JMVRA Author Documentation & Submission Checklist

Treat this documentation as the companion guide to submitting a paper to JMVRA (ISSN 2984-8911), a UGC Status & Parameters journal that follows international publishing practice in its editorial work and gives every published article a permanent Crossref DOI. It spans the whole stretch from a finished manuscript to a paper that is published, indexed and citable.

Newcomers to academic publishing should go through sections 1–5 in sequence before submitting. Authors who have published before and only need one detail — a margin size, a threshold or a fee — can use the sidebar or the jump links above to reach it directly.

Further reading: the Indexing & Abstracting page describes what becomes of your metadata once the paper is published, About JMVRA sets out the editorial mission and pricing in full, and How to Publish a Research Paper in a Journal offers a wider introduction to choosing a journal and the publishing workflow if you have not yet decided where to submit.

We invite prospective authors to send original papers, not under consideration anywhere else, written in the standard format set out in this documentation and reporting new theoretical and/or experimental research. A paper may be of any length and may include figures, tables and references. Editors judge submissions on originality, significance, interest, clarity, relevance, correctness and presentation. Check your paper against each of these criteria before you send it.

How to Publish a Paper in JMVRA, Step by Step

• Submit Your Research Paper — click here to submit your paper online.
• Paper submission notification arrives by mail — a paper registration ID is sent to the inbox of the corresponding author, and you can use it to follow the progress of your paper.
• Review (Acceptance/Rejection) notification — expert reviewers evaluate your paper, then the decision to accept or reject is communicated by email and WhatsApp.
• Payment of publication charges — due once your paper is accepted.
• Submit the required documents needed to publish the paper (Undertaking Form, Payment Proof, Identity Proof).
• Publication of Paper — the paper goes live after every required document has been received.
• Download Certificates — once the paper is live, authors can download their publication certificate.

Documents Needed to Publish a Paper in JMVRA

When the JMVRA review committee accepts your paper, the editorial team will notify you. Then pay the publication fee and send all of the documents listed below together in one email to [email protected], putting your paper registration ID in the subject line. A tidy, complete email helps the office process your paper without follow-up requests.

• Undertaking by Author Form — ask for the form by email (send back a scanned copy signed by hand by the author).
• Formatted Manuscript / Research Paper — prepared per the manuscript template; the file must be .doc/.docx and carry your registration ID as its name.
• Identity Proof of the corresponding author only (scanned copy) — any one of Aadhaar Card / PAN Card / College ID Card / Driving Licence.
• Payment Proof — a payment confirmation receipt (PDF or screenshot) that plainly shows the amount paid, the Transaction ID and the Date of Payment.

Why Publish Your Paper in JMVRA

• Low Cost Journal Publication: ₹971 INR for Indian authors / $41 USD for foreign authors
• UGC Status & Parameters Journal Publication
• Crossref DOI available on demand
• Review by experts, with the acceptance or rejection decision delivered by email and WhatsApp
• Open-process, two-way anonymous peer review
• a publication certificate is generated when your paper is published
• JMVRA is an international journal that is open-access and peer-reviewed
• Follow the status of your paper online with your registration ID
• Indexed in Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar and major academic databases

Manuscripts that already meet this specification clear screening fastest, since the editorial team can spend its review time on content instead of on formatting.

Document Specification

*An abstract in English is always required, whatever language the paper is written in.

Required Paper Structure

1. Title — short and informative, preferably under 15 words, and built from the terms a reader would really type into a search
2. Names of the author(s), their designation and institutional affiliation, plus an ORCID iD if one is available
3. Abstract and keywords
4. Introduction & literature review
5. Methodology / research design
6. Results & discussion
7. Conclusion & future scope
8. Acknowledgement (if any)
9. References

How to Write a Strong Title & Abstract

Your title and your abstract determine whether people find the paper once it is published. Put the method, the domain and the application in the title instead of a rhetorical phrase, and make the abstract report your real results with numbers rather than saying “results are discussed.” This has a direct effect on how well Google Scholar and OpenAlex index and rank your paper. Read making your paper discoverable for the complete advice.

JMVRA accepts the IEEE, APA or MLA citation style. Choose one and apply it throughout the manuscript, so that the in-text citations and the reference list share the same style; mixing styles is among the most frequent reasons a paper is sent back for revision before reviewers ever see it. Check your target field's usual convention before you decide.

Reference List Quality

A full reference — authors, year, title, source, volume/issue, pages and a DOI where one exists — does more than meet a formatting requirement. With complete references, CrossRef's citation matching can link your paper to the works you cite, and that is how automatic citation counts are assembled in Google Scholar, CrossRef Cited-by and OpenAlex. A partial reference just fails to match, so the paper you cited gets no credit. Why metadata quality matters explains this in full.

