International Journal of Knowledge Platform (IJKP)

About the Journal:

International Journal of Knowledge Platform (IJKP) is an independent, international, open access, bi-monthly, peer-reviewed general journal laid its foundation in 2021. It is committed to contributing to the translation of scientific knowledge into action through making available the research works of multiple disciplines conducted by the academicians, professionals, and the researchers from different parts of the world. Instrumentally, the published scientific works certainly bears the power of positive changes worldwide in a multi-dimensional way through unparalleled level of global reach and consequently, its impact propels the shape of human lives and the planet.

Notably, the IJKP accepts all the research works covering various disciplinary branches which has the vivid contribution to the knowledge world like Health Sciences, Social Sciences, Public Health, Religion, Environmental Science, Humanities, Technology, etc.

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Author Guidelines

The International Journal of Knowledge Platform (IJKP) is open access, international, bi-monthly, peer-reviewed online journal that publishes research articles. IJKP focuses on allocating a platform and persuading transpire intellectuals and academicians around the globe to share their academic and professional knowledge in the diverse field of knowledge domain.

Article Types

The following types of manuscripts are routinely accepted (please note that word count is from abstract to references but excluding references):

Original research articles: The form of these articles is discussed fully below; an abstract is required. They should be no longer than 4000 words and 40 references (as above, please note that word count also excludes tables, figures, and legends).

Review articles: An abstract and keywords are required. The text should be divided into sections by suitable headings. Tables and figures may be used as appropriate for the text. They should be no longer than 5000 words.

Case reports: The journal welcomes interesting case reports.

Letters: Headings should not be used in a letter; no abstract or keywords are required. The text should be no more than 800 words; there should be a maximum of 10 references and one table or figure may be included.

Correspondence: Correspondence is limited to specific comments or criticisms relating to a recent OJHSS paper, whose authors will be invited to reply.

It is strongly advised that the Authors provide a list of 3 or 4 potential reviewers (e-mail and phone numbers) who are knowledgeable in the subject matter, have no conflict of interest, and are likely to agree to review the manuscript.

Authorship All authors should have made substantial contributions to all of the following: (1) the conception and design of the study, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data, (2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content, (3) final approval of the version to be submitted.

Manuscript Submission IJKP accepts manuscript submissions through Online Submissions: Registration and login are required to submit manuscripts online and to check the status of current submissions.

Permissions IAuthor (s) wishing to include figures, tables, or text passages that have already been published elsewhere are required to obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) and to include evidence that such permission has been granted when submitting their papers. Any material received without such evidence will be assumed to originate from the authors.

Submission Checklist Please ensure that the following are including in your submission:

One author designated as the corresponding author: Their E-mail address, full postal address, and Telephone number.

Cover letter addressed to the Editor: introducing the manuscript and confirming that it is not being submitted concurrently elsewhere.

Copyright form: a scanned copy of the copyright form signed by the corresponding author.

Keywords

All figure captions

All tables (including title, description, footnotes)

All necessary files have been uploaded

The manuscript has been spell-checked.

All text pages have been numbered.

References are in the correct format for this journal.

All references mentioned in the Reference list are cited in the text and vice versa

Permission has been obtained for use of copyrighted material from other sources (including the Web)

Manuscript preparation

Please type all pages with single spacing and wide margins on one side of the paper. The title page, abstract, tables, legends to figures, and reference list should each be provided on separate pages of the manuscript.

Use a normal, plain font (e.g., 12-point Times New Roman) for text. The text should be in single-column format. Number the pages. Keep the layout of the text as simple as possible. In particular, do not use the options to justify text or to hyphenate words. However, do use boldface, italics, subscripts, superscripts, etc. Do not embed 'graphically designed' equations or tables, but prepare these using the facility in Word or as a separate file in Excel. When preparing tables, if you are using a table grid, use only one grid for each individual table and not a grid for each row. Do not prepare tables in PowerPoint. Do not import the figures into the text file but, instead, indicate their approximate locations directly on the manuscript.

