- While appreciating your choosing "Ferdows Honar" for publishing your article, we would like to inform you that "Ferdows Honar" is the scientific journal of Ferdows Institute for Higher Education which is published as a quarterly in the specialized fields of arts (visual and applied arts), architecture, and interdisciplinary topics of art. Honorable researchers and authors are requested to carefully read the information presented in this guide and submit their article if it is within the mentioned framework to avoid wasting their time and capital. If the article is not arranged according to the structural and writing items described in the authors' guide, it will not enter the reviewing process.
- Only articles that have not been previously published in another media (journal, conference, book, etc.) and have not been submitted for review in another journal at the same time will be accepted for reviewing. According to the regulations of the Iranian Ministry of Science's scientific journals (approved in May 1998), "Ferdows Honar" can only publish two articles by one author each year, one as the corresponding author and one as the collaborative author.
- At least two expert reviewers will evaluate each article. Two agreeing opinions and the approval of the journal's editorial board are necessary for the acceptance and publication of the article. The article submission process (from receipt to final acceptance) takes at least four months. For more information about the reviewing process and the acceptance of articles, please refer to the reviewing process section in the journal's information menu.
1.1.The structure of the article and its requirements
"Ferdows Honar" journal accepts scientific articles, including research articles, review articles, case studies, and applied articles. Moreover, according to the journal's policies, only researches that are not purely descriptive or statistic-based will be accepted. Therefore, those researches that investigate the testability of a previously proven hypothesis by statistical procedures, rely merely on surveys and formulas, the quantitative studies, and those which are based only on collected data (collage-type research), will not be accepted. The article's subject should be in the specialized fields of art (visual and applied arts), architecture, and interdisciplinary art topics. The subject should be innovative and develop the level of knowledge in the mentioned areas. The articles should also avoid generalizations and prejudices, and be well-reasoned.
In sum, the following factors would lead to the rejection of the article in the first stage of its submission:
- Incompatibility with the journal's scope;
- The article's research method does not fit the methods accepted by the journal (Weakness of qualitative approach in research, mere reliance on statistical measurements, being too technical, and lacking theoretical aspects)
- Lack of scientific structure (no question or theory) and reliance on compositional and reporting methods in authoring the article's content;
- Repeated content (Most aspects of the article's question or hypothesis has already been investigated by other studies)
- Non-compliance with the instructions mentioned in the authors' guide
1.2.Main Parts of the Article
Scientific articles submitted to "Ferdows Honar" should comply with the following conditions; otherwise, they will not be reviewed (All sections are required):
- Title: The article's title should be less than 20 words, clear and expressive of the research topic. Also, it should not be rhetorical or poetic, repetitive, and unnecessarily extended.
- Abstract: a summary of the article that states the article's outline, research method, and results. The abstract should be structured to include the following items in separate headings: Statement of the problem, purpose, research question or hypothesis, research method, and conclusion. Moreover, it should not exceed 300 words. The above items must be set in the title of the article.
- English abstract: It is more extensive than the Persian one, containing between 800 and 1000 words.
- Keywords: The author(s) should state the key concepts regarding the article's subject at the end of the abstract as keywords. Keywords should not simply be a repetition of the words used in the article's title and should include four to six words that are separated by commas.
- Introduction and statement of the problem: Introduction is the article's entry that describes the issue under study and should be written without any reference to other sources. This section covers the following items, respectively: A more extended description of the research problem, the theoretical foundations, goals, questions, and the significance of the research.
- Research Methods: The steps and manner of conducting the research should be explained in details in this section. The research method must be precisely defined so that future researchers, if necessary, can use the same method to conduct a similar study or to supplement their current research. This section covers the following items: research method, data collection method, data collection tool(s), population of the study, number of samples, sampling method, and data analysis method (It is necessary to provide all the items).
- Literature Review: In the literature review, relevant sources (books, scientific articles, dissertations, theses, and related published reports) are reviewed, and the problem, results, and achievements of those studies are summarized. In the literature review, the distinction between the present article's methodology and that of the previous studies should be stated.
- Discussion: research findings, answers to research questions, and evidence(s) to prove or disprove the hypothesis, if there is any, are presented in this section. Moreover, the study's findings are compared with those of similar studies, and the consistency, difference(s), and in general, the relationship between the study's findings and those of previous related researches are expressed.
- Results: In this section, the article's findings are reviewed, and the realization or non-realization of the research objectives and the reasons for rejecting or proving the hypothesis are stated. Introduction, references, and reasons are not presented in this section.
- Acknowledgments: In this section, the names and titles of individuals, groups, and institutions that have materially or non-materially contributed to the research and its progression should be mentioned.
- Declaration of the non-conflict of interest: Authors should declare at the end of the article (before the list of sources) that there is no conflict of interests: The authors state that there was no conflict of interests for them in conducting this study (Conflict of interests is a situation in which the material or immaterial personal interests of the author or authors conflict with the results of the research, affecting the process of conducting the research or the honest announcement of its results.)
- Endnotes: Additional explanations to the text, announcements, abbreviations, and Latin equivalents (in the Persian version) should be given under the heading "Endnotes" at the end of the article. The endnotes can be entered manually or with the Word software endnote system. The above items should not be entered in the form of footnotes.
