Guide for Authors

Art &civilization of the ORIENT’s guide to writing scientific papers

.The priority will be to print articles that help give readers a new understanding to the concept of “ORIENT”, based on the personal experience or the academic researches of the authors and conform to the standard academic writing format and must also focus on an issue which is within the target interests of the journal. Therefore, the articles that merely present raw facts and figures or provide background stories on academic issues are not within the scope of the priorities of the journal. Each article is reviewed by at least two peer-reviewers who specialize in the specific field the paper examines. At least two votes of approval and a satisfactory evaluation by the editorial board is required for a paper to be published.

 

Structure of a scientific article

  • Title:be short and precise and should not be repetitive, poetic or ambiguous.
  • Abstract: should include questions,the necessity of the study, an objective, the method of research and a conclusion.
  • Academic format: includes a comprehensive introduction about thesubject, background information, questions, the hypothesis and the method of research. 
  • The Main Body: includes topics raised to prove or reject the main hypothesis.
  • Conclusion: includes answers to the main questions the study has raised and an outright acceptance or rejection of the hypothesis. Conclusion does not include introduction, references or reasons.

 

 

 

How to present your articles

  • Articles must be typed on a white A4 paper with Microsoft Word (Bmitra format, size 13). They should not have any misspellings or scratches and should amount to approximately 2500-3000 words (without considering tables, images, or graphs which may be included in 6 pages in Farsi and English languages and must be sent to the journal’s office in a hard disk). 
  • On a separate page must be written the title of the article, the complete name and title of its author, the name of the institution or organization he/she is working with, and the author’s complete postal address, electronic mail and contact number.
  • The article’s title must be written in less than 20 words. The abstract must be written in more than 300 words and the keywords should not exceed five.
  • Some six illustrations/ figures are referredand documented relevant to the analyzing process of the paper. All of these are saved as JPEG – 300 dpi resolution format.
  • Names, abbreviations, equivalents, and explanatory notes must appear at the end of the article under an appendix.
  • Basic in-text referencing; (author’s surname, year: page) example: (Michelle, 2001:38)
  • References list of the article must be written in the following order:
  • Book: surname, name of author. (Date of first publication). Title. (Publication date of current book) name of translator, place of publication: publisher. Example :
    • Blake, N. (1999). Higher Education in the 21st century. New York: university press.

Islaminadoshan, M.A. (1993). Sokhanharabeshnavim [Hear the speaks]. Tehran: SahamiEnteshar.

  • Ehsan, A. (1970). Ahde Ardeshir [Ardeshir Era]. Translated to Farsi By Emam Shoushtari.M.A. Tehran: Anjoman asare-e meli.
  • Article: surname, name of author. (publication date). Title of article. name of translator, name of journal,year (number of journal): page or pages.
  • Blake, N. (1998). Using the web in undergraduate education.Journal of Educational Computing, 5(2):234-251.