Asian Journal of Criminal Justice and Forensic Studies

The journal publishes original scientific articles according to the international IMRAD structure, as well as review and theoretical articles using a non-standard structure.

Structural elements of articles

Requirements for the layout and content of sections

The following information about the authors must be indicated:

• structural divisions of the institution where authors work;

• full official names and legal addresses of the authors' institutions;

• contact email addresses;

• academic degree and position of each author;

• ORCID.

Abstract

The abstract should be informative (200-300 words), structured (follow the logic of the article presentation), and meaningful (disclose the main research results, clearly formulate the relevance, goal, methods of problem analysis, as well as the practical value of the study). The abstract should not contain abbreviations, footnotes, and references.

Keywords

5-7 words or phrases related to the subject matter do not duplicate the title of the article and do not consist of common words.

Introduction

The section highlights the current state of the problem under study at the global level, analyses the latest research and publications (7-10 works of other researchers) with links to scientific publications over the past 3-5 years. The relevance, purpose, objectives and the novelty of the study are substantiated. References to literature must be given in round brackets. One citation should not include more than 3 sources.

Literature Review

This section is optional and should contain the results of research by scientists who analysed certain aspects of the subject matter. Each name of the researcher must be accompanied by a corresponding reference from the list of references.

Materials and Methods

The section describes the main stages of the study and justifies the choice of the methods, techniques, approaches, or actions used to obtain new scientific research results. The strategies and criteria for sampling (if the article contains an empirical part) are explained, the experimental basis of the study is noted. The stated methodology should provide a complete picture of the research progress so that it can be repeated by other scientists with the use of the same materials and methods. The section is required in the structure of a scientific article.

Results and Discussion

The section presents the main material of the study with full justification of the scientific results obtained. Tabular or graphical materials are necessarily accompanied by the results of statistical data processing. Sources are placed under tables and figures. Value judgments should be avoided, as well as the elements of the description of the methodology and direct repetition of the data presented in the tables and graphic material in the text of the article. Numerical results should be rounded in accordance with established rules, taking into account the mean research error, confidence interval or distribution of values. Research results must be sufficiently substantiated, methodologically correct, have novelty and practical value.

The discussion should be based on the interpretation of the research results. The most important scientific facts established are involved in the consideration, taking into account the previous data and analysis, in accordance with the literary sources on the current state of the problem with references to the works of a similar direction of research conducted in other countries.

Conclusions

Conclusions should fully and specifically reflect the results of research, correspond to the purpose and title of the study, word-by-word duplication in the abstract is unacceptable. It is important to indicate the prospects for further research on the selected topic.

Acknowledgements

The authors express their gratitude to the Deanship of Scientific Research at King Khalid University for funding this study under the General Research Project, grant number (RGP.1/127/44-1444). If you have no Acknowledgements, state “None”.

Funding

In this section, the author(s) should indicate all sources of financial support received for the study. In case of absence of financial support, please indicate: “The study was not funded”.

Author Contributions

Detailed information about the specific contributions of every author should be provided. Please list all authors with their initials.
Example of Author Contributions statement: M. Tymoshyk and D. Tymoshyk conceived and supervised the study; M. Tymoshyk and D. Tymoshyk designed experiments; M. Tymoshyk and D. Tymoshyk performed experiments; M. Tymoshyk provided new tools and reagents; D. Tymoshyk developed new software and performed simulation studies; M. Tymoshyk and D. Tymoshyk analysed data; M. Tymoshyk and D. Tymoshyk wrote the manuscript; M. Tymoshyk and D. Tymoshyk made manuscript revisions.

Conflict of Interest

The authors declare that they have no financial or non-financial conflicts of interest.

References

References in the text to sources should be indicated in parentheses "()", еxample: (Ivanov, 2017). If you need to indicate a reference within a line, you should indicate the year in "()", for example: "M. Tymoshyk (2013) proposes...".

In this case, the names and years of sources in the text should clearly coincide with the data in the list of references. It is not allowed to mention more than 3 sources in one citation.

No more than two works by the same author may be cited in the list of references. Also, no more than two articles from the same journal/collection of articles, etc. may be included.

The list of references should be in English (transliteration is not allowed), references arranged in alphabetical order, and formatted according to APA 6th Referencing Style (2010).

Tables, figures, graphs, equation

• Tables, figures, graphs, and formulas should be numbered and submitted after their mention in the text (notes are placed directly below the table/figure/graph). All abbreviations must be spelled out at the first mention in the text.

• Equation must be created in Equation Editor, variable mathematical values in the text according to the formulas are typed in italics.

• Figures and graphs should be centred, text wrapping around the image is prohibited.

• All dimensions of physical quantities should be submitted in accordance with the International System of Units (SI). There is a space between units of measurement, symbols, and numbers to which they refer.

Article layout template

Examples of the layout of the list of references