Author Guidelines

Before You Submit

• Your work must be original, unpublished, and not under consideration elsewhere.
• Every listed author must have contributed substantially and approved the submission. Each is emailed a notice when you submit — this is a deliberate safeguard.
• Disclose all conflicts of interest and funding sources.
• Obtain ethics approval and informed consent where your study requires them.
• You will need an account with a confirmed email address. Registration is free and immediate.

You Do Not Upload a PDF

There is no manuscript file to prepare, format or anonymise. You build the article directly in your browser, and the platform stores it as structured content rather than as a document. That single source then produces the web version readers see, the typeset PDF they download, and the metadata sent to indexing services — so those three can never drift out of step.

Practically, this means:

• Sections number themselves. Add a section and it becomes 1, 2, 3; add a subsection and it becomes 1.1, 1.2. Reorder anything and everything renumbers correctly.
• Equations are real mathematics. Write LaTeX with a live preview, or build expressions from the symbol palette. Display equations are numbered automatically.
• Figures and tables carry their own captions and are numbered continuously through the article. Tables are built in place, with full control over rows, columns, header rows and merged cells.
• No anonymised copy is needed. Reviewers are served a blinded view automatically — author names, affiliations and acknowledgements are removed by the system, not by you.
• Nothing is lost. Your draft saves every few seconds. You can close the tab and pick it up days later.

Manuscript Preparation

• Title — specific and descriptive, at least 10 characters. A separate running title of up to 120 characters appears in the PDF page header.
• Abstract — 100 to 5,000 characters, written to stand alone. It is what most readers and every indexing service will see.
• Keywords — between 3 and 10. These drive discovery in Google Scholar and in our own search.
• Length — at least 500 words in the article body. Research and review articles are typically up to 8,000 words; short papers up to 3,000, excluding references.
• Structure — we suggest the IMRaD arrangement (Introduction, Related Work, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion), offered as a one-click starting point in the builder. You are free to depart from it where your work calls for something else.
• References — at least 3, listed in the order you cite them and numbered automatically. Add a DOI wherever one exists: it becomes a live link and materially improves citation matching by indexing services.
• Figures — PNG, JPEG or WebP, up to 25 MB each. Every figure needs a caption and alternative text for screen readers.

Authorship

List authors in the order they should appear on the published article. For each, record their institutional affiliation, country and — wherever possible — their ORCID iD, which links the article permanently to their scholarly record.

Contributions are recorded using the NISO CRediT taxonomy — 14 standard roles including Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition and Writing – review & editing. These are published with the article and included in the metadata we deposit.

Adding or removing an author after submission requires the written agreement of all parties, including the person being added or removed.

Article Types

• Research Article
• Review Article
• Short Paper
• Case Study
• Letter to the Editor

The Submission Process

Five steps. You can move between them freely and finish over several sittings — the draft is saved continuously.

1. Manuscript details — Article type, title, a short running title for page headers, your abstract, keywords and subject area.
2. Authors — Every author in publication order, each with their email, affiliation, country, ORCID iD and CRediT contributor roles. Mark exactly one corresponding author.
3. Build the article — Write the article itself — numbered sections and subsections, formatted text, equations, figures, tables and references.
4. Files & declarations — Supplementary material, datasets and ethics approvals, plus your funding, conflict-of-interest, data-availability and AI-use statements.
5. Review & submit — A final summary of everything you have entered. Nothing reaches the editors until you press Submit.

What Happens Next

You receive a manuscript ID immediately and can follow progress from your dashboard at any time.

1. Stage 1 — editorial screening. The editors check scope, originality, structure, language, references, figures, ethics statements and similarity. Manuscripts that are out of scope or below threshold are desk-rejected at this point, without peer review.
2. Stage 2 — double-blind peer review. At least 2 independent reviewers assess the work against ten criteria. Reviewers do not learn who you are, and you do not learn who they are.
3. Decision. The handling editor issues a decision letter with the reviewers’ comments in full.
4. Revision, if requested. You respond to every reviewer comment individually — saying what you changed and where — and update the article in the builder. Your previous version is archived automatically so the editors can compare.
5. Acceptance and publication. On acceptance an APC invoice is issued. Once it is settled or waived, your article is assigned to an issue, given page numbers and a DOI, and published.

You are emailed at every transition. Reviewers are identified to you only as “Reviewer 1”, “Reviewer 2” and so on, and their confidential remarks to the editor are never shared with you.

Article Processing Charge

Submission and peer review are free. A single Article Processing Charge is payable only if your manuscript is accepted — ₹10,000.00 for corresponding authors in India, and $100.00 for corresponding authors elsewhere. Taxes are additional and are charged as applicable in each country's jurisdiction.

Ability to pay never influences an editorial decision, and waivers are granted routinely. See Article Processing Charges for the full policy.

After Publication

Your article is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence with a permanent, citable URL. Readers get full-text HTML, a downloadable PDF and citation export in six styles plus BibTeX, RIS and JATS XML. Metadata is made available to Google Scholar, DOAJ and OAI-PMH harvesters, and you gain an author page listing everything you have published with us.

Ready? Start your submission — or write to the Editorial Office at [email protected] with any questions.