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Hebron University Research Journal-A (Natural Sciences) - (مجلة جامعة الخليل للبحوث- أ (العلوم الطبيعيه

Publication Rules & Procedures

HURJ: A Natural Sciences Publication Rules

When submitting their manuscript for publication in HURJ: A- Natural Sciences, authors are kindly requested to consider the following:

• Documentation: authors are requested to use the American Psychological Association (APA) style for documentation www.apa.org.
• References: authors are requested to write all Arabic references in English in the manuscript text and in the bibliography or references.
• Non-English references (including Arabic references) must be translated into English, along with keeping the original list of Arabic references intact.
• If the Arabic references have a well-established English translation, it must be used; however, transliteration must be used for the Arabic references that do not have well established equivalents in English (such as: Hadith).
• Having been transferred into English, all references must be arranged in alphabetical order in accordance with the APA style.
• The author shall abide by the rules of citation, documentation and ethics of publication; the Journal reserves the right to reject a submitted manuscript and report the case of misconduct to other journals, institutions, or individuals.
• The submitted manuscript must be innovative or should add something new to the field of human knowledge or natural and applied sciences. The author must take into account the conventions of scientific/academic manuscript.
• The submitted manuscript shall be written in an academic language free of spelling, grammatical and typographical errors.
• The submitted manuscript should not have been published or submitted for publication to another party, and the author shall officially acknowledge that by filling in an attached form.
• The submitted manuscript must be printed using MSWORD and A4 size page. The number of its pages must not exceed 30 in total, and its word count must not be over 10,000 words. The font type used must be Times New Roman, size (12), for the manuscripts written in English and Simplified Arabic, size (12), for the manuscripts written in Arabic.
• A distance of 1.5 between the lines and 2.5 cm margins from the four sides of the page must be used.
• The Journal shall accept recent book reviews of no more than 1000 words.
• The tables and graphs in the submitted manuscript must appear directly as they are used in the manuscript.
• The appendices in the submitted manuscript must be sequentially included after the reference page.

Technical and Formal Aspects

The manuscript shall be presented in the following order:

• The first page of the submitted manuscript must include the title of the manuscript, the name(s) of the author(s), the institution in which they work, their full addresses, research keywords, and an abstract of no more than 150 words in both Arabic and English.
• The manuscript must also include an introduction, objectives, a review of related literature, methodology, results, discussion and recommendations/implications.
• The manuscript must also include the references used and the appendices.
• Fund and Support: The Journal requests authors to disclose any received fund or support from individual or organization in the “Acknowledgment” section.

Publication Procedures

• The author(s) submit his/her manuscript to HURJ: A- Natural Sciences e-mail and they should abide by the Journal policies and procedures for publication.
• The submitted manuscript is initially reviewed by HURJ: A Natural Sciences Editorial Board to determine its compliance with the principles of academic research.
• The Editorial Board will assign reviewers for the manuscript or reject the manuscript if it is not in the scope of HURJ: A- Natural Sciences.
• The Editorial Board will send the manuscript to two competent reviewers who will evaluate it within one month and submit to HURJ: A- Natural Sciences a detailed report on its originality, using a special form for this purpose.

The application form for manuscript publication

The submitted manuscript is not reviewed by a reviewer who works in the same university/organization.

In the case of a negative report from one of the two referees, the manuscript will be sent to a third referee to decide if it is scientifically accepted for publication.

In case of a positive report from both referees, the author must make the modifications required by the reviewers (if any) within one month. In the event that the author disagrees with a suggested revision, he/she must provide rationale for not carrying out the suggested modification.

After the required modifications are made by the author, the manuscript is resent to one the reviewers to ensure that the required modifications have been made.

If the reviewer rejects the required modification, the author will be given a period of two weeks to make the necessary corrections, otherwise, the paper will be rejected.

The information received from the reviewers must be kept confidential. The reviewers shall not be made aware of the results of the other reviewers.

When the authors carry out the required corrections (if any), they will be notified of the manuscript acceptance it will be scheduled for publication in accordance with the policy of the Journal.

The author will be granted a copy of HURJ: A- Natural Sciences in which the submitted manuscript is published.

The Journal shall not charge any fees when receiving the submitted manuscripts for peer-reviewing or for publication therein. However, if the author decides to withdraw the submitted manuscript or fails to provide rationale for not carrying out the suggested modification, the author shall pay the financial expenses resulting from the review process.

When the manuscript is accepted for publication, copyrights shall be automatically transferred to HURJ: A- Natural Sciences.

The Journal offers a token reward to the referees.