Submissions

Author Guidelines

Author should review the following guidelines carefully before submitting your manuscript.

1. MANUSCRIPT TYPES
Submission should follows APA-7 style guidelines (including text citations and reference list). 

i. Original Research Article and Systematic Review
These include randomised controlled trials, intervention studies, studies of screening and diagnostic test, outcome studies, cost effectiveness analyses, case-control series, and surveys with high response rate. The text of original articles should be divided into sections with the headings Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Material and Methods, Results, Discussion, References, Tables and Figures. Each research article should contain a structured abstract not more than 300 words.

Selection and Description of Participants
Describe your selection of the observational or experimental participants (patients or laboratory animals, including controls) clearly, including eligibility and exclusion criteria and a description of the source population. 

Technical information
Identify the methods, apparatus (give the manufacturer's name and address in parentheses), and procedures in sufficient detail to allow other workers to reproduce the results. Give references to established methods, including statistical methods (see below); provide references and brief descriptions for methods that have been published but are not well known; describe new or substantially modified methods, give reasons for using them, and evaluate their limitations. Identify precisely all drugs and chemicals used, including generic name(s), dose(s), and route(s) of administration.

Reports of randomised clinical trials should present information on all major study elements, including the protocol, assignment of interventions (methods of randomisation, concealment of allocation to treatment groups), and the method of masking (blinding), based on the CONSORT Statement (http://www.consort-statement.org).

Reporting Guidelines for Specific Study Designs

​The reporting guidelines for other type of studies can be found at https://www.equator-network.org/reporting-guidelines/. 

Statistics
Whenever possible quantify findings and present them with appropriate indicators of measurement error or uncertainty (such as confidence intervals). Authors should report losses to observation (such as, dropouts from a clinical trial). When data are summarised in the Results section, specify the statistical methods used to analyze them. Avoid non-technical uses of technical terms in statistics, such as 'random' (which implies a randomising device), 'normal', 'significant', 'correlations', and 'sample'. Define statistical terms, abbreviations, and most symbols. Specify the computer software used. Use upper italics (P 0.048). For all P values include the exact value and not less than 0.05 or 0.001. Mean differences in continuous variables, proportions in categorical variables and relative risks including odds ratios and hazard ratios should be accompanied by their confidence intervals.

Results
Present your results in a logical sequence in the text, tables, and illustrations, giving the main or most important findings first. Do not repeat in the text all the data in the tables or illustrations; emphasize or summarise only important observations. Extra- or supplementary materials and technical detail can be placed in an appendix where it will be accessible but will not interrupt the flow of the text; alternatively, it can be published only in the electronic version of the journal.

When data are summarised in the Results section, give numeric results not only as derivatives (for example, percentages) but also as the absolute numbers from which the derivatives were calculated, and specify the statistical methods used to analyze them. Restrict tables and figures to those needed to explain the argument of the paper and to assess its support. Use graphs as an alternative to tables with many entries; do not duplicate data in graphs and tables. Where scientifically appropriate, analyses of the data by variables such as age and sex should be included.

Discussion
Include summary of key findings (primary outcome measures, secondary outcome measures, results as they relate to a prior hypothesis); Strengths and limitations of the study (study question, study design, data collection, analysis and interpretation); Interpretation and implications in the context of the totality of evidence (is there a systematic review to refer to, if not, could one be reasonably done here and now?, what this study adds to the available evidence, effects on patient care and health policy, possible mechanisms); Controversies raised by this study; and Future research directions (for this particular research collaboration, underlying mechanisms, clinical research).

Do not repeat in detail data or other material given in the Introduction or the Results section. In particular, contributors should avoid making statements on economic benefits and costs unless their manuscript includes economic data and analyses. Avoid claiming priority and alluding to work that has not been completed. New hypotheses may be stated if needed, however they should be clearly labeled as such. These articles generally should not have more than six authors.

ii. Review article (Narrative and Conceptual)
Comprehensive and in depth literature reviews of existing research that synthesise current knowledge and identify gaps in the field.

iii. Case Report
Detailed analyses of real individual cases that illustrate the application of intervention or therapeutic techniques and their impact on clients. Cases with clinical significance or implications will be given priority. Reports that offer practical advice, innovative approaches, and best practices for educational therapists working in various settings.   These should have the following headings: Introduction, Case report, Discussion, Reference, Tables and Figures in that order.

iv. Editorial Article
These are usually submitted by the journal editors, about any cutting edge topics that relates to educational therapy practices and their implications for future research and practice, maximum 3000 words will be welcomed for consideration.

v. Summary of Conference
Brief of conferences in up-to-date topics of educational therapy research and relevant fields will be considered for publication in the journal.

vi. Opinion Article
Article that represent an author's viewpoint on a topic, including interpretation of research, medhods, theories or controversies. An opinion piece often includes personal thoughts, beliefs, or practical insights or a judgement or conclusion based on facts. The goal may be to persuade or influence the reader that their position on this topic is the best.

