Author Guidelines of Social Welfare Quarterly Journal
 
The submitted articles will be sent to the reviewers after primary acceptance by the Editor-in-Chief according to the adaptation of the subject to Social Welfare Quarterly scopes and also the structural principles of the article that must be as this instruction. Social Welfare Quarterly has the right of rejection or acceptance and editing the articles. After final acceptance by Social Welfare Quarterly Editorial Board, the articles will be completely revised by the Editorial Team members scientifically, structurally and methodologically and the galley proof will be sent back to the corresponding author for final confirmation. The authors are responsible for the precision and correctness of the content.
 
Notice: The article submitter is considered as the Corresponding author ‎for all affairs about the article and all further connections and data transmission will be done with him/her. The Corresponding author MUST be from authors.
 Submission Requirements
The manuscript must not have been previously published in any print or electronic journal, except as an abstract or part of a thesis.
Simultaneous Submission:
The manuscript must not currently be under review by another journal.
Author Commitment Form:
All authors must sign the authorship commitment form and confirm their agreement with the final content. Any change in authorship order or addition/removal of authors after submission requires written agreement of all authors and approval of the Editor-in-Chief.
Ethics Approval:
For human research (quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-method studies), obtaining an ethics approval code from an authorized ethics committee is mandatory. The ethics code must be reported in the Ethical Considerations section.
Plagiarism and Similarity Check:
All submitted manuscripts are screened using similarity detection software. In cases of plagiarism or self-plagiarism, the manuscript will be rejected and the case may be reported according to research ethics regulations.
Peer Review:
The journal follows a double-blind peer-review process. Author identities must be removed from the anonymous manuscript file.
Copyright and Open Access:
After acceptance, authors transfer publication rights to the publisher while retaining the right to use their work for teaching and personal research purposes. Articles are published under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC 4.0 license.
Online Submission Process
Manuscripts must be submitted only through the journal submission system.
Authors should register, complete the submission form, receive a manuscript identification code, upload required files, and complete all submission steps.
Required Files:
- Main manuscript file in Microsoft Word format (.doc or .docx)
- Title page, abstract, main text, references, tables and figure captions
- Figures and images with JPEG format and appropriate resolution
- Completed author commitment form
Formatting and Writing Requirements
The title should clearly and concisely represent the main subject of the article.
Manuscript Format:
Margins: 2.5 cm on all sides.
Line spacing: 1.5.
Persian manuscripts: Lotus B font, size 12.
English manuscripts: Times New Roman font, size 12.
Abstract:
The Persian abstract should contain 200–250 words including introduction, methods, findings, and discussion.
Extended English Summary:
An extended English summary of 1000–1200 words should include introduction, methods, results, discussion, main tables/models, and references.
Keywords:
Three to five keywords should be provided using standard scientific terminology.
Tables and Figures:
Tables must have numbers and titles above them. Figures must have numbers and captions below them. All tables and figures must be cited in the manuscript.
 
Ethical Considerations
Compliance with Ethical Guidelines
Clarify the ethical considerations of the research, such as ethical codes.
Funding
Mention if extracts it from a thesis, project or have any financial supporters.
Authors’ contribution
in this section, you have to provide the contributory role of each author on these divisions:
Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Validation, Formal Analysis, Investigation, Resources, Data Curation, Writing – Original Draft Preparation, Writing – Review & Editing, Visualization, Supervision, Project Administration, and Funding Acquisition.
The example below shows the Author Contributions:
Author Contributions: Conceptualization,[Name of the Author(s)]; Methodology, [Name of the Author(s)]; Investigation, [Name of the Author (s)]; Writing – Original Draft, [Name of the Author (s)]; Writing – Review & Editing, [Name of the Author (s)]; Funding Acquisition, [Name of the Author (s)]; Resources, [Name of the Author (s)]; Supervision, [Name of the Author (s)].
Conflicts of Interest: 
Authors should disclose, at the time of submission, information on financial conflicts of interest or other interests that may influence the manuscript. Authors should declare sources of funding for the work undertaken, too.
  