- References: The full details of the sources used in writing the article should be mentioned at the end of the article. The sources used in the article should be as new as possible and published in the last ten years. References to scientific papers published in well-known journals are preferable to the use of books and conference papers and materials taken from Internet websites. You can see how to cite in-text and also resource-setting instructions in the Citation and Reference Guide section in the Authors Guide menu.
- Note: The list of references is arranged in alphabetical order. It is necessary to include references in the English section too. For this purpose, all lists of references (including Persian, Latin and Internet websites) should be listed under the heading of References based on the letters of the surnames after translation into English. The final list in English should be included in the English abstract section.
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1.3.How to Set up Tables, Images, and References
In addition to observing the main format of the article, there are other things that need to be considered to increase the accuracy of the work and improve its quality. Among these cases, the following items can be mentioned: consistency in the use of specialized terms, consistency in the language and fluency of the article, accuracy in the use of sources and correct citations, consistency in the method of mentioning dates throughout the article (i.e., all dates are Solar Hijri, Lunar Hijri, or Gregorian), proper and appropriate use of image, chart and table to clarify the subject, following the principles of the journal, including the setting of images, charts and tables. In the following part you can see how to set up text attributes (table, image) and how to refer and set up resources.
- Text attributes: If the body of the article includes attributes such as table, chart, image and map, please refer to the following instructions to set these items:
- Table:
- The table must have rows and columns, and each row and each column must have an independent index (or title); the rows and columns of the table should be related to each other, and logical results should be obtained from the interaction and comparison of the rows and columns.
- Information should only be presented in tabular form if it helps better present and elaborate the content through summarizing the information. So, long texts and images should not be presented in tabular form as much as possible.
- Each table should be set so that it does not exceed a maximum of one page. A table with more than one page should be presented in the text of the article.
- Tables must have numbers, descriptions, and references and be placed appropriately after reference in the text of the article.
- Refer to all tables in the text by mentioning the number.
- The title of the tables should be set in both Persian and English languages.
- Numbers should be entered in English.
- Image:
- Images, diagrams, and maps should all be placed appropriately in the table under the the title "Image", after being refereed to in the text of the article.
- Images related to the article should be well-documented (with full citation), non-decorative, and basic.
- Refer to all images in the text by mentioning the number.
- Be sure to specify the relevant unit or explanation next to the axes of the diagrams.
- Be sure to include the scale next to the maps.
- The total number of images and tables should be predicted to be a maximum of 10.
- Images should not be taken from unreliable sources such as weblogs or non-scientific Internet websites.
- Subtitle of the images should be written in both Persian and English.
- Referring to the list of resources (Persian and Latin):
- The citation method of "Ferdows Honar" articles is in-text (APA) and in parentheses; the author's last name, the publication year, and the page number or pages from which the article has been taken should be mentioned in the text (last name, year, page number). For Persian sources (authorship or translation), the author's name must be written in Persian and the work’s publication year must be written according to the solar calender, and for Latin sources, the name must be written in English and the year should be mentioned according to the Georgian Calendar.
- The list of sources and references should be arranged in alphabetical order based on the following method:
- For the book: the author’s surname, the author’s name, publication year, the book’s name, translator or proofreader’s name, place of publication, publisher.
- For the article: Author's surname, name, article's title, journal's name, journal's number, period or year, page number of the article's start and end.
- For the Electronic Article: the author's surname, the author’s name, publication year, article's name, electronic journal or website's name, date of last revision, URL.
- After translating the Persian section, all lists of references (including Persian, Latin, and websites) along with other English sources and websites should be re-arranged based on the letters of the last name under the title References (This part should be included in the English abstract section.)
1.4.How to Submit an Article
- Articles should only be submitted through the website in both Word and Pdf formats. Articles submitted to the journal by email or in print will not be examined.
- In "Word" software, BNazanin type font, 13 point font size, and single line spacing must be used for the Persian version, and Times New Roman type font, 11 point size font, and single line spacing should be used for the for English version with no typos.
- The text of the article (excluding the words in the tables) should be around 8000 words.
- The title of the article should be less than 20 words.
- Persian abstract should not exceed 300 words.
- English abstract should be more extensive than the Persian one, containing 800 to 1000 words.
- Keywords should not exceed seven words.
- Along with the article, send a separate file with the following information (except for the title, the following should not be included in the main file of the article):
After preparing the files, the authors should complete the information, submit the article, and upload the relevant files through the "Submit Article" tab on the site [At this stage, the authors are asked to nominate two expert reviewers to review the article, but the journal is free to choose the referereviewers recommended by the author, and in any case, the names of the journal’s selected reviewers will not be specified for the author.]
Dear authors are requested to record complete and accurate information about the article and personal information of the authors (If the article has more than one author, it is recommended that other authors also create an account on the journal’s website so that they can be informed about the article’s progress of). The files related to the article (original article and supplementary files) must be prepared exactly according to the mentioned instructions and uploaded completely and accurately on the website. The article will not enter the reviewing process if the article does not comply with the structural and writing items in the authors' guide, or the files are not uploaded accurately and correctly.
Requested Files
- The authors' information
- Original article file (without authors' name)
- Letter to the chief editor (authors' letter of commitment and agreement to publish the work)
- Image
- Table