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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.
  • 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).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • 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.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

Smart Education and Instruction (SEI) publishes comprehensive, high-quality research that bridges education, business, economics, and social sciences. To ensure depth of analysis and rigorous academic discourse, authors must strictly adhere to the following preparation guidelines before submitting their manuscript.

General Requirements

  • Word Count Requirement: Manuscripts must have a minimum of 8,000 words (excluding the reference list and appendices). Submissions falling below this threshold will be returned to the authors without peer review.

  • Language: All manuscripts must be written in clear, grammatically correct, and academic English.

  • File Format: Submissions must be provided in Microsoft Word document file format (.doc or .docx).

Manuscript Structure & Template All submissions must strictly follow the typography, layout, and structural flow provided in the official journal template. Authors must download the template and use it as the foundational document for their manuscript.

  • Download the Official SEI Article Template here: [LINK]

For general guidance, the manuscript must encompass standard academic sections (e.g., Introduction, Literature Review, Methodology, Results, Discussion, and Conclusion) exactly as formatted and described within the provided template.

Citation and Referencing

  • Citation Style: SEI strictly requires the American Psychological Association (APA) Style, 7th Edition.

  • Reference Tools: Authors are strongly encouraged to use reference management software (such as Mendeley, Zotero, or EndNote) to ensure citation accuracy and seamless integration.

Submission Preparation Checklist Before uploading the manuscript to the journal system, the corresponding author must verify compliance with the following steps:

  1. The main text clearly exceeds the minimum requirement of 8,000 words.

  2. The manuscript is entirely original, has not been published, and is not under consideration elsewhere.

  3. The manuscript has been formatted perfectly according to the official journal template [LINK].

  4. The plagiarism similarity index has been independently checked and falls below the 20% threshold.

  5. All identifying author information has been removed from the main manuscript file to ensure a proper Double-Blind Peer Review process.

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Copyright Notice

Copyright Policy Authors who publish with Smart Education and Instruction (SEI) agree to the following terms:

  1. Copyright Retention: Authors retain unrestricted copyright and full publishing rights of their work.

  2. Right of First Publication: Authors grant the journal the right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons License.

  3. Originality: Authors warrant that the submitted work is original, has not been published previously, and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Licensing Policy All articles published in SEI are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

Under this license, the public (and the authors) are free to:

  • Share: Copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.

  • Adapt: Remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.

This is permitted provided that appropriate credit (attribution) is given to the original author(s) and the journal, a link to the license is provided, and any changes made are clearly indicated.

Self-Archiving Policy SEI encourages authors to self-archive their work. Authors are permitted to deposit all versions of their paper (including the preprint, author's accepted manuscript, and published article) in an institutional repository, subject-based repository, or personal website at any time without embargo, provided that a link to the original publication on the SEI website is included.

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