equations in appendices must be given separate numbering: Eq. (A.1), Eq. (A.2), etc.; in a subsequent appendix, Eq. (B.1) and so on.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Plagiarism</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">IJSOM has a policy of screening for plagiarism, it means whenever you paraphrase, summarize, or take words, phrases, or sentences from another person's work, it is necessary to indicate the source of the information <em>within your paper</em> using an internal citation. It is not enough to just list the source in a bibliography at the end of your paper. 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