ٍSubmissions
Author Guidelines
Preparing for submission
Manuscripts submitted to Alostath should follow the recommendations stated in the guidelines. Incomplete submissions will not be considered
Manuscript preparation
Language
All articles should be written in Arabic or English providing an Abstract in the other language.
Manuscript Layout
The paper should follow the traditional layout where each section begins in a new page including figure and table legends, on separate sheets. Submissions my include all or some sections according to the nature of the submission article whether research or review paper. But section headings are numbered using a maximum of three levels of headings, i.e. capitals, italics, bold etc
Title page
Title page should be organized in the following way:
1. Title of manuscript
2. Name of author(s).
3. Name of department(s) and institution(s).
4. Name and full postal and email address of the corresponding
During the review process all identifying information from all documents should be removed.
The title
The title should be informative and accurate and at the same time trigger the interest of the reader. A short running head will be derived from the title to appear on each page of the paper.
Abstract
Articles must include a structured abstract of 200-300 words and include information for a reader to whether or not to proceed to the full text of the article. The abstract should be structured to include 5-10 key words not present in the title.
Body of the Manuscript
The body contained all sections that are required to make a good scientific paper acceptable and includes:
Introduction
(motivation, problem identification and a short literature survey),
Materials and methods
Al the materials and methods used in the research and any published methods should be referenced whether used or modified. The design of the research and data treatment methods should also be mentioned.
Results
All results are stated as tables, figures or otherwise that show the result of the researcher and how it was obtained.
discussion
The discussion usually is the researchers interpretation of the results and usually include comparisons supporting, defending or disagreeing with other methods and/or results
Conclusion
This gives a very short summery of the important findings indicating the purpose of the research.
Acknowledgement
All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship manuscript including those who provided help in writing assistance, or financial and material support should be listed in an acknowledgments section of the title page
References
References are numbered consecutively in the order in which they are first mentioned in the text. Identify references in the text by arabic numerals and in parentheses [e.g. (20)]. References should follow the standard format.