Requirements for Submission of Articles and Papers
1. The author should fill in a publication request (Form No. J.F.A 01) in addition to a disclaimer of copyrights for the Journal (Form No. J.F.A 02). These two forms could be filled in by hand or online.
2. The author should submit three hardcopies according to the Journal Word Format template attached with a softcopy on a CD, or sent to the Journal via email; one in Word file format and the other in PDF format.
3. The editorial board is to issue a special number for the article/paper and to be written down on every related document. The number consists of three parts:
1 2 3
XX XXXX XXX
• The first part is composed of two digits that symbolizes research area. These areas are categorized as follows:
01- Arabic Language and Literature
02- Social Sciences
03- History and Tourism
04- Philosophy and Libraries
05- Foreign Languages
• The second part is composed of four digits which represents the year in which the article/paper is submitted.
• The third part is composed of three digits to show the sequence of article/paper submission.
4. The editorial board first checks the article/paper whether it conforms to the journal requirements for publication; scientifically sound, relevant and clear before sending it out to the referees. The article/paper might be rejected if it is of insufficient quality or outside the scope of the Journal. The editor-in-chief should notify the author by writing a report explaining the reasons behind the rejection. However, the author has the right to apply for a re-submission of their article/paper.
5. Submitted articles/papers, then, are assigned only to high-qualified professors selected as journal referees based on their expertise, to review and evaluate the article/paper.
6. The referee is designated only to evaluate and provide feedback according to the forms prepared by the Journal editorial board without making any sort of corrections or amendments to the original content.
7. The evaluation results are classified as follows: a. valid for publication, b. valid for publication with amendments, or c. not valid for publication.
8. Articles/Papers will not be considered for publication unless they get 65% out of the total points.
9. The evaluation period is 15 days from the date of receiving the article/paper. If the referee fails to provide the feedback within this period, the editorial board will not accept his/her feedback and, therefore, he/she does not have the right to ask for a repayment. In that case, the editorial board will designate another referee to finish the evaluation. The results of evaluation might be accepted if the referee reveals the causes of delay.
10. The editorial board has the right to reject a referee’s report if they did not present valid reasons for the feedback about the article/paper within the specified period.
11. The article/paper is to be returned to the author together with the feedback if the referee decided that it is valid for publication with amendments. If, however, the author did not accept the referee’s decision, then it is up to the editorial board either to assign another referee or to make the final decision about the fate of the article/paper.
12. The evaluation of the article/paper is to be done according to the forms set by the editorial board.
13. The evaluation results are confidential and not to be disclosed.
14. The following should be considered when publishing:
a. Priority of publication is for the article/paper that has been evaluated and reviewed, and has been given back to the editorial board after making the necessary amendments according to the referees’ feedback.
b. The variety of research areas and for more authors to publish their work.
c. Priority is for topics of local importance and issues being judged as urgent by the editorial board.
d. If two articles/papers are accepted for the same author(s), one of them is published in the current issue and the other is to be published in the next one.