Submissions
Submission Preparation Checklist
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.- Cover letter to the editor - stating the submission is original, has not been previously published, and is not under consideration by any other journal .
- The manuscript is prepared in Microsoft Word (.doc) , using 12-point Times New Roman, 1.5 line spacing, on A4 paper, with margins of 40 mm on the left and 25 mm at the top, bttom, and right.
- Pages are numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals at the bottom centre, beginning with the abstract as page 1; no headers or footers carrying section or chapter titles are used.
- The manuscript is organised as Abstract, Text, Acknowledgements, and References. The abstract does not exceed 250 words and states the problem, methods, main results, and conclusions.
- The title is centred and followed by all author(s) name(s) in full, stating indiviual affiliation(s), with the email i,d of all authors of the article and the corresponding author is clearly indicated.
- Sources are cited in the text using numbered citations in square brackets (e.g., [1], [2], [3]), and footnotes and endnotes are used appropriatley. Every numbered in-text citation must correspond to a reference in the reference list. References should be made in IEEE reference sytle.
- Figures and tables are numbered consecutively, placed after their first mention in the text, and each carries a caption (figure captions below the figure, table captions above the table).
- The manuscript has been prepared with a lenght between 6000 to 8000 words, indicating all author names, affiliations, email i.d , corresponding author and their email, with atleast 5 keywords separated by (;)
- The research complies with applicable ethical standards; ethical approval and informed consent have been obtained where relevant, conflicts of interest are declared, and permission has been obtained for any third-party material.
- The manuscript should be checked for plagarism and the similarity percentage should be less than 20 %
Regular Articles - NORMAL ISSUE
Authors are encouraged to submit their regular articles as normal standard submissions.
Symposium Papers - SPECIAL ISSUE
AUTHORS - Select this section ONLY if your manuscript was presented at the THE 2nd NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON RESEARCH AND INNOVATION 2nd to 5th December 2025, Garden Court, Kitwe., Zambia. "Any other Standard submissions will be rejected from this track." apart from this.
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