Submissions

Author Guidelines

Authors are invited to make a submission to this journal. All submissions will be assessed by an editor to determine whether they meet the aims and scope of this journal. Those considered to be a good fit will be sent for peer review before determining whether they will be accepted or rejected.

Before making a submission, authors are responsible for obtaining permission to publish any material included with the submission, such as photos, documents and datasets. All authors identified on the submission must consent to be identified as an author. Where appropriate, research should be approved by an appropriate ethics committee in accordance with the legal requirements of the study's country.

An editor may desk reject a submission if it does not meet minimum standards of quality. Before submitting, please ensure that the study design and research argument are structured and articulated properly. The title should be concise and the abstract should be able to stand on its own. This will increase the likelihood of reviewers agreeing to review the paper. When you're satisfied that your submission meets this standard, please follow the checklist below to prepare your submission.

Length of manuscript

1. Articles should be in the range of 5000-9000 words.
2. Book reviews should be in the range of 500-750 words.
3. Notes, Discussions and Scoping Reviews should normally be no longer than 2000 words. No abstract is required for such pieces of writing.

Abstracts

A short abstract of up to 200 words should appear on the first page in regular font. The Abstract should be followed by Keywords followed by a colon (no more than 6 words, alphabetically arranged and set off with a comma, each starting with a small letter unless it is a proper noun).

Submission of manuscript

Submissions to JLAPD should not have been published previously, nor should they be under consideration for publication elsewhere in any form. To submit a manuscript, follow the following steps:

1. Go to Make a new submission
2. Upload a minimum of three files, namely, (1) Title page file, (2) Anonymous manuscript file, and (3) manuscript with author details

Title page file: title of manuscript, author(s), specifying the corresponding author, affiliation, country, ORCID No., academic rank (Assistant, Associate, Adjunct, Full Professor, Lecturer, MA/PhD student), and email

The anonymous manuscript file (no mention of author related information) should adhere fully to JLAPD  Author Guidelines. Check the metadata of the file (file properties), removing any mention of author name. This is the text that will be used for our blind reviewing process.

Important note

Submissions should also be formatted particularly titles, headings, subheadings, tables, in-text referencing, and list of references according to Author Guidelines. This is a prerequisite for considering the submission for initial screening by the in-house committee. Failure to do so may lead to desk rejection.

Once a submission has been completed, the manuscript will be screened by our in-house editorial committee. On the basis of the committee's report, we usually proceed with the peer-review process, or reject it within two weeks; if the decision is to 'proceed', we usually come to a decision within three months. The reviewers provide their feedback on the manuscript by filling in a detailed review report which also has a descriptive component. While important consideration is given to reviewers' feedback, the final decision to publish articles in IJAES rests with the Editor-in-Chief.

Contributors are kindly requested to observe the following:

1. Use Times New Roman regular font size 11 for the body of the article and font size 10 for the abstract.

Headings and subheadings should appear in bold. Only the initial word should start with a capital letter except for proper nouns.

2. Please upload three Microsoft formatted files:

Title page.doc, Manuscript with author details, and Anonymous manuscript.doc

Referencing Guidelines (APA 7th Edition)

• Please give full bibliographical details of references and list them in alphabetical order, following the style of the examples given below.
• Do not put the manuscript, tables, and/or references in a box. Don’t use a box design for them or anything even if the borders are not shown.
• Check the internet reference and update before submission if it still exists.
• Use Justify for the whole text including references.
• Use the abbreviations MA and PhD for Thesis and Dissertation.
• Only references mentioned in the text should appear in the list of references at the end of the article (References).
• Long quotes (40 words and above) appear on a separate text with high hang indentation at 0.5 inch

In-Text Citations

Single Author: (Smith, 2022)
Two Authors: (Smith & Jones, 2021)
Three or More Authors: (Smith et al., 2020)
Direct Quotations: (Smith, 2022, p. 45)

Journal Articles

Anker, T. B. (2021). At the boundary: Post-COVID agenda for business and management research in Europe and beyond. European Management Journal, 39(2), 171-178. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2021.01.003

Niepel, C., Hausen, J. E., Weber, A. M., & Möller, J. (2025). Understanding mean-level and intraindividual variability in state academic self-concept: The role of students’ trait expectancies and values. Journal of Educational Psychology, 117(5), 772–788. https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000946

Grady, J. S., Her, M., Moreno, G., Perez, C., & Yelinek, J. (2019). Emotions in storybooks: A comparison of storybooks that represent ethnic and racial groups in the United States. Psychology of Popular Media Culture, 8(3), 207–217. https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000185

Journal article with missing information (volume no. or issue no., article no. … etc)

Lipscomb, A. Y. (2021, Winter). Addressing trauma in the college essay writing process. The Journal of College Admission, (249), 30–33. https://www.catholiccollegesonline.org/pdf/national_ccaa_in_the_news_-_nacac_journal_of_college_admission_winter_2021.pdf

