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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.
  • 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 OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

IJMEBA Manuscript Template

Authors must prepare their manuscript using the official IJMEBA template. Manuscripts that do not follow the template may be returned before peer review.

Download IJMEBA Manuscript Template (.DOCX)

Title
maximum 15–18 words;
informative and specific;
avoid uncommon abbreviations;
use title case consistently;
reflect the construct, context, or primary method.
Author information
full name;
full affiliation;
city and country;
corresponding author's email;
ORCID;
no academic titles included with the name in the article.


Abstract
200–250 words;
no citations;
consists of:
Purpose;
Method;
Results;
Conclusion;
Contribution or Implications;
4–6 keywords.


Introduction

The Introduction must include:

context and importance of the problem;
empirical evidence regarding the problem;
current state of the literature;
research gap;
novelty;
objectives or research questions;
theoretical and practical contributions.

The Introduction should not be a collection of general definitions.

Literature Review and Hypothesis/Proposition Development

This section must:

use relevant theories;
synthesize prior research;
explain relationships between variables;
logically construct hypotheses or propositions;
avoid listing definitions one by one.

For systematic reviews, this section may be replaced by:

Review Background and Research Questions.

Method

The Method section must include at least:

research design;
research context;
population or data source;
sampling technique;
sample size and justification;
data collection period;
instruments and measurement sources;
scales;
data collection procedures;
validity and reliability;
analysis techniques;
ethical approval or ethical statement;
informed consent, if relevant.


Results
address objectives or hypotheses;
present data systematically;
avoid repeating all table figures in the text;
use consistent statistical formatting;
reference tables and figures within the text.


Discussion

The Discussion must:

interpret the results;
compare results with prior research;
explain support for or inconsistency with theory;
articulate theoretical contributions; presenting practical or policy implications;
explaining unexpected results.


Conclusion

The Conclusion contains:

a concise answer regarding the objectives;
key contributions;
implications;
limitations;
future research.

Do not simply copy-paste statistical results.

Declarations

Every article must include:

Author Contributions/CRediT;
Funding;
Conflict of Interest;
Ethical Approval;
Informed Consent;
Data Availability;
Acknowledgements;
Generative AI Disclosure (if used).


References
APA 7th edition;
use of a reference manager;
inclusion of DOIs where available;
prioritization of primary sources;
majority of references consisting of journal articles;
use of up-to-date references appropriate to the field, rather than merely chasing a specific percentage.

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