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Author Guidelines

Author’s General Guidelines

To all authors, please

1. read the FOCUS and SCOPE to gain an overview and assess whether your manuscript is appropriate for this journal;
2. use the Microsoft (MS) Word template or LaTeX template to prepare your manuscript, you can download article templates from the journal article template page (however, this will not mean that your manuscript will be readily accepted by the editor);
3. make sure that issues about publication ethics, copyright, authorship, figure formats, data and references format have been appropriately considered, please check the journal’s editorial policy and publication policy;
4. ensure that all authors have approved the content of the submitted manuscript (a maximum of five (5) authors per article is suitable); and
5. ensure that the submitted Manuscript should neither be published previously nor be under consideration for publication in another journal.

Types of Publications

The journal has some restrictions on the length of manuscripts (ideally 3,000-8,000 words including references) and the text should be concise and comprehensive. Full experimental details must be disclosed so that the results can be reproduced and the process can be replicated. The journal requires that authors should publish all experimental controls and make full datasets available where possible.

Manuscripts submitted to this journal should neither be published previously nor be under consideration for publication in another journal. The main article types are as follows:

• Articles: Original research manuscripts. The journal considers all original research manuscripts provided that the work reports scientifically sound experiments and provides a substantial amount of new information. Authors should not unnecessarily divide their work into several related manuscripts, although Short Communications of preliminary, but significant, results will be considered. Quality and impact of the study will be considered during peer review.
• Reviews: These provide concise and precise updates on the latest progress made in a given area of research. Systematic reviews should follow the PRISMA Guidelines

Manuscript Preparation

Research manuscripts should comprise:
• FIRST PAGE: Title, Author list, Affiliations, Abstract, Keywords
• ARTICLE/ MANUSCRIPT PAGE: Introduction (including Literature Review), Research Methodology, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, Recommendations/ Implications of the Study.
• LAST PAGE(S): Supplementary Materials, Acknowledgments, Author Contributions, Conflicts of Interest, References.

FIRST PAGE
These sections should appear in all manuscript types
• Title: The title of your manuscript should be concise, specific and relevant. It should identify if the study reports (human or animal) trial data, or is a systematic review, meta-analysis or replication study.

• Author List and Affiliations: Authors' full first and last names must be provided. The initials of any middle names can be added. The APA standard format is used for affiliations: complete address information including city, zip code, state/province, and country and his/her ORCID. At least one author should be designated as corresponding author, and his or her email address should be included at the author note.

• Abstract: The abstract should be between 150-300 words maximum. The abstract should be a single paragraph and should follow the style of structured abstracts, but without headings: 1) Background: Place the question addressed in a broad context and highlight the purpose of the study; 2) Methods: Describe briefly the main methods or treatments applied. Include any relevant preregistration numbers, and species and strains of any animals used. 3) Results: Summarize the article's main findings; and 4) Conclusion: Indicate the main conclusions or interpretations. The abstract should be an objective representation of the article: it must not contain results which are not presented and substantiated in the main text and should not exaggerate the main conclusions.

• Keywords: Four to five pertinent keywords need to be added after the abstract. The journal recommends that the keywords are specific to the article, yet reasonably common within the subject discipline.

ARTICLE/ MANUSCRIPT PAGE
• Introduction: The introduction should briefly place the study in a broad context and highlight why it is important. It should define the purpose of the work and its significance, including specific hypotheses being tested. The current state of the research field should be reviewed carefully and key publications cited. Please highlight controversial and diverging hypotheses when necessary. Finally, briefly mention the main aim of the workand highlight the main conclusions. Keep the introduction comprehensible to scientists working outside the topic of the paper.

• Literature Review: This section is dedicated to the significant literature resources that contributed to the research. The author should survey scholarly articles, books and other sources relevant to the area of research, providing a description, summary, and critical evaluation of each work.
• Research Methodology: They should be described with sufficient detail to allow others to replicate and build on published results. New methods and protocols should be described in detail while well-established methods can be briefly described and appropriately cited. Give the name and version of any software used and make clear whether computer code used is available. Include any pre-registration codes. Ideally, it contains the following subsections: the research design, the sampling, the instrument(s)/ tool(s), the data analysis, and if possible ethical considerations.

• Results/ Findings: Provide a concise and precise description of the experimental results, their interpretation as well as the experimental conclusions that can be drawn from the tables or illustration that were presented in the study.

