Author & Style Guidelines
Author Guidelines
At Jack Sparrow Publishers, we are committed to maintaining the highest standards of academic publishing and ethical integrity. To ensure consistency, quality, and global recognition of published works, all authors are required to follow the Author Guidelines provided for Regular Issues, Special Issues, and Conference Proceedings. Authors are strongly encouraged to read and follow these guidelines carefully before submission. Submissions not adhering to the requirements may face delays or rejection at the initial review stage. By adhering to these guidelines, authors can:
- Provide authors with clear instructions for preparing and submitting manuscripts.
- Maintain a uniform structure, style, and referencing format across all publications.
- Ensure that submissions comply with international standards of peer review, plagiarism checks, and research ethics.
- Facilitate smooth processing from submission to final publication, including indexing in reputed databases.
- Enhance the readability, discoverability, and citation potential of their research.
- Contribute to the credibility and impact of Jack Sparrow Publishers’ journals, books, and proceedings.
- Ensure that their work is properly recognized, indexed, and archived for long-term accessibility.
Originality: All manuscripts must be original, unpublished, and not under review elsewhere
Plagiarism Policy: Manuscripts will undergo plagiarism screening (Turnitin/iThenticate). Submissions with >10–15% similarity may be
Regular Issues publish high-quality research across disciplines in line with the journal’s scope
Scope Alignment: Ensure that the manuscript fits within the journal’s aims and objectives
Article Types Accepted:
Special Issues are thematic collections of papers around a specific topic, conference, or research trend
Call for Papers (CFP): Authors must respond to a Special Issue CFP with relevance to the theme
Conference proceedings are the official record of papers presented at Jack Sparrow Publishers’ partnered conferences
Eligibility: Only papers accepted and presented at the conference are eligible for
Use APA (7th edition) for social sciences, management, and humanities.
Use IEEE style for engineering, technology, and applied sciences.
References must be complete, accurate, and consistent.
Authors must include the following where applicable:
Conflict of Interest Statement
Funding Acknowledgment
Author Contribution Statement (CRediT taxonomy, optional)
Data Availability Statement (if datasets are used/shared)
