Preparing your manuscript
Style & formatting
Authors should follow the APA Style (American Psychological Association Style) when formatting manuscripts for submission. For details please consult the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th Edition) and the APA style website https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines.
The manuscript should be edited in Times New Roman, with 10-point font size, single spacing and margins of 1 in. (2.54 cm) on an A4 paper size (8.27×11.69 inches – 210x297mm). Paragraphs should be justified, with the following indentation: Left: 0; Right: 0; Special First Line: 0.5 cm (0.196 inch). (You can use the Normal style provided in the paper template, style section).
Headings
There should be no more than three levels of headings.
Headings should not be numbered (with numbers or letters) and formatted as below:
LEVEL 1 HEADING
TEXT, TEXT, TEXT
First-level headings should be centered, boldface, and uppercase (caps lock), edited in Times New Roman, with 10-point font size, single spacing.
(You can use the Heading 1 style provided in the paper template, style section).
Level 2 heading
Text, text, text
Second-level headings (subsections of first-level headings) should be flush left, boldface, uppercase and lowercase, edited Times New Roman, with 10-point font size, single spacing. Paragraph starts on the next line and should not be indented (Left: 0; Right: 0; Special First Line: 0).
(You can use the Heading 2 style provided in the paper template, style section).
Level 3 heading
Text, text, text
Third-level headings (subsections of second-level headings) should be flush left, boldface, italic, uppercase and lowercase, edited Times New Roman, with 10-point font size, single spacing. Paragraph starts on the next line and should not be indented (Left: 0; Right: 0; Special First Line: 0).
(You can use the Heading 3 style provided in the paper template, style section).
We recommend using headings as follows:
Where headings are referred to in the text, use section names, as headings are not numbered.
Pay attention at the use of headings.
- HEADING 1 should be used to delimitate the main subsection of the paper (Introduction, Literature Review, Methodology of research, Conclusions, Future research and / or limitations of the study, Acknowledgements and References).
- Heading 2 should be used to delimitate the main sub-sections of a section (for example: if the author wants to structure the studies analysed in the Literature Review section; if the author wants to structure the Methodology of research in objectives, hypothesis, data collection, data interpretation etc.
- Heading 3 should be used to delimitate the main sub-subsections of a subsection (usually this type of heading should be used in long paper which require a more detailed structure)