• Discussion: Authors should discuss the results/ findings and how they can be interpreted in perspective of previous studies and of the working hypotheses. The results/ findings and their implications should be discussed in the broadest context possible and limitations of the work highlighted. Future research directions may also be mentioned. This section may be combined with Results in some circumstances.

• Conclusions: The author should clearly explain the important conclusions of the research highlighting its significance and relevance. This section can be added to the manuscript if the discussion is unusually long or complex.

LAST PAGE(S)
• Supplementary Materials: Describe any supplementary material published online alongside the manuscript (figure, tables, video, spreadsheets, etc.). Please indicate the name and title of each element as follows Figure S1: title, Table S1: title, etc.

• Acknowledgments: All sources of funding of the study should be disclosed. Clearly indicate grants that you have received in support of your research work and if you received funds to cover publication costs. Note that some funders will not refund article processing charges (APC) if the funder and grant number are not clearly and correctly identified in the paper. Funding information can be entered separately into the submission system by the authors during submission of their manuscript. Such funding information, if available, will be deposited to FundRef if the manuscript is finally published.

• Author Contributions: Each author is expected to have made substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data; or the creation of new software used in the work; or have drafted the work or substantively revised it; AND has approved the submitted version (and version substantially edited by journal staff that involves the author’s contribution to the study); AND agrees to be personally accountable for the author’s own contributions and for ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work, even ones in which the author was not personally involved, are appropriately investigated, resolved, and documented in the literature.
For research articles with several authors, a short paragraph specifying their individual contributions must be provided. The following statements should be used "Conceptualization, X.X. and Y.Y.; Methodology, X.X.; Software, X.X.; Validation, X.X., Y.Y. and Z.Z.; Formal Analysis, X.X.; Investigation, X.X.; Resources, X.X.; Data Curation, X.X.; Writing – Original Draft Preparation, X.X.; Writing – Review & Editing, X.X.; Visualization, X.X.; Supervision, X.X.; Project Administration, X.X.; Funding Acquisition, Y.Y.”.

• Conflicts of Interest: Authors must identify and declare any personal circumstances or interest that may be perceived as inappropriately influencing the representation or interpretation of reported research results. If there is no conflict of interest, please state "The authors declare no conflict of interest." Any role of the funding sponsors in the design of the study; in the collection, analyses or interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript, or in the decision to publish the results must be declared in this section. If there is no role, please state “The founding sponsors had no role in the design of the study; in the collection, analyses, or interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript, and in the decision to publish the results”.

• References: References must be alphabetical in order and follows the APA 7th Edition style. The journal recommends preparing the references with a bibliography software package, such as EndNote, ReferenceManager or Zotero to avoid typing mistakes and duplicated references. The journal also encourages citations to data, computer code and other citable research material.
• Citations and References in Supplementary files are permitted provided that they also appear in the main text and in the reference list.

• Please download the journal’s article template to see the reference style that you should follow.

ADDITIONAL MANUSCRIPT FORMAT
Tables
• The format of headings, tables, figures, citations, references, and other details follow the APA 7 style as described in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 7th edition, available from http://www.apa.org

Figures
• All illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.

References
• References are listed in alphabetical order. Each listed reference is cited in text, and each text citation is listed in the References. Basic formats are as follows: Use APA 7 Manual.
• The in-text citations and bibliography are appropriate for the examples given below.

The Processes of Reviewing and Publishing Manuscripts
The reviewing process of the manuscripts sent to the journal proceeds the following steps:
1. The manuscript is reviewed by the Editor to see whether its aims, subject, content, and style of writing fit the requirements of the journal (Maximum 10 days). The manuscript is approved by the Editor, sent to Section Editor. Other manuscripts not approved by the Editor send back to their authors/owners for revision and resubmission
2. The examination/review of the Section Editor results in the decision of either sending the manuscript to reviewers or returning them back to their authors/owners for revision (Maximum 10 days).
3. The selection processes of referees are based on expertise and experience in the relevant field. The referees are given 15 days to review a manuscript sent to them.
4. If a reviewer thinks that she/he cannot complete the reviewing process within the given time, she/he can ask the Editor for extra time or let the Editor know that she/he is not being able to review the manuscript due to various reasons, such as the shortage of time. Doing these things help the Editor to assign new reviewers without losing too much time.
5. If a reviewer cannot review the manuscript assigned to her/him within the given scope of time, she/he is sent a reminder e-mail with an additional 10 days for completing the reviewing process. If she/he does not return the reviewed manuscripts within the additional time, that manuscript may withdraw from her/him. After then, it is assigned to another referee.
6. If there is a divergence of opinion between the two reviewers (one accepting the manuscript and the other rejecting it), the section editor examines the review reports, compares and contrasts the reviewers’ critics and viewpoints, as well as their reasoning to arrive at a decision.
7. If the Section Editor may not arrive at a decision after examining the reviewer reports, then the manuscript is assigned to a third reviewer.
8. The decision for a manuscript is supposed to be given within the first 90-120 days. Then the authors are informed about the decision. The accepted papers are to be published in the following issue of the journal.

