Author Guidelines

Before Submission

Before proceeding, please first check:

Manuscript Preparation

If your paper meets our aims then we invite you to proceed with a submission.

Please read and observe the following points in the preparation of your manuscript:

  1. Honestly follow academic code of ethics in publication (i.e., avoid plagiarism, fraud, double/parallel submission, self-plagiarism, etc.).
  2. Submissions should be prepared in line with the template provided Scientific English template

Manuscript Structure

Title
Concise and informative. Titles are often used in information retrieval systems. Avoid abbreviations and formulas where possible.

Author names and affiliations
Please clearly indicate the given name(s) and family name(s) of each author and check that all names are accurately spelt. You can add your name between parentheses in your own script behind the English transliteration. Present the authors' affiliation addresses (where the actual work was done) below the names. Indicate all affiliations with a lowercase superscript letter immediately after the author's name and in front of the appropriate address. Provide the full postal address of each affiliation, including the country name and the e-mail address of each author.

Corresponding author
Clearly indicate who will handle correspondence at all stages of refereeing and publication, as well as post-publication. This responsibility includes answering any future queries about Methodology and Materials. Ensure that the e-mail address is given and that contact details are kept up to date by the corresponding author.

Abstract
The Abstract should be informative and completely self-explanatory, provides a clear statement of the problem and the proposed approach or solution, and points out major findings and conclusions. The Abstract should be 150 to 250 words in length. The abstract should be written in the past tense. No literature should be cited. A clear abstract will strongly influence whether or not your work is further considered.

Keywords
The keywords list provides the opportunity to add keywords, used by the indexing and abstracting services, in addition to those already present in the title. Judicious use of keywords may increase the ease with which interested parties can locate our article.

Introduction
State the objectives of the work and provide an adequate background (avoiding a detailed literature review or a summary of the results), gap analysis or state of the art, state what the innovation or novelty of your research, potential impact and benefit of your research.

Methods
Provide sufficient details to allow the work to be reproduced by an independent researcher. Methods that are already published should be summarized, and indicated by a reference. If quoting directly from a previously published method, use quotation marks and also cite the source. Any modifications to existing methods should also be described.

Results
Clearly present findings with relevant tables, figures, or quotations.

Discussion
This should explore the significance of the results of the work, not repeat them. Interpret findings, link them to the literature, and discuss implications, limitations, and future directions. Avoid extensive citations and discussion of published literature.

Conclusions
Conclusion contains a description that should answer the objectives of research. Do not repeat the Abstract or simply describe the results of the research. Give a clear explanation regarding the possible application and/or suggestions related to the research findings.

Author(s)’s Declarations

Author contribution
For each author of your manuscript, please indicate the types of contributions the author has made.

Funding statement
Researcher and Lecturer Society (Publisher) requires authors to specify any sources of funding (institutional, private and corporate financial support) for the work reported in their paper. This information, in the form of the name of the funding organization/s and the grant number - or should be included at the end of the article under the heading ‘Funding’, and provided at the time of submitting the paper. If there was no funding, the following wording should be used: “This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.” (NB: this does not apply to protocols). Any suppliers of materials should be named and their location (town, state/county, country) included if appropriate. This information will be included in the published article.

Acknowledgements
Collate acknowledgements in a separate section at the end of the article before the references and do not, therefore, include them on the title page, as a footnote to the title or otherwise. List here those individuals, institutions and laboratories who provided help during the research (e.g., providing language help, writing assistance or proof reading the article, etc.).

Conflict of interests
A conflict of interest, also known as a competing interest, is a situation in which an interest or connection—direct or indirect—could influence your research. 

Example: "The authors declare that they are NOT affiliated with or involved in any organization or entity that has a financial interest (such as honoraria; educational grants; participation in speakers' bureaus; membership, employment, consulting, stock ownership, or other equity interests; and expert testimony or patent licensing arrangements), or non-financial interest (such as personal or professional relationships, affiliations, knowledge, or beliefs) in the subject matter or materials discussed in this manuscript."

Ethical Clearance
Research involving human subjects must include a statement that permission has been obtained from the institution where the research is being conducted and that the person involved has consented to be a subject in research conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki (MWA). If this research does not involve humans as subjects, please state "This research does not involve humans as subjects".

Data availability 
The data availability statement is a valuable link between a paper’s results and the supporting evidence. Researcher and Lecturer Society’s data policy is based on transparency, requiring these statements in original research articles. A Data Availability Statement (also called Data Access Statement) tells the reader if the data behind a research project can be accessed and, if so, where and how. Ideally, authors should include hyperlinks to public databases to make it easier for the readers to find them.

  • Your data availability statement should describe how the data supporting the results reported in your paper can be accessed.
  • If your data cannot be shared openly, for example to protect study participant privacy, then this should be explained.
  • Include both original data generated in your research and any secondary data reuse that supports your results and analyses.

AI Statements
If authors do not use AI-tools at all, please state that “This article is the original work of the author without using AI-tools for writing sentences and/or creating/editing tables and figures in this manuscript”.

Note:

    1. Researcher and Lecturer Society (Publisher) strictly prohibits the use of generative AI or AI-tools to generate sentences/image creation/image modification in any form;
    2. The use of AI-tools to draw insights from data as part of the research process, not to produce the sentences, tables, and figures in the article, is allowed;
    3. AI-tools must not be authors or co-authors, or cited as authors.

If authors use AI-tools, please state for what purpose the AI-tools are used and what the name of the AI-tools used are. The followings are the common uses of AI-tools to help authors:

  1. Checking the grammar use in the manuscript (Grammarly, Hemingway App, Linguix, Reverso, etc.);
  2. Improving coherence and cohesiveness to get better readability and understandability of readers (website-based AI Tools, e.g. ChatGPT, Copy AI, Prosa.ai, Revoicer, QuillBot AI, etc.)

Hereby, authors have to mention the tool’s name and state that they have rechecked the accuracy and correctness of the data and language used and have consulted English language expert for validation and verification (state the name of the expert or the institution). The checking process must be carried out manually as AI generally produces sentences that sound over confident and authoritative, and change meaning that can be incorrect, incomplete, or biased. However, authors are ultimately responsible and accountable for the whole content of the article.

*Example statement: “The grammatical structure of this article was improved by using ChatGPT and the authors have rechecked the accuracy and correctness of the generated sentences with the topic and data of this study. The data and language use in this article have been validated and verified by an English language expert and none of the AI-generated sentences includes in this article".

References
References are in APA style. Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list (and vice versa). The main references are international journals, proceedings and book. All references should be to the most pertinent and up-to-date sources (80% of references must be taken from the past 4 years). Citations are preferred to use Mendeley Reference Manager. If possible, the article’s DOI should be given for each reference list. Each citation should be written in the order of appearance in the text.

Authors who publish articles in journals under RLS are strictly prohibited from citing articles published in predatory journals as listed on https://beallslist.net/. The consequences of doing so are:

1. If it is found during the review process, the article will be rejected by the editor;
2. If it is found after the article is published, the article will be retracted by RLS.