Author Guidelines

Author Guidelines


APA 7 Citation Style Sample [PDF]

The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.

APA 7 writing style

Title of the Script (16pt, Bold, Times New Roman)

First Author’s Name1* (Apply* to the Corresponding author),

1* Affiliation (Department, Faculty/College, Institution/University)
Author's email:
Second Author’s Name2

2, Affiliation if different (Department, Faculty/College, Institution/University)
Author's email:

Scope

Hamdard Educus is an Academic Journal devoted to Social Sciences research and scholarship It is to serve as a forum for scholars to write objectively, analytically and critically on different disciplines of Social Sciences including Education, Islamic Studies, Phycology and English.

General Guidelines

Complete length of the manuscript should be between 4000-5000 words excluding Abstract and references. It should be formatted to be on A4 sized paper, with 12pt font size for the text and 14-pt for headings.

  1. Abstract :( 14pt, Bold, Times New Roman)

The abstract of the manuscript should be in the range of 150 (min) to 250 (max) words. The abstract must meet the below given criteria.

1- Should be a single paragraph with continuous synchronized sentences.
2- No sub heading and bullets are allowed.
3- If any abbreviation is used, its definition is necessary at its first mention.
4- Abstract must clearly and briefly defines the problem, research methodology, and
 author’s contribution to approach the defined problem and outcomes of the research.
5-Keywords: For indexing purpose, 3-7 keywords are required related to the article.

 

 

  1. Introduction :( 14pt, Bold, Times New Roman)

Research article would start with the breakup of “Introduction”. Which contains discussion on the problem, motivation, challenges and author contribution to this piece of work.  Define the clear goals, objectives and research questions/hypotheses. The introduction should reveal some broad knowledge of the overall topic and quickly focus on the major point of the paper. This introduction section ought to be concise and define the organization or outline of article.

  1. Background, History, Review-of Literature:
    (14pt, Bold, Times New Roman)

This section would provide passable background/literature review to support the research piece.  A Review-of-Literature is more to cater information from various significant sources which provides support to the major points of the article. Follow APA 7th citation Style for citation and referencing. The study must contain the recent references from last 1 or 2 years in order to exhibit the existing and shaping challenges of recent advancements. If use any narration "It must be in closed quotation mark with italic font” along with the proper citation and reference.

 

 

  1. Methodology (14pt, Bold, Times New Roman)

Methodology section defines Problem statement, all the relevant and passable details of procedures, methods and tools adapted to meet the research objective and challenges. If the research piece is using any sort of data, then its source must be cited properly with author/creator name, title, published date of dataset/statistics, publisher, URL or other availability or access information of dataset. It can be segregated into different relevant segment and sub-segments according to the research requirement.  This section must maintain synchronization with upcoming sections of manuscript.

  1. Research outcomes/ result/findings (14pt, Bold, Times New Roman)

Make sure this container is not for the discussion. Here the author must present its finding, data representations/comparison charts /comparative analysis. If the data represented in table form must follow proper APA writing style.             

Preparation of Figures and Tables

Authors are supposed to embed all figures and tables at appropriate place within manuscript. Figures and tables should neither be submitted in separate files nor add at the end of manuscript. Figures and Tables should be numbered properly with descriptive title. Each Figure/Table must be explained within the text by referring to corresponding figure/table number. Any unexplained or unnumbered Figure/Table may cause rejection of the paper without being reviewed.

  1. Argument, Critique or Discussion

The unbiased important points or claims of the research work that are defined earlier are discussed here. The discussion is required to be reasonable, precise, well-supported, posit and the interpretation of the research findings. Use extensive classical citation along with recent literature work.

  1. Conclusions

The conclusion section should in range of 250-450 with running sentences. The conclusion section must define the below:

1- Main outcome of the research work.
2- Research significance (importance of the research).
3- Relevance.
4- Limitation.
5- Application.
6- Recommendations.

Note:  Do not use citation, cross-reference, subheading, point-list in this section.

  1. Declarations

Acknowledgements

All acknowledgments (assuming any) ought to be remembered in a separate section before the references and may incorporate list of peoples who supported and contributed to the research work in anyway.

Funding source

The funding source section will be added if there is any funding source or supporting grant to the proposed research piece. It will be mention here in this section with the full name of funding agency and supporting grant with the grant number.

  1. References

All references are required to be complete, accurate, authentic and primary, follow APA 7th Edition referencing style only. Grey literature (unauthentic website, news portal, social media, Wikipedia etc.) are not encouraged. If the author is referring hadith, Tafasir or fiqh books then use original root books.

Important notes:

-For Holy Quranic text (Arabic) used font AHT Times New Roman follow transliteration-guideline (available on official website) the translation must be italic, middle align and from the  editions of  MuftiTaqi Usmani only. The reference style for Quranic verse should be as follows:

The Holy Qur'an, surah num:ayat num, Translated by Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani (Karachi:
Maktaba Ma’ariful Quran, 2010)

-For Hadith text (Arabic) used font AHT Times New Roman follow transliteration-guideline (available on official website) the translation in the body of manuscript must be italic, middle align and from the authentic books of hadith only.