Transparency
• The principle of transparency is at the core of the correspondences among the authors, the Editor, and the Section Editor of the journal. However, the principle of privacy of the authors’ identity has to be kept safe in correspondence between the Editor or the Section Editor and the reviewers. Besides, the identities of the reviewers are not included in the reports sent to the authors.
• If a reviewer thinks that the manuscript assigned to her/him contains any problem related to research ethics or the data used in the study, or she/he believes that there is a conflict of interest between her/him and the author(s), she/he has to share these issues with the Editor before commencing the process of reviewing.
• In order to attain an integrated and coherent reviewing process, and to contribute to the author’s academic development, the Editor may ask the reviewers to read each other’s reports and then comment on the report she/he read. In the case of this situation, the names and identities of the reviewers have to be kept anonymous.

Flow Chart of the Manuscript Review Process

Author’s General Guidelines

To all authors, please

1. read the FOCUS and SCOPE to gain an overview and assess whether your manuscript is appropriate for this journal;
2. use the Microsoft (MS) Word template or LaTeX template to prepare your manuscript, you can download article templates from the journal article template page (however, this will not mean that your manuscript will be readily accepted by the editor);
3. make sure that issues about publication ethics, copyright, authorship, figure formats, data and references format have been appropriately considered, please check the journal’s editorial policy and publication policy;
4. ensure that all authors have approved the content of the submitted manuscript (a maximum of five (5) authors per article is suitable); and
5. ensure that the submitted Manuscript should neither be published previously nor be under consideration for publication in another journal.

Types of Publications

The journal has some restrictions on the length of manuscripts (ideally 3,000-8,000 words including references) and the text should be concise and comprehensive. Full experimental details must be disclosed so that the results can be reproduced and the process can be replicated. The journal requires that authors should publish all experimental controls and make full datasets available where possible.

Manuscripts submitted to this journal should neither be published previously nor be under consideration for publication in another journal. The main article types are as follows:

• Articles: Original research manuscripts. The journal considers all original research manuscripts provided that the work reports scientifically sound experiments and provides a substantial amount of new information. Authors should not unnecessarily divide their work into several related manuscripts, although Short Communications of preliminary, but significant, results will be considered. Quality and impact of the study will be considered during peer review.
• Reviews: These provide concise and precise updates on the latest progress made in a given area of research. Systematic reviews should follow the PRISMA Guidelines

Manuscript Preparation

Research manuscripts should comprise:
• FIRST PAGE: Title, Author list, Affiliations, Abstract, Keywords
• ARTICLE/ MANUSCRIPT PAGE: Introduction (including Literature Review), Research Methodology, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, Recommendations/ Implications of the Study.
• LAST PAGE(S): Supplementary Materials, Acknowledgments, Author Contributions, Conflicts of Interest, References.

FIRST PAGE
These sections should appear in all manuscript types
• Title: The title of your manuscript should be concise, specific and relevant. It should identify if the study reports (human or animal) trial data, or is a systematic review, meta-analysis or replication study.

• Author List and Affiliations: Authors' full first and last names must be provided. The initials of any middle names can be added. The APA standard format is used for affiliations: complete address information including city, zip code, state/province, and country and his/her ORCID. At least one author should be designated as corresponding author, and his or her email address should be included at the author note.

• Abstract: The abstract should be between 150-300 words maximum. The abstract should be a single paragraph and should follow the style of structured abstracts, but without headings: 1) Background: Place the question addressed in a broad context and highlight the purpose of the study; 2) Methods: Describe briefly the main methods or treatments applied. Include any relevant preregistration numbers, and species and strains of any animals used. 3) Results: Summarize the article's main findings; and 4) Conclusion: Indicate the main conclusions or interpretations. The abstract should be an objective representation of the article: it must not contain results which are not presented and substantiated in the main text and should not exaggerate the main conclusions.

