Guide for Authors

Important Notes:

1.        Make sure to check the following guidelines of the EJLT before you submit a manuscript.

2.        Avoid Plagiarism: Plagiarism is using someone else’s ideas or words without giving them proper credit. If you are a researcher, plagiarism can cause a loss of credibility, legal consequences, and other professional consequences. It is important to consider and apply the standards and conventions for citing sources given by EJLT and in all situations you must attribute other people’s words and ideas to their appropriate source.

Guidelines:

·      First: Information submitted by authors

Authors should submit the following information:

  • Title of paper

  • Short title (for running head)

  • Full names of all authors, affiliation, email addresses and telephone numbers.

  • Authors receive proofs and a final PDF of their papers and are responsible for obtaining copyright permission for reproducing any illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere.

·      Second: Scientific Criteria and Regulations:

  • Novelty, authenticity, and originality of the topic.

  • Clarity of objective.

  • Following the scientific methodology that is suitable for the nature of the Manuscripts.

  • Linking the theoretical part to the practical part.

  • Providing profound analysis and discussion.

  • Linking the results to the goals.

  • Diversity and novelty of the references.

  • Considering scientific integrity and scientific Manuscripts ethics.

  • Avoid plagiarism.

  • Following the international standards in writing Manuscripts

·      Third: Technical and Formal Guidelines

  • General: Articles should be submitted online to the Editor of the journal using submit manuscript tab at: https://ejlt.journals.ekb.eg/author

  • Lay-out: Articles submitted for publication must be typed with (2.54cm) margins on all sides and double-spaced throughout, including the title page, abstract and references. Text should be fully justified. All Fonts are Times New Roman with Size (12pt) on standard-sized paper (A4).

  • Length: The recommended length is 7000-9000 words, including references and appendices with an abstract of up to 250 words and up to 6 keywords. Longer articles can be accommodated when there is a good reason for exception.

  • Language and Spelling: Papers in all languages are published.

  • Quoting: Lengthy quotations (over 40 words) should be displayed, indented, in the text, without quotation marks. Short quotations in the text itself should be marked as such, either with quotation marks or by italics.

-       Footnotes are not encouraged at all.
·      Fourth: Major Paper Sections

  • Title page (the first page)

  • Abstract (on a new page – includes research topic, research questions, participants, methods, results, and conclusions)

  • Introduction (why the topic is important, what the problem is, …)

  • Literature/Theoretical underpinning (what others did to solve the problem)

  • Method (what you did to try to solve the problem)

  • Results/Findings (what you found)

  • Discussion/Conclusion (what you think your findings mean)

  • Future Research

  • References (No entry in the reference list is not cited in your text, and vice versa)

  • Appendices (if necessary)

  • Tables and/or figures (if necessary)

-       Details:

  • Title page (on the first page) – includes:

  • The Title of the Paper (Type your title in upper and lowercase letters). It should be clear and brief.

  • Author Name (first name, middle initial(s), and last name. Do not use titles (Dr.) or degrees (PhD),

  • Author Affiliation,

  • and Email

  • All are aligned in the center in the upper half of the page.

  • This page may include the author note, in the bottom half of the title page.

  • It also includes a page header which is written at the top of every page too. This is (a shortened version of your paper's title and cannot exceed 50 characters including spacing and punctuation, in the header flush left using all capital letters)

  • Abstract (begin a new page)

  • The word Abstract is written in bold and centered (no italics, underlining, or quotation marks).

  • Beginning with the next line, write a concise summary of the key points of your research. (Do not indent.)

  • You may also want to list keywords. To do this, type Keywords:(italicized), and then list your keywords.

  • The abstract should be a single paragraph, double-spaced and should be no more than 250 words.

  • Your abstract should contain your research topic, research questions, participants, methods, results, and conclusions.

  • References

  • In the reference list, refer to all the sources mentioned in your paper, arranged in alphabetical order by the authors' last names (ignore a, an, and the).

  • Start the Reference list on a new page and include the word "References" in uppercase and lowercase in bold, and centered.

  • The References list should be double-spaced.

  • Each entry should be formatted with a hanging indent.

  • Always integrate all source types (print, online, etc.) into a single alphabetical list.

  • All authors' names should be inverted (i.e., last names should be provided first).

  • Basic Format for Books

Author, A. A. (Year of publication). Title of work: Capital letter also for subtitle. Location: Publisher.

  • Article from an Online Periodical with DOI Assigned

Author, A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C. (Year). Title of article. Title of Periodical, volume number (issue number if available), pages. http://dx.doi.org/xx.xxx/yyyyy 

  • Article from an Online Periodical with no DOI Assigned

Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Date of publication). Title of article. Title of Journal, volume number (issue number if available), pages. Retrieved from http://www.journalhomepage.com/full/url/

  • Guidelines for Writing Headings:

  • The sections and the subsections of the article are formatted according to their level. Regardless of the number of levels, always use the headings in order, beginning with level 1 as illustrated below:

Level 1:  Centered, Boldface, Uppercase and Lowercase Headings

Level 2: Left-aligned, Boldface, Uppercase and Lowercase Heading

Level 3: Indented, boldface, lowercase heading with a period. Begin body text after the period.

·      Fifth: Authors receive

Authors receive proofs and a final PDF of their papers and are responsible for obtaining copyright permission for reproducing any illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere.