INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS
Welcome to the manuscript submission guidelines of the Asian Research Association (ARA). These guidelines are designed to help authors prepare, format, and submit their research manuscripts in accordance with the journal's publication standards and ethical requirements.
Before submitting your manuscript, we strongly encourage all authors to carefully read and understand the instructions provided in the following sections.
The information presented below covers all essential aspects of manuscript preparation, including submission requirements, document formatting, authorship responsibilities, ethical considerations, title page preparation, manuscript structure, reference formatting, figures and tables, acknowledgements, and reviewer recommendations.
SUBMISSION PROCESS
- All manuscripts must be submitted electronically through the online submission system.
- Authors are advised to follow the Author Guideline before preparing the manuscript.
- We do not accept multiple submissions from the same authors simultaneously.
- The corresponding author is responsible for communication during review and publication.
NEW MANUSCRIPTS
Authors can submit their article as a single Word document or PDF for the reviewing process.
- FORMATTING
- TITLE PAGE
FORMATTING
<p>Abstract (200-350 words), Keywords (4-6), Introduction, Materials & Methods, Figures and Tables with Captions, Results and Discussion, Conclusions, Acknowledgement, Funding Details, Author Contributions, Conflict of Interest, and other Ethics Statements.</p>
TITLE PAGE
The title page is a separate page that comes before the content.
Title
Concise and instructive. Avoid acronyms and formulae wherever possible.
Authors' Names and Affiliations
Corresponding author must be specified to handle contact during the reviewing, publishing, and post-publication processes.
Author's Contact Information
Provide phone number, email address, ORCID ID, and complete postal address.
Acknowledgements
Contributors who fail to meet the criteria for authorship should be acknowledged in the acknowledgements section.
If the manuscript was submitted on behalf of a consortium, the names and affiliations of all authors must be listed in the acknowledgements section.