Bosco, G., Rizzato, A., Moon, R. E., & Camporesi, E. M. (2018). Environmental physiology and diving medicine. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, Article 72. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00072

Butler, J. (2017). Where access meets multimodality: The case of ASL music videos. Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, 21(1). https://technorhetoric.net/21.1/topoi/butler/index.html

Retracted journal article

Joly, J. F., Stapel, D. A., & Lindenberg, S. M. (2008). Silence and table manners: When environments activate norms. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34(8), 1047–1056. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167208318401 opens in new window (Retraction published 2012, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38[10], 1378)

Online report with a named author

Anker, T. B. (2021). At the boundary: Post-COVID agenda for business and management research in Europe and beyond. European Management Journal, 39(2), 171-178. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2021.01.003

Online Sources / Newspapers

Rogers, O. (2021, July 9). Why naming race is necessary to undo racism. Psychology Today. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/who-am-i-who-are-we/202107/why-naming-race-is-necessary-undo-racism  

Magazine Article

Idato, M. (2018, May 10). Art of cutting humanity down to size. The Age: Green Guide, 20.

Books

Fletcher, D. P. (2018). Disrupters: Success strategies from women who break the mold. Entrepreneur Press.

Webpage with a named author

Vincent, A. (2020, August 20). How can we save UK libraries? A look at the innovative steps being taken by countries around the world. Penguin Books UK. https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2020/august/innovative-libraries-around-the-world-ideas.html

Book Chapter

Blakey, N., Guinea, S., & Saghafi, F. (2017). Transforming undergraduate nursing curriculum by aligning models of clinical reasoning through simulation. In R. Walker & S. Bedford (Eds.), Research and Development in Higher Education: Vol. 40. Curriculum Transformation (pp. 25–37). Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia. http://www.herdsa.org.au/research-and-development-higher-education-vol-40-25

Shah, T. H. (2018). Big data analytics in higher education. In S. M. Perry (Ed.), Maximizing social science research through publicly accessible data sets (pp. 38–61). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3616-1

Webpage from an organization

Gränitz, A. (n.d.). CEO Statement. Polygon Group. https://www.polygongroup.com/investors/ceostatement/

Doctoral Dissertation

Mosek, E. (2017). Team flow: The missing piece in performance [Doctoral dissertation, Victoria University]. Victoria University Research Repository. http://vuir.vu.edu.au/35038/

Conference paper

Blakey, N., Guinea, S., & Saghafi, F. (2017). Transforming undergraduate nursing curriculum by aligning models of clinical reasoning through simulation. In R. Walker & S. Bedford (Eds.), Research and Development in Higher Education: Vol. 40. Curriculum Transformation (pp. 25–37). Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia. http://www.herdsa.org.au/research-and-development-higher-education-vol-40-25

Government Reports

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2017). Childhood education and care (No. 4402.0). https://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/[email protected]/Lookup/4402.0Main+Features1June%202017?OpenDocument

Film

Ireland, P. (Director). (2016). Pawno [Film]. Toothless Pictures.

Headings and subheadings

• Headings should be numbered consecutively using Arabic numerals and so should subheadings (e.g.2.1.1; 2.2.1; 2.3.1; etc.), no full point after the last number (e.g. 2.2.1). Note that no more than three layers of subheadings below a heading. For instance, a subheading like 2.1.1.1 is not allowed.
• In headings and subheadings first word only has initial capitals except for proper nouns.

Footnotes

• Short notes can appear in the text without brackets.
• Endnotes are not permitted; all notes must appear as footnotes at the bottom of the relevant page.

Tables

Tables and Figures should be inserted in the text. A separate file is also useful. Each Table and Figure should be clearly labeled with a number and a caption. They should be numbered Table 1, Table 2, Figure 1, Figure 2, etc., ending with a full point. The title of a table, legend, should appear on top of the table; the title of a figure should appear at the bottom of the figure). Further, they should be in regular font and should take the form of sentence structure, with the first word capitalized in addition to proper nouns, not followed with a full point.

• Texts within the table should appear on the left not centered.
• Content of tables should not be bold or shaded.
• If you have only one table or one appendix, do not use number one neither as a word nor a number.
• As much as possible, avoid splitting tables over two pages. Fill any space with text.
• The maximum number of tables is 8.
• Do not use the word below or above with tables; use numbers, i.e., do not say: “the table below or above”, but say: “Table (1) or (2), etc.”
• Tables should never stretch out over text margins.

Example

Figures

• Number figures consecutively (Figure 1, Figure 2, etc.).
• Cite each figure in the text.
• Provide a brief italicized title.
• Ensure figures are clear and high quality.
• Acknowledge the source for reproduced or adapted figures.

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