Policy Document

Introduction

Review of Law and Social Sciences (RLSS), ISSN (3078-1574) is an esteemed academic journal published under International Centre for Sustainable Development and Research (SMC-Private) Limited (CUI No. 0266199), dedicated to fostering interdisciplinary dialogue and advancing the understanding of complex issues at the intersection of law, society, and human behaviour. Established in 2023, the journal is committed to publishing high-quality, peer-reviewed articles that explore a broad range of topics affecting both legal and social spheres.

1. Mission

Our mission is to provide a rigorous scholarly platform where academics, practitioners, policymakers, and students can share research, insights, and critiques. The journal aims to illuminate how law interacts with social structures, influences human relationships, and shapes societal change. By integrating diverse perspectives from sociology, social work, psychology, political science, economics, anthropology, politics and International relations, and related fields, we seek to build a more comprehensive understanding of the multifaceted nature of law in society.

2. Aim & Scope

Review of Law, and Social Sciences (RLSS) is a multidisciplinary open-access journal with a mission to make research and knowledge accessible to everyone without discrimination. Our vision is based on inclusivity, dissemination, and the power of collective wisdom. The journal’s broad scope facilitates the discovery of connections between disciplines and communities. We strive to help researchers communicate with a global audience and interact with experts from across the social science community and beyond. Each submission is evaluated on its own scholarly merit and research integrity, and our expert academic editors take an objective and constructive approach to peer review.

RLSS considers original research articles and reviews in the following branches of social sciences:

Criminal Justice
Criminology
Law
Economics & Finance
Education
Psychology
Geography
African Studies
Asian Studies
Politics & International Relations
Media & Communication Studies
Politics
Sociology
Social Work
Sport and Leisure
Tourism and Hospitality

3. FREQUENCY OF PUBLICATION

The frequency and regularity are the main requirements that directly influence the credibility of journals. In this connection, Review of Law and Social Sciences (RLSS) publication schedule comprises one (01) volume with four (04) issues each year on a regular basis with the following description.

1^st Issue January- March

2^nd issue April – June

3^rd issue July – September

4^th issue October - December

4. Audience

Our readership includes academics and researchers in the fields of law and social sciences, legal professionals, law students, and policymakers interested in the empirical and theoretical analysis of law as a central institution in society.

4.1 Open Access

We are proud to be an open-access journal, providing unrestricted online access to our content to support a greater global exchange of knowledge. This aligns with our belief that free access to scholarly research supports a greater global exchange of information and has the power to amplify the impact of research across borders and among diverse academic and practical communities.

4.2 Submitting to the Journal

RLSS welcome submissions that advance the field of law and social sciences. For submission guidelines and deadlines, please visit the journal page. The review process is rigorous, ensuring that only the highest quality research is published.

5. Guidelines for Authors

Author guidelines comprise the following bibliographic and formatting standards together with instances of common citation formats preferred to use in submissions.
1. Review of Law and Social Sciences (RLSS) considers articles submitted via an open journal system that could be accessed through the journal’s website www.reviewlawsocialsciences.com
2. Authors are required to get registered through Open Journal System prior to submission of the manuscript to the RLSS.
3. Once registered, authors are advised to follow the submission guidelines and ensure to have formatted manuscript according to format that the Journal follows.
4. Once the manuscript is received online via OJS, desk editors will filter the manuscript in the light of Author Guidelines. Based on desk review, the manuscript is either sent back to the author(s) for further modifications or sent for review.
5. It is author(s)’ responsibility to ensure that the manuscript has neither been published nor been submitted for publication either in parts or as a whole.
6. Manuscripts must be written in clear, concise, grammatically correct language, and formatted according to APA Editorial Style (approved by HEC).

6. Paper Format

Page Setup: Font=Times New Roman; Font Size=12; Line Spacing=1.0; Margins=1 Inch from All Sides.

Length:The length of the manuscript must not exceed the maximum limit of 7000 words. Manuscripts containing more than 7000 words will be returned to the author(s) for abridgment. Authors are urged to write as concisely as possible, but not at the expense of clarity.

Title Page: The title page should include an informative title (14 Font Size, bold, centered, and typed in capital letters), the author’s name, and complete address including postal and email information (the author who has submitted the article will be considered the corresponding author). The details of the authors should be properly formatted as italicized, except the author’s name.

Abstract:The abstract includes a brief summary of the problem, research design, major findings, and conclusions (150 to 200 Words). It should be properly formatted as justified and italicized text.