• Keywords: Four to five pertinent keywords need to be added after the abstract. The journal recommends that the keywords are specific to the article, yet reasonably common within the subject discipline.

ARTICLE/ MANUSCRIPT PAGE
• Introduction: The introduction should briefly place the study in a broad context and highlight why it is important. It should define the purpose of the work and its significance, including specific hypotheses being tested. The current state of the research field should be reviewed carefully and key publications cited. Please highlight controversial and diverging hypotheses when necessary. Finally, briefly mention the main aim of the workand highlight the main conclusions. Keep the introduction comprehensible to scientists working outside the topic of the paper.

• Literature Review: This section is dedicated to the significant literature resources that contributed to the research. The author should survey scholarly articles, books and other sources relevant to the area of research, providing a description, summary, and critical evaluation of each work.
• Research Methodology: They should be described with sufficient detail to allow others to replicate and build on published results. New methods and protocols should be described in detail while well-established methods can be briefly described and appropriately cited. Give the name and version of any software used and make clear whether computer code used is available. Include any pre-registration codes. Ideally, it contains the following subsections: the research design, the sampling, the instrument(s)/ tool(s), the data analysis, and if possible ethical considerations.

• Results/ Findings: Provide a concise and precise description of the experimental results, their interpretation as well as the experimental conclusions that can be drawn from the tables or illustration that were presented in the study.

• Discussion: Authors should discuss the results/ findings and how they can be interpreted in perspective of previous studies and of the working hypotheses. The results/ findings and their implications should be discussed in the broadest context possible and limitations of the work highlighted. Future research directions may also be mentioned. This section may be combined with Results in some circumstances.

• Conclusions: The author should clearly explain the important conclusions of the research highlighting its significance and relevance. This section can be added to the manuscript if the discussion is unusually long or complex.

LAST PAGE(S)
• Supplementary Materials: Describe any supplementary material published online alongside the manuscript (figure, tables, video, spreadsheets, etc.). Please indicate the name and title of each element as follows Figure S1: title, Table S1: title, etc.

• Acknowledgments: All sources of funding of the study should be disclosed. Clearly indicate grants that you have received in support of your research work and if you received funds to cover publication costs. Note that some funders will not refund article processing charges (APC) if the funder and grant number are not clearly and correctly identified in the paper. Funding information can be entered separately into the submission system by the authors during submission of their manuscript. Such funding information, if available, will be deposited to FundRef if the manuscript is finally published.

• Author Contributions: Each author is expected to have made substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data; or the creation of new software used in the work; or have drafted the work or substantively revised it; AND has approved the submitted version (and version substantially edited by journal staff that involves the author’s contribution to the study); AND agrees to be personally accountable for the author’s own contributions and for ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work, even ones in which the author was not personally involved, are appropriately investigated, resolved, and documented in the literature.
For research articles with several authors, a short paragraph specifying their individual contributions must be provided. The following statements should be used "Conceptualization, X.X. and Y.Y.; Methodology, X.X.; Software, X.X.; Validation, X.X., Y.Y. and Z.Z.; Formal Analysis, X.X.; Investigation, X.X.; Resources, X.X.; Data Curation, X.X.; Writing – Original Draft Preparation, X.X.; Writing – Review & Editing, X.X.; Visualization, X.X.; Supervision, X.X.; Project Administration, X.X.; Funding Acquisition, Y.Y.”.

• Conflicts of Interest: Authors must identify and declare any personal circumstances or interest that may be perceived as inappropriately influencing the representation or interpretation of reported research results. If there is no conflict of interest, please state "The authors declare no conflict of interest." Any role of the funding sponsors in the design of the study; in the collection, analyses or interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript, or in the decision to publish the results must be declared in this section. If there is no role, please state “The founding sponsors had no role in the design of the study; in the collection, analyses, or interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript, and in the decision to publish the results”.

• References: References must be alphabetical in order and follows the APA 7th Edition style. The journal recommends preparing the references with a bibliography software package, such as EndNote, ReferenceManager or Zotero to avoid typing mistakes and duplicated references. The journal also encourages citations to data, computer code and other citable research material.
• Citations and References in Supplementary files are permitted provided that they also appear in the main text and in the reference list.

• Please download the journal’s article template to see the reference style that you should follow.

