Arrangement of your article
While authors are free to choose any format for their initial submission, we nevertheless urge them to read the manuscript preparation recommendations below and think about how easy it will be for reviewers and editors to read their work. Once an article has been approved for publication, the source files for all figures and tables must be provided, along with the main manuscript, which must be submitted as an editable file rather than a PDF.
Submitting your manuscript
Authors are requested to submit their articles via email only. Articles in preferred format has to be submitted via ijellr@espjournals.org only.
Through the submission progress, you will be required to specify who is the corresponding author as well as the names, email addresses, and institutional affiliations of all co-authors. These specifics must correspond to what is written in your manuscript. Please make sure you have submitted any additional supplemental files and included all the necessary statements and declarations at this point (including reporting guidelines where relevant).
Article Title
Your article's title should provide a brief summary of the study you are reporting. Including keywords in your title will help readers find your content online because the greatest titles are crafted with both human readers and search engines in mind. The full names and affiliations of each contributor should be listed on the title page as well.
Abstract
The abstract shouldn't be longer than 200 words and shouldn't use acronyms or abbreviations that aren't clear. Your abstract should be clear, informative, and easily readable on its own. It is important to summarize the article's overall purpose, key findings, and recommendations. To aid indexers that merely scan the title and abstract of papers, please make sure that your abstract contains all potential search terms. It is advantageous to include all of your keywords in the abstract, if at all possible.
Keywords
Please use a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 6 keywords. Avoid using terminology that are too general or too technical because they could be confusing to readers.
The finest keywords are frequently those that you would use to search online for articles on the same subject. Keywords can include brief phrases or terminology that are quickly recognized by researchers in your subject; they do not always have to be single words.
Primary text
Your article's main body text should be divided into sections with distinct labels. Background, methodology, results, discussion, and conclusions are the typical divisions, but feel free to use whatever headings and subheadings that best describe your piece. On the initial use, abbreviations should be spelt out completely.
Section on Methods (if applicable)
All the components required for the results to be interpreted and replicated should be included in the methods section. Please give complete, precise information about any tools, reagents, animal models, or software that were used. Additionally, references to published techniques or protocols (like protocols.io) can be offered. Additionally, you are urged to preregister your methods in an appropriate repository (such as https://osf.io/prereg). A Data Availability statement will also be needed; specific instructions are provided below. Where applicable, please also include the accession information in your methods sections.
Acknowledgements
Please give credit to everyone who worked on the study but did not meet the requirements for authorship.
Funding
Please list the funding sources, along with the grant numbers, for each author. Many funders demand this information as part of the submission. Please make sure to include this information in the manuscript as well because you will be requested to enter it during the submission process.
References
MLA (Modern Language Association) style is used by the style reference is the standard for all of our journals. At the end of the article, a list with sequential numbers will be provided with all references to the literature that was used in the article, listed in the order that they appeared in the text.
Although using this format in your final book will help our production staff, it is not necessary for submission. However, keep in mind that using numbered references will considerably lower your word count and may help you stay under page restrictions.