Key Words: Authors must mention 3-6 keywords. Keywords should be listed alphabetically, separated by commas, and full stop at the end.

Main Body: The text in the manuscript body should be divided into sections with the following headings:

Introduction: This section provides sufficient background information to set the context of the issue clearly mentioning the objectives behind the research.

Literature Review: This section provides background information about the research variables and their inter-relationships based on the existing research/literature.

Research Design: The concise but with sufficient detail to allow replication of the methodology used to conduct the study and reaching the conclusion.

Results: Present them in logical sequence through paragraphs, tables & figures but avoiding repetition. Tables, figures, must be placed where used and not as annexures.

Discussions: Interpret results and relate them with existing knowledge relating to the methods and results of the respective area of research.

Conclusions: A short but pointed evaluation of the research activity and findings that what the researcher has achieved at the end.

7. References: As per HEC instructions, RM follows the APA Editorial Style therefore; the referencing will be done as:

The “Embedded” reference (within text):(2^nd name of the Author, year) in case of Book, page no will follow the year–Year: 324), Single-Author: (Author, 2010), Two-Authors (Author-1 & Author-2, 2011), More than Two Authors: (Author et al., 2012).

References will be placed at the end of the manuscript in alphabetical order and formatted as follows:

Journal Article: Mahesar, H. A., Chaudhry, N. I., & Rasool, Z. (2021). Impact of work family conflict and job stress on university teachers’ job satisfaction and turnover intentions: mediating role of job burnout. Journal of Social Research Development, 1(1):1-17.
b.Book: Yin, R. (1994). Case study research: Design and methods (2nd ed.). Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publishing. Kothari, CR (1986). Quantitative techniques. VIKAS Publishing House, New Delhi.

Thesis/Dissertation: Sattar, A. (2011). Job satisfaction of District Executive Officers in KPK. (PhD Thesis). Department of Public Administration, Gomal University, Dera Ismail Khan, KPK, Pakistan.

Chapter: Lyon, R. A., & Titeler, M. (1989). Pharmacology and biochemistry of the 5-HT2 receptor. In: Sanders-Bush, E. (ed). The Serotonin Receptors. Clifton, NJ: Humana Press: pp. 59-88.

Website Material: Healthy People 2011, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Retrieved on Dec 5, 2014 from: http://health.gov/healthypeople.
Tables and Figures: Tables and Figures should be placed within text wherever they are used, mentioned, or discussed.

Note: The editor reserves the right to amend, abridge, or otherwise alter the contents of the manuscript to make it suitable for publication. However, every effort will be made not to affect the spirit or effectiveness of the paper.

8. Privacy Statement

Information provided at the Review of Law and Social Sciences (RLSS) site by authors such as names, email addresses, contact, etc. will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.

9. Publication Process

Review of Law and Social Sciences (RLSS) uses Open Journal Systems (OJS), which is an open-source journal management and publishing software developed, supported, and freely distributed by the Public Knowledge Project under the GNU General Public License. All articles submitted for possible publication in RLSS will be processed through the process detailed below:

10. Conflicts Of Interests

RLSS is committed to ensuring the disclosure of competing interests in published manuscripts. The author(s) may have a potential conflict of interests that could affect or be seen to affect their manuscript. Therefore, the author(s) must declare a conflict-of-interest statement during the manuscript submission, enabling a written statement to be recorded within the paginated published article. A potential conflicting interest might arise from the relationships, allegiances, or hostilities to particular groups, organizations, or interests, which may influence excessively one’s judgments or actions. The issue is particularly sensitive when such interests are private and/or may result in personal gain. Examples of conflicts of interest might include, but are not limited to, receiving fees for consulting, receiving research funding, being employed by a related company holding stocks or shares in a company that might be affected by the manuscript, or having received funds or reimbursement for attending a related symposium or talk. If there are other interests that the reasonable reader might feel have affected the research, the author(s) must declare it at least before acceptance of the manuscript. The manuscripts are evaluated relatively and accepted when competing interests are not declared until necessary by the policy. The editorial team does not expect details of the financial arrangements to be disclosed when a competing interest is declared. The author(s) must check the Manuscript Submission Guidelines to ensure compliance with the specific requirements needed by the journal. The author(s) are required to certify at a particular stage that:

All forms of financial support are given due acknowledgment in the contribution.
Any commercial or financial involvement that might present a conflict of interest related to the contribution is recorded during submission.
Any potential conflict of interest shall be discussed with the Editor to decide whether its information will be disclosed in the manuscript.
The author(s) did not sign any agreement with any sponsor of the research submitted to the journal that prevents the author(s) from publishing both positive and negative results or that forbids the author(s) from publishing the research without prior approval of the sponsor.
The author(s) have checked the manuscript submission guidelines for a Declaration of Conflicting Interests requirement and have complied with specified requirements.

