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Author Guidelines

The International Journal of Multiple Research Approaches (MRA) invites submission of original manuscripts within its Aims and Scope. Criteria for selection for publication include academic merit, individuality and integrity. Submissions should be concise, relevant and informative papers of interest to readers of the Journal.

MRA's two issues per year offer contributors the advantages of:

  • Timely double blind peer review and publication;
  • High calibre global editorial board;
  • Professional publishing services offering high circulation due to qualified marketing;
  • A forum for discussion of philosophical issues, practical problems and benefits associated with multiple, hybrid, synergistic, integrated and cultural approaches including theoretical frameworks, methodologies, data collection, management and analytic methods and the different forms of transformation and representation;
  • An avenue for discussion and dissemination of: Literature reviews - including those from theses - on methodological trends; Articles on methodology education, technologies and learning techniques; Practitioner perspectives, experiences from the field and case applications of methodologies and results.

Authors are generally restricted to one article per volume, unless multiple authorship is involved. Upon publication, the Publisher provides authors with an electronic copy in PDF format of the published article and discounts for requested print copies. There are no monetary payments for contributors.

Submissions

The manuscript may be a research note, theoretical/empirical research article, a literature review, with a focus on issues of research design, analysis or data presentation, case application or methodology education within the aims and scope of the journal and should be approximately:

  • up to 4000 words in length for a research note
  • up to 6000 for an article
  • up to 8000 for a literature review.

All exclusive of References, Appendices, Tables and Figures. However, shorter or longer articles of exceptional quality may be accepted by the Editor.

It is preferred that authors are consistent in the style they use. They are advised to consult the Style Guide below.

The publisher, eContent Management Pty Ltd, uses a semi-automated manuscript tracking system to receive and accept reviews of research articles, case studies and literature reviews. Manuscripts submitted for publication are subject to a peer review process.

To ensure prompt review of your manuscript, and to preserve anonymity in the review process, please observe the instructions on-screen and take note that:

  1. Manuscripts should be saved as a Microsoft or Open Office Word files. These should contain: title of the manuscript, key words, article text, references, figures, and tables in that order, as one document.
  2. A 100-150-word abstract is loaded into a form on a following page. You should copy/paste it from a existing document.
  3. Do not include any author information or acknowledgements in the manuscript or abstract. In Microsoft Word, please check the box 'Remove personal information from file properties on save' under Tools/Options/Security. Open Office users should consult this online help wiki for removing personal user data.
  4. Your manuscript will be forwarded directly to reviewers and should not contain any identifying information.
  5. Other information such as manuscript title, author postal and email contact details are added on the next page. All correspondence will be sent to the the first listed author.
  6. Please list all authors in the order they are to appear on the title page.
  7. Acknowledgements are added to the manuscript by the author following peer review and acceptance to publish.

These requirements apply to authors submitting revised versions of manuscripts before they are accepted. .It is important that authors re-submitting revised manuscripts indicate how they have addressed the referees' comments, in summary form, at the head of their revised manuscript document to assist further assessment by the original reviewers before the manuscript can proceed to publication.

These requirements also apply to authors returning revised versions of manuscripts which have been accepted with minor revision.

Style Guide

The International Journal of Multiple Research Approaches uses the APA Formatting and Style Guide 6th edition for the formatting of submissions. This is a link to an easy to use guide to the APA requirements. https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/1/  For more information, please consult the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th edition, second printing.

Your attention to the conventions described in this guide will be greatly appreciated, will increase the likelihood of favorable review, and will ease the work of everyone involved - you, your reviewers, your editors and your readers. Submissions failing to comply with these standards may be returned to authors.

Ethical clearance must be shown. Ethical processes followed should be included in the body of the article.

Acknowledgements should be included in the covering email, to preserve anonymity during the review process. They will be removed from the manuscript body during review and reinserted prior to publication.

Artwork Presentation

If supplying images as part of research, text analysis or of data analyzed, the final published dimensions will be 200mm x 145mm, placed portrait or landscape. Artwork must be suitable for immediate BLACK and WHITE reproduction (do not use similar colors), because it will not be redrawn.

Low resolution (under 150 dpi) JPEGs or GIFs are NOT suitable for printing. Repeat-saved JPEGs automatically compress with each save, thereby losing detail each time. Electronic black and white (grayscale) TIFFs of high resolution (300 dpi minimum) are preferred, around 300 KB in size.

