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Author Guidelines

Every submission to our journal must include the following four components:

1. Cover Letter: This should outline the intent and significance of your manuscript.


2. Title Page: Save this as “title_page.doc”. Include the manuscript’s title, full names and affiliations of all authors, and complete contact details for the corresponding author, including an email address.


3. Blinded Manuscript: Save this as “manuscript.doc”. Ensure this version does not contain any author identifying information. The manuscript should consist of the Title, Abstract, Keywords, Main Text, References, Figures, Tables, Acknowledgments, Declaration of Interest, and a Section Detailing Authors’ Contributions.


4. Highlights: Provide a brief list of bullet points that capture the core findings and implications of your study. They should be between three and five points. Each sentence should contain no more than 80 characters, including spaces.

Manuscripts (See template) should be organized in the following order:

Title
The title should be limited to 30 terms or less and it should describe the contents of the paper

Abstract
Each manuscript should be accompanied by abstracts in English, no longer than 250 words. Use Times New Roman, size 12, single-line spacing, and full justification. The abstract should concisely summarize the background, aims, principal results, and main conclusions of the research. Reference citations should be avoided unless critical.

Keywords
minimum 3, maximum 5. These terms will be used for indexing purposes.

Manuscript
Manuscripts may be submitted in either Italian or English and should conform to a single-space, single-column layout.
The length of the manuscript should range between 4500 and 8000 words, excluding references, tables, and figures. Submissions exceeding this length must be pre-approved by the Editor.
Tthe manuscript file should be a Microsoft Word document, formatted in 12-point font with italicization used instead of underlining (URLs excepted). Integrate all figures, tables, and other visual elements within the text at the appropriate points.

The manuscript should be organized in the following sections:

• Introduction: The introduction must provide a clear exposition of the research, reviewing the relevant literature on the topic and outlining the proposed methodology or solutions. It should be broad enough to engage readers from various scientific fields.

• Materials and methods: This section must offer a full description of the study design. It must include detailed information on materials, participants, comparisons, interventions and types of analysis used. Only new methods should be described in detail; tried and tested methods should be mentioned and their significant modifications briefly noted.

• Results and Discussion: The Results section should detail the research findings necessary to support the manuscript’s conclusions, limits of the research and future prospective. These results must be presented in the past tense when referring to the authors' experiments. Any reference to results from previous publications must be in the present tense. The Results and Discussion sections may be integrated or separated. Speculations and detailed interpretations of the data should be reserved for the Discussion section.

• Figure and Table: Figures and tables must be inserted into the text. Ensure that all figures and tables are adjacent to the relevant text within the manuscript, rather than being placed at the bottom or top of the file. The captions of each figure or table must be directly below the respective figure or table. Number all tables and figures sequentially according to their order of appearance in the text. Insert footnotes for tables or figures below the body of the table or figure. Footnotes are prohibited in all sections of the document.

• References: All references must adhere to APA style, 7th Edition. They should be cited within the text and listed in the references section as illustrated in examples below:
   - Journal Articles: Smith, J. (2003). Advances in genetic engineering. Journal of Medical Genetics, 40, 205-210.
  - Online Journal Articles: Climate effects. (2010, November 15). Global Environmental Change, 20, 123-130. Retrieved March 3, 2010, from http://www.journalofenvironmentalchange.com/article123.pdf
  - Books: Brown, T. K. (2015). Understanding ecological systems (3rd ed.). New York, NY: Springer.
  - Book Chapters: French, C. (2012). Cognitive development in children. In S. P. Robbins (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Psychology (Vol. 2, pp. 75-82). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
  - Dissertations: Johnson, L. E. (2007). A study on the efficacy of treatments for depression. (Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University, 2007).
  - Abstracts and Poster Sessions: Green, F. R., & Carter, A. B. (2018, October). New strategies in the treatment of chronic pain. Poster session presented at the annual conference of the American Medical Association, Chicago, IL. Abstract retrieved October 25, 2018, from Medline database.
  -Websites: Understanding Diets and Nutrition. (n.d.). Retrieved April 20, 2019, from National Health Information Center website: http://www.healthinfo.com/diets-nutrition

• Acknowledgement: This section includes acknowledgment of people, grant details, funds, etc.
  
  


• Declaration of Interest: Authors are required to openly disclose any financial or personal relationships that could potentially bias their work. These declarations should be included at the end of the manuscript. If no potential conflicts of interest exist, authors should state: “Declarations of interest: none.”

• Authors’ Contributions: A short paragraph reporting each author's contribution to the research. Authors must be listed with their initials. For authors with the same initials, specify their position. (e.g. AA (first author) and AA (last author)). All research activities must be reported. Each author must have contributed to at least one aspect of each of the criteria: contributed to conception or design, contributed to acquisition the data, analysis, or interpretation, drafted the manuscript, critically revised the manuscript, gave final approval, agrees to be accountable for all aspects of work ensuring integrity and accuracy.

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. In the manuscript upload sections, ensure your blinded manuscript contains:

   
   
   
   
   • Cover Letter
   
   
   • Title Page
   
   
   • Highlights
   
   
   • Manuscripts should be structured as follow: Abstracts, Keywords, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion Conclusions, Tables or figures, Acknowledgement, Declaration of Interest, References, and Authors’ Contribution.
   
   

2. Review Process
   All submissions are initially assessed by the editor to determine their suitability for the journal. Manuscripts are then peer-reviewed by at least two independent experts who assess the scientific quality of the paper. The Editor makes the final decision on the acceptance or rejection of the submissions.

   
   

    

3. Types of Manuscripts Accepted
   

   We welcome a variety of scholarly contributions, including original research papers, empirical studies, literature reviews, meta-analyses, theoretical articles, methodological papers, and case reports. We also accept other forms of scholarly communication such as commentaries, book reviews, rapid communications, letters to the editor, and more.

   
   

   Submission Process

   
   

   Manuscripts must be submitted electronically via our website. Please ensure your submission complies with our guidelines as non-compliant submissions will be returned for revision.

4. Submission Declarations

   
   

   Your submission must confirm the following:

   
   
   
   
   • Compliance with the journal’s ethical guidelines.
   
   
   • The manuscript is original, unpublished, and not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
   
   
   • All listed authors have approved the manuscript for publication.
   
   
   • If accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in identical form, in any language, without the consent of the copyright holder.
   
   
5. 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).
6. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
7. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

Copyright Notice

 Articles and conference papers published in ASMC are distributed under the terms and conditions of a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Correspondingly, authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

• Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.


• Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.


• Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

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