HOW TO SUBMIT MY ARTICLE?

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check their submission’s compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

1. Originality. The submission is original and has not been previously published. It is not under consideration by another journal, or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor.

2. Language. The manuscript is written in English or Filipino. Filipino manuscripts include both the Filipino and English title and abstract, as shown in the Filipino template.

3. Author details. The manuscript includes complete author information as required by the IJMERI template:

   • full names (first name, middle initial, surname), each followed by the ORCID iD logo

   • email addresses, positions, departments, institutions, cities, provinces and countries

   • the corresponding author’s email

4. The editorial office will remove all author information before sending the manuscript for double-blind peer review.

5. File format. The submission file is a Microsoft Word document (.docx).

6. IJMERI template. The manuscript is prepared using the latest IJMERI template, with these sections in this order:

   • Title, Author Details, Abstract and Keywords

   • Introduction, including the Research Questions

   • Methods

   • Results and Discussion

   • Conclusion

   • CRediT authorship contribution statement

   • Declaration of competing interest

   • Ethics statement

   • Data availability

   • Declaration of generative AI and AI-assisted technologies in the review process and the writing process

   • Funding

   • Acknowledgements

   • References

7. Text formatting. Times New Roman is used throughout.

   • Title: bold, 16-point, centered.

   • Author names: bold, 11-point, centered.

   • Author details: italic, 9-point, left-aligned.

   • Main section headings: bold, 11-point, all capitals. Subheadings are bold, 11-point, in sentence case.

   • Abstract heading: bold, 10-point, capitals. Keywords are italic and 10-point.

   • Body text: 10-point, justified and single-spaced, with indented paragraphs and no blank line between them.

   • Italics: used instead of underlining, except for URL addresses.

8. Tables and figures. All illustrations, figures and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, not at the end. Each has a numbered title in bold, 10-point, centered Times New Roman.

9. Length. The manuscript is between 10 and 20 pages and has no more than 7,000 words.

10. Abstract and keywords. The abstract is one paragraph that presents, in order, the objective of the study, the methodology, the findings and their interpretation, and the conclusion. There are no more than five keywords.

11. References. The manuscript has at least 25 references, formatted in APA 7th edition and listed alphabetically. DOIs or URLs are provided where available. In-text citations follow APA 7th edition, and footnotes are not used.

12. Declarations. All declaration sections in the template are completed. Any use of generative AI tools is disclosed, and AI tools are not listed as authors.

13. Ethics. Research involving human participants has ethical approval, and informed consent was obtained. For minors, parental or guardian consent and learner assent were obtained.

14. Proofreading and originality. The manuscript has been proofread. Its similarity index is below 10%. Manuscripts with a similarity index of 10% or higher will be returned to the authors.

15. ORCID iD. Every author has an active ORCID iD, linked to the ORCID logo after the author’s name in the manuscript and entered at submission.

16. Open access licence. The authors agree that, if accepted, the article will be published open access under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) International License, and that the authors retain copyright.