To avoid unnecessary errors you are strongly advised to use the spellchecker.

The title page should include the title, the name(s) and affiliation(s) of the author(s), an address for correspondence, and telephone numbers for editorial queries.

Original and review articles should include an Abstract (a single paragraph) of no more than 350 words and 3-6 keywords for abstracting and indexing purposes.

Please do not split the article into separate files (title page as one file, text as another, etc.). Do not allow your computer to introduce word splits and do not use a 'justified' layout. Please adhere strictly to the general instructions on style/arrangement and, in particular, the reference style of the journal. It is very important that you save your file in the standard format for the program you are using (Microsoft Word DOCX format or doc format). Please write your text in good English (American or British usage is accepted, but not a mixture of these).

Provide the following information in your submission (in the order given):

Original research papers

Manuscripts must be accompanied by a covering letter, introducing the manuscript and confirming that it is not being submitted concurrently elsewhere.

The Abstract should be no more than 350 words

The limit for the main body of the manuscript is 4000 words excluding references

There should not normally be more than 40 references

You must use Times New Roman, Font size 12, Single spaced throughout your manuscript

If your manuscript exceeds the above limits, and you are unable to reduce the size, please include a statement in your cover letter declaring that you have exceeded the limits and justify the reasons for doing so for the Editors' consideration. Manuscripts must include:

Title page

Abstract

Introduction

Methods

Results

Acknowledgments

Declarations

References

Tables

Figures

 

Title page
The title page should be paginated as page 1 of the manuscript. Title of article: Concise and informative. Titles are often used in information-retrieval systems. Avoid abbreviations and formulae where possible.

Author names and affiliations: The title page should include the names and addresses of authors. Generally for uniformity author names should be written as the first name, middle name initial followed by family name, e.g. James Z. Miller. Present the authors' affiliation addresses (where the actual work was done) below the names. Indicate all affiliations with a lower-case superscript letter immediately after the author's name and in front of the appropriate address. Provide the full postal address of each affiliation, including the country name.

Corresponding author: Clearly indicate who is willing to handle correspondence at all stages of refereeing and publication, also post-publication. Ensure that telephone numbers (with country and area code) are provided in addition to the e-mail address and the complete postal address.

Present/permanent address: If an author has moved since the work described in the article was done, or was visiting at the time, a 'Present address' (or 'Permanent address') may be indicated as a footnote to that author's name. The address at which the author actually did the work must be retained as the main, affiliation address. Superscript Arabic numerals are used for such footnotes.

Abstract
The abstract will be printed at the beginning of the paper. A concise and factual abstract is required (maximum length 350 words). The abstract should state briefly the purpose of the research, the principal results, and major conclusions. Do not cite references in the abstract. Non-standard or uncommon abbreviations should be avoided in the abstract, but if essential they must be defined at their first mention in the abstract itself. The abstract must be organized under the following subject headings: Background: This must indicate why the study was performed, and what question it was intended to answer. Methods: This should state in outline what methods were used. Results: The main results relevant to the question addressed should be summarized. Conclusions: This should summarize the main inferences that follow from the results. Keywords, Immediately after the abstract, provide a maximum of 6 keywords. Be sparing with abbreviations: only abbreviations firmly established in the field may be eligible. Define abbreviations that are not standard in this field at their first occurrence in the article: in the abstract but also in the main text after it.

Introduction
The introduction should give a short and clear account of the background of the problem and state the objectives of the work. Only previous work that has a direct bearing on the present problem should be cited.

Methods
The methods must be described in sufficient detail to allow the experiments to be interpreted and repeated by an experienced investigator. Where published methods are used, references should be given, together with a brief outline. The statistical tool used to analyze the data should be mentioned. The description of drugs, chemicals, and other materials should include the names and brief addresses of the relevant suppliers. Drug names should be International Non-proprietary Names (INN). If a drug has no INN its full chemical name must be used. All procedures involving experimental animals or human subjects must accompany a statement on ethical approval from the appropriate ethics committee.

