Intructions for authors

Interested in submitting to this journal? We recommend that you review the About the Journal page for the journal's section policies, as well as the Author Guidelines. Authors need to register with the journal prior to submitting or, if already registered, can simply log in and begin the five-step process.

A. Submission

All submissions should be made online at the BERDAYA by using "Make a Submission" button. New users will need to create an account. Once logged on to the site authors may make a submission or check the status of the manuscript. Make a new submission or view your pending submissions.

Manuscripts should be submitted as in Word format (see in Template of a manuscript).

B. Peer-review and decisions

The journal uses single-blind peer review to avoid bias. See Peer review policy.

C. Publication charges

See the journal policies Artcile Processing Charges.

D. Copyright and publication

All papers will be published open access under a Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 licence. This ensures that they receive the maximum dissemination because there are no barriers to access. This licence allows readers to disseminate and reuse the paper, but always requires them to grant the authors and the first publication full credit.

See the journal  Open access and Copyright Policy.

D. Article types

The journal welcomes all original submissions of articles and reviews that comply with the Aims and Scope of the journal.  All submissions must be original papers, and not be under consideration by a journal elsewhere.

E. General Guidelines

  1. Use the BERDAYA guide as template.
  2. Ensure that each new paragraph is clearly indicated. Present tables and figure legends on separate pages at the end of the manuscript.
  3. Number all pages consecutively. Manuscripts should also be spellchecked by the facility available in most good word-processing packages.
  4. Extensive use of italics and emboldening within the text should be avoided.
  5. Papers should be clear, precise and logical.
  6. The Abstract should be informative and completely self-explanatory, provide a clear statement of the problem, the proposed approach or solution, and point out major findings and conclusions. The Abstract should be 200 to 250 words in length. The abstract should be written in the past tense.
  7. The keyword 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.
  8. The Introduction should provide a clear background, a clear statement of the problem, the relevant literature on the subject, the proposed approach or solution, and the new value of research which it is innovation. It should be understandable to colleagues from a broad range of scientific disciplines.
  9. Explaining research chronological, including research design and research procedure. The description of the course of research should be supported references, so the explanation can be accepted scientifically.
  10. Tables and Figures are presented center.
  11. In the results and discussion section should be explained the results and at the same time is given the comprehensive discussion.
  12. A good conclusion should provide a statement that what is expected, as stated in the "Introduction" section can ultimately result in "Results and Discussion" section, so there is compatibility. Moreover, it can also be added the prospect of the development of research results and application prospects of further studies into the next (based on the results and discussion).
  13. References should be cited in text. Only references cited in text should be listed at the end of the paper.

One author should be designated as corresponding author and provide the following information:

  • E-mail address
  • ORCID ID
  • Telephone and fax numbers (Opstional)

Please note that any papers which fail to meet our requirements will be returned to the author for amendment. Only papers which are submitted in the correct style will be considered by the Editors.

Equations

Formulasequations and their components presented in the text must be written in Equation Editor. The size of basic symbols in equations should correspond to the letter size of the main text – 10 pt; indexes should be in 7 pt, sub-indexes – 6 pt. For more details see the Template of the Manuscript.

Tables

Tables should be created in Word or Excel and should be designed so that they easily fit a regular journal page. Each table should be numbered sequentially throughout the article and mentioned in the main text.

Each table must have an informative caption to describe the table. They may have footnotes if explanations of abbreviations, etc., are required.

Figures

Figures may be supplied within the text file at submission, but on article acceptance they must be supplied as separate files.

Each figure should be numbered sequentially throughout the article and mentioned in the main text. Each figure must have an informative caption to describe the figure.

Please be sure that all figures are at the appropriate resolution: 1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for colour.

Diagrams, charts and schemes: font – Times New Roman from 5 to 8 pt, line thickness – from 0.3 to 2 pt, file formats – *.pdf, *.eps, *.cdr, *.xls, *.xlsx, *.dwg.

Author Contributions and Acknowledgments

Each person who made an intellectual contribution to the research, and the evaluation/analysis and to the writing of the article (see the ICMJE definition of authorship) should be named as an author.

