Policies and Guidelines: E-LRP journal

This Journal's primary goal is to provide authors with professional experience throughout manuscript review and publication stages.

Author Guidelines

Author's Responsibility

This Journal's primary goal is to provide authors with professional experience throughout manuscript review and publication stages. To achieve this, authors are also obliged to fulfil some responsibilities. Authors should ensure their work fits into the scope of the Journal and take care to refer to and abide by the Author's guidelines. Papers that do not fit the scope of the Journal and/or address the criteria outlined in the Author's guidelines will be returned without review. The Journal expects authors to:

  • Respond quickly to any queries during the publication process.
  • Be accountable for all aspects of your work, including any questions about accuracy or research integrity.
  • Treat all communications between the Author and the journal editor as confidential until an editorial decision has been made.
  • Include only authors who have made a substantial and meaningful contribution to the submission (anyone else involved in the paper should be listed in the acknowledgements).
  • If your research involves human participants, you must ensure you have considered whether or not you require ethical approval for your research, and include this information as part of your submission. 

 

Ethics and Disclosure Guidelines

The Journal maintains high ethical standards at all levels of the review and publication of submissions received. Authors are to ensure that they follow the research and publishing ethics guidelines outlined by the Journal to avoid breaches of ethical standards. These include the following:

  • All manuscripts submitted to the Journal must be original. The manuscript should not have been published before in its current or similar form. Provided any portion or substantial part of the paper has been published previously, the Author shall declare this information to the journal editor upon submission.
  • The manuscript should not have been submitted to or be under consideration for publication by another journal.
  • If you have a conflict of interest, you must declare it upon submission; this allows the editor to decide how they would like to proceed.
  • By submitting your work to this Journal, you are guaranteeing that the work is not in infringement of any existing copyright.
  • Where appropriate, the Author (s) must provide an ethical statement in their submitted work, confirming that their research received the necessary institutional and national (or international) ethical approvals. This statement should detail the ethics review committee's name and location, the approval number and date, and the relevant guidelines followed. It must also confirm that informed consent was obtained from all participants and that anonymity is preserved.
  • Conflict of Interest: Authors must disclose any potential conflicts of interest.
  • Funding Sources: All financial support must be acknowledged in the manuscript.

 

Third-party copyright permissions

Before submitting your manuscript, authors are to ensure that they have applied for, and received written permission to use any material that has been created by a third party. The Journal will not able to publish any article that still has permissions pending. The rights we require are:

  • Non-exclusive rights to reproduce the material in the article or book chapter.
  • Print and electronic rights.
  • Worldwide English-language rights.
  • To use the material for the life of the work. That means there should be no time restrictions on its re-use e.g. a one-year license.

 

Corresponding Author

Before submitting a manuscript, authors should clearly designate a corresponding author. This is the individual responsible for managing communication with the Journal throughout the review and publication process. The corresponding Author will  handles all editorial correspondence, responds to reviewer comments, ensures that all authors have approved the final version of the manuscript, and communicates with the journal post-publication if needed. Designating a corresponding author prior to submission helps streamline communication and avoids confusion during the review process.

 

Manuscript Preparation

All manuscripts must conform to the following requirements.

