Methodology

Receiving Articles

-         All articles of a scientific value are received for review and potentially published.

-         The editorial board is entitled to accept, reject, and correct or modify the articles.

-         Prioritization and publication of articles are based on the approval of the article by the judges and the editorial board. 

-         The author is  Corresponding Author for contents of the article.

-         The author is required to send a written letter of commitment indicating that the submitted article will not be submitted to other publications before the results are announced (maximum six months after submitting the article).

Regulations Related to Articles

The authors are requested to follow the following regulations in presentation of their articles:

1. The articles must be submitted through the electronic portal of the magazine (hii.alzahra.ac.ir).
2. The articles must contain the following chapters:

-         Abstract in Persian and English (not exceeding 200 words)

-         Key words and concepts of the project (maximum 5 words)

-         Introduction, including the research problem and its background, research method, and objectives

-         Discussion and study of the hypothesis (hypotheses), and proper analyses on the subject

-         Conclusion

-         List of sources

1. Sources divided by language (Persian/Arabic and Latin) must be listed in alphabetic order in the following format: author’s surname, name, date of publication, title, editor (translator), place of publication, publisher.
2. References must be made within the text including the author’s name, date of publication, and address of the quoted text within parentheses; for example (Hosseini, 2006: 1/133).
3. The article may include maximum 7000 words, i.e. about 20 pages, typed in Microsoft Word environment.
4. Latin equivalent of specific terms and concepts must be mentioned in footnotes.
5. Author(s)’s details (full name, scientific grade, telephone number of the author and the related university or institute, and e-mail address) must be sent in a separate file (not within the article).
6. Articles can be published in foreign languages (English, Arabic, French, etc) provided that:
   
   1. The author doesn’t speak Persian.
   2. The Persian speaking authors may publish articles in foreign languages when publishing such articles is deemed necessary for a specific reason (by the editorial board).

Confidentiality of Information

Private information of authors must remain well-protected and confidential among all individuals having access to it such as the editor-in-chief, editorial board members, internal and executive managers of the journal or other concerned parties such as reviewers, advisors, editor, and the publisher.

 Double blind peer review

The publication uses a two-way secret arbitration process to evaluate all articles.

Copyright

Making use of contents and results of other studies must be done with proper citation. Written permission should be obtained for use of copyrighted materials from other sources. 

 Cc-By-Nc-ND

 This is the most restrictive license in the six core licenses, which only allows others to subtract and distribute the effect until there is no change in the effect and commercial use of it.

Plagiarism

Online plagiarism checker softwares( samimnoor.ir) are used to detect similarities between the submitted manuscripts and other published papers.