Author Guidelines
Euro Asia Research and Development Association follows a Double Blind Peer Review System in order to bring in a high-quality intellectual platform for researchers across the world thereby bringing in total transparency in its journal review system. Authors are instructed to follow the author guidelines strictly without which the article may not be accepted for publication. Authors are advised to check the guidelines and check list before submitting the article for publication.
Benefit to Authors
Open accesses, all articles published are open access for authors and viewers.
Wide publicity and reach by getting indexed in many indexing services.
Rapid publication, your article will be online within 2 months of time after submission date.
Excellent editorial standards which will improve the quality of your work
Action is being taken to list in, SSRN Network, Google Scholar, Ulrich and many databases.
Submission of Article
We are currently focusing on publishing original research works, review papers, short communications only, authors may submit the articles only to email:- editorijrim@gmail.com. Authors are advised to submit the articles only with the copyright form duly signed, scanned and attached; authors may download the copyright form with our website.
File Type
Authors should submit the articles only in MS-word format, no other format is accepted. If equations were used it should be converted by using MS Office equation editor and pasted as image at proper place. All equations should be grouped or may be prepared using equation editor software.
File Size
No article should exceed more than 15 pages unless necessary, authors will be requested to substantiate the need if it exceeds the maximum number of pages. The file size of the MS word format may not exceed 10 MB size for submission through submission form and 15 MB if it is submitted as attachment over mail.
Size of Submission
Authors are instructed to restrict the number of pages not more than 15 pages to avoid ambiguity and reduce the editing time. The file should be attached as email attachment. In any case the size of the file should never exceed 10 MB owing to file restriction implied.
Language
Language of the articles should be only in English, we are not processing articles in any other languages.
Font Type
Articles should be typed in single line spacing with the following font pattern
Font type: Times new roman
Size: For main heading or title: 14 points and Bold
For subtitles: 12 points and Bold Content of article : 12 points
Submission Order
The following order should be strictly followed while submitting the article
Front page : Title of article, authors' names, authors' institutional affiliations only and leave other spaces empty.
From second page : Start with abstract of about 200-300 words exactly conveying the content of the article, Keywords ( at least 5 words ) Main content text with all tables and figures aligned in their location ( do not send tables and figures separately unless requested), list of symbols and abbreviations, acknowledgement ,references ( follow standard format).
Titles: Do not capitalise the titles unnecessarily unless required
Ex: ABSTRACT can be capitalised but instead of giving as INTRODUCTION give it as Introduction without capitalising.
References
All references must be arranged first alphabetically and then it may be further sorted chronologically also. If the reference is provided from the same Author (s) in the same year it must be identified by the letter "a", "b", "c", etc which is placed after the publication year. Ex. (2000,"a") References should be the last part of the article following the below given format:
[1] Prakash.R., and Ramesh G.R, 2008, Article title, Journal of American Society of Civil Engineers, 23(2),pp 12-15.
[2] Prajesh G.,2004, Article title, Journal of Applied Engineering, 45(2), pp 13-17.
Books :
P.K.Gupta., (2006). Introduction to Operations Research, 3rd. Ed. McGraw Hill Inc, 34-96.
Book chapter:
Botkin,J (2006). What do you meant by Ecosystem in : Environmental Science of Living Plater, 3rd edition, E-age Publishing, New York.
Conferences :
Ganeshkumar.B, "Geospatial technology for disaster management", International Conference on Disaster Mitigation and Management, PSNA College of Engineering and Technology, Dindigul, pp 234-238
Web pages :
Ramesh J (2007) How to draw in Computers. IOP Publishing PhysicsWeb. http://company.org/articles/news/11/6/16/2. Accessed 26 June 2010.
Or You can logon to http://www.apastyle.org/faqs.html#8 or http://www.apastyle.org for more details.Basically it should be in APA Format.
Reference Citation
If the reference is of a Single author: the author's name ( without initials) and the year of publication: Two authors: Both authors name and also the year of publication of the article. Three or more than three authors : First author's name followed by "et al.". Example : Baskaran, 1998: Crish Rabia and John Pedikri, 2008: Podilinski et al., 2004. Citing web reference can be like the journal article reference.
Images and Tables
Images should be supplied without being inserted in tables, borders or any other format, they can be copy pasted in the required space. It will be better if the images are given in the last page, the quality of the image and the size should be proper. Tables should be given using tables options, do not draw tables using lines, the table width should be properly given, Also do not insert any tables as image format, it should be editable. The title of the table should be bolded and should not contain any text box. Supplied images should be of required quality authors are advised not to submit inferior quality images.
Tables
All tables should be numbered in order, the word Table may be bolded. The table number should be properly given, large size tables should be split into two or more tables so that it can be accomodated within the page size. Table width and cell sizing should be even and all the content should be centered. Number of the tables should be given over the tables and without any border, shading. Ex: Table 1 : Table showing the number of villages covered under this study
Figures
All figure number should be arranged orderly; the figures should not be supplied separately but pasted in the proper place. Figure number and title should be given below the figure, the content of the figure should be explained in the title of figure. All images supplied should have enough resolution, inferior images will be removed.
Do not give the figures and tables in the last page, provide them wherever necessary in the article. Provide the figure name and number below the figure and also do not form the images in two columns.
Ex: Figure 1: Image showing the map of the study area.
Equations
All equations should be numbered in order from starting and the notations used in the various equations should be given after abstract. Authors are insisted to follow standard notations and SI units system even though its not mandatory.
Peer Review Policy
EARDA journals aims at rapid publication of articles while maintaining rigorous peer review process, each article will be subjected to a minimum of two reviews by two individual reviewers. If their decision varies the article will be sent to a third reviewer and the editor's decision is final. Reviewers will be insisted to review the paper within 10 days time and if he/ she fail to return will be sent to other reviewer for review.
Paper Acceptance
Final decision on acceptance of the paper is with the editorial team, promotion in any form will disqualify even qualified papers. Selected papers will be put in queue for publication, once the article is published author will get a confirmation mail from the corresponding editor In no case articles having more than 4 authors will be considered unless justification is provided for the work done by the concerned authors in the research done. Review articles are permitted only with 2 authors, if more than 2 authors had completed a review work which is submitted for publication they are requested to submit a detailed report about the contribution of each authors in the review work