AUTHOR GUIDELINES
AUTHOR GUIDELINES
1. General Requirements
Manuscripts submitted to PGJSRT must be original, unpublished, and not simultaneously under consideration by another journal.
Submissions must fall within the journal's Aims and Scope and should make a clear scholarly contribution to the relevant field.
Manuscripts must be written in clear academic English.
2. Types of Manuscripts
PGJSRT considers:
• Original Research Articles
• Review Articles
• Systematic or Integrative Reviews
• Theoretical and Conceptual Articles
• Qualitative and Quantitative Studies
• Mixed-Methods Research
• Practice-Based and Artistic Research relevant to the journal's scope
• Scholarly Letters or Short Communications when appropriate
3. Double-Anonymous Submission
PGJSRT uses double-anonymous peer review.
The manuscript submitted for review must not contain information that directly identifies the authors. Author names, affiliations, email addresses, ORCID identifiers, acknowledgements, and other identifying information must be entered separately in the OJS submission metadata.
Authors should also remove identifying information from document properties where possible.
4. Manuscript Structure
Research articles should normally contain:
Title
Abstract
Keywords
Introduction
Literature Review or Theoretical Framework, where appropriate
Methods/Methodology
Results or Findings
Discussion
Conclusion
Acknowledgements, where applicable
Funding Statement
Conflict of Interest Statement
Author Contributions
Data Availability Statement
Ethics Statement, where applicable
Generative AI Disclosure, where applicable
References
The exact structure may vary according to discipline and research design.
5. Abstract and Keywords
The abstract should clearly summarize the purpose, methodology or approach, principal findings, and major conclusion of the study.
Authors should provide approximately 4–7 relevant keywords that support the discoverability of the article.
6. Tables, Figures, and Illustrations
Tables and figures must be numbered consecutively, referred to in the text, and accompanied by clear titles or captions.
Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for copyrighted material reproduced from other sources.
Images must be of sufficient quality for publication. Manipulation that changes or misrepresents the scientific or scholarly meaning of an image is prohibited.
7. References
Authors must ensure that all references are accurate, complete, relevant, and actually support the statements for which they are cited.
PGJSRT uses APA style for citations and references unless otherwise specified for a particular article type.
Where available, DOI identifiers should be provided in URL format.
Citation manipulation, excessive self-citation, fabricated references, and unnecessary citations requested solely to increase citation metrics are prohibited.
8. Research Ethics
Research involving humans, identifiable personal information, vulnerable populations, or animals must comply with appropriate institutional, national, and international ethical requirements.
Where applicable, authors must state the name of the approving ethics committee or institutional review board and the approval or reference number.
Informed consent must be obtained where required.
Research involving children or other vulnerable participants must include appropriate safeguards, including parental or guardian consent and participant assent where applicable.
9. Authorship
All listed authors must have made a genuine scholarly contribution to the work and must approve the submitted and final versions of the manuscript.
Individuals who contributed to the work but do not qualify for authorship should be acknowledged appropriately.
Changes to authorship after submission require a written explanation and agreement from all affected authors and are subject to editorial approval.
10. Conflicts of Interest and Funding
Authors must disclose all financial and non-financial competing interests that could reasonably be perceived to influence the research.
All sources of financial or material support must be identified.
If no competing interests or external funding exist, this should be stated explicitly.
11. Data Availability
Authors should make supporting research data available where ethically, legally, and practically possible.
Every research article should include a Data Availability Statement indicating where supporting data may be accessed or explaining legitimate restrictions.
12. Originality and Textual Overlap
PGJSRT screens submissions for inappropriate textual overlap and other integrity concerns.
Similarity percentages are not used as an automatic measure of plagiarism. Similarity reports are evaluated qualitatively, considering the source, extent, context, attribution, quotation, methodology, and legitimate reuse.
Plagiarism, duplicate publication, inappropriate text recycling, fabrication, falsification, and manipulation of data or images may result in rejection or further action under the journal's Publication Ethics Policy.
13. Generative Artificial Intelligence
Authors must comply with the PGJSRT Generative AI Policy.
AI or AI-assisted technologies cannot be listed as authors.
Substantive use of generative AI in preparing, analyzing, or presenting scholarly work must be transparently disclosed.
Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, integrity, references, and conclusions of their submission.
14. Submission
All manuscripts must be submitted through the official PGJSRT Open Journal Systems platform.
Submission does not guarantee acceptance.
Manuscripts that do not comply with the journal's scope, ethical requirements, quality standards, or submission guidelines may be returned or rejected before external review.
15. Revised Manuscripts
Authors invited to revise a manuscript should provide:
• a clean revised manuscript;
• a marked or tracked version where requested; and
• a detailed point-by-point response to reviewer and editor comments.
Authors should explain respectfully when they choose not to implement a reviewer recommendation.
16. Proofs
Following acceptance and production, the corresponding author will receive the article proof for final checking.
Proof corrections should normally be limited to typographical, formatting, metadata, or production errors. Major changes to the scholarly content after acceptance require editorial approval.
