Submissions

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.

• For Pakistani authors, the publication fee is PKR 20,000 per article, payable only after acceptance following completion of the peer-review process. The publication fee is waived for international authors, provided that both the First Author and the Corresponding Author are affiliated with institutions outside Pakistan.
• Uploaded two files of the manuscript: one without author details and the other with author details (institution, department, current position, email address, contact numbers, and No Conflict of Interest in the article statement).
• The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author's Guidelines i.e. APA citation-referencing style.
• The similarity index and AI-generated content of the manuscript must each be less than 20%. Manuscripts with a similarity index or AI-generated content of 20% or higher may be rejected or returned to the authors for correction, in accordance with the journal's editorial policy.
• 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 Microsoft Word document.