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Author Guidelines

Before you submit

Please make sure that your paper is your own original work, that it has not been published before, and that it is not under consideration by any other journal. A paper that has appeared as a preprint, or that was presented at a conference without being published, may be submitted, and you should say so in your cover note.

How to submit

Submit your paper through the journal’s online submission system at ijlrd.com. You will need:

  1. the manuscript as a Word file (.docx), with no author names anywhere in the file;
  2. a separate title page giving the title, every author’s name, designation, institution, email address and ORCID iD if you have one;
  3. an abstract of 150 to 250 words and four to six keywords, placed at the start of the manuscript;
  4. a short declaration that the work is original, together with any statement on funding or conflicts of interest.

A paper may have up to three authors. Every person named as an author must have taken real part in writing it.

Formatting

  • Font: Times New Roman, 12 point for the text and 10 point for footnotes, with 1.5 line spacing.
  • Headings: numbered, in bold, no more than three levels.
  • Citation: footnotes, following a consistent recognised style. The journal recommends the Bluebook (21st edition) or OSCOLA. Please do not use endnotes or a separate bibliography in place of footnotes.
  • Language: English, in either British or Indian spelling, used consistently.

What happens after you submit

You will receive an acknowledgement by email with your manuscript number. The editors first check that the paper is within scope, complete and original, and this includes a similarity check. Papers that pass go to peer review. You will be told the decision by email, with the reviewers’ comments, and you can follow your paper’s progress on the website with your manuscript number.

If your paper is accepted, you will be asked to sign the publication agreement and pay the publication fee. You will then receive a proof of your article to check before it is published.

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • This submission meets the requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  • This submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration.
  • All references have been checked for accuracy and completeness.
  • All tables and figures have been numbered and labeled.
  • Permission has been obtained to publish all photos, datasets and other material provided with this submission.

Articles

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Copyright Notice

Authors keep the copyright in their articles. By publishing in IJLRD, authors grant Inventive International Publishers the right to publish the article first and to keep it available on the journal’s website and in archives and databases.

Every article is published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC 4.0). Anyone may read, download, share and adapt the article for non-commercial purposes, provided they credit the authors and the journal. Commercial use requires the permission of the authors.

Authors may post the published version of their article in an institutional repository, on a personal website or on academic networking sites, with a citation and a link to the journal.

Privacy Statement

Inventive International Publishers collects the personal information that authors, reviewers and editors give through this website: names, designations, institutions, email addresses, phone numbers and ORCID iDs. It uses this information only to run the journal. That means handling submissions and reviews, sending decisions and certificates, publishing author names and affiliations with articles, and keeping the editorial record.

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Personal information is not sold or shared with anyone outside the journal, except where the law requires it. Authors’ names and affiliations are part of the published record and remain with their articles once published.

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