📝 Submit Your Article to Growing Science

📖 Author Guidelines

⚠️ Important Notice: Growing Science has a zero tolerance approach to plagiarism. We reject papers with similarity index over 12%. We reserve the right to retract any published paper after receiving negative feedback.

📋 Conflict of Interest

All authors are asked to reveal any potential conflict of interest with other people or organizations within few years of beginning the submitted work that could inappropriately influence their work.

📄 Submission Declaration & Ethics

  • The submitted work should not have been published previously elsewhere.
  • Authors may not submit their work to two or more places simultaneously.
  • The papers should not have been published in any other languages before.
  • The paper must have significant contribution (authors may be requested to state the contribution in a separate sheet).
🔍 Checking for Plagiarism: Our team uses different search engines and tools like PlagScan to detect any possible violation of copyright.

📑 Article Structure

  • Title: Informative, avoid abbreviations
  • Abstract: State the aim, basic principles, results and conclusions
  • Keywords: Maximum 6 keywords after abstract
  • Introduction: Review literature, state novelty and differences from previous works
  • Material and Methods: Provide comprehensive details to allow reproduction
  • Results: Clear results with fair comparison if proposing new method
  • Discussion: Explain significance of results
  • Conclusions: Short summary of main conclusions
  • Acknowledgements: Separate section before references

📚 References (APA Style)

Use only indexed papers, books, etc. A good quality paper should have at least 15-20 references from indexed journals.

  • Single author: (Sadjadi, 2009)
  • Two authors: (Ben-Tal & Nemirovski, 2000)
  • Three or more: (Charnes et al., 1978)

💰 Licensing Terms

We use CC BY license which allows anyone to copy, distribute, transmit, adapt, and make commercial use of the work, provided the user attributes the work appropriately. Authors retain copyright of accepted articles.

🚀 Submit Your Manuscript

📌 Before You Submit:
  • Ensure similarity index is below 12%
  • Follow the journal's formatting guidelines
  • Provide at least 3 reviewer suggestions with university emails
  • Include a cover letter stating the novelty of your work
⏱️ After Submission:
  • You will receive a confirmation email
  • Initial review takes 2-3 weeks
  • You can track status online

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