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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
  • If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

Author Guidelines

Manuscript preparation guidelines for authors

Manuscripts submitted to JCSHD must be original and not under review or published elsewhere. Redundant publications, multiple submissions, or simultaneous submission of the same manuscript to more than one journal will not be considered.

The MS word of the manuscript template and authors guidelines can be downloaded here.

This proposed journal adopts guidelines for referencing as they are recommended and illustrated in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (seventh edition), i.e. APA style. All articles should be typewritten and single spaced (with one inch [2.5 cm] margin throughout) using Times New Roman Font Type with 12pt in size.

Each submission must not exceed 7,000 words, including the abstract, references, tables, figures, and appendices. Submissions may be either conceptual papers or empirical research articles. All submissions will undergo a double-blind peer review process.

Authors are required to adhere to the specific guidelines provided below. Additionally, authors are strongly encouraged to follow the principles of sound technical writing. Manuscripts that do not meet acceptable standards of English or lack clarity may be rejected:

Language and Spelling
The manuscript must be prepared in English using standard written English and British style of spelling.

Title page
This should include: (i) the name(s) of the author(s) (ii) a title indicating precisely and concisely what the paper is all about (iii) the institutional affiliation(s) of and address(es) of the author(s) (iv) the e-mail address  of the corresponding author.

Abstract
This should be presented as one paragraph, not exceeding 200 words and avoiding abbreviations and acronyms.

Keywords
The provision of four to five keywords would contribute to indexing purposes.

Acknowledgement
This should appear before the references section.

Subdivision of the article
The authors must divide the paper into clearly defined and numbered sections using Hindu-Arabic numerals. Type each section heading on a separate line using the appropriate style from the style list. The subsections should be numbered sequentially as 1.1, 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.2 etc. Paragraphs that immediately follow a section heading are leading paragraphs and should not be indented, according to standard publishing style. The same goes for leading paragraphs of subsections and sub-subsections.

Tables and Figures
All tables and figures should have a heading and a number such as Table 1, Table 2, Figure 1 (use Figure in Styles), Figure 2 etc. as well as the source. These tables and figures must be inserted within the paper, avoiding doing so at the end of the paper. Use Times New Roman font throughout the manuscript, in the sizes and styles shown in Table 1. The table caption and table should be indented to the left.

Citation styles

Authors are encouraged to practice appropriately both author prominent, i.e. Ismail and Osman-Gani (2012) ... and information prominent, i.e. ... (Ismail & Osman-Gani, 2012) citing. The authenticity of the source of literature matters in deciding on the scholarly merit of the concerned paper.

 

In case there are six or more than six authors of a publication, then authors may use the family name of the first author followed by et al. (year of the publication) in all citations.

 

Referencing

All references should be arranged alphabetically and then sorted in reverse chronological order (i.e., latest first). Please use APA 7th Edition formatting and ensure consistency throughout.

Illustrations:

Reference to a Journal article

Garavan, T. N. (2007). A strategic perspective on human resource development. Advances in Developing Human Resources, 9 (11), 1-30. https://doi.org/10.1177/1523422306294492

Reference to a Book

DeSimone, R. L., & Werner, J. M. (2012). Human resource development (6th ed. International). Cengage Learning.

Reference to a Chapter in an edited book

Nakamura, K., & Hiraki, S. (1997). Japan. In H. C. Katz (Ed.), Telecommunications: Restructuring work and employment relations worldwide (pp. 228-262). Cornell University Press.

Proofreading
Authors of manuscripts accepted for the publication in JCSHD are responsible for checking the final proofs of their submission. 

Copyright Notice

Copyright Transfer Statement for Journal

1) In signing this statement, the author(s) grant UNIMAS Publisher an exclusive license to publish their original research papers. The author(s) also grant UNIMAS Publisher permission to reproduce, recreate, translate, extract or summarize, and to distribute and display in any forms, formats, and media. The author(s) can reuse their papers in their future printed work without first requiring permission from UNIMAS Publisher, provided that the author(s) acknowledge and reference publication in the Journal.

2) For open access articles, the author(s) agree that their articles published under UNIMAS Publisher are distributed under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-SA (Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, for non-commercial purposes, provided the original work of the author(s) is properly cited.

3) The author(s) is/are responsible to ensure his or her or their submitted work is original and does not infringe any existing copyright, trademark, patent, statutory right, or propriety right of others. Corresponding author(s) has (have) obtained permission from all co-authors prior to submission to the journal. Upon submission of the manuscript, the author(s) agree that no similar work has been or will be submitted or published elsewhere in any language. If submitted manuscript includes materials from others, the authors have obtained the permission from the copyright owners.

4) In signing this statement, the author(s) declare(s) that the researches in which they have conducted are in compliance with the current laws of the respective country and UNIMAS Journal Publication Ethics Policy. Any experimentation or research involving human or the use of animal samples must obtain approval from Human or Animal Ethics Committee in their respective institutions. The author(s) agree and understand that UNIMAS Publisher is not responsible for any compensational claims or failure caused by the author(s) in fulfilling the above-mentioned requirements. The author(s) must accept the responsibility for releasing their materials upon request by Chief Editor or UNIMAS Publisher.

5) The author(s) should have participated sufficiently in the work and ensured the appropriateness of the content of the article. The author(s) should also agree that he or she has no commercial attachments (e.g. patent or license arrangement, equity interest, consultancies, etc.) that might pose any conflict of interest with the submitted manuscript. The author(s) also agree to make any relevant materials and data available upon request by the editor or UNIMAS Publisher.

 

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