Guidelines

Human responsibility and authorship

Assistive tools may be used responsibly and transparently. AI cannot be an author or assume research accountability. Human authors remain fully responsible for accuracy, originality, source verification, usage rights, and ethical compliance.

Disclosure in the manuscript

Disclose at submission and in the article the tool, provider, version or date of use, purpose, affected parts, and human verification. Writing or translation assistance is described in a disclosure or acknowledgements statement. AI used in data collection, analysis, or figure generation is described in the methods with enough detail for assessment and, where possible, reproduction. Substantive generative assistance must be disclosed; conventional non-generative spelling checks alone do not require a statement.

Unacceptable uses

Fabricating data, participants, findings, or references, concealing image manipulation, or presenting generated material as genuine observational evidence is prohibited. Synthetic images or materials must be clearly labelled and methodologically justified. A tool’s answer is not a substitute for verifying the original scholarly source.

Confidentiality and data protection

Participant data, manuscripts, and protected or confidential material must not be sent to external services without a lawful basis, appropriate permissions, and safeguards. Check tool terms and reuse rights. AI does not remove ethics approval or informed-consent obligations.

Reviewers and editors

Unpublished manuscripts, review reports, and confidential data must not be uploaded to unapproved external AI tools. Peer-review responsibility and final editorial decisions must not be delegated to AI. Any editorially permitted assistive use must preserve confidentiality and be disclosed to the handling editor.

Verification and breaches

The journal may request explanations or relevant records, require revised disclosure, reject a manuscript, or correct the record according to evidence. AI detection scores alone do not establish misconduct. Authors may respond under the ethics and complaints policies. Enquiries: info@hnjournal.net.

The Humanities and Natural Sciences Journal is a monthly peer-reviewed journal publishing original research in Arabic, English, and French within its declared scope. The publisher is Brabdo for Educational Services Ltd, United Kingdom. Submissions are assessed on scholarly quality, relevance, and ethical compliance. Acceptance and a fixed review duration are not guaranteed.

1. Eligibility and originality

Submissions must make a clear scholarly contribution, use appropriate methods, present evidence-supported findings, and be clearly written. The same article must not have been published previously or be under consideration elsewhere. Disclose related theses, preprints, and overlapping work and explain the new contribution so editors can assess eligibility. Select references for relevance and quality, without language preference or unjustified citation requests. Similarity reports require editorial assessment; a low score alone does not establish originality.

2. Submission files and anonymization

Email editable files to info@hnjournal.net: a separate title page listing the title, all authors in the agreed order, institutional affiliations, countries, and corresponding author email; and an anonymized manuscript without names, affiliations, acknowledgments, or identifying file metadata. Submit potentially identifying disclosures separately and restore them in the accepted version. Editors check anonymization before review.

3. Titles abstracts and author information

Every article needs an accurate English title and a clear English abstract, regardless of the main language, alongside a title and abstract in the manuscript language. Arabic and English manuscripts include both Arabic and English abstracts. Each abstract must be no longer than 250 words and state the objective, methods, findings, and conclusions. Provide five suitable keywords and their English equivalents.

Provide all authors’ names, institutional affiliations, and countries in English or Roman script and identify the corresponding author and email. Include these details and the English title and abstract on the article page, in the PDF, and in every published version. Include ORCID identifiers where available; do not invent identifiers or missing information.

4. Manuscript formatting

The usual limit is 25 pages including abstracts, tables, figures, and references. Use the approved journal template without changing its boxes, margins, metadata positions, or DOI. Template settings take precedence over these general settings: 3 cm margins and single spacing; English text in Times New Roman, 16 pt bold main title, 14 pt bold subheadings, 14 pt body and abstracts, and 12 pt tables and figures. Use the Arabic font specified in the template. These are manuscript specifications, not this webpage’s display sizes.

5. Structure and methodological transparency

Use a suitable structure covering introduction, problem and objectives, relevant literature, methods, results, discussion, limitations, conclusions and recommendations, and references. Humanities, theoretical studies, and reviews may adapt this structure while explaining their research and analytical approach. Describe design, population, sampling, instruments, data collection procedures and dates, and analysis sufficiently for assessment. Do not claim procedures that were not performed.

6. Tables figures and footnotes

Place sequentially numbered tables and figures near their first citation, with table titles above and figure captions below, sources, and reuse permissions where required. Ensure legible numbers, symbols, and images without misleading manipulation. Retain editable footnotes. Submit appendices separately for review and agree with editors on access when they are needed to understand the findings.

7. Citations and Roman-script references

Use one consistent citation style, preferably APA where appropriate to the discipline, matching citations to references. Footnote-based referencing is permitted where appropriate. Retain Arabic entries and place an English translation or Roman-script transliteration immediately after each entry. Preserve authors, titles, years, source details, and available DOIs or URLs. Do not invent missing metadata or misleadingly translate official journal titles.

8. Authorship disclosures and ethics

All authors must approve submission, author order, and the final version. Supply contribution, funding and funder-role, and competing-interest statements, explicitly declaring absence where applicable. Report ethics committee approvals, identifiers and dates, informed consent, or documented exemptions as applicable. Protect privacy and obtain consent for identifiable publication. Meet applicable animal research and clinical-trial registration requirements. Provide a data, materials, and code availability statement explaining confidentiality or ownership restrictions. Consult the journal’s publication ethics policy for details.

9. Artificial intelligence

Disclose AI use under the journal’s policy, including tool name, version where available, purpose, and verification of outputs. Tools cannot be authors. Authors remain responsible for accuracy, references, originality, and rights. Do not upload confidential or personal data to external tools without a legitimate basis and appropriate protection.

10. Screening review and decisions

Editors screen scope, originality, completeness, and ethical compliance and may reject with reasons or request missing information before review. Eligible research articles undergo double-anonymous review by at least two independent reviewers. Authors provide point-by-point responses. The Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Ibrahim Abdelrahman Ahmed, makes the final decision, or a qualified independent editor handles conflicted submissions. Fees and the publisher do not control scholarly judgments. Disagreement between reviewers does not automatically determine acceptance or rejection.

11. Fees licensing and publication

The standard publication fee is USD 70, requested after scholarly acceptance. Applicable financial arrangements are communicated before payment. Fees do not purchase acceptance or expedited assessment at the expense of quality. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal publication rights. Articles are available under CC BY-NC 4.0 under the licensing policy, subject to third-party rights. Authors check proofs and metadata before publication. Substantive post-publication changes require correction or retraction notices under the ethics policy.

12. Appeals and enquiries

Send enquiries, complaints, and reasoned appeals with evidence to the editorial email. An editor independent of the challenged decision reviews appeals, with recusal for competing interests. A changed decision is not guaranteed. These guidelines do not claim indexing or accreditation by any database.