Language

'English' or 'American' spellings are acceptable, provided they are used consistently. Translation of articles from other languages into English is encouraged and must be provided by professional translators.

Technical terms: To ensure your work is accessible to MRA's wide-ranging readership, define key technical terms.

Abbreviations: Avoid using abbreviations for the names of concepts. Use ordinary words. Names of organizations and research instruments may be abbreviated, but give the full name (with abbreviation in brackets) the first time it is mentioned.

Reporting mathematics. Do not 'talk in maths language' in regular text. Use words. For instance: 'We surveyed 1000 students' not 'We surveyed n=100' and 'We used a chi-square test to evaluate fit' not 'We used a c2 test'. Do use mathematical symbols and numbers to provide illustrative results and formulas. In both, italicize letters that are customarily italicized, such as p, r, F, and Z. Use boldface italic for vectors. Put spaces around equals signs and other operators.

Illustrative results go in parentheses. The text introducing them should be a complete sentence. Example: One coefficient for the interaction was significant (model 3: b=0.06, p=.05; model 5: b=1.06, n.s.)

Equations: Depending on their role and content, equations are either part of your regular text (run in) or displayed in full. Example: Run-in equation - We used Condon's (1996: 20) formula (a=xyz).

Sexist or biased language: Avoid language that might be interpreted as denigrating to ethnic or other groups. Do not use 'he' as a generic pronoun to avoid implying gender-based discrimination. Using plural pronouns - changing 'the manager . . . he' to 'managers . . . they' - usually helps.

Active voice and first person: Put sentences in the active voice ('I did it'; 'We did it') instead of the passive voice ('It was done') to make it easy for readers to see who did what.

Footnotes should be used sparingly, and not used to cite references. Place at the bottom of the page to which it pertains.

Hypotheses should be fully and separately stated, with a distinct number (Hypothesis 1) or number-letter (Hypothesis 1a) label. Display hypotheses in indented blocks, in italic type, as follows:
Hypothesis 1a. Concise writing has a positive relationship to publication.
Hypothesis 1b. Following MRA's 'Style Guide for Authors' has a positive relationship to publication.

Appendixes: Present long but essential methodological details, such as explanations of the processes of thematic and other forms of analysis, calculation of measures etc., in an appendix or appendixes. Be concise. Label multiple appendixes 'APPENDIX A,' 'B,' and so forth, followed by a substantive title, such as 'Items in Scales'. Label tables within appendixes 'TABLE A1,' 'B1,' and so forth.


 

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.

  1. Author Warranties:

    The authors warrant that the material has not been previously published and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.

    By submission of material to the  International Journal of Multiple Research Approaches, all authors warrant that the material is their own, original material or that copyright clearance has been acquired to reproduce other material from employers, third parties or attributed to third parties. It is the responsibility of the authors to secure the release of any copyright material and to provide written evidence to this effect to eContent Management Pty Ltd. It is also the authors' responsibility to obtain clearance for reproduction from the organisation which commissioned the work if applicable.

  2. Submission of material to the International Journal of Multiple Research Approaches implies all authors' consent to assignment of the material's copyright to eContent Management Pty Ltd when that material is accepted for publication in the journal, for the full legal term of copyright and any renewals thereof throughout the world in all formats and in any medium of communication (see Copyright section).

  3. By submitting material to the International Journal of Multiple Research Approaches, all authors of the material agree to indemnify eContent Management Pty Ltd, and its heirs and assigns in business, against any litigation or claims that may arise from the content of or opinions in the material provided. On acceptance for publication, an agreement specifying these terms will be sent to the corresponding author for signature by all authors of that manuscript.

    If the corresponding author is no longer active any of the other authors may become the corresponding author and they will accordingly be bound by these terms and conditions

    (Note: On acceptance for publication, an agreement specifying the terms noted here and above will be sent to the corresponding author for signature by the corresponding author who is duly authorized to sign this agreement on behalf of all authors and contributors. No printers proof will be sent to the author. The copy provided by the author on acceptance is the version used for typesetting. The publisher reserves the right to make editing corrections.)

  4. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
  5. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
  6. You have created a title-page file from your original manuscript and removed all identifying information from the text and document properties.  Note: the submission process requires the abstract and keywords to be copied into the submission form.
  7. All citations refer to a publication listed in the References section of the manuscript and all references have been cited in the text.
 

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