ADDITIONAL MANUSCRIPT FORMAT
Tables
• The format of headings, tables, figures, citations, references, and other details follow the APA 7 style as described in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 7th edition, available from http://www.apa.org

Figures
• All illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.

References
• References are listed in alphabetical order. Each listed reference is cited in text, and each text citation is listed in the References. Basic formats are as follows: Use APA 7 Manual.
• The in-text citations and bibliography are appropriate for the examples given below.

The Processes of Reviewing and Publishing Manuscripts
The reviewing process of the manuscripts sent to the journal proceeds the following steps:
1. The manuscript is reviewed by the Editor to see whether its aims, subject, content, and style of writing fit the requirements of the journal (Maximum 10 days). The manuscript is approved by the Editor, sent to Section Editor. Other manuscripts not approved by the Editor send back to their authors/owners for revision and resubmission
2. The examination/review of the Section Editor results in the decision of either sending the manuscript to reviewers or returning them back to their authors/owners for revision (Maximum 10 days).
3. The selection processes of referees are based on expertise and experience in the relevant field. The referees are given 15 days to review a manuscript sent to them.
4. If a reviewer thinks that she/he cannot complete the reviewing process within the given time, she/he can ask the Editor for extra time or let the Editor know that she/he is not being able to review the manuscript due to various reasons, such as the shortage of time. Doing these things help the Editor to assign new reviewers without losing too much time.
5. If a reviewer cannot review the manuscript assigned to her/him within the given scope of time, she/he is sent a reminder e-mail with an additional 10 days for completing the reviewing process. If she/he does not return the reviewed manuscripts within the additional time, that manuscript may withdraw from her/him. After then, it is assigned to another referee.
6. If there is a divergence of opinion between the two reviewers (one accepting the manuscript and the other rejecting it), the section editor examines the review reports, compares and contrasts the reviewers’ critics and viewpoints, as well as their reasoning to arrive at a decision.
7. If the Section Editor may not arrive at a decision after examining the reviewer reports, then the manuscript is assigned to a third reviewer.
8. The decision for a manuscript is supposed to be given within the first 90-120 days. Then the authors are informed about the decision. The accepted papers are to be published in the following issue of the journal.

Transparency
• The principle of transparency is at the core of the correspondences among the authors, the Editor, and the Section Editor of the journal. However, the principle of privacy of the authors’ identity has to be kept safe in correspondence between the Editor or the Section Editor and the reviewers. Besides, the identities of the reviewers are not included in the reports sent to the authors.
• If a reviewer thinks that the manuscript assigned to her/him contains any problem related to research ethics or the data used in the study, or she/he believes that there is a conflict of interest between her/him and the author(s), she/he has to share these issues with the Editor before commencing the process of reviewing.
• In order to attain an integrated and coherent reviewing process, and to contribute to the author’s academic development, the Editor may ask the reviewers to read each other’s reports and then comment on the report she/he read. In the case of this situation, the names and identities of the reviewers have to be kept anonymous.

Flow Chart of the Manuscript Review Process

1. read the FOCUS and SCOPE to gain an overview and assess whether your manuscript is appropriate for this journal;
2. use the Microsoft (MS) Word template or LaTeX template to prepare your manuscript, you can download article templates from the journal article template page (however, this will not mean that your manuscript will be readily accepted by the editor);
3. make sure that issues about publication ethics, copyright, authorship, figure formats, data and references format have been appropriately considered, please check the journal’s editorial policy and publication policy;
4. ensure that all authors have approved the content of the submitted manuscript (a maximum of five (5) authors per article is suitable); and
5. ensure that the submitted Manuscript should neither be published previously nor be under consideration for publication in another journal.

Types of Publications

The journal has some restrictions on the length of manuscripts (ideally 3,000-8,000 words including references) and the text should be concise and comprehensive. Full experimental details must be disclosed so that the results can be reproduced and the process can be replicated. The journal requires that authors should publish all experimental controls and make full datasets available where possible.

Manuscripts submitted to this journal should neither be published previously nor be under consideration for publication in another journal. The main article types are as follows:

• Articles: Original research manuscripts. The journal considers all original research manuscripts provided that the work reports scientifically sound experiments and provides a substantial amount of new information. Authors should not unnecessarily divide their work into several related manuscripts, although Short Communications of preliminary, but significant, results will be considered. Quality and impact of the study will be considered during peer review.
• Reviews: These provide concise and precise updates on the latest progress made in a given area of research. Systematic reviews should follow the PRISMA Guidelines

Manuscript Preparation

Research manuscripts should comprise:

• FIRST PAGE: Title, Author list, Affiliations, Abstract, Keywords
• ARTICLE/ MANUSCRIPT PAGE: Introduction (including Literature Review), Research Methodology, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, Recommendations/ Implications of the Study.
• LAST PAGE(S): Supplementary Materials, Acknowledgments, Author Contributions, Conflicts of Interest, References.

