Submissions
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 (including as a pre-print), 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 double-spaced; uses a 12-point font; with a suitable wide margin on one side of the A4-size paper; 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.
Education
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Life Science
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Copyright
If the executive editor or handling editor finds the manuscripts satisfactory for forwarding to peer review, the author(s) will have to fill out the Declaration and Copyright forms and submit those to the Executive Editor of KU Studies. Under this Declaration and Copyright agreement, authors have to declare that the submitted work has not been published anywhere (including as a pre-print) or is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. Once the manuscript is accepted, the copyright of the article will remain under the control of KU Studies. The published manuscript can be reproducible in any form of reproduction and KU Studies will not impose any restriction on the author’s freedom to use the article material in other works as KU Studies follow the open access license policy under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).
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