POLICY / INSTRUCTIONS ALIGNMENT — ENGLISH RESEARCH ARTICLE TEMPLATE
Effective source documents: 1 August 2026.

This package is intentionally scoped to an ENGLISH RESEARCH ARTICLE.
It does not claim to be the structure for Review Articles, Short Communications,
Technical Notes, Case Studies, Perspectives, Editorials, or Letters, whose structure
may differ under the Instructions for Authors.

SOURCE-DRIVEN ARTICLE ELEMENTS
- English manuscript metadata.
- Single-column layout.
- Separate Title Page and Anonymous Manuscript.
- Double-anonymous review handling.
- Full author/affiliation/email/ORCID/corresponding-author metadata.
- One-paragraph abstract (max 200 words) and 3–10 keywords.
- Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions.
- Author Contributions (CRediT), Funding, Ethics, Consent, Data Availability,
  Acknowledgments where applicable, Conflicts, AI disclosure where applicable,
  Nomenclature where applicable, References.
- Editable and numbered equations, figures, tables, and references.
- SI-unit support.
- AMA 11 bracketed numeric references and journal-required source examples.

PRODUCTION/DESIGN ELEMENTS (SUPPORTED BY POLICY BUT NOT AUTHOR ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA)
- I-EDU GROUP publisher identity.
- Open Access mark.
- Crossmark mark where a DOI is present and Crossmark is applicable.
- CC BY 4.0 mark.
- Journal emblem.
- ISSN, DOI, year/volume/issue/article number.
- Received/Revised/Accepted/Published history.
- Bibliographic footer/page count.

WORKFLOW REQUIREMENTS KEPT OUTSIDE THE ARTICLE PDF
- OJS submission confirmations.
- Preprint declaration in the submission system.
- Reporting checklists and supplementary documentation.
- Revision point-by-point response.
- Proof correction workflow.
- APC/payment administration.
- Complaints, appeals, misconduct and post-publication procedures.

The files README.md, SUBMISSION_CHECKLIST.md, figures/README.txt,
supplementary/README.txt and reference-examples.bib document these workflow
requirements without adding unsupported mandatory content to the manuscript PDF.