The author(s) must include such a declaration at the end of the manuscript after any acknowledgments and before the Funding Acknowledgement, Notes (if relevant), and References under the heading ‘Declaration of Conflicting Interest.’ If no conflict exists, please state that ‘The Author(s) declare(s) that there is no conflict of interest’. The same obligations apply to the editors or guest editors writing an editorial that will be published in the journal and to the peer reviewers, where applicable.

11. Copyrights and Licensing

RLSS operates based on a non-exclusive publishing agreement. Under this agreement, the journal retains the right of first publication, but authors are free to subsequently publish their work. The copyright of all work rests with the author(s). By default, all content published in RLSS is licensed under a International Centre for Sustainable Development and Research (ICSDR). This license permits users to use, reproduce, disseminate, or display the article provided that the authors are the original creators and that the reuse is restricted to non-commercial purposes, i.e., is attributed to research or educational use. Authors are encouraged to familiarize themselves with the various Creative Commons licenses. Readers are advised to consult the licensing information embedded in each published work to ensure they are familiar with the applicable terms of use.

12. Peer Review Policy

Submitted manuscripts are reviewed for originality, significance, adequacy of documentation, reader interest and composition. Note: In the event that a journal’s editors are made aware of any allegation of research misconduct relating to a published article in their journal, the publisher or editor shall follow COPE’s guidelines (or equivalent) in dealing with allegations.

Manuscripts not submitted according to instructions will be returned to the author for correction prior to the beginning of the processing.
All manuscripts are subject to a similarity check using the Turnitin service.
Articles with an overall similarity index greater than 19% or with a similarity index from a single source exceeding 3% are subject to clarification and/or correction.
All articles are initially reviewed by the members of Editorial Board, for adequacy and relevancy of the manuscript to the policies and guidelines of the Research Mosaic journal.
Revised manuscripts are judged on the adequacy of responses to suggestions and criticisms made during the initial review.
Manuscripts are then forwarded to two external peer reviewers and statistical reviewers.
The pee-review process is double-blinded.
Each manuscript will further be checked for technical, epidemiological, statistical, ethical and language corrections.
All parts of accepted manuscripts are subject to editing for scientific accuracy and clarity by the office of the Editor.
The editorial board of Review of Law and Social Sciences (RLSS) holds the right to a final decision of accepting or rejecting any article from publications in the journal at all stages.

13. Guidelines for Authors

14. Publication Schedule

Frequency and regularity are the main requirements that directly influence the credibility of the journals. In this connection, the Review of Law and Social Sciences (RLSS) publication schedule comprises one (1) volume with four (4) issues each year on a regular basis with the following descriptions:

January to March Issue
April to June Issue
July to September Issue
October to December Issue

15. Author(s) Contribution

The author’(s) contribution statement must be contained as a separate statement while publishing their articles in Review of Law and Social Sciences (RLSS). The acknowledgments must contain all those who have substantially contributed to the research. Upon submission of a manuscript, all authors’ (principal, corresponding & co-authors) must provide their full names, e-mail addresses, contact numbers, and institutional affiliations (first page only). Besides, providing author(s)’ ORCID identifiers are encouraged.

16. Ownership of the Published Articles

By default, all content published in RLSS is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC 4.0). This license permits users to use, reproduce, disseminate, or display the article provided that the authors are the original creators and that the reuse is restricted to non-commercial purposes, i.e., is attributed to research or educational use

17. Ethics Statement

Publication Ethics and Mal-Practice Statement (PEMS)

The Review of Law and Social Sciences (RLSS) is committed to the academic community and the lay world in ensuring ethics in publication and the quality of articles in publication. Plagiarism is strictly condemned, and papers found to be plagiarized will be removed or not published in the RLSS. While signing the publication agreement the author(s) have to warrant that the article and associated materials are original and it does not infringe the copyright of anyone. Also, the authors have to warrant that there was a full consensus of all the authors and it was neither submitted nor published previously. We state the following principles of Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement based on the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors of the Committee on Publication Ethics. The Review of Law and Social Sciences (RLSS) has adopted and applies the ethical rules for publication in accordance with the guidelines of the COPE (Publication Ethics Committee) (available at http://publicationethics.org/).

