MANARAT INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY STUDIES (MIUS)

 

NOTES TO CONTRIBUTORS

 

Before submitting a complete article, the corresponding author should follow the following guidelines:

  • Full Title of the Manuscript (maximum 25 words).
  • An Abstract (within 150-200 words) and Keywords (Maximum 5 Words).
  • The main text should be 2500 to 8000 words (including abstract and references).
  • The final manuscript should be prepared in MS Word using Times New Roman font.
  • Only manuscripts in English are welcome.
  • Two separate files in (MS Word) should be attracted before sending to the following email address: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

(1) Title page with author details (Title of the article and affiliation of all authors sequentially)

(2) Anonymous Manuscript (Everything except author’s details)

  • The reference should be APA style. More specifically, follow the following guidelines.

References Citations

In-text citations author-date-page number system is highly recommended. The following are the examples:

Author Citation:

  • Single author:

(i) Banu (1991) asserted that …. and

(ii) …found in South African snakes (Edwards, 2002).

  • When material is quoted verbatim, the page number must be included. Examples are as follows:

(i). Aminuddin (1985: 120) mentioned that “acquisition is best in an immersion program.” and

(ii.) One assumption is that “…grammatical shifts do not occur in literary texts arbitrarily” (Johns, 2002: 23) and should “not be treated lightly” (Kazmi, 2003: 10-11).

  • If a work has two authors, always cite both names every time the work is referred to in the text.

e.g., Rollen and Osmond (1983) have explained the crowding-out effect in their paper entitled….

  • If a work has three to five authors, cite all authors the first time the reference occurs; in subsequent citations, include only the name of the first author followed by “et al.” And the year whenever the work is cited (in the reference list, however, all names must be given). For instance:

(i). First text citation: Wudak, Howard, Rosenthal, Gertman, and Lock (1994) found…and

(ii.) Subsequent citations: Wudak et al., (1994) in their study….

  • Page numbers should be provided when specific arguments or findings of authors are paraphrased, summarized, or directly quoted.

Footnotes:

Footnotes are recommended. Footnotes should be used only if necessary and numbered consecutively throughout the manuscript with superscript Arabic numerals. Footnotes should be in 10-point font size and not more than three lines.