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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

The following are the general guidelines for preparing the manuscript for submission in EER.

  1. The article must fit in EER's Aims and Scope.
  2. The manuscript must comply with the APA 7th edition referencing and formatting requirements.
  3. The manuscript must not be more than 7000 words excluding tables and figures.
  4. The manuscript must be written in English (UK).
  5. The manuscript must not have a similarity value of more than 19% from sources other than the author's own thesis. And if the manuscript is extracted from the thesis/dissertation then he/she must provide the proof with a copy of the similarity report and thesis certificate.
  6. The author must provide their official email address and respond to the comments provided by the editorial team, and reviewers in stip­ulated time provided to ensure a smooth process.
  7. The author must provide tables and figures in an editable format that is compatible with black and white printing.
  8. The author must submit a compliance report in a separate document and a manuscript with trackable changes in response to reviewer comments. 
  9. The submitted manuscript must be solely submitted in EER and must not be simultaneously submitted / under review at more than one place.
  10. There should not be any conflict of interest between the authors, funding agency (if any), and the journal.
  11. The data used in the study must be publically available if it is secondary otherwise it may be provided when required by the editorial board.
  12. The order or number of authors will not be changed once the review process has been started.
  13. Once accepted for publication, it is the responsibility of the cor­responding author to provide a signed copyright transfer form from co-authors within the stipulated time.
  14. The journal does not charge any article processing charges or article submission fee.

      During the process of the manuscript, the "Copyright, Author(s) Consent & Declaration Form" is required to be filled by the author. 

     

Copyright Notice

EER follow an open-access publishing policy and the full text of all the articles is available free, immediately upon acceptance. Articles are published and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Thus, work submitted to EER implies that it is original, unpublished work of the authors; neither published previously nor accepted/under consideration for publication elsewhere. On acceptance of a manuscript for publication, the corresponding author on the behalf of all co-authors of the manuscript will to sign and submit a completed Copyright and Author Consent Form.

The authors will be responsible for any information written/informed/reported in the submitted manuscript. Although we do not require authors to submit the data collection documents and coded sheets used to do quantitative or qualitative analysis, we may request it at any time during the publication process, including after the article has been published. It is the author's responsibility to obtain signed permission from the copyright holder to use and reproduce text, illustrations, tables, etc., published previously in other journals, electronic or print media.

Conflict of interest statements will be published at the end of the article. If no conflict of interest exists, the following sentence will be used: "The authors declare no conflict of interest." Authors are required to disclose any sponsorship or funding received from any institution relating to their research. The editor(s) will determine what disclosures, if any, should be available to the readers.

Authors are not permitted to post the work on any website/blog/forum/board or at any other place, by any means, from the time such work is submitted to UMT journals until the final decision on the paper has been given to them. In case a paper is accepted for publication, the authors may not post the work in its entirety on any website/blog/forum/board or at any other place, by any means, till the paper is published in UMT Journals.

The authors may, however, post the title, author’s names and their affiliations and abstract, with the following statement on the first page of the paper - "The manuscript has been accepted for publication in UMT Journals". After the publication of the article, it may be posted anywhere with full journal citation included and it is encouraged by EER to do relevant efforts for dissemination of research.

All articles published in UMT journals are open-access articles, published and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits reproduction, distribution, derives and commercial use, provided the original work is properly cited and authors and the publisher is properly identified.

All authors who send their manuscripts to UMT Journals and whose articles are published will retain full copyright of their articles. Notwithstanding this, the author(s) grant UMT Journal(s), its editors, publishers, owners and other persons associated and other users/readers, a license to use the article as described in the License Agreement section below. In the future, UMT may reproduce printed copies of articles in any form. Without prejudice to the terms of the license given below, we reserve the right to reproduce the author's articles in this way.

Licencing Agreement

The EER follows the licensing agreements by Creative Common Attribution 4.0, which indicates that:

Share -copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format

Adapt- remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.

Author E-prints

UMT supports a range of author benefit policies with respect to providing authors with an e-print and the opportunity to purchase offprints. E-prints are sent out automatically to the corresponding authors of articles published ahead of print and in print issues. A link is provided allowing the author to download the article directly from the UMT journals website and forward the link onto their co-authors. Please refer to the manuscript submission guidelines for the policy of the journal in which you are interested in submitting or publishing your article. 

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