Information For Authors

Interested in submitting to this journal? We recommend that you review the About the Journal page for the journal's section policies, as well as the Author Guidelines. Authors need to register with the journal prior to submitting or, if already registered, can simply log in and begin the five-step process.

Author Guidelines

Authors are invited to make a submission to this journal. All submissions will be assessed by an editor to determine whether they meet the aims and scope of this journal. Those considered to be a good fit will be sent for peer review before determining whether they will be accepted or rejected.

Before making a submission, authors are responsible for obtaining permission to publish any material included with the submission, such as documents, photos, datasets, and others. All authors identified in the submission must consent to be identified as an author. Where appropriate, research should be approved by an appropriate ethics committee in accordance with the legal requirements of the study's country.

An editor may desk reject a submission if it does not meet minimum standards of quality. Before submitting, please ensure that the study design and research argument are structured and articulated properly. The title should be concise and the abstract should be able to stand on its own. This will increase the likelihood of reviewers agreeing to review the paper. When author(s) are satisfied that their submission meets this standard, kindly follow the checklist below to prepare your manuscript.

1. Aims and scope

The Journal of Applied Social Sciences and Humanities (JASSH) is a global, open-access, peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal. It aims to provide an international platform for the dissemination of high-quality, impactful, and empirically grounded research that addresses contemporary social, cultural, educational, and human-centred issues. The journal aims to serve as a forum for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers to exchange innovative ideas that contribute to social transformation.

The JASSH encourages submitting research and review articles focused on the evidence-based solutions for societal development, human behavior, education, and cultural understanding. We accept empirical and theoretical contributions on topics related to social sciences and humanities. Being an international journal, we aim to disseminate research from all parts of the world. The key criteria for publishing research include originality and novelty, a substantial contribution that would be significant to various stakeholders, and adequate research rigor.

2. Before you submit

a. Authorship

  • Author(s) listed in manuscripts must take responsibility for the research and article creation process.
  • In case of multiple authors, mutually decide on authorship before submission.
  • In case of multiple authors, choose a "corresponding author" and agree on the order of authors.
  • Author(s) metadata must be uploaded in the system accurately.
  • Do not add author(s) who did not contribute to the research or exclude author(s) who did contribute to the research.

b. Author Contribution

An author(s) contribution statement describing each author's role according to the CRediT Taxonomy must be submitted as a part of the manuscript.

c. Research data, reproducibility, and transparency

The authors are strongly encouraged to publicly share the data underlying the research work. The data-sharing can be done in the following ways:

  • Deposition of data in a public repository.
  • Providing data as supplementary material.
  • Data to be made available upon request by the editors or reviewers or readers.   
  • Ensuring that in case of surveys the dataset has date and timestamp for each respondent.

d. Conflict of interest

Author(s) must provide the Conflict of Interest (COI) Statement by which all potential interests are declared, as applicable. Following are few examples of COI statements: 

  • [Author name] has [type of relationship] with [Institution name or equivalent].
  • [Author name] has received [state the received benefits] from [Institution name or equivalent].

If there is no conflict of interest, the authors must declare:

  • The author(s) declare no conflict of interest.

e. Open access and copyright

All JASSH articles are open-access and published under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license. Author(s) retain copyright.

f. Article Processing Charge (APC) 

There are no submission or publishing or APC charges.

3 Manuscript preparation

a. Language

The journal accepts submissions in English. 

b. Types of articles

  • Original article: It shall have a structured abstract of 200 to 250 words. The article structure shall consist of a title, abstract, keywords (minimum 4 and maximum 6), introduction, review of literature, material and methods, results, discussion, conclusions, acknowledgments (as applicable), funding, references, and appendixes (as applicable). The article length can be between 4000 to 8000 words, including references, but excluding appendixes.
  • Review article: It shall have a structured abstract of 200 to 250 words. Such articles may follow a free-writing structure. The necessary elements are: title, abstract, keywords (minimum 4 and maximum 6), introduction, conclusions, acknowledgments (as applicable), funding, references, and appendixes (as applicable). The article length can be between 4000 to 8000 words, including references, but excluding appendixes.

