Authorship credit should be based only on substantial contributions to each of the three components mentioned below:

1. Concept and design of study or acquisition of data or analysis and interpretation of data;
2. Drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and
3. Final approval of the version to be published.

Each contributor should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content of the manuscript. Once submitted, the order of authors cannot be changed without the written consent of all contributors. The journal prescribes a maximum number of authors for manuscripts depending upon the type of manuscript, its scope, and the number of institutions involved.

Contributors should provide a description of contributions made by each of them towards the manuscript. Description should be divided into the following categories, as applicable: concept, design, definition of intellectual content, literature search, secondary studies, experimental studies, data acquisition, data analysis, statistical analysis, manuscript preparation, manuscript editing, and manuscript review. One or more authors should take responsibility for the integrity of the work as a whole from inception to published article and should be designated as ‘guarantor’.

Conflict of Interest Disclosure: All authors must disclose any and all conflicts of interest they may have with publication of the manuscript or an institution or product that is mentioned in the manuscript and/or is important to the outcome of the study presented. Authors should also disclose conflicts of interest with products that compete with those mentioned in their manuscript.

The facts, dates, and views presented in research papers are those of the authors and not those of the editor, the editorial board, or the institution ‘Voice For Voiceless’. The authors are solely responsible for the presentation of data and their opinions.

Undertaking of Originality: Authors shall submit an undertaking in writing with the article to the effect that their respective submitted article has not been published earlier anywhere.

Rights Reserved: All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, without permission in writing from the Voice For Voiceless.

Note: All communications should be addressed to the Editor.

All manuscripts will be blind peer-reviewed. The editors will refer articles that are of sufficient quality and social science studies and/or the focus of a special issue to peer reviewers.

The editors reserve the right not to refer a submission if, in their opinion, the article does not meet the basic standards of the journal. This is out of respect for the time of reviewers.

If manuscripts are judged to be of sufficient scholarly quality, they will be reviewed by at least three experts in the field (double-blind), whose expertise is germane to the focus of the manuscript.

THE THIRD VOICE REALITY AND VISION is an open-access International Journal. In the open access model of publication, the journal charges a nominal fee to cover the direct costs of publishing.

All authors must sign and submit the official Contributor Consent and Copyright Undertaking alongside their manuscript submission:

Instructions: Please download the document, complete all contributor details, have all co-authors sign the form, scan or save the completed copy, and email it alongside your manuscript soft copy to voiceforvoiceless2013@gmail.com.

The manuscript should strictly follow the formatting criteria detailed below: