Submissions

Author Guidelines

Author Guidelines

Authors are requested to submit their work electronically by using the Pakistan Review’s online submission system. Please follow the instructions provided for each step during the online submission process.

Format

• Page margins should be 1 inch on each side
• Times New Roman
• Font Size: 12
• Do not bold text within sentences and paragraphs.
• Only the initials of words have to be in upper case in headings.
• Since articles are anonymously reviewed, submit your manuscript without mentioning author names. Rather, upload your information on the journal site while uploading your manuscript.

About Publications

The following types of material will be accepted for publication.

Book reviews

Book reviews should be less than 1500 words (please supply a word count with the document). The reviewed book must have been published within the last five years. Only a limited number of book reviews will be published in each period.

Research articles

The research article should be less than 8,000 words, not including the abstract, figure, tables, and references (please supply a word count). The papers may represent a variety of theoretical perspectives and different methodological approaches.

All articles should have a short title of fewer than 50 characters, an abstract that contains fewer than 250 words, structured as follows:

• background (including the aims of the study).
• Methods (data collection and analysis)
• If space is limited, report only the primary outcomes.

Academic essays

The academic essays should be less than 2,500 words, not including figures, tables, and references (please supply a word count with your essay).

Reference style

Text: Citations in the text should follow the referencing style used by the American Psychological Association. You are referred to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Sixth Edition, ISBN 978-1-4338-0561-5, copies of which may be ordered online or APA Order Dept., P.O.B. 2710, Hyattsville, MD 20784, USA, or APA, 3 Henrietta Street, London, WC3E 8LU, UK.
List: references should be arranged first alphabetically and then further sorted chronologically if necessary. More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year must be identified by the letters 'a', 'b', 'c', etc., placed after the year of publication.

Note: The EndNote output style for APA 6th can be found here

Examples:
Reference to a journal publication:

Van der Geer, J., Hanraads, J. A. J., & Lupton, R. A. (2010). The art of writing a scientific article. Journal of Scientific Communications, 163, 51–59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.Sc.2010.00372.

Reference to a journal publication with an article number:

Van der Geer, J., Hanraads, J. A. J., & Lupton, R. A. (2018). The art of writing a scientific article. Heliyon, 19, e00205. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2018.e00205.

Reference to a book:
Strunk, W., Jr., & White, E. B. (2000). The elements of style. (4th ed.). New York: Longman, (Chapter 4).

Reference to a chapter in an edited book:

Mettam, G. R., & Adams, L. B. (2009). How to prepare an electronic version of your article. In B. S. Jones, & R. Z. Smith (Eds.), Introduction to the electronic age (pp. 281–304). New York: E-Publishing Inc.

Reference to a website:

Cancer Research UK. Cancer statistics reports for the UK. (2003). http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/aboutcancer/statistics/cancerstatsreport/ Accessed 13 March 2003.

Reference to a dataset:

[dataset] Oguro, M., Imahiro, S., Saito, S., Nakashizuka, T. (2015). Mortality data for Japanese oak wilt disease and surrounding forest compositions. Mendeley Data, v1. https://doi.org/10.17632/xwj98nb39r.1.

Reference to a conference paper or poster presentation:

Engle, E.K., Cash, T.F., & Jarry, J.L. (2009, November). The Body Image Behaviours Inventory-3: Development and Validation of the Body Image Compulsive Actions and Body Image Avoidance Scales. Poster session presentation at the meeting of the Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies, New York, NY.