Manuscripts should be submitted by one of the authors of the manuscript through the online submission system for our journals. Only electronic PDF (.pdf) or Word (.doc, .docx, .odt, .rtf, .txt) files can be submitted through the manuscript submission system, and there is no page limit. Special characters should not be included in the file name of the main manuscript file. Submissions by anyone other than one of the authors will not be accepted. The submitting author takes responsibility for the manuscript during submission and peer review. For technical help, please contact nsp@natural-s-publishing.com. Terms of submission Manuscripts must be submitted on the understanding that they have not been published elsewhere and are only being considered by this journal. The submitting author is responsible for ensuring that the article’s publication has been approved by all the other coauthors. It is also the submitting authors responsibility to ensure that the article has all necessary institutional approvals. Only an acknowledgment from the editorial office officially establishes the date of receipt. Further correspondence and proofs will be sent to the author(s) before publication, unless otherwise indicated. It is a condition of submission that the authors permit editing of the manuscript for readability (Guidelines for Manuscript Preparation) . Plagiarism, or copying text or results from other sources, is unethical behavior and is not tolerated at this journal. NSP is a member of CrossRef and all manuscripts will be checked for originality using the CrossCheck database http://www.crossref.org/crosscheck.html We check the issue using two methods (a plagiarism detection technology (Turnitin) and a reviewer check). All submissions will be checked by Turnitin before being sent to reviewers. Manuscript Selection Process Once the manuscript is received, automatic acknowledgement will be sent to the corresponding author. If manuscripts fulfill the the required rules and format, the editor will send for peer review which may take 1-3 weeks. Author can trace the process in his user account. E-mail will sent direct from editor to the corresponding author, indicating rejection, acceptance with minor revision, major revision or without revision. If manuscript is accepted with revision, authors should re-edit it using the template provided by the journal and meet the formatting requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines: Once the author submit the re-edited manuscript, a confirmation E-mail will be sent immediately. After publishing, authors can download the article from the journal website. Writing Standards Accepted manuscripts must be written in MS Word or LaTeX format, not exceeding 25 pages. Authors are responsible for converting their manuscripts to LaTeX format, if not initially in LaTeX format. The editors reserve the right to edit or otherwise alter all contributions, but authors will receive proofs for approval before publication. Click the Article Template to download and view in Acrobat PDF format then keep it in a folder for future work. Accepted papers may not be published unless they meet the publishers formatting standard. | Language | Manuscripts should be written in English language either American or British but not a mix of both. | | Length of paper | Accepted manuscripts must be written in MS Word or LaTex format, length of 3000-8000 words is preferred. Numbered page size A4, make 1 inch top, bottom, and sides. Please download the template at: Article Template | | Title page | The title should be concise, informative and placed in a separate page before the main body. It should include the title 16 Times NR, double line centered and doesn’t exceed 15 words. | | Author names and affiliations | The first name should be in front of the family name. The authors affiliation should be placed below the names, including the country name. Then, the e-mail address is placed below the affiliation. | | Abstract | The whole manuscript should be abstracted in 250 words at maximum. The abstract should brief the purpose of the research, the results and major conclusions. | | Keywords | Provide a maximum of 6 keywords immediately after the abstract avoiding general and plural terms. | | Sections, subsections | Sections subsection should be numbered (i.e. 1., 2., 1.1, 1.1.1, 1.1.2; 1.2, etc.). the abstract, acknowledgement, references, glossary and appendix should not be numbered. | | Headings, subheadings | Heading-1: 10 Times NR Bold (i.e. 1. Introduction)
Heading-2: 10 Times NR Italic (1.1 Research Methods)
Heading-3: 10 Times NR Normal (1.1.1 Analysis of Results) | | Tables | Table should be numbered consecutively in accordance with their appearance in the text. Place descriptions of tables below the table. Tables should be integrated into the submitted manuscript. Should be captioned above table body. Tables should be created in MS word, presented with metric units and cited in the text as (Table 1). | | Figures and photos | Figures, photos, illustrations and so forth in Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) format of reproducible quality that has a minimum resolution of 300 dpi. Should be integrated into the manuscript, numbered consecutively, captioned below the figures, presented with metric units and cited in the text as (Figure 1). | | Formulae | Formula should be with the same as normal text size. | | Acknowledgement | Acknowledgement should be placed after the main body and before the references | | References | NSP journals use the American Psychological Association (APA) style citation system. Details concerning the APA style citation system can also be found at http://linguistics.byu.edu/faculty/henrichsenl/apa/apa01.html | | Citation in the text | Author should ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list and vice versa. Citations in the text should follow the American Psychological Association (APA) style. List of references should be arranged alphabetically. More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year must be identified by the letters "a", "b", "c", etc., placed after the year of publication. | | Examples | Example paragraph with in-text citation: A few researchers in the linguistics field have developed training programs designed to improve native speaker’s ability to understand accented speech [1]. Their training techniques are based on the research described above indicating that comprehension improves with exposure to non-native speech [2, 3, 4]. Derwing et al. [5] conducted their training with students preparing to be social workers, but note that other professionals who work with non-native speakers could benefit from a similar program. References T. M. Derwing and M. J. Rossiter, Teaching native speakers to listen to foreign-accented speech, J. Mult. Devel. 23, 245-259 (2018). H. K. Thomas, Training strategies for improving listeners comprehension of foreign-accented speech, University of Colorado Press pp. 8-13 (2018) | | Glossary | Glossary should be placed in alphabetical order before the Reference List | | Appendices | The appendices should be numbered as (Appendix 1, Appendix 2, etc.) | Copyright Notice By submitting a manuscript for publication in NSP journal, authors acknowledge that the work is original and is not being submitted to another journal. Publishing with this journal implies that: The authors authorize and grant an exclusive copyright license to Natural Sciences Publishing Corporation once the manuscript is accepted for publication.
Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the works authorship and initial publication in this journal. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journals published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work. Authors should make a payment toward the cost of disseminating their research results. Waiver may be available for certain authors, for example, from low GDP countries. Authors can file a request for fees waiver on acceptance of their article. Waiving fees does not influence the publication acceptance status. It is the authors responsibility to prepare papers as per formatting instructions of the publisher. Accepted papers may not be published unless they meet the publishers formatting standard. Here you can view a sample file in Acrobat pdf format. You can download a sample file named amis-sample.zip. After download, unzip it and keep all the files in the same folder for it to work. Click here to download a formatted sample file.
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