Submission

Submission Guidelines

International Journal of Politics, Law, and Management (IJPLM) is maintained on a voluntary basis by academics and researchers who take time out of their busy schedules. Editors and Peer-Reviewers of the journal won’t get any sort of financial benefit/payments as the journal is maintained with no funding. Therefore, be cautious while submitting your article and make sure that you followed all the submission guidelines so that it will save the time and energy of our editors and peer-reviewers.

Take note of the following submission guidelines;

1. Submissions should be made in Microsoft Word at the journal submission link given bleow. We accept articles only in the English language.

2. The research article should be original and not previously published.

3. IJPLM has no arbitrary length limits, but we recommend the average article length is between 3000 and 4,500 words including references. 

4. The abstract should consist of 150-200 words

5. Manuscripts submitted should be written in English with Microsoft Word in Times New Roman font, size 12, and with 1.5 line spacing.

6. The full paper should be in Sentence case with Justified alignment (Only the title should be centralized, with 16 Font size)

7. References in the text – usually given at end of a sentence, and in APA format

8. Authors are responsible for obtaining copyright permission for any data or images they did not create themselves.

• There should be a separate cover letter and it should include the following information:

  • Full names of all authors;

  • Details of all authors (academic degree, position, full postal address of affiliation, e-mail & ORCID (Optional);

  • Article title;

  • Abstract.

  • Keywords (5-6)

Peer Review Process

International Journal of Politics, Law, and Management publishes articles based on the peer-review process. All submissions undergo anonymous peer-reviewing. IJPLM editorial staff will inform authors of the outcomes of the peer-review process.

1. The article submitted to the editors is initially assessed for compliance with the submission guidelines. If the article does not comply with the basic norms of submission guidelines, it is not sent for further consideration, and the authors are notified.

2. If the article complies with the submission guidelines, it is sent for the peer review process and the peer-review process is anonymous for reviewers as well as for the authors.

3. The review includes a general evaluation of the article’s quality, analysis of the methodology and tools, analytical and statistical foundations, key provisions, interpretation of findings, references strengths and weaknesses, and suggestions for improvement. 

4. The review process might result in acceptance without any change, acceptance with a minor change, acceptance with a major change, or complete rejection.

5. The editorial board finalizes a publication based on the outcomes of the peer-review process.

   1. If the review process accepts publication, the article will go for publication. The editorial staff informs the author regarding this.

   2. If the review process rejects publication, the editorial board decides whether the article should be rejected or sent for further anonymous review.

   3. If the review process recommends revisions, the article is returned to the author along with the review feedback for revision.

   4. If the review process recommends revisions (minor or major), the author must revise the article as suggested to be considered for publication. The article will not be published unless it has been satisfactorily revised.

   5. In any case, the author will be informed about the status of the submitted paper within 30 days. In case, if you didn’t get any response from our side, you can consider that we didn’t receive the paper.

6. The editorial board reserves the right not to publish the article based on the review process.

7. Once the research paper is accepted for publication, authors should submit the copyright and conflict of interest forms to the journal.

Plagiarism Policy

Plagiarism in any form is prohibited by the publishing policy of the International Journal of Politics, Law, and Management. Plagiarism is the act of copying another author's work without attribution, references, or quotation marks. When more than one sentence within a paragraph or section of a text has been changed or sentences have been rearranged without correct attribution, it is considered improper paraphrasing. Without acknowledgment, reproducing aspects of another author's work (figures, tables, or text snippets) without referencing the usage of quotation marks.

It is understood that by submitting the Author(s) paper to the journal, it is an original manuscript that is unpublished and not under consideration elsewhere. Plagiarism is not accepted by the journal, including duplicate publication of the author's own work in whole or in part without adequate reference. Anti-plagiarism software can be used to check the originality of manuscripts submitted to the journal.

Copyright

Articles submitted to the Journal should not have been previously published in their current or substantially identical form, nor should they be in the process of being published in another journal. All authors who submit work affirm that they have disclosed all actual or possible conflicts of interest related to authorship and publication of the work and that they will hold the publisher harmless if this warranty is breached. Authors grant the publisher a non-exclusive license for ease of distribution and to ensure a good policy of usage.