Author Guidelines

Submission


Manuscripts should be submitted by one of the authors of the manuscript through the online manuscript submission system. Submissions by anyone other than one of the authors will not be accepted. Author needs to prepare two different files; a Title page which includes the title of the article, author names, and affiliations, ORCID, Funding, acknowledgment etc and the main documents without author information. 
Authors are suggested to provide the names of four well-qualified reviewers. Current e-mail addresses must be provided for all suggested reviewers.
If for some technical reason online submission is not successful, the author can submit the manuscript to; submission@ufpub.com 
Please click here to download the manuscript template

Article Format-Structure
Manuscript Preparation
To expedite the review process, please format the manuscript in the following way:
Article type:
One Column
The main structure/style of the manuscript JMTM shall be as follows:
Title: The title should be concise, informative and meaningful to the whole readership of the journal. It should include key terms to help make it more discoverable when people search online. Please avoid using long systemic names and non-standard or obscure abbreviations, acronyms or symbols.
Abstract : Your abstract should give readers a brief summary of your article. It should concisely describe the contents of your article and include key terms. It discusses a compact view of the research problem, purpose of study, research design and key findings.
Keywords: (six-eight). It does not use words or phrases from the title and supplements the title's contents. These are descriptive, representing key concepts and nouns.
Introduction (and background): It describes the purpose, scope, context, significance, background, hypothesis(es), question(s), brief methodology, outcome(s), and outline of the remaining structure/organisation of the article.
Method: This section should provide sufficient details of the experiment, simulation, statistical test or analysis carried out to generate the results such that another researcher can repeat the method and the results reproduced.
Results: It reports the results of the study based upon the methodology(ies) being applied and in a logical sequence without bias or interpretation if data is generated from the author’s own research.
Results： (if applicable):
It reports the results of the study based upon the methodology(ies) being applied and in a logical sequence without bias or interpretation if data is generated from the author’s own research.
Discussion： (and findings):
It interprets and describes the significance of findings in light of what was already known about the research problem(s). It explains new understanding or insights being emerged based on studying the problem. It is connected to the introduction through research questions and/or hypothesis(es) and the literature being reviewed for the study. It discusses study results and compares it with recent research in the field.
Conclusion： (suggestions and future direction):
It helps the readers to understand why the research should matter to them. It gives a synthesis of key points and, (if applicable), suggests new areas for future research.
References： (list of all cited sources):
It contains a list of updated published and unpublished material on the topic, including research articles from internationally reputed journals, especially those indexed in WOS, Scopus etc. 
- Acknowledgments (if any) 
- Author contributions
- Appendices/Annexures (if any)
- Competing interests
- Ethical statement
- Funding statement
Figure and table requirement:
3. All figures or photographs must be submitted as eps, jpg or png files with distinct characters and symbols at 300 dpi (dots per inch). Tables and equations should be in an editable rather than image version. Tables must be edited with Word/Excel. Equations must be edited with Equation Editor. Figures, tables and equations should be numbered and cited as Figure 1, Figure 2, Figure 3, etc. in sequence.
References format:
There are no strict requirements on reference formatting at submission. References can be in any style or format as long as the style is consistent. Where applicable, author(s) name(s), journal title/book title, chapter title/article title, year of publication, volume number/book chapter and the article number or pagination must be present. Use of DOI is highly encouraged. The reference style used by the journal will be applied to the accepted article by United Frontiers Publisher at the proof stage. Note that missing data will be highlighted at the proof stage for the author to correct. If you do wish to format the references yourself, it should be arranged according to the following examples:

 All references should be formatted in the text and listed in the REFERENCES section, as shown below:
Journal Articles:
[1] Van der Geer J, Hanraads JAJ, Lupton RA. The art of writing a scientific article. J Sci Commun 2010;163:51–9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.Sc.2010.00372.
Reference to a journal publication with an article number:
[2] Van der Geer J, Hanraads JAJ, Lupton RA. The art of writing a scientific article. Heliyon. 2018;19:e00205. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2018.e00205
Book:
[3] Strunk Jr W, White EB. The elements of style. 4th ed. New York: Longman; 2000.
Reference to a chapter in an edited book:
[4] Mettam GR, Adams LB. How to prepare an electronic version of your article. In: Jones BS, Smith RZ, editors. Introduction to the electronic age, New York: E-Publishing Inc; 2009, p. 281–304.
Dataset:
Oguro M, Imahiro S, Saito S, Nakashizuka T. Mortality data for Japanese oak wilt disease and surrounding forest compositions, Mendeley Data, v1; 2015. https://doi.org/10.17632/xwj98nb39r.1.
Note shortened form for last page number. e.g., 51–9, and that for more than 6 authors the first 6 should be listed followed by 'et al.' For further details you are referred to 'Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts submitted to Biomedical Journals' (J Am Med Assoc 1997;277:927–34) (see also Samples of Formatted References).
Conference Proceedings:
 Author 1, A.B.; Author 2, C.D.; Author 3, E.F. Title of Presentation. In Title of the Collected Work (if available), Proceedings of the Name of the Conference, Location of Conference, Country, Date of Conference; Editor 1, Editor 2, Eds. (if available); Publisher: City, Country, Year (if available); Abstract Number (optional), Pagination (optional).
Thesis:
 Author 1, A.B. Title of Thesis. Level of Thesis, Degree-Granting University, Location of University, Date of Completion.
Article in proceedings:
Author 1, A.B.; Author 2, C. Title of Unpublished Work (optional). Correspondence Affiliation, City, State, Country. year, status
Websites:
Title of Site. Available online: URL (accessed on Day Month Year).
Internet:
Cancer Research UK. Cancer statistics reports for the UK, http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/aboutcancer/statistics/cancerstatsreport/; 2003 [accessed 13 March 2003].