Author Guidelines
Author's Guidelines
The Journal is devoted to promoting rapid dissemination of original research papers in the relevant disciplines of particular importance. The primary emphasis will be placed on original research contributions, preliminary communications and reviews on current developments containing full details presented from Social, Natural, Behavioral Sciences, Engineering and Languages. It will bring together researchers from different specializations. SJR will be a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary International Journal that will be bi-annually published by the Institute of Southern Punjab (ISP), Multan (Pakistan). SJR will be purely an academic Journal and will cover both applied and theoretical issues of all disciplines in English Language. Likely subscribers will be the Universities, Research Institutions and individual researchers. Authors are requested to read these instructions carefully before formatting the manuscript.
Organization of The Manuscript
The title should be clear, informative and concise and should be centered and typed in bold with Arial font and size of 15pt. Author's name is to be bold and centered below the title in the form: Given name (or initial) and family name in Times New Roman and size of 10pt. Author affiliations (department, faculty & institutional information) must be provided below the names in Times New Roman and font size of 10pt. Maximum 4-5 keywords must be mentioned below the abstract. The article should be prepared in Times New Roman, and font size of 10pt with line spacing of 1.5. All the main headings will be bold, Times New Roman with 11pt font size, whereas, subheadings should be italics. The body of article should be organized in the following manner: Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgement and References. Template for research articles is available on website:
https://sjr.isp.edu.pk/index.php/journal/index
Authors are requested to follow the same guidelines for submission of manuscript.
Double-Blind Peer Review Policy
This journal uses double-blind review, which means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process. To facilitate this, authors need to ensure that their manuscripts are prepared in a way that does not give away their identity. To help with this preparation please submit the Title Page containing the Authors details and Blinded Manuscript with no author details as 2 separate files.
Article Processing Charges (APC)
There are no publication/processing charges for publication of research articles.
Ethical Issues
The corresponding Author on behalf of joint authors will submit an undertaking that: The contents of the paper are original but not plagiarized. Paper submitted to SJR has not been previously published and not under consideration for publication in any other medium. Authors who do not comply with these guidelines and policies of Higher Education Commission (HEC) may be liable to punitive action. The paper is submitted in SJR solely from research point of view under no compulsion. Additionally, no financial involvements affect this submission of research.
Illustrations
All illustrations must be in the form of Photographs and must be numbered in sequence. Each illustration must be referred to in the text. It should be provided with the caption giving sufficient information for the figure without reference to the text. All text and illustrations must be within the allowed area as per attached template.
Tables
Tables are often economic way of presenting data. All tables must be numbered in sequence with Latin numerals both in the text and in the heading of each table. The heading should be informative for the table to be understood without reference to the text. These are inserted in the appropriate place in the text.
References
References should be placed at the end of the manuscript in APA style. These should be in the general form as:
Aslam, M., Shafigh, P., & Jumaat, M. Z. (2016). Drying shrinkage behaviour of structural lightweight aggregate concrete. Journal of Cleaner Production, 127, 183-194.
Correspondence and Submission
The copy of manuscript should be submitted to the: Editor-in-Chief, Southern Journal of Research (SJR), Institute of Southern Punjab, 9-KM Bosan Road, Multan, Pakistan.
Submission is made online: https://sjr.isp.edu.pk/index.php/journal/index
For further queries, contact: [email protected]
Privacy Statement
The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated
purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.
Disclaimer
The opinions expressed in Southern Journal of Research (SJR) are those of the authors and contributors, and do not necessarily reflect those of the journal management, advisory and editorial boards. Papers published are processed through double blind peer-review by respective subject experts/specialists and language experts. Neither the Institute of Southern Punjab, (ISP) nor the editors of SJR can be held responsible for errors nor any consequences arising from the
use of information contained in SJR, instead; should errors be reported directly to the corresponding author of the articles.
