Ensure all files are anonymized: Remove author names, inspect and remove document properties, and save accordingly.

To ensure the integrity of anonymous peer review, every effort should be made to prevent the identities of the authors and reviewers from being known to each other. This involves the authors, editors, and reviewers (who upload documents as part of their review) checking to see if the following steps have been taken with regard to the text and the file properties:

• The authors of the document have deleted their names from the text, with "Author" and year used in the references and footnotes, instead of the authors' name, article title, etc.
• The authors of the document have removed personal information from the file properties by taking the

➤ MS Word (File → Info → Check for Issues → Inspect Document → Remove Personal Information)
➤ Mac Word (Tools → Protect Document → Remove Personal Info).

Add the author details in a separate file. Name and Affiliation, including email address and ORCID. The mailing address and email address of all authors, with separate footnotes for each author.

The abstract, written in English, should be no more than 250 words long and in the past tense. The abstract should concisely summarise the topic's objectives, methods, results, and significance. The unstructured abstract for an Original Research article should be six paragraphs long, with no headings: Background, Aim, Setting, Methods, Results, Conclusion, and Contributions. The latter is the abstract's only labelled heading.

-Do not add any citations in the abstract

- Do not add any statistical value to the abstract

-Do not cite references or use abbreviations excessively in the abstract.

All manuscripts must contain the following sections under the heading 'Declarations'.

If any of the sections are not relevant to your manuscript, please include the heading and write 'Not applicable' for that section.

Funding (information that explains whether and by whom the research was supported)

Conflicts of interest/Competing interests (include appropriate disclosures)

Data availability (data transparency)

Code availability (software application or custom code)

Authors' contributions

Authors' contributions (Add the authors' contribution statement for all authors)

Author 1: Conceptualization, Methodology, Data collection, Formal analysis, Writing - Original Draft, Visualization. Author 2: Data collection, Validation, Writing - Review & Editing. Author 3: Supervision, Project Administration, Writing - Review & Editing.

"The work leading to these findings was financed by the project 'AAA,' which is part of the 'BBB' program, under Grant agreement number NNN."

"This study was funded by the INSTITUTION (Grant agreement number NNN)."

"No specific funding was obtained for this research from any agencies in the public, commercial, or non-profit sectors."

Manuscripts should be submitted in Word.

• Use a normal, plain font (e.g., 10-point Times Roman) for text.
• Use italics for emphasis.
• Use the automatic page numbering function to number the pages.
• Do not use field functions.
• Use tab stops or other commands for indents, not the space bar.
• Use the table function, not spreadsheets, to make tables.
• Use the equation editor or MathType for equations.
• Save your file in .docx format (Word 2007 or higher) or doc format (older Word versions).

All sections, subsections, and subsubsections should be numbered as follows: 1. Introduction, 1.1. First subsection, 1.1.1. First subsubsection, and so on. If a given section has a subsection, it must have a minimum of two; likewise, if a given subsection has a subsubsection, it must have a minimum of two.

The first line of any new section, subsection, or subsubsection should not be indented. Any subsequent paragraphs should be indented a uniform 1cm. There should be no additional space between paragraphs. Please do not do a double return between paragraphs.

The typeface in the template is set to Times New Roman throughout. Please do not change this. Italics should be reserved for foreign words and phrases as well as specialized terms and phrases on the first reference. Boldface may be used in moderation for emphasis.

Footnotes can be used to give additional information, which may include the citation of a reference included in the reference list. They should not consist solely of a reference citation, and they should never include the bibliographic details of a reference. They should also not contain any figures or tables.

Footnotes to the text are numbered consecutively; those to tables should be indicated by superscript lower-case letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data). Footnotes to the title or the authors of the article are not given reference symbols.

Always use footnotes instead of endnotes.

Electronic Figure Submission

• Supply all figures electronically.
• Indicate what graphics program was used to create the artwork.
• For vector graphics, the preferred format is EPS; for halftones, please use TIFF format. MS Office files are also acceptable.
• Vector graphics containing fonts must have the fonts embedded in the files.
• Name your figure files with "Figure" and the figure number, e.g., Figure 1. eps.

• Definition: Black and white graphic with no shading.
• Do not use faint lines and/or lettering and check that all lines and lettering within the figures are legible at final size.
• All lines should be at least 0.1 mm (0.3 pt) wide.
• Scanned line drawings and line drawings in bitmap format should have a minimum resolution of 1200 dpi.
• Vector graphics containing fonts must have the fonts embedded in the files.