Author(s) Guidelines (Authors Ethics)

A full-length article should be around 7000 words, but should not exceed 7000 words, including references.
A Focus essay—which we define as an essay written on an event, concept, or theory of enduring significance and for providing an initial thesis or creating understanding–should be around 4,000 words. Both types of articles will go through the similar double-blind peer review process.
Author(s) should present an accurate account of the research performed, and offer an objective discussion of its significance.
RLSS follows APA Style for referencing and citation.
Authorship should be limited to those who have made some significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the submitted study.
The author(s) are required to submit a Similarity Index Report by using the service of Turnitin.org. It is required to ensure the originality of the work.
The manuscript should offer new, original insights or interpretations that have not been published before or are not under consideration for publication in any other journal.
Author(s) should declare all funding sources and any actual or potential conflicts including any financial, personal, or other relationships with other people and organizations.
Author(s) are required to sign an agreement on the originality of work and its copyrights with the journal.

Duties of Reviewers (Reviewers Ethics)

Double-blind peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.

Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse himself from the review process.
Any manuscript received for review is treated as a confidential document.
Double-blind peer reviews are conducted objectively. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.
Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors.
Unpublished material disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in a reviewer’s own research without the express written consent of the author.

Duties of Publisher (Publisher Ethics)

In cases of alleged or proven misconduct, fraudulent publication, or plagiarism, the publisher, in close collaboration with the editors, will take all appropriate measures to clarify the situation and to amend the article in question. This includes the prompt publication of an erratum, clarification, or, in the most severe case, the retraction of the affected work.
The publisher is committed to the permanent availability and preservation of scholarly research and ensures accessibility by partnering with organizations and maintaining its own digital archive.
If an inaccuracy, misleading text, or wrong explanations are found in the published article, it must be corrected promptly.
All complaints will be seriously investigated by the editor regardless of who files the complaint.

Duties of Editor (Editor Ethics)

Editors will examine all the submitted manuscripts exclusively on the basis of their academic merit: significance, timeliness, relevance, originality, and clarity. They would not take into account the author’s race, gender, sexual orientation, ethnic origin, citizenship, religious beliefs or institutional affiliation. The editors will guard the integrity of the published record by issuing corrections and retractions and pursuing suspected or alleged research and publication misconduct when needed.
Editors and staff will not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher as necessary.
Unpublished material disclosed in a submitted manuscript will not be used in any editor’s own research. The editors should will ensure a fair and appropriate double-blind peer- review process: HEC Pakistan requires two international and one national review, which will be followed.
Submissions from authors with which the editors have any conflict of interest will be assessed by a member of the Editorial Board. Submissions by members of the Editorial Board will be assigned to an Associate or Guest Editor to ensure a fair and appropriate process. The editors will require all contributors to disclose relevant competing interests and publish corrections if competing interests are revealed after publication.
The editors ensure that all submitted manuscripts being considered for publication undergo double-blind peer-review by at least two international reviewers and one national reviewer (Pakistan) as required by HEC Pakistan. The reviewers must be experts in the field. The Editor is responsible for deciding which of the manuscripts submitted to the journal will be published, based on the validation of the work in question, its importance to researchers and readers, the reviewers’ comments, and such legal requirements as are currently in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The Editor confers with associate editors and/or reviewers in making this decision.

Guest Editors’ Ethics

Guest editors are responsible for defining the subject matter and role of every article in a thematic issue;
Providing clear guidelines to authors regarding the topic and boundaries of their contributions and the overall design of the issue;
Ensuring, in collaboration with the executive editorial board, that appropriate reviewers are selected for all the articles (whether they have been commissioned or submitted as a result of a call for papers);
Establishing a timeline for draft paper submission, peer review, revision, and final paper submission with the executive editorial board, and ensuring that all deadlines are met;

18. Funding Statement

Review of Law and Social Sciences (RLSS) requires authors to specify any sources of funding (institutional, private, and corporate financial support) for the work reported in their paper. This information, in the form of the name of the funding organisation/s and the grant number or should be included at the end of the article under the heading “Funding” and provided at the time of submitting the paper. If there was no funding, the following wording should be used: “This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors”. This information will be included in the published article.