People who contributed to the work (but do not fulfil the authorship criteria) should be listed in the Acknowledgments, along with their contributions. You must ensure that anyone named in the acknowledgments agrees to being named.

Conflict of Interest

Authors must also provide a disclosure statement within the article which will acknowledge any financial, professional, personal interest or benefit they have arising from the direct applications of their research.

Funding

Please supply all details required by any funding and grant-awarding bodies as Funding in a separate paragraph as follows:

  • For single agency grants:
    • This work was supported by the <Funding Agency> under Grant [number xxxx].
  • For multiple agency grants:
    • This work was supported by the <Funding Agency #1> under Grant [number xxxx]; <Funding Agency #2> under Grant [number xxxx]; and <Funding Agency #3> under Grant [number xxxx].

References

The Journal uses the APA Style (author–date method) short reference system for citations in the text with an alphabetical list at the end of the paper. Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list and vice versa. Please check if all names and surnames of the authors, also the details (title, year, volume, pages, etc.) in the list of references are correct.

In the text use the following style examples:

  • This was discussed by Smart (2016)…" – single author item
  • This was discussed in full (Smart, 2016)" – single author item
  • This was discussed in full (Smart & Burkart, 2016) – two authors
  • This was discussed in full (Smart et al., 2016)…" – 3 or more authors
  • This was discussed in full (P. Smart, 2016; S. Smart, 2017)…" where items have similar author names
  • This was discussed in full (Smart, 2016a, 2016b)…" where two or more items are published in the same year

Reference examples:

Book

  • Montgomery, D. C. (2012). Introduction to statistical quality control (7th ed.). Wiley.

Book chapter

  • Slack, B. (2007). The terminalisation of seaports. In J. Wang, D. Olivier, T. Notteboom, & B. Slack (Eds.), Ports, cities, and global supply chains (pp. 41–50). Ashgate.

Journal article

  • Badami, M. G., & Haider, M. (2007). An analysis of public bus transit performance in Indian cities. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice41(10), 961–981. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2007.06.002

Conference proceedings

  • Saraiji, R., Harb, A., & Hamdan, M. O. (2011). Performance of LED street lights in hot environments. In K. Domke & C. A. Brebbia (Eds.), Light in engineering, architecture and environment (pp. 147–158). WIT Press. https://doi.org/10.2495/LIGHT110131

    Brown, S., & Caste, V. (2004, May). Integrated obstacle detection framework. Paper presented at the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Detroit, MI.

Thesis or dissertation

  • Suwetwattanakul, C. (2010). Developing a knowledge sharing model for the implementation of the learning organization in Thailand (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia.

Internet documents

Non-book and other formats

  • Sidra Intersections. (2008). User guide-introduction. Akcelik & Associates Pty Ltd.

F. Supplemental online material

The journal can accept supplementary files that support the submitted article (e.g. audio, movie, or text files: for example a survey questionnaire which is described in the article). Supplemental information should be provided with the submission. It will not be formally reviewed but will be considered to determine whether it is required by the article. Please note that authors take fully responsibility for the content of any supplemental information, and a disclaimer on the supplemental information must clearly state that they have not been formally reviewed.

G. Reproduction of copyright material

If you wish to include any material in your manuscript in which you do not hold copyright, you must obtain written permission from the copyright owner, prior to submission. Such material may be in the form of text, data, table, illustration, photograph, line drawing, audio clip, video clip, film still, and screenshot, and any supplemental material you propose to include. This applies to direct (verbatim or facsimile) reproduction as well as “derivative reproduction” (where you have created a new figure or table which derives substantially from a copyrighted source).

You must ensure appropriate acknowledgement is given to the permission granted to you for reuse by the copyright holder in each figure or table caption. You are solely responsible for any fees which the copyright holder may charge for reuse.

The reproduction of short extracts of text for the purposes of criticism may be possible without formal permission on the basis that the quotation is reproduced accurately and full attribution is given.