Author Guidelines
Preparation standards that help professional researchers and student researchers submit publication-ready manuscripts to IROAP.
Manuscript preparation
Submissions should include a clear title, abstract, keywords, author list, affiliations, corresponding author details, ORCID when available, funding statement, and complete references.
IMRAD structure requirements
State the problem, context, and objective clearly.
Describe design, participants, instruments, procedures, and analysis.
Present findings accurately without distortion.
Interpret results, limitations, and implications.
Summarize the key contribution and practical meaning.
Provide complete and accurate citation information.
Data and permissions
Authors must ensure they have the right to share data, figures, tables, images, instruments, appendices, and any third-party material included in the manuscript.
Citation and discoverability
IROAP displays article metadata and citation formats for published work. Accurate titles, abstracts, keywords, and author details improve repository discoverability and scholarly indexing.
File requirements
Only PDF files are accepted, up to 50 MB per manuscript.
Online visibility
Accepted papers are published online in the IROAP repository and prepared for exposure to Zenodo, OpenAIRE, Google Scholar, and the IROAP publication repository, subject to repository eligibility, platform processing, and indexing timelines.