19. Peer Review Policy

Submitted manuscripts are reviewed for originality, significance, adequacy of documentation, reader interest and composition. Note: In the event that a journal’s editors are made aware of any allegation of research misconduct relating to a published article in their journal, the publisher or editor shall follow COPE’s guidelines (or equivalent) in dealing with allegations.
Manuscripts not submitted according to instructions will be returned to the author for correction prior to the beginning of the processing.
All manuscripts are subject to a similarity check using the Turnitin service.
Articles with an overall similarity index greater than 19% or with a similarity index from a single source exceeding 3% are subject to clarification and/or correction.
All articles are initially reviewed by the members of Editorial Board, for adequacy and relevancy of the manuscript to the policies and guidelines of the Research Mosaic journal.
Revised manuscripts are judged on the adequacy of responses to suggestions and criticisms made during the initial review.
Manuscripts are then forwarded to two external peer reviewers and statistical reviewers.
The pee-review process is double-blinded.
Each manuscript will further be checked for technical, epidemiological, statistical, ethical and language corrections.
All parts of accepted manuscripts are subject to editing for scientific accuracy and clarity by the office of the Editor.
The editorial board of Review of Law and Social Sciences (RLSS) holds the right to a final decision of accepting or rejecting any article from publications in the journal at all stages.

20. Archiving Policy

As per archiving policy of the Review of Law and Social Sciences (RLSS), author(s) are entitled to hold self-archiving rights. They are allowed and encouraged to deposit their scientific research in institutional and other archives.

RLSS urges to share the knowledge to the maximum by making the publications accessible from several digital and academic archives around the world. RLSS digitally maintains archives to preserve scholarly content for long-term availability to the community. RLSS has made sure that published research is archived in compliance with the standards of known repositories. So that their digital record keepers can collect and update the journal’s content.

21. Plagiarism Policy

Review of Law and Social Sciences (RLSS) is open-access, and refereed journal, which is published biannual. Currently, RLSS is following the HEC (Pakistan) policies regarding Turnitin Originality Report and Plagiarism. As per the HEC policy, plagiarism is not accepted and zero tolerance policy on Plagiarism issue. RLSS aims for original scripts with an overall similarity index of less than or equal to 19% and individual source 3% or less in the Turnitin Originality Report.

Authors are advised to avoid using words, graphs, figures, and or ideas of others without proper attribution. All sources, therefore, must be cited at the places where they have been referred to, limited reuse of wording is highly desirable, and proper attribution is required when quoted in the text. While submitting their work to this journal, declaration of the originality of work and whenever and wherever used in their work, proper citation to previous publication is mandatory for authors. In case of the detection of plagiarism and unoriginality during the peer review process, the manuscript is liable to rejection. In case of post publication plagiarism detection, the publisher reserves the right to issue either directions correction or retract the manuscript.

22. Open Access Policy

Review of Law and Social Sciences (RLSS) is an Open Access journal and makes its contents available to users without any cost. No prior approval from the publisher of this journal is required if users wish to read, use, and download its contents for lawful and authorized purposes. However, it is mandatory for users to quote the materials with references when used in citations, as duly prescribed under predetermined terms and conditions specified in guidelines, code of conduct, and CC by NC. The authors are authorized of the copyright for their work and can use the same for legal purposes without any prior permission from the journal.

23. Correction Policy

Well-defined and precise knowledge sharing is the chief objective of RLSS and facilitates the academic community via information distribution. Furthermore, to serve the academic community, Research Mosaic has a strong faith in intelligibility through delivering correct information and maintaining all essential record. Journal explains this procedure from initial submission till final stage and the publications are available in diverse volumes and issues. Once the manuscript is published, editorial team display the volume and issues of the journal at the journal website, which can be easily explored, read, downloaded, and shared through an open access policy.

RLSS offers prospects to authors for getting their manuscripts proofread beforehand the availability of the online version, which ensures the accuracy of the contents. Since issuing corrigenda and errata increases the likelihood that the journal content readers and the users would have difficulties, the contents are, therefore, made error-free to the possible extent. Further, in this connection, even after a manuscript is published, partial corrections might be made at the decision of the editorial team of RLSS. Therefore, to improve the quality of published research work, the editorial team might opt for minor alterations and corrections at any stage as they are vital to ascertain the integrity of the published materials to ensure the quality.