c. Text of the manuscript

  • The manuscripts should be submitted in Word format.
  • Text line spaced at 2.0, plain font 12-point Times New Roman.
  • Margins of 1” at all the sides.
  • The sections ‘Introduction’, ‘Review of Literature’, ‘Material and Methods’, ‘Results’, ‘Discussion’, and ‘Conclusions’ should be numbered (e.g., 1., 2., 3., 4., etc.), as well as all the subsections (1.1., 1.2., 1.1.1, 2.1, 2.2., etc.).
  • All pages should be consecutively numbered.
  • The manuscript should not include personal information about the author(s) (e.g., names, affiliations, emails, etc.).

d. Abstract

Abstracts shall be structured as under:

Objective

Design/Methodology/Approach

Results/Discussion

Conclusions

Originality/Value

e. Keywords

Kindly provide 4-6 keywords for the manuscript.

f. Tables

  • Tables should be in text format, not images.
  • Tables should be numbered in order (e.g., Table 1, Table 2, etc.).
  • Tables should appear near the text where they are cited.

g. Figures

  • Figures should be numbered in order (e.g., Figure 1, Figure 2, etc.).
  • High-quality figures of at least 300 dpi are required for publication.
  • Submit figures in the main text near where they are cited.

h. Abbreviations

Define non-standard abbreviations at their first mention. Avoid abbreviations in titles, abstracts, and keywords.

i. Footnotes

Footnotes, if any, should be numbered in order in the manuscript.

j. References

The JASSH follows the reference style of the American Psychological Association (APA 7th edition).

Citation in text

Citations in text must appear in the reference list and vice versa. Some examples are:

  • Kumar (2025) states …
  • Kumar and Kumar (2025) consider …
  • Kumar et al. (2025) consider …
  • ... a method regularly used in previous studies (Kumar, 2025; Kumar & Kumar, 2025; Kumar et al., 2025).

Reference list

Journal article:

  • Kumar, A. (2025). Why deemed and private universities are lagging in publishing their research online with India’s national repository? Iberoamerican Journal of Science Measurement and Communication, 5(2), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.47909/ijsmc.233

Book:

  • Bhattacharyya, D. K. (2006). Research methodology. Excel Books India.

Book chapter:

  • Sharma, V., Jain, V.K., & Kumar, A. (2021). An Introduction to Optimization Techniques (1st ed.). Chapman and Hall/CRC. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003045762.

Conference paper:

  • Kumar, A., Saxena, J. M., Saha, S., Aljapurkar, A., Ingawale, S., Bagul, S. P., ... & Gupta, D. (2023, December). E-commerce business model analysis in urban area using machine learning. In 2023 3rd International Conference on Smart Generation Computing, Communication and Networking (SMART GENCON) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.

Website:

k. Funding

In case the research has received funds, declare that the research has received funds by [Institution name or equivalent] (grant number).

l. Appendices

Appendices should be placed after references. Whether in a figure or table format, they must be numbered consecutively.

4. Editorial process flow

  1. On submission of a manuscript, the Editor checks ensuring that it is a fit for the aims and scope, complete, and appropriate for peer review. If the Editor-in-Chief finds the manuscript not meeting the aims and scope of the journal, or if the manuscript is not of sufficient quality, it would be desk-rejected. We aim to convey this decision within a week of the manuscript's submission.
  2. Once the Editor-in-Chief moves the manuscript to the peer review stage, two expert reviewers are invited to review it. A double-blind peer review is used during this stage. We aim to complete this process in about a month.
  3. Once the peer-review process is complete, the Editor-in-Chief makes a final decision, which can be one of the following:
        • Accepted
        • Accept with minor revisions
        • Accept with major revisions
        • Rejected
  1. When papers are reviewed, author(s) shall receive comments. If the paper is accepted, you may still receive comments.
  2. The review process ends when the author(s) respond appropriately to all the comments and/or make the necessary revisions.
  3. Upon acceptance of the paper, the corresponding author will receive proof to check.
  4. The proofread article will be published online.

5. Grievances and complaints

Any misconduct or questionable practice allegation must be reported to the Publishers Office during the pre or post-publication stages. The JASSH will follow the COPE’s Core Practices to decide on any ethical issue.

Copyright

Authors retain copyright and grant the JASSH right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC 4.0 License that permits the sharing and adaptation of the material as long as appropriate credit is given, a link to the license is provided, and all changes are indicated.

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • The manuscript meets the requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  • This manuscript has not been previously published, nor is it with another journal for consideration.
  • All citations and references have been checked for accuracy and completeness.
  • All tables and figures have been numbered and labeled.
  • Permission has been obtained to publish all photos, datasets and other material provided with the manuscript.