Author Guidelines

The Research Dialogue

An Online Quarterly Multidisciplinary Peer-Reviewed and Refereed Research Journal

Submit through the Online Submission System

Authors should submit manuscripts through the Online Submission System available on the journal website. The manuscript must be uploaded in an editable Microsoft Word format and prepared according to the journal's prescribed template and publication policies.

Criteria for Manuscript Submission

✓ Originality: The manuscript must be original, unpublished and free from plagiarism or any other form of academic misconduct.

✓ Exclusive Submission: The manuscript must not be under review or consideration by another journal at the time of submission.

✓ Academic Quality: The manuscript should present a meaningful, relevant and clearly identifiable contribution to the field of study.

✓ Language: The writing must be clear, coherent, concise and appropriate for scholarly communication.

✓ Research Integrity: All data, findings, interpretations and supporting information must be accurate, reliable and honestly reported.

✓ Journal Scope: The subject of the manuscript must fall within the multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary scope of the journal.

✓ Disclosure: Funding sources, acknowledgements, competing interests and potential conflicts of interest must be properly declared.

Preparation before Submission

Authors must prepare manuscripts in accordance with the journal's paper template, formatting instructions and ethical policies. The manuscript should be complete, logically organised, appropriately referenced and carefully proofread before submission.

All author names, institutional affiliations, email addresses and corresponding-author details must be accurate. The order of authors should be finalised before submission and approved by every listed contributor.

Manuscripts that do not follow the prescribed format or that contain incomplete author information, inaccurate references or missing ethical declarations may be returned for correction.

Manuscript Structure

Original research manuscripts should normally be organised in the following sequence:

The structure may be modified according to the nature, methodology and academic discipline of the submitted work. Review articles, conceptual papers, case studies and other scholarly contributions may follow a structure appropriate to their content.

Manuscript Format

Authorship and Contributions

Authorship should be limited to persons who have made a substantial intellectual contribution to the conception, design, execution, analysis, interpretation or preparation of the submitted work. Gift, honorary, guest and ghost authorship are unacceptable.

All listed authors must approve the final manuscript, agree to its submission and accept responsibility for the accuracy and integrity of the work. Individuals who provided limited technical, administrative or financial assistance should be acknowledged appropriately rather than listed as authors.

Any requested change in authorship after submission must be supported by a clear explanation and written agreement from all affected authors. The journal reserves the right to examine such requests before approval.

Original Scholarly Work

Every manuscript must represent original scholarship and must appropriately acknowledge all ideas, words, data, images, tables, findings and other material obtained from external sources.

Submitted manuscripts may be examined through similarity-checking software and manual editorial assessment. A similarity percentage will not be interpreted in isolation; the nature, location and academic significance of matched content will also be considered.

Direct plagiarism, mosaic plagiarism, inappropriate paraphrasing, translation plagiarism, data plagiarism, duplicate publication and substantial undisclosed reuse of an author's own published material are not acceptable.

Artificial Intelligence and Automated Tools

Artificial-intelligence and automated tools may be used only as supportive instruments under meaningful human supervision. Such tools must not replace original research, independent analysis, critical interpretation or scholarly judgement.

Artificial-intelligence systems cannot be listed as authors. Authors remain fully responsible for the originality, factual accuracy, references, interpretation and ethical compliance of every part of the manuscript.

Any substantial use of generative artificial intelligence for producing or materially revising text, analysis, images, code, data presentation or interpretation must be transparently disclosed.

Research Ethics and Informed Consent

Double-Blind Peer Review

All submitted manuscripts undergo preliminary editorial screening to assess compliance with the journal's scope, author guidelines, originality requirements and publication-ethics standards.

Manuscripts considered suitable for further evaluation are ordinarily subjected to a double-blind peer-review process by qualified subject experts. The identities of authors and reviewers remain concealed from each other during the review process.

Editorial decisions may include:

The final publication decision rests with the Editor or Editorial Committee after considering reviewer reports, academic quality, ethical compliance and journal policy.

Responding to Reviewer Comments

Authors receiving a revision request should carefully address every relevant observation made by the reviewers or Editorial Committee. Revised manuscripts should clearly identify the changes made and should be accompanied by a point-by-point response where requested.

Where an author does not agree with a reviewer's recommendation, a respectful and academically reasoned explanation should be provided. Unsupported refusal to make essential corrections may affect the editorial decision.

Submission of a revised manuscript does not automatically guarantee acceptance. The revised version may be examined again by the Editor or returned to the reviewers for further evaluation.

Documents Required after Acceptance

Categories of Contribution