The RLSS takes serious note of the issues related to copyright infringement, plagiarism, and violation of other ethical codes in the publication process. In this respect, sometimes, whenever any violation of publication ethics and copyright infringement is exposed, the journal reserves the right to proceed with appropriate and necessary actions to correct the record on a priority basis no matter whether the authors present either intentionally or unintentionally and communicate to the journal’s editorial team. Consequently, the materials that this journal has already published, become the journal’s intellectual property and hold the right of replacing the accurate materials in the best interest of the journal and the academic community.

24. Conflict of Interest Policy

All forms of financial support are given due acknowledgment in the contribution.
Any commercial or financial involvement that might present a conflict of interest related to the contribution is recorded during submission.
Any potential conflict of interest shall be discussed with the Editor to decide whether its information will be disclosed in the manuscript.
The author(s) did not sign any agreement with any sponsor of the research submitted to the journal that prevents the author(s) from publishing both positive and negative results or that forbids the author(s) from publishing the research without prior approval of the sponsor.
The author(s) have checked the manuscript submission guidelines for a Declaration of Conflicting Interests requirement and have complied with specified requirements.

25. Complaint and Misconduct Policy

Review of Law and Social Sciences (RLSS) welcomes complaints by considering them as an opportunity for improvement and aims to respond to them quickly and constructively.

What a Complaint is?

Our comprehension of a complaint is as follows:

The complainant defines his or her expression of unhappiness as a complaint.
We infer that the complainant is not simply disagreeing with a decision we have made or something we have published but thinks that there has been a failure of process—for example, an unacceptably long delay or a rude response—or a severe misjudgement.
The complaint must be about something that is within the responsibility of RLSS’ editorial division i.e. content or process.

Complaint Making Process

All complaints will be acknowledged.
Complaints should be made either by sending an email to farhatullah@kust.edu.pk.
Whenever possible complaints will be dealt with by the editorial team member to whom they are made. If that person cannot deal with the complaint, he or she will refer it to the editor-in-chief.
If the complainant remains unhappy, complaints should be escalated to the editor-in-chief, whose decision is final.
If possible, a definitive response will be made within two weeks. If this is not possible an interim response will be given within two weeks. Interim responses will be provided until the complaint is finally resolved.

The Process to Deal with Issues of Misconduct

Review of Law and Social Sciences (RLSS) is of the opinion that institutions and journals should promote best practices among researchers, authors, reviewers, and editors.
To maintain integrity and deal with misconduct allegations, the editor can be contacted at farhatullah@kust.edu.pk. The editor is responsible for investigating cases of misconduct by researchers and for finding misconduct that could affect the reliability or attribution of published work (e.g. fabrication or plagiarism).

Where possible, the evidence could be provided to support allegations of misconduct or questionable practices (e.g. copies of overlapping publications, evidence of plagiarism). Retractions or corrections are issued when provided with findings of misconduct arising from appropriate investigations.

Hence, it is advised that the authors and reviewers should read the guidelines provided on the journal’s website and must be remained strictly adhere to all aspects of publication ethics.

26. Licensing Policy

All the contents published by Review of Law and Social Sciences (RLSS) are copyrighted and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International License which can be accessed at the https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. RLSS follows open access licensing and copyright policy on the principle to share knowledge globally. This license allows the authors to publish their research work in a particular journal by retaining their scholarly rights to publish their research work. Therefore, open access and copyright policies restrict the authors to read and communicate the published material for non-commercial purposes under the following conditions: BY: Attribution should be agreed to the original source (Attribution) NC: Works may not be used for commercial purposes (Non-commercial) Licensing the Review of Law and Social Sciences (RLSS) under CC-BY-NC is to protect the authors to work from misuse or fraud.

27. Submissions

Submission Preparation Checklist
All submissions must meet the following requirements. Submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
• The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
• The text is double or single spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
• The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Submission can be made directly (if encountering problem with the portal): farhatullah@kust.edu.pk

Method of Citation and Reference
RLSS follows the APA (7th edition). Manuscripts not submitted in accordance to these standards may not be considered for review.

28. Policy on Plagiarism
RLSS follows HEC’s (Pakistan) policy on plagiarism, which is itself designed on the model of COPE’s ethical guidelines. RHR believes that plagiarism (including self-plagiarism) is unacceptable. We check for plagiarism through the Turnitin.

28. Peer Review Policy
The peer review policy can be viewed here https://reviewlawsocialsciences.com/index.php/rlss/PeerReviewPolicy

29. Privacy Statement
Information provided at the Review of Law and Social Sciences (RLSS) site by authors such as names, email addresses, contact, etc. will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.

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