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Author Guidelines

           Instructions to Authors

How to prepare your manuscript for submission

The guidelines provided in this document are to help you prepare your manuscript for submission to conform to the Mustansiriyah Journal for Sciences and Education (MJSE) style and formatting, which need to be adhered to while preparing your manuscript. So, please follow these detailed instructions carefully...

Prior to that, we encourage you to consider the aim and scope of the journal before submitting your paper. You can find them in the journal's About us section. So, when writing your paper try to be specific, concise, and straightforward to accomplish clear and specific aim and scope that fit those of the journal. The journal annotated template and its list of guidelines are as follows.

1-  MJSE Template (   https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UzladntpkbK7GAJQO_WjbQHvssfkV9zs/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=108486195877567499103&rtpof=true&sd=true   )

             Instructions to author:

The authors should pay attention to the following instructions in order to submit their papers to the MJSE.

The papers must be submitted with the following format:

•  Title
•  Author names and affiliations
•  Abstract
•  Keywords
•  The main text
•  Conclusions
•  Acknowledgment (if required)
•  References
•  Appendices (if necessitated)

Language: Papers must be written in good English. The authors are recommended to use Times New Roman font: size 14 for the title (Bold), 12 for the author names (Bold), 10 for the author affiliations, 10 for the abstract and keywords, 12 for the main text. Tables and Figures must be numbered in above and bottom respectively. Available information reported in both Tables and Figures must be arranged
according to size of 10 and 11 for the short descriptive caption given above and bottom each table and figure, respectively.
The text should be written on one side of A4 paper with at least 2.5 cm margins. Line spacing at paragraphs should be 1.15 cm.

Title: Should be kept short and informative. Avoid abbreviations and formulae as much as possible. It should be written in capital letters.

Length: The research papers including tables and figures should be limited to 20 pages.

Author names and affiliations: The following information about authors and their affiliation should be provided:

•  First names, surnames (in lower case except for the first letters) and family names (in capital letters).

•  Affiliation, postal address below the names including the country name, and, if available, the e-mail address of each author.

Use numbers as superscripts immediately after authors' names and in front of the appropriate addresses to indicate all affiliations.

Corresponding author: clearly identify the author who is willing to handle correspondence at all stages of refereeing, publication, and post-publication. In addition to the e-mail address and the complete postal address, the telephone and fax numbers (with country and area code) of the contact author should be provided.

Abstract: the abstract should include the problem explanation, methods used for solution, and the significant results.

Keywords: keywords should be chosen so that they best describe the contents of the paper.

Main text: the manuscript should be divided into Introduction, Proposed procedure, Results,

Conclusions: Their headings should have numbers and they can include sub-division with relevant numbers.

Acknowledgment: if required, any acknowledgment appears after the concluding remarks.

References: use the number of the reference in brackets and avoid to report directly with family name of the authors in the main text. These must be listed at the end of paper according to the following format:

1. 
   a) Reference to a book:

[1]     Strunk Jr, W.; and White, E.B. The elements of style. 4th ed. New York: Longman, 2000. 

1. b) Reference to an article:

[2]      Youssfa, O.; ElGawadyb, M.A.; and Millsa, J.E. Static cyclic behaviour of FRP-confined crumb rubber concrete columns. Journal of Engineering Structures. 2016, 13(15): 371-387.

1. 
   c) Reference to a chapter in an edited book: 

[3]     Mettam, G.R.; and Adams, L.B. How to prepare an electronic version of your article. In: Jones BS, Smith RZ, editors. Introduction to the electronic age, New York: E-Publishing Inc, 2009, p. 281–304.

1. 
   d) Reference to a website:

[4]     Cancer Research UK. Cancer statistics reports for the UK, http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/aboutcancer/statistics/cancerstatsreport/; 2003 [accessed 13.03.03].

              Plagiarism Policy

  Whether intentional or not, plagiarism is a serious violation. Plagiarism is the copying of ideas, text, data and other creative work (e.g. tables, figures and graphs) and presenting it as original research without proper citation. We define plagiarism as a case in which a paper reproduces another work with at least 25% similarity and without citation.

If evidence of plagiarism is found before/after acceptance or after publication of the paper, the author will be offered a chance for rebuttal. If the arguments are not found to be satisfactory, the manuscript will be retracted and the author sanctioned from publishing papers for a period to be determined by the responsible Editor(s).

   We check each submission for plagiarism with dedicated software, to prevent such unethical practices.​