FIRST PAGE

These sections should appear in all manuscript types

• Title: The title of your manuscript should be concise, specific and relevant. It should identify if the study reports (human or animal) trial data, or is a systematic review, meta-analysis or replication study.

• Author List and Affiliations: Authors' full first and last names must be provided. The initials of any middle names can be added. The APA standard format is used for affiliations: complete address information including city, zip code, state/province, and country and his/her ORCID. At least one author should be designated as corresponding author, and his or her email address should be included at the author note.

• Abstract: The abstract should be between 150-300 words maximum. The abstract should be a single paragraph and should follow the style of structured abstracts, but without headings: 1) Background: Place the question addressed in a broad context and highlight the purpose of the study; 2) Methods: Describe briefly the main methods or treatments applied. Include any relevant preregistration numbers, and species and strains of any animals used. 3) Results: Summarize the article's main findings; and 4) Conclusion: Indicate the main conclusions or interpretations. The abstract should be an objective representation of the article: it must not contain results which are not presented and substantiated in the main text and should not exaggerate the main conclusions.

• Keywords: Four to five pertinent keywords need to be added after the abstract. The journal recommends that the keywords are specific to the article, yet reasonably common within the subject discipline.

ARTICLE/ MANUSCRIPT PAGE

• Introduction: The introduction should briefly place the study in a broad context and highlight why it is important. It should define the purpose of the work and its significance, including specific hypotheses being tested. The current state of the research field should be reviewed carefully and key publications cited. Please highlight controversial and diverging hypotheses when necessary. Finally, briefly mention the main aim of the workand highlight the main conclusions. Keep the introduction comprehensible to scientists working outside the topic of the paper.

• Literature Review: This section is dedicated to the significant literature resources that contributed to the research. The author should survey scholarly articles, books and other sources relevant to the area of research, providing a description, summary, and critical evaluation of each work.
• Research Methodology: They should be described with sufficient detail to allow others to replicate and build on published results. New methods and protocols should be described in detail while well-established methods can be briefly described and appropriately cited. Give the name and version of any software used and make clear whether computer code used is available. Include any pre-registration codes. Ideally, it contains the following subsections: the research design, the sampling, the instrument(s)/ tool(s), the data analysis, and if possible ethical considerations.

• Results/ Findings: Provide a concise and precise description of the experimental results, their interpretation as well as the experimental conclusions that can be drawn from the tables or illustration that were presented in the study.

• Discussion: Authors should discuss the results/ findings and how they can be interpreted in perspective of previous studies and of the working hypotheses. The results/ findings and their implications should be discussed in the broadest context possible and limitations of the work highlighted. Future research directions may also be mentioned. This section may be combined with Results in some circumstances.

• Conclusions: The author should clearly explain the important conclusions of the research highlighting its significance and relevance. This section can be added to the manuscript if the discussion is unusually long or complex.

LAST PAGE(S)

• Supplementary Materials: Describe any supplementary material published online alongside the manuscript (figure, tables, video, spreadsheets, etc.). Please indicate the name and title of each element as follows Figure S1: title, Table S1: title, etc.

• Acknowledgments: All sources of funding of the study should be disclosed. Clearly indicate grants that you have received in support of your research work and if you received funds to cover publication costs. Note that some funders will not refund article processing charges (APC) if the funder and grant number are not clearly and correctly identified in the paper. Funding information can be entered separately into the submission system by the authors during submission of their manuscript. Such funding information, if available, will be deposited to FundRef if the manuscript is finally published.