In order to give people of all abilities and disabilities access to the content of your figures, please make sure that

• All figures have descriptive captions (blind users could then use text-to-speech software or text-to-Braille hardware)
• Patterns are used instead of or in addition to colours for conveying information (colourblind users would then be able to distinguish the visual elements)
• Any figure lettering has a contrast ratio of at least 4.5:1

Please check our policy on generative AI images and make sure your work adheres to the principles described therein.

We accept electronic multimedia files (animations, movies, audio, etc.) and other supplementary files to be published online along with an article or a book chapter. This feature can add dimension to the author's article, as certain information cannot be printed or is more convenient in electronic form.

Before submitting research datasets as Supplementary Information, authors should read the journal’s Research data policy. We encourage research data to be archived in data repositories wherever possible.

Audio, Video, and Animations

• Aspect ratio: 16:9 or 4:3
• Maximum file size: 25 GB for high-resolution files; 5 GB for low-resolution files
• Minimum video duration: 1 sec
• Supported file formats: avi, wmv, mp4, mov, m2p, mp2, mpg, mpeg, flv, mxf, mts, m4v, 3gp

Text and Presentations

• Submit your material in PDF format; .doc or .ppt files are not suitable for long-term viability.
• A collection of figures may also be combined in a PDF file.

Spreadsheets

• Spreadsheets should be submitted as .csv or .xlsx files (MS Excel).

Specialized Formats

• Specialized formats such as .pdb (chemical), .wrl (VRML), .nb (Mathematica notebook), and .tex can also be supplied.

Collecting Multiple Files

• It is possible to collect multiple files in a .zip or .gz file.

Numbering

• If supplying any supplementary material, the text must make specific mention of the material as a citation, similar to that of figures and tables.
• Refer to the supplementary files as “Online Resource”, e.g., "... as shown in the animation (Online Resource 3)", “... additional data are given in Online Resource 4”.
• Name the files consecutively, e.g. “ESM_3.mpg”, “ESM_4.pdf”.

Captions

• For each supplementary material, please supply a concise caption describing the content of the file.

Processing of supplementary files

• Supplementary Information (SI) will be published as received from the author without any conversion, editing, or reformatting.

Accessibility

In order to give people of all abilities and disabilities access to the content of your supplementary files, please make sure that

• The manuscript contains a descriptive caption for each supplementary material
• Video files do not contain anything that flashes more than three times per second (so that users prone to seizures caused by such effects are not put at risk)

In-text citations should look like this: (Kennedy 2003), (Kennedy 2003,2005), Kennedy 2003, James 2017), (Kennedy 2003, 2005; James 2017). The template includes examples of all common types of entries for the bibliography at the end: for example.

All references will appear at the end of the article. Please follow the examples below.

Form Online Journal with DOI: Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Date of publication). Title of article. Title of Journal, volume number, page range. https://doi.org/10.0000/0000 Volume no, Issue no, page no, and DOI are important to add.

Example:

Alpers, L. M., & Hanssen, I. (2022). Culturally Congruent And Linguistically Correct Translations Of Proms As A Basis For Communication In Healthcare. Journal of Intercultural Communication, 22(4), 14–21. https://doi.org/10.36923/jicc.v22i3.83.

From Newspaper Articles: Author, A. A. (Year, Month Day). Title of the article. Title of Newspaper. Retrieved from http://www.someaddress.com/full/url/

Example: Gendron & B. Burlingham (1989, April). The Entrepreneur of the Decade: An interview with Steve Jobs, Inc., 114-128.

Form Books: Author, A. A. (Year of publication). Title of work: Capital letter also for subtitle. Location: Publisher. (visit here for more information on how to cite a book.)

Example: Carland, J.W. & J.A. Carland (1999).  Small business management: Tools for success (Second Edition).  Houston, TX: Dame Publishing.

We are accepting the APA 6th reference format. So, it's essential to include the author(s) name(s), publication year, paper title, journal name, volume number, issue number, page numbers, and DOI. We recommend the authors add the bibliography using the software package EndNote, Zotero, Mendeley, or Reference Manager.

-A short biographical note at the end, just before the bibliography, in the section titled About the author(s). This should be accompanied, where possible, by a small photo of the author (150x200 pixels is fine).

-Appendices should be kept at a minimum and preferably be short.