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 and malpractice statement

The submitted work should not have been published previously somewhere else.

The authors do not have the permission to submit their work to two or more places, simultaneously.

The papers should not have been published in any other languages before.

We are serious about any form of copyright violation, any paper submitted to our journal does not have to have similarity index of over 5 percent with other published documents.

The paper must have significant contribution and the authors may be requested to state the contribution of the paper in separate sheet on the time of submission.

Please note we are serious about illigal actions such as copyright violation, for more information please read
Growing Science Policy on Article Withdrawal for more information 

Checking for plagiarism

In Growing Science, our team always do their best and try to use different search engines to make sure the content of the papers submitted are original and facilities such as dustball, helps us detect any possible violation of copyright. We also normally check the existing works on different databases to make sure the work was not published with other scientists. This is accomplished using title and keywords of the submitted papers.

Licensing terms

CC BY

Digital archiving policy

In Growing Science, we do our best to provide high quality meta data for digital archiving purposes. All our article maintain good metadata and they are captured by Google Scholar search engine and they are also arranged in terms of topics. in our website, all papers are available in the forms of PDF and readers can easily download and read the content of papers.


Language and language services
The paper must be written in formal English language. Please avoid any slang or unethical terms that could offend a second party.


Submission
Please prepare your final draft in Microsoft Word format and submit  through our online submission system. The text must be in single-column format.


Article structure

Abstract
The abstract must identify the purpose, problem, methods, results, and conclusion of the work. The abstract also has to determine the significance of the work compared with other existing literature. Readers must be able to understand the whole contribution of the paper by reading the abstract without reading the paper. In case the authors need to cite a work inside the abstract, they need to place the whole reference inside the bracket i.e.,

The propose method of this paper uses Guzzetti’s method (1999) [Guzzetti, F., Carrara, A., Cardinali, M., & Reichenbach, P. (1999). Landslide hazard evaluation: a review of current techniques and their application in a multi-scale study, Central Italy. Geomorphology, 31(1), 181-216.].

A comprehensive abstract should use between 120-250 words to describe the whole content of the paper.

Subdivision - numbered sections
Divide your article into clearly defined and numbered sections. Subsections must be numbered 1.1 (then 1.1.1, 1.1.2, ...), 1.2, etc. but note that the abstract is not included in section numbering.


Introduction
In the introduction part, authors must carefully review the literature and provide the reason as to why we need to do this research. Authors must also clearly state the novelty of the paper in this part and specify the differences between this work and previously published works.


Material and methods
Provide comprehensive details to allow the paper to be reproduced. Methods already published need to be indicated by a reference: only relevant modifications must be described.


Results
Results need to be completely clear. If the author(s) proposes a new method against the other existing method, a fair comparison between the new results and the old ones would be useful.


Discussion
This part must explain the significance of the results of the work. Prevent extensive citations and discussion of published literature.


Conclusions
The main conclusions of the work may be presented in a short Conclusions section.


Appendices
If the work contains more than one appendix, identify them as A, B, etc. Formulae and equations in appendices must be given separate numbering: Eq. (A.1), Eq. (A.2), etc.; in a subsequent appendix, Eq. (B.1) and so on.


Essential title page information

• Title. Informative. Titles must be used in information-retrieval systems. Prevent abbreviations and formulae where possible.

• Author names and affiliations. Where the family name may be vauge (e.g., a double name), please indicate this clearly. Present the authors' affiliation addresses below the names.

• Corresponding author. Clearly indicate who is handling correspondence at all stages of refereeing and publication, also post-publication. Make sure that telephone and fax numbers are provided in addition to the e-mail address and the complete postal address.


Abstract

The abstract must state briefly the aim of the research, the basic principal results and major conclusions.

Keywords

Right after the abstract, provide a maximum of 6 keywords.

Acknowledgements

put acknowledgements in a separate section at the end of the article before the references.

Math formulae

Please insert all your equations in tables with two columns. On the left hand side of the table, insert the equation and on the right hand side insert the number. Finally, make the whole table invisible.

Footnotes
Number them consecutively throughout the article, using superscript Arabic numbers.

Table footnotes
Indicate each footnote in a table with a superscript lowercase letter.

Artwork

Electronic artwork
General points
Please use only Times Romon fonts, prepare the images in good quality, provide captions for all tables, pictures, etc.

Tables
Number tables consecutively in accordance with their appearance in the text.

References

Citation in text
Please make sure that all references cited in the text are also presented in the reference list. Please use only indexed papers, books, etc in your paper. In our oponion, a good quality paper must have, at least, 15-20 references from indexed journals.


Reference style
Text: All citations in the text need to refer to:
1. Single author: the author's name (without initials, unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication;

2. Two authors: both authors' names and the year of publication;

3. Three or more authors: first author's name followed by "et al." and the year of publication.

Examples: "as demonstrated (Sadjadi, 2009a, 2009b). Ben-Tal  et al. (2000) have recently shown ...."

List: References must be arranged alphabetically.

Examples:
Reference to a journal publication:
Charnes, A. ,Copper, W.W.,& Rhodes,E.(1978). Measuring the efficiency of decision-making units. European Journal of Operational Research, 2, 429–444.

Reference to a book:
Fuare, R.,Grabowski, R.,& Grosskopf,S.(1985). The measurement of efficiency of production. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers

Reference to a chapter in an edited book:
Mettam, G.R., Adams, L.B., (1999). How to prepare an electronic version of your article, in: Jones, B.S., Smith , R.Z. (Eds.), Introduction to the Electronic Age. E-Publishing Inc., New York, pp. 281-304.

Important notice

The citation is according to APA style and authors are encouraged to use Google Scholar. Authors may copy and past the title of each reference inside Google search box and once finds it click on Cite and choose the middle option, APA. We strongly recommend authors to watch this movie to learn more about arranging references.