Go through this list before submitting. Papers that satisfy every item usually pass initial screening within a day. Ticking each box honestly saves you from needless back-and-forth later.

• The manuscript is original, has not been published before and is not being reviewed by another journal
• The title is short, descriptive and under ~15 words
• The abstract runs 150–250 words and reports real findings rather than background alone
• Between 5–8 keywords are given, taken from the established vocabulary of your field
• Every co-author appears with full name, designation, institution and email
• The paper's structure follows the prescribed order of sections (see Section 2)
• A single citation style (IEEE, APA or MLA) is applied consistently from start to finish
• Each in-text citation has a matching reference, and each reference has a citation
• All tables and figures carry a number and a caption
• The file is saved as .doc or .docx and named using the corresponding author's surname
• The manuscript has been checked for plagiarism and sits within the accepted similarity threshold
• The corresponding author's contact details (email + phone/WhatsApp) are up to date

JMVRA operates a double-blind, transparent peer review process, which the new UGC Parameters Notification requires. Reviewers and authors stay anonymous to one another, and instead of a bare accept/reject answer, authors get the anonymised reviewer comments together with the editorial decision. Reading those comments carefully is the quickest route to a stronger revision.

How to Respond to Reviewer Comments

Reply to each comment on its own, including those you disagree with, and give your reasoning rather than skipping the point. Re-review goes much faster when you supply a response document that links every comment to the matching change in the manuscript; a simple numbered list will do. The complete walkthrough is in Tutorials. A courteous, evidence-based tone also helps reviewers accept your explanation.

JMVRA adheres to the guidelines of COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics). Each submission undergoes a similarity check before a reviewer sees it.

Plagiarism & Similarity Policy

• A manuscript has to fall within the accepted similarity threshold before it can go on to review
• A paper over the threshold is sent back for revision instead of being rejected outright, unless the similarity points to deliberate misconduct
• Self-plagiarism (reusing your own earlier published text without disclosing it) is handled exactly like any other plagiarism
• Authors may ask for a copy of the similarity screening report

Authorship & Conflicts of Interest

• Each named author must have made a real contribution to the work, and it must be disclosed
• Authors are required to declare any financial or personal conflict of interest connected with the research
• Fabricating or falsifying data, or manipulating images, is a reason for rejection, or for retraction if discovered after publication
• Submitting the same work to several journals at once is not allowed

CrossRef can register any article published in JMVRA to give it a permanent DOI. Authors can ask for this as an add-on to the standard publication fee, and the journal's official ISSN is 2984-8911.

The dedicated Indexing & Abstracting page gives the full database-by-database breakdown: what each service records, how you can check your own listing, and how indexing relates to UGC CARE status.

Each author of an accepted paper receives a digital publication certificate, which can be downloaded as soon as the article is live.

A certificate shows the paper title, the author names, the journal name and ISSN, the volume/issue and the DOI, and institutions generally accept it as adequate proof for PhD, API score and NAAC records. Ask for any on-request document by writing to [email protected]. Keep a digital copy of each certificate with your other academic records.

JMVRA releases its articles under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence, so copyright always remains with the authors.

What CC BY 4.0 gives you as an author

• Copyright stays with you — ownership is not handed to the journal
• You can place the published version straight away, with no embargo, in your institutional repository, ResearchGate, Academia.edu or your own website
• Others may share and adapt your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you and link to the licence
• Later on, you may bring figures, tables and text from your own published article into new work as long as a citation is included

Manuscript File

Figures & Tables

• For print-quality reproduction, images need a resolution of at least 300 DPI
• Image formats we accept: JPG, PNG, TIFF
• Each figure and table needs a caption and a reference in the text
• Build tables as editable Word tables rather than pasting them in as images

Supporting Documents

• Co-author declaration / consent (when the editorial office asks for it)
• Documentation of ethics approval or informed consent for studies with human or animal subjects
• No copyright transfer is needed — JMVRA works under CC BY 4.0 (see Section 9)

The editorial team prepares the items below on request instead of offering them as static downloads, which means you always get the latest version:

Besides this reference page, JMVRA offers a dedicated step-by-step help article for nearly every stage of the author, reviewer, conference and thesis journey, covering what to prepare, the exact workflow, typical mistakes and troubleshooting. Before opening an individual guide, you can look at the visual map of every journey, with diagrams, in the Author, Reviewer, Conference & Thesis Help Center. Choose the guide that matches your current stage rather than reading everything.

Author — Submit, Track & Publish

Reviewer & RMS

Conference

Thesis