Instruction for author

AUTHOR GUIDE

We encourage all the potential authors to comply with the following standards when writing and submitting their papers to RU:

1. The paper structure shall include; abstract, keywords, introduction, research question, research hypothesis, Literature Review, data and method, theoretical foundation, IF, findings, discussion, conclusion, and list of references.
2. The writer of the paper is responsible for its article and his opinion is not of the journal
3. The journal reserves the right in editing the paper
4. The paper shall be the original work of the author and is not published elsewhere.
5. The abstract shall be between150 to 200 words.
6. The keywords shall be a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 6.
7. The paper shall consist of 7000 – 10000 words
8. The APA style should be used both for in-text citation and referencing purposes.
9. The list of references shall be adjusted at the end of the paper.
10. Rana reserves the right to pay for an article that fulfills all the required criteria.
11. The potential author other than RU’s scholars are also encouraged to submit their hard copy to the research center or may send their soft to; research@ru.edu.af
12. The font style for English text is Garamond and for the local language is B- Nazanin.
13. For English article; heading is 16 unbold, subheadings 14 unbold, and 10 for normal text in the article.
14. For the Persian article; the heading is 18 unbold, subheadings are 16 unbold, sub-sub heading are 14 unbold, and 12 for normal text in the article.
15. Tables and graphs’ title and contents shall be 2 sizes smaller than the normal text size.
16. The use of footnotes shall be minimized to an acceptable low level but in case of use, the font is Garamond and the size is 9.