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Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
1. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
2. The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
3. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
4. The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
6. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in ensuring double-blind review have been followed.

Copyright Notice
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

Authors who publish with Al-Qalam agree to the following terms:

  1. Copyright in articles published by Al-Qalam remains with the author(s).
  2. By publishing an article in Al-Qalam, the author(s) grant the journal the non-exclusive right of first publication and authorize Al-Qalam to publish, reproduce, distribute, display, preserve, and identify itself as the original publisher of the article.
  3. All articles published in Al-Qalam are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

  4. Under this license, users may share and adapt the published material for non-commercial purposes, provided that:

    a. appropriate credit is given to the author(s);
    b. Al-Qalam is acknowledged as the original place of publication;
    c. a link to the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license is provided;
    d. any changes made to the original material are clearly indicated; and
    e. any adapted material is distributed under the same CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

  5. Authors may enter into separate contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the published version of their articles, including depositing the article in an institutional or subject repository or including it in a book, provided that Al-Qalam is acknowledged as the original place of publication.
  6. Authors are permitted to deposit the submitted manuscript, accepted manuscript, and published version of their articles in institutional repositories, subject repositories, personal websites, or other appropriate repositories without an embargo period.
  7. When depositing or redistributing the published version, authors should acknowledge Al-Qalam as the original place of publication and provide the article’s DOI or official publication link.
  8. No transfer of copyright ownership from the author(s) to Al-Qalam is required.


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