Types of articles
Original Articles: An article that is the original product of an initial research on data, whether qualitative or quantitative, and also whether they were already collected during the research, or the existing data underwent secondary analysis for testing new hypothesis. Original articles include Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion sections.
Review Articles: An article that is the product of the author's review and criticism of literature, whether in terms of method or results. The issue facing review articles is usually large. Review articles neither report how to search for sources nor the reasons for their rejection or acceptance, nor necessarily evaluate the sources in accordance with a single predetermined rule. In these articles, summarization of the reviewed studies is done based on a narrative method. According to the relevant ministry regulations, the journal must publish at least one review article in each issue, preferably as a special issue. Review articles include Introduction, Case Study (with main and sub-titles), and Discussion sections.
Systematic Review Articles: These articles like narrative articles, are based on literature review. However, since it is systematic (standard) and objective, its method is tangible and repeatable, as like original articles have method and results. The issue facing systematic reviews is thoroughly specific which already have been investigated and received different answers. The purpose of the researcher is to collect, critique, and ultimately gather all that evidence without bias. Systematic review articles, like research articles, are composed of Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion sections.
Methodological Articles: Different scientific traditions that constitute the interdisciplinary science of social welfare have brought with them different methodologies that are useful to others. This Quarterly journal publishes methodological articles that go beyond what can be found in conventional methodological books, and are particularly relevant to social welfare issues by giving an example. This type of articles includes following sections: Background, Necessity of Method (by brining advantages and disadvantages of the method in finding answers for social welfare issues with an example from the journal or other sources), Methodology, Analysis, issues related to rigor including validity within quantitative research and trustworthiness within qualitative research, Methodological critique of samples in other studies using the method from the journal or other sources).


In Social Welfare Quarterly, citations should conform to the referencing style used by the last version of American Psychological Association (APA) style, http://www.apastyle.org. Please use Endnote or similar reference managing software to insert the references. Using MS Word References tab to insert the references in the main document is highly preferred and recommended.
In-text citations
Examples:
Single author:
(Adam, 1992) OR Adam (1992) proved that…
Two authors:
(Ringsven & Morse, 1996) OR In their study, Ringsven and Morse (1996)…
Three to five authors:
First citation: (Lupton, Brunn, & Platt, 2000) OR Lupton, Brunn and Platt (2000)…
Subsequent citations: (Johnson et al., 2002)
Six or more authors:
(White et al., 2001) OR White et al. (2001)…
 
Reference List:
In addition, all references cited in the text should be listed at the end of the manuscript on a separate page in alphabetical order by authors’ last names. All items in the list of references should be cited in the text and, conversely, all references cited in the text must be presented in the list. Personal communications and unpublished data including manuscripts submitted, but not yet accepted for publication should not be used as a reference, nonetheless, they may be placed in parentheses in the text.  
 

