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Author Guidelines

  • All manuscripts must be submitted electronically.
  • Articles shall be in MS Word, duly formatted according to the Guidelines and Publication Policy of the Margalla Papers.
  • Only Electronic submission (Soft Form) of manuscripts is accepted, and the corresponding text, tables, and figures shall be drafted in a single Microsoft Word file.
  • Important (It's Mandatory): There is a References field when an author makes a submission and the author will be able to add references to it besides adding to the manuscript. Each reference should be on a separate line and you should sure the text you paste into the field has no extra line breaks or spaces. Using a referencing tool, allowing the Chicago Style of Referencing, is highly recommended. 
  • Author(s) are requested to register through their ORCID IDs

 

Funding Disclosure Policy

Authors submitting to Margalla Papers must include a dedicated 'Funding' section in their manuscript, positioned after the acknowledgments and before the references. This section ensures transparency regarding any financial support for the research, in alignment with the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines.

If no funding was received, authors should state: "This research received no external funding." If funding exists (e.g., grants, sponsorships, or subsidies), authors must provide full details, including the funder name, grant number (if applicable), and the role of the funder in the study (e.g., design, data collection, analysis, interpretation, or writing). In accordance with COPE's Code of Conduct for Journal Editors, readers should be informed about who has funded the research or other scholarly work and whether the funders had any role in the research and its publication and, if so, what this was. Failure to disclose funding information may result in rejection of the manuscript. This policy applies to all submissions effective from Vol. 29 No. 1 (2025) and supports our commitment to ethical publishing practices.

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  • The submission file is in Microsoft Word file format.
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  • 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 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.
  • ORCID ID has been provided.

Manuscript Requirements

Author(s) is requested to go through Margalla Papers policy guidelines and instructions (given on our website) carefully before submitting the manuscript.

All manuscripts must be accompanied by a brief abstract (it should be properly formatted as justified in Italicized text in Constantia). It should highlight Research Background, Methodology, Major Finding(s), and Conclusion in brief.

The general guidelines for the authors are appended below:

-  Language:                                       British English
-  Abstract:                                         150-250 Words
-  Manuscripts Length:                   5000-6000 Words (approx.)
-  Font and Size:                                Times New Roman, 12 Font Size
-  Spacing:                                          1.5
-  Margin:                                           1 Inch on each side
-  Biographic Sketch of Author:   50 Words
-  Referencing (Endnotes only):   The Chicago Manual of Style (17th Edition) - Click on Chicago Style of Referencing for more details.

A Research Paper should not exceed three (3) Authors. The Principal/ Lead Author should provide each author’s research contribution to the paper.

There should be no conflict of interest among authors regarding the paper submitted.

Copyright Notice

Copyright of an open-access research paper in Margalla Papers is retained by the author(s) due to his/ her original work. Author(s) grants a license to Margalla Papers to publish his/ her research paper and identify itself as the original publisher.

Author(s) is encouraged to post his/ her research work, published in Margalla Papers, online under their names or ID along with DOI/ URL (duly attributing to Margalla Papers as original publisher) to make their publications available to a larger audience to increase the impact factor and citation levels.  

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