Please contact at the following address for
necessary help. A guideline will be provided shortly on how to write
paper for 'SAFA'. The main headings of the manuscript consists of 6
sections as follows:
Introduction
The objective of this section is provide a brief
back ground of the study followed by a little discussion on problem
statement. Problem Statement is a crucial part of a manuscript having
centered the necessarily of the study and justification. At the end of
the Introduction it is useful to provide the sitemap of the manuscript
such as
"The study initially discusses the nature of the farming
followed by a method section in which the tools discussed that
used to reach a conclusion regarding the success of small-scale
farming in emerging a strong social mechanism for enhancing
livelihood and improving environmental degradation problem. A
results and discussion section is followed by a brief discussion
on policy and recommendation at the end."
Literature
Review
Literature
review section is optional. Author could provide necessary reviews of
literature done in a continuous section of Introduction or in a
following section. Literature review section is very important for a
study and support authors work in examining the consistency of the study
in terms relevant work.
Methods
Excluding theory
all short of necessary procedures followed to fulfil the objective of
the study should be included in this section. From the first stop such
as data collection up to the last step such as appropriate analytical
technique and its validation should be discussed in this section. The
author must take extra care for Methods section as if it does not
mislead any information that violates theory and common norms of
research.
if there is any
ethical issue related to the research should be focused in this section
by clarifying how the issue has been griped. Adequate reference must be
there for supporting the argument on analysis if the approach is not
traditionally supported by the literatures.
Results and
discussion
This section
provides the outcome of the study and necessary synthesis to reach a
meaningful conclusion. It is to be written by following the sequence of
objectives set in the introduction. All necessary figures and tables
must be cited in the right place before or after the table or figure.
All figures and tables must be numbered separately. Care should be taken
in this section on heading style and should be as follows:
First heading-------Capitalized
Second heading--------title capitalized
Third heading-----------sentence capitalization
Conclusion
Conclusion of
the study must be drawn based on the findings of the study. The
description in conclusion must be consistent and meaningfully brief. A
recommendation section could be following the conclusion section which
focuses on the decisions made on the basis of the findings of the study.
Acknowledgement
This is an
optional section. If author wishes to acknowledge someone for the
contribution in writing the manuscript could be addressed in this
section.
Reference
Reference
section should be written with extra care and followed by the provided
style. Please click for the SAFA referencing style. If the referencing
style is not followed properly the publication might be delayed.
Appendices
necessary tables
or figures that are supportive to follow the flow of the manuscript
could be put in Appendices section. But number of appendix is advised
not to exit 2-3.
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