Material Type	In-Text Citation	Reference List & Notes
Book
Book: Single author	(Pegrum, 2009)	Pegrum, M. (2009). From blogs to bombs: The future of electronic technologies in education (2nd ed.). Crawley, W.A: UWA Publishing.
Book: 3-5 authors	(Ranzijn, McConnochie, & Nolan, 2009)	Ranzijn, R., McConnochie, K., & Nolan, W. (2009). Psychology and indigenous Australians: Foundations of cultural competence (2nd ed.). South Yarra, Vic: Palgrave MacMillan.
Book: More than 6 authors	(Jones et al., 1984)	Jones, E. E., Farina, A., Hastorf, A. H., Markus, H., Miller, D. T., & Scott, R. A. (1984). Social stigma: The psychology of marked relationships (2nd ed.). New York: W.H. Freeman.
Book: Editor	(Hallinan, 2006)	Hallinan, M. T. (Ed.). (2006). Handbook of the sociology of education (2nd ed.). New York: Springer.
Book: 2 or more editors	(Dawson & Venville, 2007)	Dawson, V., & Venville, G. (Eds.). (2007). The art of teaching primary science (2nd ed.). Crows Nest, N.S.W: Allen & Unwin.
Book: Chapter [i.e. Article] in edited book	(Groundwater-Smith, 2007)	Groundwater-Smith, S. (2007). As rain is to fields, so good teachers are to students (2nd ed.). In S. Knipe (Ed.), Middle years schooling: Reframing adolescence (pp. 151-170). Frenchs Forest, N.S.W: Pearson Education Australia.
Persian Book	(Alavi, 2009)	Alavi, M. (2009). [General Psychology (2nd ed.) (Persian)]. Tehran: Negah Publishing.
Journal Articles
Journal article: 6 or more authors	(Sohrabi et al., 2011)	Sohrabi, H. R., Weinborn, M., Badcock, J., Bates, K. A., Clarnette, R., Trivedi, D., Martins, R. N. (2011). New lexicon and criteria for the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease. Lancet Neurology, 10(4), 299-300.
Journal article online: No DOI supplied (free on the Web)	(Thomas & Bosch, 2005)	Thomas, K., & Bosch, B. (2005). An exploration of the impact of chronic fatigue syndrome and implications for psychological service provision. E-Journal of Applied Psychology: Clinical Section, 1(1), 23-40. Retrieved from http://ojs.lib.swin.edu.au/index.php/ejap/article/download/4/13
Journal article online: Digital Object Identifier supplied	(Almeida, Dickinson, Mayberry, Badcock, & Badcock, 2010)	Almeida, R. A., Dickinson, J., Maybery, M. T., Badcock, J. C., & Badcock, D. R. (2010).Visual search performance in the autism spectrum II: The radial frequency search task with additional segmentation cues. Neuropsychologia, 48(14), 4117-4124. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.10.009
Journal article online: in preprint archive	(Martinez, in press)	Martinez, M. (in press). Imperative content and the painfulness of pain. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. Retrieved from http://cogprints.org/6599/1/Imperative_Content_and_the_Painfulness_of_Pain.pdf
Journal article submitted for publication	Delgado, Suriyagoda, Zúñiga-Feest, Borie, & Lambers, 2014)	Delgado M., Suriyagoda L., Zúñiga-Feest A., Borie F., Lambers H. (2014). Divergent functioning of Proteaceae species: The South American Embothrium coccineum displays a combination of adaptive traits to survive in high-phosphorus soils. Manuscript submitted for publication.
Persian article	(Sohrabi et al., 2011)	Sohrabi, A. (2011). [Cognitive psychology: from brain to society (Persian)]. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 10(4), 299-300.
Conference Papers and Proceedings
Paper in conference proceedings in print	(Game, 2001)	Game, A. (2001). Creative ways of being. In J. R. Morss, N. Stephenson & J. F. H. Rappard (Eds.), Theoretical issues in psychology: Proceedings of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology 1999 Conference (pp. 3-12). Sydney: Springer.
Paper in conference proceedings online: Electronic database	(Balakrishnan, 2006)	Balakrishnan, R. (2006, March). Why aren’t we using 3d user interfaces,and will we ever? Paper presented at the IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/vr.2006.148
Conference papers: Unpublished	(Santhanam, Martin, Goody & Hicks, 2001)	Santhanam, E., Martin, K., Goody, A., & Hicks, O. (2011). Bottom-up steps towards closing the loop in feedback on teaching: A CUTSD project. Paper presented at Teaching and Learning Forum – Expanding horizons in teaching and learning, Perth, Australia, 7-9 February 2001.
Theses
Thesis in print: Published	(May, 2007)	May, B. (2007) A survey of radial velocities in the zodiacal dust cloud. Bristol, UK: Canopus Publishing
Thesis online: Electronic database	(Rich, 1989)	Rich, P. D. (1989). The rule of ritual in the Arabian Gulf, 1858-1947: The influence of English public schools (Doctoral dissertation). Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses – UK & Ireland. (AAT 8918197)
Web sources
Web page	(Australian Psychological Society, 2008)	Australian Psychological Society. (2008). Substance abuse: Position statement. Retrieved from http://www.psychology.org.au/publication/statements/substance/
Web page: No author	(“Improve indigenous housing”, 2007)	Improve indigenous housing now, governments told. (2007). Retrieved from http://www.architecture.com.au/i-cms?page=10220
Web page: No date	(Jones, n.d.)	Jones, M. D. (n.d.). Commentary on indigenous housing initiatives. Retrieved from http://www.architecture.com.au
Webpage: No author or date: With quote	(“Mindfulness mediation”, n.d., para 8)	Mindfulness meditation. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.freemeditations.com/mindfulness-meditation.html

 
 
 Ethical Considerations
Compliance with Ethical Guidelines
Clarify the ethical considerations of the research, such as ethical codes.
Funding
Mention if extracts it from a thesis, project or have any financial supporters.
Authors’ contribution
in this section, you have to provide the contributory role of each author on these divisions:
Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Validation, Formal Analysis, Investigation, Resources, Data Curation, Writing – Original Draft Preparation, Writing – Review & Editing, Visualization, Supervision, Project Administration, and Funding Acquisition.
The example below shows the Author Contributions:
Author Contributions: Conceptualization,[Name of the Author(s)]; Methodology, [Name of the Author(s)]; Investigation, [Name of the Author (s)]; Writing – Original Draft, [Name of the Author (s)]; Writing – Review & Editing, [Name of the Author (s)]; Funding Acquisition, [Name of the Author (s)]; Resources, [Name of the Author (s)]; Supervision, [Name of the Author (s)].
Conflicts of Interest: 
Authors should disclose, at the time of submission, information on financial conflicts of interest or other interests that may influence the manuscript. Authors should declare sources of funding for the work undertaken, too.
Authors must report informed consent procedures, confidentiality principles, ethics approval codes, and authorship contributions.
Any financial support, organizational relationship, or personal interest that may influence the research must be disclosed before the references section.
Use of Artificial Intelligence-Generated Content
AI tools such as ChatGPT must not be listed as authors because they cannot accept responsibility for accuracy, verification, and originality.
Authors remain responsible for reviewing, editing, and validating all AI-assisted content. The use of generative AI tools must be disclosed, including:
- Name of AI tool(s)
- Link to the tool or conversation (if available)
- Purpose and method of use
- Prompts provided to the AI tool (when applicable)
- Explanation of how the AI output was incorporated into the final work
The journal's AI disclosure requirements may be updated according to developments in international research ethics guidelines.