• Author Contributions: Each author is expected to have made substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data; or the creation of new software used in the work; or have drafted the work or substantively revised it; AND has approved the submitted version (and version substantially edited by journal staff that involves the author’s contribution to the study); AND agrees to be personally accountable for the author’s own contributions and for ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work, even ones in which the author was not personally involved, are appropriately investigated, resolved, and documented in the literature.
  For research articles with several authors, a short paragraph specifying their individual contributions must be provided. The following statements should be used "Conceptualization, X.X. and Y.Y.; Methodology, X.X.; Software, X.X.; Validation, X.X., Y.Y. and Z.Z.; Formal Analysis, X.X.; Investigation, X.X.; Resources, X.X.; Data Curation, X.X.; Writing – Original Draft Preparation, X.X.; Writing – Review & Editing, X.X.; Visualization, X.X.; Supervision, X.X.; Project Administration, X.X.; Funding Acquisition, Y.Y.”.

• Conflicts of Interest: Authors must identify and declare any personal circumstances or interest that may be perceived as inappropriately influencing the representation or interpretation of reported research results. If there is no conflict of interest, please state "The authors declare no conflict of interest." Any role of the funding sponsors in the design of the study; in the collection, analyses or interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript, or in the decision to publish the results must be declared in this section. If there is no role, please state “The founding sponsors had no role in the design of the study; in the collection, analyses, or interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript, and in the decision to publish the results”.

• References: References must be alphabetical in order and follows the APA 7^th Edition style. The journal recommends preparing the references with a bibliography software package, such as EndNote, ReferenceManager or Zotero to avoid typing mistakes and duplicated references. The journal also encourages citations to data, computer code and other citable research material.
• Citations and References in Supplementary files are permitted provided that they also appear in the main text and in the reference list.

• Please download the journal’s article template to see the reference style that you should follow.

ADDITIONAL MANUSCRIPT FORMAT

Tables

• The format of headings, tables, figures, citations, references, and other details follow the APA 7 style as described in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 7th edition, available from http://www.apa.org

Figures

• All illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.

References

• References are listed in alphabetical order. Each listed reference is cited in text, and each text citation is listed in the References. Basic formats are as follows: Use APA 7 Manual.
• The in-text citations and bibliography are appropriate for the examples given below.

The Processes of Reviewing and Publishing Manuscripts

The reviewing process of the manuscripts sent to the journal proceeds the following steps:

1. The manuscript is reviewed by the Editor to see whether its aims, subject, content, and style of writing fit the requirements of the journal (Maximum 10 days). The manuscript is approved by the Editor, sent to Section Editor. Other manuscripts not approved by the Editor send back to their authors/owners for revision and resubmission
2. The examination/review of the Section Editor results in the decision of either sending the manuscript to reviewers or returning them back to their authors/owners for revision (Maximum 10 days).
3. The selection processes of referees are based on expertise and experience in the relevant field. The referees are given 15 days to review a manuscript sent to them.  
4. If a reviewer thinks that she/he cannot complete the reviewing process within the given time, she/he can ask the Editor for extra time or let the Editor know that she/he is not being able to review the manuscript due to various reasons, such as the shortage of time. Doing these things help the Editor to assign new reviewers without losing too much time.
5. If a reviewer cannot review the manuscript assigned to her/him within the given scope of time, she/he is sent a reminder e-mail with an additional 10 days for completing the reviewing process. If she/he does not return the reviewed manuscripts within the additional time, that manuscript may withdraw from her/him. After then, it is assigned to another referee.
6. If there is a divergence of opinion between the two reviewers (one accepting the manuscript and the other rejecting it), the section editor examines the review reports, compares and contrasts the reviewers’ critics and viewpoints, as well as their reasoning to arrive at a decision. 
7. If the Section Editor may not arrive at a decision after examining the reviewer reports, then the manuscript is assigned to a third reviewer.
8. The decision for a manuscript is supposed to be given within the first 90-120 days. Then the authors are informed about the decision. The accepted papers are to be published in the following issue of the journal.

Transparency

• The principle of transparency is at the core of the correspondences among the authors, the Editor, and the Section Editor of the journal. However, the principle of privacy of the authors’ identity has to be kept safe in correspondence between the Editor or the Section Editor and the reviewers. Besides, the identities of the reviewers are not included in the reports sent to the authors.
• If a reviewer thinks that the manuscript assigned to her/him contains any problem related to research ethics or the data used in the study, or she/he believes that there is a conflict of interest between her/him and the author(s), she/he has to share these issues with the Editor before commencing the process of reviewing. 
• In order to attain an integrated and coherent reviewing process, and to contribute to the author’s academic development, the Editor may ask the reviewers to read each other’s reports and then comment on the report she/he read. In the case of this situation, the names and identities of the reviewers have to be kept anonymous. 

Flow Chart of the Manuscript Review Process