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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, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

TITLE - The title should summarize the major contribution/idea of the paper. It should contain few words that represents the entire paper.

ABSTRACT - The abstract should encapsulate the brief summary of the research article including the corresponding keywords that allows other researchers to search your article. Also, it should capture the general information about your paper in order for your readers to have a clear picture of what your article is all about. It does not only provides the general scope of your research but also includes essential result of your study and the conclusion that can was drawn from the result.  The abstract should not exceed 250 words. 

Keywords - This part of your paper should provide at least a maximum of six key words arranged in alphabetical manner and should be separated by comma.

Introduction -The introduction of your research paper should explain what the research problem is all about which includes discussion of what has been done from previous research in relation to your problem. Likewise, the purpose of why you have conducted your research must be highlighted in this section including the contribution of the article. Literature citation should follow in-text citation following the 7th Edition of the APA Format. Each paragraph should be intended or aligned to the left. 

Methods - This part of the research article should have a detailed discussion as regards the procedures that had been followed in order to come up with this study. If in case that there are several methods that you have utilized in your study, you can separate each of the following components of your methods by making subsections. Each subheading should be Bold and Italicized.

Results-Theheadings of each table should be bold and should appeared centered above the table while captions of figures should appear below the figure itself and must be in lower case form.  When referring a figure in your discussion or in the body of text of your paper, it should be abbreviated “Fig.” At the same time, figures should be number based on how they appear in the text. Please do not send tables and figures in separate files and should be embedded in the paper itself. 

Conclusion and Future Works -This section of the research paper should contain the review of the major points of the research paper based on your objective. It should also include the limitation of the paper to allow other researchers to look into other possibilities of another research problem. Furthermore, possible applications and extensions of the study be included as well.  

Ethical Consideration - This section includes the declaration of protocols followed as part of the ethical considerations of your study especially when dealing with human and animals as subject of your study. 

Acknowledgement - This part of the paper includes those people A, B, or C which the author wishes to thank or those collaborating agency who provided grant for the realization of your study. 

Author's Bionote - This section includes a brief information about the author with attached picture preferably 1x1 for easy identification.

References- The number of references should be at least 15 references. It should also be as recent as possible from the last five (5) to 10 years. Only those references that can be found on the paper should be included. The references should follow the current format of the 7th Edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA). Please see examples below.

Journal Article

Author, A.A., & Author, B.B (Year). Title of the article. Name of the Journal, Volume, Issue, page. DOI or URL if available.

Bird, F. (2020). A defense of objectivity in the social sciences, rightly understood. Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, 16(1), 83-98. https://doi.org/10.1080/15487733.2020.1785679 (8)

Book

Author, A. A., & Author, B.B. (Copyright Year). Title of the Book with Edition). Publisher. DOI or URL if available.

Serafica, J.P.J., Pawilen, G.T., Casilib, B.N., & Alata, E.J.P. (2018). Science, Technology and Society (1st ed.). Rex Book Store Publishing. 

Web Page

United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (2020). Alternative Solutions to School Closure in Arab Countries to Ensuring that Learning Never Stops. https://en.unesco.org/news/alternative-solutions-school-closure-arab-countries-ensuring-learning-never-stops 

News Article

Calonzo, A. (2020, October 23). Philippine Covid Cases Drop as Testing Falls Below Target. Bloomberg. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-23/philippine-covid-cases-drop-as-testing-falls-below-target 

Articles

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COPYRIGHT AGREEMENT:

The following are the copyright agreement prior to publication of the paper.

The research article submitted for publication is an original work of the author/s and has never been published in any journal (local and peer-reviewed with copyright laws) nor is under consideration for publication by any other journal. Similarly, the author/s also declares that there is no prevailing form of neglect or breach of copyright for the article as well as rights claimed by other journals.

By submitting the article to the Journal, such copyright gives them the full authority or their right to the development, including promotion and distribution, along with archiving the body of scientific research outputs not just throughout the country but the ASEAN and other neighboring regions in the world.

The author hereby grants and assigns to the Journal all rights and contributions made in the work including those of his or her co-authors. The Author/s acknowledges that the Journal, upon signing of this contract, shall have the right to publish their paper both in print and online journal under the auspices of Isabela State University.

The Author/s of the research articles, reserve the following rights:

  • All the herein exclusive rights to include both copyrights and patents.
  • Rights to all the contents and essential components of the research article including the tables and figures for future works of their own, with the condition that the publisher shall be properly acknowledged as the copyright holder.
  • The right to facilitate duplication of the articles for their own consumption, but not for sale.

The research article does not contain any unlawful material that may infringe personal or exclusive rights of others such as copyright or privacy rights. Additionally, it does not comprise any derogatory as well as libelous statements and that the paper is factually accurate. Correspondingly, I/We have contributed deliberately in the rigorous process of writing the paper. Hence, I/we claim the authorship as the original work done.

I/We understand that plagiarized research articles or papers I/we submitted shall not be reviewed or publish unless I/we agree to re-write the research paper in a manner that meets the Journal’s integrity and quality standards.  However, if found that data were copied in a plagiarized manner, the paper shall no longer be published and shall automatically be rejected.

The final revised version of the research paper which I/we submitted online, is not substantially the same as that of my/our published papers in other journal/s.

The Linker, its staff or members of the editorial board, shall not be held accountable, should there be any form of damage to property or person as a result of the consequences regarding the products or process used of any method published in the journal including the ideas or instructions contained in the article.

If dispute arises, final decision is taken by the Journal Editorial Board and Editor-In-Chief.

I/We the undersigned corresponding author(s), have been given the consent and full authority by my Co-authors in assigning and transferring all the rights, the research title, and interest, including copyright of the article referred above. I/we herewith give and handover all the rights under it and Journal copyright in the event that the research work is published by the Journal. I hereby also confirm to the publisher of this article that it has not been published to other journals, nor it is considered for peer-review by any other publisher.

COPYRIGHT TRANSFER:

Copyright of the above research article is hereby transferred to the Journal without limitation including the rights to publish the article as whole or any of its parts in any and all forms. Thus, ensuring dissemination and protection of the article from infringement. I hereby certify that I am authorized to sign this Copyright Form in my own right and as a researcher in a government/private academic institution and have made no deviations to the document supplied by the Journal which is currently valid. I have carefully read, understood and agreed to all the above written copyright statements of the Journal.

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