Results
Present your results in a logical sequence in the text, tables, and figures, giving the main or most important findings first. Do not repeat in the text all the data in the tables or figures; emphasize or summarize only important observations.

Discussion and Conclusions
The purpose of the discussion is to present a brief and pertinent interpretation of the results against the background of existing knowledge. Any assumptions on which conclusions are based must be stated clearly. The main conclusions should be conveyed in a final paragraph with a clear statement of how the study advances knowledge and understanding in the field.

Acknowledgments
Collate acknowledgments in a separate section at the end of the article and do not, therefore, include them on the title page, as a footnote to the title or otherwise. When the work included in a paper has been supported by a grant from any source, this must be indicated. A connection of any author with companies producing any substances or apparatus used in the work should be declared. All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship as defined above should be listed in an acknowledgments section. Examples of those who might be acknowledged include a person who provided purely technical help, writing assistance, or a department chair that provided only general support. Authors should disclose whether they had any writing assistance and identify the entity that paid for this assistance.

Declarations
This information must also be inserted into your manuscript under the acknowledgments section with the headings below. If you have no declaration to make please insert the following statements into your manuscript:

Funding: None

Conflict of interest: None declared

Ethical approval: Required.

Citation and References
It is the author's responsibility to check all references very carefully for accuracy and completeness. In the text, references are cited by surname (s) of the author(s) and year of publication parenthetically at the appropriate place. When a source has two authors, list both followed by a year of publication e.g. (Muhammad and David, 2018); for three or more authors list only the first author's name followed by “et al.” and year of publication e.g. (Chowdhury et al. 2002). In the reference section, list the references in alphabetical order. For each reference, all authors' names should be included. Examples of correct forms of references are given below:

Articles in Journal:
Kamal SM & Md Aynul I (2010). Socio-economic correlates malnutrition among married women in Bangladesh. Mal J Nutr 16(3): 349-359.

Blasbalg TL, Hibbeln JR, Ramsden CE, Majchrzak SF & Rawlings RR (2011). Changes in consumption of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids in the United States during the 20th century. Am J Clin Nutr 93:950-962.

Books and Monographs:
de Benoist B, McLean E, Egli I & Cogswell ME (eds) (2008). Worldwide Prevalence of Anaemia 1993-2005: WHO Global Database on Anaemia. WHO Press, Geneva

Institute of Medicine (2010). Dietary Reference Intakes for Calcium and Vitamin D. Ross AC, Taylor CL, Yaktine AL & Del Valle HB (eds). National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC.

Chapter in a Book or Monograph:
Haller J (2005). Vitamins and brain function. In HR Lieberman, RB Kanarek & C Prasad (eds). Nutritional Neuroscience (pp. 207-233). CRC Press, Florida.

Cole TJ (2006). Sampling, Study Size, and Power. In BM Margetts & M Nelson (eds). Design Concepts in Nutritional Epidemiology (pp. 64-86). Oxford University Press Inc., New York.

Online Sources:
World Health Organization (2015). In: Global Health Observatory: Malaysia Statistics Summary, 2002-present. From http://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.country.country-MYS?lang=en. [Retrieved March 1, 2016].

The World Bank (2016). In: Safe Motherhood and Maternal Health. From http://go.worldbank.org/V5EPGZUL40. [Retrieved May 23, 2016].

Tables
Please submit tables as editable text and not as images. Tables can be placed either next to the relevant text in the article, or on separate page(s) at the end. Number tables consecutively in accordance with their appearance in the text and place any table notes below the table body.

Figures
Authors are encouraged to use color to enhance the impact and clarity of figures. There is no charge for using color in the OJMHS. For figures supplied in parts, please use A, B, C, etc. to label the panels or parts of the figure. Name your figure files with Figure and the figure number, e.g., Figure 1: Liver enzyme levels.

Review articles, Case reports, Commentaries, and Correspondence
The same patterns as described for Original research papers, with respect to text style, figures, tables, and references, apply also to other publication types. A summary (up to 350 words) is required for Reviews, although the subject headings stipulated for Original research paper summaries do not apply.