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Use numerical to designate figures (e.g., Figure 1). Use justifiable description, if necessary

During submissions, figures are supposed to be at sufficient quality, preferably as JPEGs

Tables can be included in the text, if not submitted as a separate file, oriented in portrait form (not landscape) and upright on the page, not sideways

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Plagiarism is copying another person’s text or ideas and passing the copied material as your own work. You must both delineate (i.e., separate and identify) the copied text from your text and give credit to (i.e., cite the source) the source of the copied text to avoid accusations of plagiarism. Plagiarism is considered fraud and has potentially harsh consequences including loss of job, loss of reputation, and the assignation of reduced or failing grade in a course.

All manuscripts received towards Directive Publications journals are scanned for plagiarism. If potential plagiarism is detected, authors will be contacted for clarification. The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others, it is necessary to indicate the source of the information within your paper using an internal citation.

The practice of peer review is to ensure that only good science is published. It is an objective process at the heart of good scholarly publishing and is carried out by all reputable scientific journals. Our referees play a vital role in maintaining the high standards Transport Policy and all manuscripts are peer reviewed following the procedure outlined below.

Directive Publications is an online international open access, peer reviewed journals publishing organization; we do not have funding/support from any Private Organizations/Government to run. To run our organization in an organized way, we charge manuscript processing fee from the authors to publish their manuscripts. We charge fee to maintain published manuscripts in online repositories. All our articles are published in most updated formats (HTML, PDF, etc.,)

Author may wish to withdraw his/her manuscript after submitting it to Directive Publications. To withdraw a manuscript, we do not charge any fee, only if he/she withdraws it within a week of received date .

If an author withdraws manuscript after a week, then he/she will be asked to pay partial processing fee. Each manuscript submission costs us certain amount along with overhead cost during processing. Manuscripts peer review process is completed (which can often happen within a week), and it has been worked into a journal issue, we have incurred costs on our end that need to be reimbursed.

We ask authors to pay additional withdrawal fee in case of withdrawal, for any queries or any discussions regarding manuscript withdrawal/article processing fee, please contact us at: contact@directivepublications.com

To maintain the high quality scientific data and to guarantee it online publication ethics are very important, and the credit will be given to the authors/contributors. Directive Publications has several policies to assure high publication ethics.

Directive Publications also explains the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for our Journal Editors and the Peer Reviewers Ethical guidelines developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) as the best practice.

In addition to different obligations, editors need to guarantee that all manuscripts appropriated by their journal are reviewed for their scientific content without regard to gender, religion, race, citizenship, etc. of the authors. Besides, it is also editor’s requirement to ensure that any data with respect to manuscripts put together by the authors should be confidential.

Submitted manuscripts reviews must be carried out unbiased and the reviewers ought to express their perspectives plainly with supporting arguments. Moreover, reviewers should keep in mind that any data regarding the manuscripts they are reviewing ought to be dealt with as privileged information.

Directive Publications aims to follow the Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers of COPE by

• Guaranteeing article autonomy
• Respect privacy of almost all stakeholders in the research and publications process, Ensuring author’s copyright and a liberal dissemination lic