2. GENERAL REQUIREMENTS

i. Originality
Submissions must be original, not previously published, and not under consideration elsewhere.

ii. Word Count
Manuscripts should not exceed 7,500 words (the word count excludes references).

iii. Figures and tables
Authors who wish to reproduce a figure or table from a previous copyrighted publication are responsible for ensuring clear citations and reference. The locations of tables and figures should be indicated in the body of the text.

Figures that were previously published under a Creative Commons licences may be reused under the condition of the specific licence that applies to those figures. Figures should be numbered using Arabic numerals. Photographs submitted electronically should have a resolution of 300 dpi and should be saved as .tif or .jpg files. If a figure (photograph) has been previously published, the source should be given, and written permission to use it should be obtained from the copyright holder.

3. MANUSCRIPT STRUCTURE TEMPLATE & DOCUMENTS REQUIRED
Authors who are submitting their work are required to access the "Documents For Submission"

page, where they should review the mandatory template for formatting guidelines and obtain the necessary forms to complete their submission. Every author must have an ORCID account, satisfy the established authorship requirements, accept accountability for the manuscript's content, and supply a detailed description outlining what each author contributed to the work.

Your ORCID account allow you to keep track of all your published articles online. The journal will  assign your article with a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) obtained from Crossref. Your ORCID account will be updated automatically once your article is published with us.

4. LANGUAGE POLICY
The journal recognises the global diversity of its contributors and readership. In fostering inclusivity and accessibility, authors may use either American English or British English throughout your manuscript. The chosen form of English (American or British) should be applied consistently within the manuscript. Authors should avoid mixing varieties in spelling, grammar, or terminology within the same article.

5. CREDIBLE & VERIFIABLE REFERENCES
All citations in your manuscript should be properly referenced to a credible and verifiable source. An example of a credible and verifiable source would be a peer-reviewered journal article that has a DOI assigned to it. The references provided should be accompanied with their URL weblinks. 

6. USE OF AI TOOLS
AI Tools cannot be listed as authors or co-authors, nor cited as such, as authorship requires human accountability for the work's accuracy, originality, ethical compliance, and final approval. Authors should disclose the use of AI Tools for manuscript preparation in a separate AI declaration statement in their manuscript upon submission and a statement will appear in the published work.

Authors should document and disclosure their use of AI Tools including the name and purpose of such AI Tools used, and the extent of their oversight as mentioned in the Artificial Intelligence Policy

7. ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS & POLICIES
The journal comply with COPE practices and published articles are double-anonymised peer-reviewed in an Open Access format . 

Rights and Informed Consent
When reporting experiments on human subjects, authors should indicate whether the procedures followed were in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000 (concerning ethical principles for the medical community and forbidding releasing the name of the patient, initials or the hospital evidence number) and with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national).

Information regarding the ethical committee approval for conducting the research and the informed consent of patients for participating in the studies should be included in the methods section of articles describing studies in which the diagnostic intervention or the treatment included non-routine procedures. Authors presenting case studies are obligated not to disclose patients’ personal data. Regarding photographs, in case of any doubt that the image inadequately protects the patient’s anonymity, his consent is required for publication.

The Asian Educational Therapist is published in accordance with ICMJE policies and recommendations. The ICMJE requires and recommends that all require registration of clinical trials in a public trials registry at or before the time of first patient enrollment as a condition of consideration for article publication. The ICMJE defines a clinical trial as any research project that prospectively assigns people or a group of people to an intervention, with or without concurrent comparison or control groups, to study the relationship between a health-related intervention and a health outcome. Health-related interventions are those used to modify a biomedical or health-related outcome; examples include drugs, surgical procedures, devices, behavioural treatments, educational programs, dietary interventions, quality improvement interventions, and process-of-care changes. Health outcomes are any biomedical or health-related measures obtained in patients or participants, including pharmacokinetic measures and adverse events.

The ICMJE accepts publicly accessible registration in any registry that is a primary register of the WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP) that includes the minimum acceptable 24-item trial registration data set or in ClinicalTrials.gov, which is a data provider to the WHO ICTRP. In accordance with the ICMJE clinical trial registration policy recommendations, authors are required to provide all necessary information regarding the registered study when submitting the article for publication. This include the name of the register, Main ID, Public Title, Date of Registration. 

Author should also take note of the following policies:

Others:
Academic Misconduct Policy
Artificial Intelligence Policy
Authorship Policy
Citation Manipulation Policy
Conflict of Interest Policy
Data & Software Availability Policy
Image Integrity and Standards Policy
Open Access Policy
Plagiarism Policy
Research Ethics Policy
Sponsorship Policy

6. Submission Process
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