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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

The research paper must be typed, “Multiple 1.15” spaced with Times New Roman Font 12. Paragraphs are formatted as “6pt” after spacing, employ italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points with Time New Roman Font 11. Page margins should be as follow:

Top: 1”

Bottom: 1”

Left: 1”

Right: 1”

Indentation: 0”

Gutter Position: Left

Gutter: 0”

Paper Title should be Times New Roman 16 Font. Author names should be Centered Aligned with all capital letters in Times New Roman 11 Bold Font. Association and Corresponding Authors Email Address should be typed with one line space after Author Names with Times New Roman Font 11 applying no space between the lines.

All articles must be submitted through OJS after registering and logging-in on the OJS website of the journal. “https://journals.uol.edu.pk/the-sky”

All contributors should follow the recognized style of typing references and bibliography as incorporated in APA 7th manual for research articles. The font for references may be selected as Times New Toman 11.

Format can also be downloaded from the website of journal at https://journals.uol.edu.pk/the-sky/authors-guidelines .

Further, it may be noted that only one article of any author or co-author will be considered for publication.

Note:

*All statements of fact and opinion expressed in this journal are the sole responsibility of the authors, and do not imply any endorsement on part or whole in any form or shape whatsoever by the editors or publisher.

Copyright Notice

COPYRIGHT POLICY

UOL journals follow an open-access publishing policy and full text of all articles is available free, immediately upon acceptance. Articles are published and distributed under the terms of the CC BY-SA 4.0 International License. Thus, work submitted to UOL Journals implies that it is original, unpublished work of the authors; neither published previously nor accepted/under consideration for publication elsewhere. 

Authors will be responsible for any information written/informed/reported in the submitted manuscript. Although we do not require authors to submit the data collection documents and coded sheets used to do quantitative or qualitative analysis, we may request it at any time during the publication process, including after the article has been published. It is author's responsibility to obtain signed permission from the copyright holder to use and reproduce text, illustrations, tables, etc., published previously in other journals, electronic or print media.

Conflict of interest statements will be published at the end of the article. If no conflict of interest exists, the following sentence will be used: "The authors declare no conflict of interest." Authors are required to disclose any sponsorship or funding received from any institution relating to their research. The editor(s) will determine what disclosures, if any, should be available to the readers.

Authors are not permitted to post the work on any website/blog/forum/board or at any other place, by any means, from the time such work is submitted to UOL journals until the final decision on the paper has been given to them. In case a paper is accepted for publication, the authors may not post the work in its entirety on any website/blog/forum/board or at any other place, by any means, till the paper is published in UOL Journals.

The authors may, however, post the title, authors’ names and their affiliations and abstract, with the following statement on the first page of the paper - "The manuscript has been accepted for publication in UOL Journals". After publication of the article, it may be posted anywhere with full journal citation included.

All articles published in UOL journals are open-access articles, published and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License which permits remixing, transformation, or building upon the material, provided the original work is appropriately cited mentioning the authors and the publisher, as well as the produced work is distributed under the same license as the original.

In the future, UOL may reproduce printed copies of articles in any form. Without prejudice to the terms of the license given below, we retain the right to reproduce author's articles in this way.

Brief Summary Of The License Agreement

By submitting your research article(s) to UOL Journal(s), you agree to Creative Commons Attribution-4.0 International License which states that:

Anyone is free:

o To copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
o To remix, transform, or build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially

Provided:

o The author and the publisher have been appropriately credited
o The link to license is provided
o Indicated if any changes were made
o The material produced is distributed under the same license as the original

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