Submission and Components

Submissions to Rivera journals should include the following:

• Cover Letter
  
• Manuscript
  
• Figures and Tables
  
• Supplemental Materials
  

Authors are encouraged to submit all the components as 'zip file', while submitting on our online system or via email as attachment.

Cover Letter should:

• briefly summarize or provide an outline of your manuscript, and why it is a worthy contribution to the concerned journal;
  
• specify the Rivera journal that your manuscript best pertains to;
  
• indicate, if applicable, that it is submitted as a part of any Special Issue;
  
• specify the manuscript type (original research, review, etc.)
  
• detail any previous interaction(s) with Rivera Publications (previously submitted)
  
• specify all authors’ information, including affiliation 
  
• include acknowledgements and funding information (if applicable) and any competing interests
  

Authors

All persons who qualify for authorship should be listed as authors. However, corresponding author must ensure that the each author listed has substantially contributed or participated sufficiently in the work and is responsible for that particular portion of the manuscript. However, people who do not qualify for authorship should be listed in acknowledgements.

One author (corresponding author) should be listed with an asterisk, and should provide his or her email address. For the remaining authors, if applicable, following information should be included:

• First name and last name
  
• Complete affiliation, along with the country
  
• Email address (optional, but mandatory for corresponding author)
  

For example:

Robert Ludwig¹

Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Acknowledgements

This should include all the people who have contributed toward the work in one way or the other. However, authors are required to ensure that people acknowledged should agree to being so named.

Funding Information

List all the sources of funding, including relevant research grant numbers, as applicable. Also, authors are encouraged to list all the contributing authors associated with specific funding, if applicable.

Conflict of interest

Corresponding author is required to provide a statement of conflict of interest on behalf of all the authors. For further information, please refer to our Conflict of Interest Policy page.

Optional information

While we are not obligated to use these or recommend to the concerned Editor(s), we do encourage authors to provide names and contact information of 2-4 external reviewers and, if applicable, 1-2 opposed reviewers.

Manuscript Layout

All Social Sciences journals do not have any arbitrary restrictions on the length of manuscript. For Health and Medicine journals, the word count for original research is 3500–4000 words and up to 5500 words for studies involving meta-analysis. Authors are encouraged to employ a standard and concise writing style. 

If you are not a native English speaker, we encourage you to utilize our language editing service, or ask a native English speaking colleague for assistance.

All manuscript submissions should have the following sections:

• Title
  
• Abstract
  
• Keywords
  

1. Introduction
   
2. Materials and methods
   
3. Results
   
4. Discussion
   
5. Conclusion(s)
   
6. References
   

Title

The title should not exceed 200 characters and set in title case. The title should be concise, specific, and easily comprehensible to readers (even to the layman).

Abstract

The abstract should not exceed 300 words, and should be unstructured (without sub-heading such as objective, methodology, results, discussion, etc.). It should provide a clear description of the objective(s) of the study, demonstrate the methodology used, and summarize the study's prime conclusion(s). At the end, a statement regarding study's significance to a potentially wider audience should be included.

Keywords

Authors can provide 4-6 keywords. First letter of each keyword should be upper case, and keywords should be separated by semicolon (;).

References

Published work along with any citable items should be cited in the reference list. While we follow very stringent reference formats, authors need not to spend time formatting their reference. They can submit the manuscripts formatted in any reference style (style will be formatted once the manuscript is accepted for publication), but it is preferable that they adhere to the journal format.

For Health and Medicine

Rivera uses AMA style. Items are listed numerically in the order they are cited in text.

Example journal article (2-6 authors): Salwachter AR, Freischlag JA, Sawyer RG, Sanfey HA. The training needs and priorities of male and female surgeons and their trainees. J Am Coll Surg. 2005; 201: 199-205.

Example journal article (more than 6 authors): Fukushima H, Cureoglu S, Schachern P, et al. Cochlear changes in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2005; 133: 100-6.

Example book: Modlin J, Jenkins P. Decision Analysis in Planning for a Polio Outbreak in the United States. San Francisco, CA: Pediatric Academic Societies; 2004.

Example book chapter: Solensky R. Drug allergy: desensitization and treatment of reactions to antibiotics and aspirin. In: Lockey P, ed. Allergens and Allergen Immunotherapy. 3rd ed. New York, NY: Marcel Dekker; 2004:585-606.

Example online article: Wolf W. State’s mail-order drug plan launched. Minneapolis Star Tribune. May 14, 2004:1B.

Example article from any database: Calhoun D, Trimarco T, Meek R, Locasto D. Distinguishing diabetes: Differentiate between type 1 & type 2 DM. JEMS [serial online]. November 2011; 36(11):32-48. Available from: CINAHL Plus with Full Text, Ipswich, MA. Accessed February 2, 2012.

In-text citation: For referencing an article, a number is used. This is different from in-text citations in APA—author’s last name is not used. The order of numbering will be contingent on the order in which you use that reference within your paper. For example, the first article referenced will be given number one in superscript (¹) followed by second and third articles as ^2,3. In references section, the articles should appear numerically in the order they are cited within the text.

For Social Sciences

Rivera follows APA style. All the items are listed numerically. If no author is given, reference should start with title followed by date.

Example journal article: 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.

In-text citation: (Sohrabi et al., 2011)

Example journal article with DOI: 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

In-text citation: (Almeida, Dickinson, Maybery, Badcock, & Badcock, 2010)

Example journal article when DOI is not supplied: Anderson, M., & Reid, C. (2009). Don't forget about levels of explanation. Cortex: A Journal Devoted to the Study of the Nervous System and Behavior, 45(4), 560-561. Retrieved from ScienceDirect.

In-text citation: (Anderson & Reid, 2009)

Example book: The Australian Oxford dictionary (3rd ed.). (1999). Melbourne: Oxford University Press.

In-text citation: (The Australian Oxford dictionary, 1999)

Example book (Editor): Hallinan, M. T. (Ed.). (2006). Handbook of the sociology of education. New York: Springer.

In-text citation: (Hallinan, 2006)

Example book (2 or more authors): Day, D.V., & Antonakis, J. (Eds.). (2012). The nature of leadership (2nd ed.). Los Angeles, CA: Sage.

In-text citation: (Day & Antonakis, 2012)

Example conference proceeding: 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

In-text citation: (Balakrishnan, 2006)

Example government reports: Western Australia. Department of Health Nursing and Midwifery Office. (2013). Aboriginal Nursing and Midwifery Strategic Plan 2011-2015. Retrieved from http://www.nursing.health.wa.gov.au/projects/

In-text citation: (Western Australia. Department of Health Nursing and Midwifery Office, 2013).

Example podcast: Zijlstra, M. (Presenter). (2011, May 28). Natural semantic metalanguage [Audio podcast]. Retrieved from http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2011/05/lin_20110528.mp3

In-text citation: (Zijlstra, 2011)

Example unpublished thesis: Lockhart, E. (2009). The physical education curriculum choices of Western Australian primary school teachers (Unpublished master’s thesis). University of Western Australia.

In-text citation: (Lockhart, 2009)

Example published thesis: May, B. (2007). A survey of radial velocities in the zodiacal dust cloud. Bristol, UK: Canopus Publishing.

In-text citation: (May, 2007)

Example webpage: Australian Psychological Society. (2008). Substance abuse: Position statement. Retrieved from http://www.psychology.org.au/publications/statements/substance/

In-text citation: (Australian Psychological Society, 2008)