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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

 It is imperative to note that BTTN Journal accepts original, authentic, data-proven, evidence-based, theory supported, cutting-edge, quality and research-oriented papers that add value into the existing literature on the given topic of inquiry. Papers must have some form of novelty, clarity of argument, methodology, theory based questions, and rigorous policy recommendations that are workable and applicable to the given working environment pertaining to the scope of the BTTN journal. 

BTTN Journal is committed to rigorous and double blind peer-review to maintain academic integrity by upholding the highest standards of reviews. Therefore, it is for the information of authors that articles submitted to BTTN Journal will initially go through the editorial board initial screening. After passing through editorial review stage, the papers will then be blindly peer reviewed by independent and anonymous field experts on the submitted themes. The review process will take at least six to eight weeks for the editorial board final decision to accept or reject for publications into BTTN Journal. In the third stage, the accepted papers will be sent to authors with blind review comments/feedbacks and upon the accommodations of reviewers’ recommendations/feedbacks’, the accepted paper will get room in publication volumes and issues of BTTN Journal as final production of publications. However, due to the unforeseen incidents like, the on-going Covid-19 pandemic, the entire reviewing process may take little longer than expected.

Authors must read, understand, and follow up the following guidelines before submitting articles for consideration and publication purposes:

    1. A typical research article for this journal should be between 6000 to 8000 words including abstract, footnotes, tables, captions, and figures.

    2. An abstract must not exceed more than 200 words. It should have at least 4 key words.

    3. Although it is preferable to have a single-authored paper submission, the article should not exceed more than 3 authors comprising each author’s justifiable research contribution in the paper. No conflict of interests among the authors be integral part of the paper submitted to BTTN Journal.

    4. The responsibility of research and academic ethics is 100% relying on author(s) of the submitted paper and the editorial board has zero tolerance policy on academic and/or academic dishonesty on any part and/or whole piece of research paper/article/piece being sent for publication process to BTTN Journal.

    5. To maintain originality of the written piece for publication to BTTN Journal, the editorial board follow 100% originality ethics ever designed by academic world and/or scientific communities for academic publications. Thus, academic fraud solely relies upon the author(s).

    6. The originality of research article matters. BTTN Journal will undertake plagiarism test for each article submitted. Paper should not exceed more than 19% of similarity index and should not have more than 4% from the single source. Please follow up the BTTN Journal Plagiarism Policy in accordance with the HEC rules and regulations of Plagiarism Policy.

    7. BTTN Journal believes in stamping out bad research inquiry practices and gives guidelines of originality pieces of productions by the authors. So, it is the responsibility of the authors to know and follow the guidelines of retraction and abide by academic/research norms and/or ethics of academic/research piece of paper(s) to BTTN Journal. For guidelines, consider to follow the link: https://publicationethics.org/retraction-guidelines

    8. Papers should be submitted anonymously with no marks of indication. However, authors should submit separately their short bio and institutional affiliation on title page while submitting their manuscript to BTTN Journal.

    9. Papers once submitted to BTTN Journal must not have been printed elsewhere and/or should not be under consideration in other journals. Authors cannot withdraw the papers once they are accepted for publication by the BTTN Journal. However, the retraction policy helps guide the authors, consider to follow the link: https://publicationethics.org/retraction-guidelines

    10. Articles should be submitted in MS Word Office with 12 font size, Times New Roman and bearing 2.0 space in between the lines. The footnotes should be 10 font size of Times New Roman.

    11. BTTN Journal  accepts British and American English spellings.

    12. BTTN Journal follows the footnoted references according to Chicago manual 16th edition. Please follow the link: Chicago-Style Citation (https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html).

    13. No sophisticated formatting is required for the citations. Footnote citation should be simple. For a more comprehensive look at Chicago’s two systems of source citation and many more examples, see chapters 14  (https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/book/ed17/part3/ch14/toc.html) and 15 (https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/book/ed17/part3/ch15/toc.html) of The Chicago Manual of Style.

    14. In addition to research articles, BTTN Journal also accepts Book Reviews in accordance with Aims and Scope of this journal. Book Reviews should not exceed 1200-word limit. Book reviews are evaluated by the related BTTN Journal editorial team.

    15. The editorial team of BTTN Journal may decline research articles/book reviews if they do not comply with the guidelines of the journal.

    16. The final decision regarding articles/book reviews will be notified through email after passing all the stages of the initial screening, blind-peer review processes and accommodating reviewers’ comments/feedback are complete.

    17. The BTTN Journal announces Call for Papers twice an academic year and publishes two issues and one volume an academic starting from July, 2022.

Book Reviews

 

 

Copyright Notice

Copyright

All articles are permanently available online to the public without restrictions or subscription fees. All articles are free to be used, cited, and distributed on condition that appropriate acknowledgment is included. Authors are the copyright holders of their original contributions. The published article is simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons (CC) Attribution License. “A CC license is used when an author wants to give people the right to share, use, and build upon a work that they have created” Wikipedia.

The number of citations is one of the main measurements of author productivity and impact in each field. Therefore, authors are encouraged to post their research work online to make their publications available to a larger audience to increase the impact factor and citation levels.

Copyright regulations regarding archiving:

  • Author can archive pre-print or original manuscript which has not been peer-reviewed by the journal. Archiving pre-print versions of the manuscript is not considered print or publication.
  • Author can archive post-print or accepted manuscript which has undergone the peer-review process and are accepted for publication.
  • Author can archive the publishers' final version of the article which has been peer-reviewed, revised accordingly, proofread, and formatted for publication.

License agreement

In submitting an article to BTTN Journal published by Balochistan Think Tank Network, I certify that:

  1. I am authorized by my co-authors to enter into these arrangements.
  2. I warrant, on behalf of myself and my co-authors, that:
    • The article is original, has not been formally published in any other peer-reviewed journal, is not under consideration by any other journal, and does not infringe any existing copyright or any other third party rights;
    • I am/we are the sole author(s) of the article and have full authority to enter into this agreement and in granting rights to its publisher BTTN is not in breach of any other obligation;
    • The article contains nothing that is unlawful, libelous, or which would, if published, constitute a breach of contract or of confidence or of commitment given to secrecy;
    • I/we have taken due care to ensure the integrity of the article. To my/our knowledge all statements contained in it purporting to be facts are true.
  3. I, and all co-authors, agree that the article if editorially accepted for publication, shall be licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0.

 

Additional information about Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0:


The Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 provides the following summary:
You are free to:

Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.


Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.
The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.

Under the following terms:

Attribution— you must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.


No additional restrictions—you may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

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