  • Title: The title of the manuscript should be concise, descriptive, unambiguous, and accurate.
  • Author (s) information/details
  • The names of all contributing authors should be provided in the order in which you would like them to be published. The following information must be included:
    • Author name
    • Author email address (institutional preferred).
    • Author affiliation i.e. institution (department).
    • Provide the 16-digit ORCID of the Author (s)
    • Note: It is important to include only the details of the authors who made significant contributions to this manuscript. The order of authors should be finalised before submission, reflecting each individual's contribution as agreed upon by the authors. And this must be done prior to submission. No new author can be added after the manuscript has been accepted for publication. The introduction of new Author (s) to the manuscript will mean the manuscript will be declined and resubmitted if possible. Those who have provided support but have not contributed to the research should be featured in an acknowledgments section.
  • Abstract- Authors are to provide a structured abstract of 150 - 250 words which highlights;
    • The purpose of the research
    • Sample(s)
    • The design/methodology/approach
    • Key findings
    • Practical and social implications (if any)
    • Conclusions
  • Keywords: Authors are to include 4-6 keywords for indexing purposes
  • Acknowledgements: The Acknowledgments section should include all contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship.
  • General Formatting
    • File format: Microsoft Word (.docx) or LaTeX (.tex).
    • Times New Roman, 12 pt.
    • One-inch margin on all sides.
    • Double-spaced.
  • Word Limits
  • Manuscripts submitted to the Journal should generally range between 4,000 to 10,000 words, including references, appendices, and abstracts. Word limit for specific paper types are as follows:
    • Systematic Review papers: 4,000 to 10,000 words
    • Case Report papers: 4,000 to 6,000 words
    • Full-Length papers: 4,000 to 8,000 words
  • E-Learning Conference Submissions:
    • E-Learning conference papers intended for journal publication must undergo the required review and publication process.
  • Figure and charts
    • All figures (charts, diagrams, line drawings, webpages/screenshots, and photographic images) should be submitted electronically. Both colour and black and white files shall be accepted.
    • All figures should be supplied at the highest resolution/quality possible with numbers and text clearly legible.
    • Acceptable formats are:
    1. JPEG and TIF: Common format for pictures (containing no text or graphs).
    2. EPS: Preferred format for graphs and line art (retains quality when enlarging/zooming in).
  • Electronic figures created in other applications should be supplied in their original formats and should also be either copied and pasted into a blank MS Word document or submitted as a PDF file.
  • All figures should be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals and have clear captions.
  • All photographs should be numbered as Plate 1, 2, 3, etc., and have clear captions.
  • All figure/table captions should include the necessary credit line, acknowledgement, or attribution if you have been permitted to use the figure/table; if the figure/table is the property of the Author (s), this should be acknowledged in the caption.
  • Table format
    • Tables should be typed and submitted in a separate file to the main body of the article.
    • The position of each table should be clearly labelled in the main body of the article with corresponding labels clearly shown in the table file.
    • Tables should be numbered consecutively in Roman numerals (e.g. I, II, etc.).
    • Authors are to provide each table with a brief title. Ensure that any superscripts or asterisks are shown next to the relevant items and that explanations are displayed as footnotes to the table, figure, or plate.
  • Supplementary files
    • All supplementary material must be submitted prior to acceptance.
  • References
    • Authors are to use the citation style specified by the Journal (APA style).
    • Ensure all citations in the text correspond to full references in the reference list
    • References to other publications in your text should be written as follows: 
    1. Single Author: (Antwi, 2024)
    2. Two authors: (Antwi and Bonsu, 2024)
    3. Three or more authors: (Antwi et al., 2024) Please note, 'et al' should always be written in italics.
    • The reference list should be arranged first alphabetically and then further sorted chronologically if necessary. More than one reference from the same Author (s) in the same year must be identified by the letters 'a', 'b', 'c', etc., placed after the year of publication.;
  1. Reference to a journal publication: Asamoah J., Tweneboah, J. A. J., & Enninson, R. A. (2024). The determinants of e-learning adoption in public universities in Ghana. Journal of international e-learn and technology, 163, 51-59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sc.2010.00372.
  2. Reference to a journal publication with an article number: Asamoah J., Tweneboah, J. A. J., & Enninson, R. A. (2024). The determinants of e-learning adoption in public universities in Ghana. Heliyon, 19, Article e00205. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2018.e00205.
  3. Reference to a book: Sarfo, B., (2024). The art of conducting e-learning research in Sub-Saharan Africa (4th ed.). Longman (Chapter 4).
  4. Reference to a chapter in an edited book: Twumasi, G. R., (2024). How to prepare an electronic version of your article. In Koomson, R., and Adjei (Eds.), Introduction to the electronic age (pp. 281-304). E-Publishing Inc.
  5. Reference to a website: Energy Systems. (2015). Lithium-ion vs lead-acid cost analysis. Retrieved from http://www.energysystems.eu/home/tech-corner/lithium-ion-vs-lead-acid-cost-analysis/. Accessed January 6, 2016
  6. Reference to a dataset: [dataset] Abanga, M., & Appiah, S., (2015). Mortality data for cholera outbreak in Kumasi 2018-2024. Mendeley Data, v1. https://doi.org/10.17632/xwj98nb39r.1.
  7. Reference to a conference paper or poster presentation: Osei, E.K., (2024, November). The Body Image Behaviours Inventory-3: Development and validation of the Body Image Compulsive Actions and Body Image Avoidance Scales. Poster session presentation at the meeting of the Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies, Accra.
  8. Reference to software: Ansah, E., (2020, March 25). Advanced Terrestrial Simulator (ATS) v0.88 (Version 0.88). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3727209.

 

Submitting manuscripts

Before submitting your manuscript, the Author must check that the work is complete, grammatically correct, and without spelling or typographical errors. It is important to take note of the following:

  • The manuscript must fit into the scope of the Journal
  • The manuscript must comply with our research and publishing ethics guidelines
  • All necessary publishing permission must have been granted.
  • The Author must have followed all the formatting requirements laid out in these author guidelines.

 

The submission process

All manuscripts should be submitted through our editorial system by the corresponding Author. The only way to submit to the Journal is through the Journal's website not by email or through any third-party agent/company, journal representative, or website. Submissions should be done directly by the Author (s) through the website and not via a third-party proxy on their behalf.

 

Post Submission

After successful submission, you will receive an automated email from the journal editor, confirming your submission. It will provide you with a manuscript number, which will be used in all future correspondence about your submission. If you have any reason to suspect the confirmation, email you receive might be fraudulent, please contact the journal editor in the first instance.

 

Review and decision process

Each submission is checked by the editor. At this stage, the editors may choose to decline or unsubmit your manuscript if it doesn't fit the Journal's aims and scope, or they feel the language/manuscript quality is too low.

When the manuscript is certified as suitable for the publication, the editor will send it to at least two independent reviewers for double anonymous peer review. Once these reviewers have provided their feedback, the editor may decide to accept your manuscript, request minor or major revisions, or decline your work.

 

After acceptance

Online proof correction

The corresponding Author (s) will receive an email with a link to our online proofing system, allowing annotation and correction of proofs online. It is important to ensure that all corrections are sent back to us in one communication. Please check carefully before replying, as the inclusion of any subsequent corrections cannot be guaranteed. Proofreading is solely your responsibility.