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Dear authors, to avoid delay in reviewing submitted articles, please consider the following points carefully:

1) Prevention of plagiarism and scientific fraud: Please read the instructions on how to investigate research violations and examples of research violations before submitting the article.

2) The subject area of the organizational knowledge management journal: The subject area of the journal includes organizational knowledge management, knowledge management strategies, knowledge strategies, knowledge management strategic planning, knowledge management systems and technologies, lessons learned in knowledge management, knowledge needs assessment, knowledge architecture, Knowledge map, development of knowledge culture, documentation of experiences, organizational intelligence, organizational thinking and research, organizational learning, thinking and collective thinking, and management of knowledge centers and think tanks.

3) Characteristics of the submitted articles: The submitted articles should not be published in publications or internal and external conferences or sent simultaneously and should have one of the following characteristics:

     Original research paper: A research that contains original content in scientific and specialized fields, and by criticizing knowledge management issues, they have proposed new ideas and reached new results.
     Case study paper: A research that has been carried out as a survey with the aim of presenting the application of a scientific technique in a specific case or organization in the subjects of knowledge management.
     Review paper: Research that has been done with the aim of categorizing and meta-analyzing new researches and outstanding scientific works in knowledge management issues.

4) Author or authors: After submitting the article, it will not be possible to delete, add or change the order of the authors' names, and among the authors of the submitted articles there must be an author with an academic rank (Assistant Professor, Associate Professor or Professor).

5) General and partial revision: When applying a general or partial revision requested by the referees, the modified file of the article should be sent by the responsible author along with the reply letter of the report of the modifications made corresponding to the opinions of each referee.

6) Content editing: The magazine reserves the right to reject, publish and/or edit the content of the articles.

7) Acknowledgment: The author/authors are required to acknowledge the financial or spiritual sponsor or creditor of the research (if any) that they have used in writing the article at the end of the article.

  8) How to write articles: How to write articles is as follows:

Maximum number of article pages

The maximum number of pages of the article (including all parts of the article, including the English and Farsi abstract and sources, etc.) prepared in accordance with this editing guide, should be between 15 and 20 pages.

Page settings, margins and spacing

Margins

Bottom = 5.8 cm


Top = 6 cm

Right = 4.5 cm


Left = 4.5 cm

Paper A4

Height = 29.7 cm


Width = 21 cm

Layout

Footer=0


Header = 2.3 cm

  Title

Title of the article in Persian font (B Titr), title 12 bold, one space (BZar 12), name and surname of the first author*, second author** (the email of the responsible author should be inserted in the subtitle. The responsible author is responsible Correspondence), third author ***, two lines (BZar 12).

In the footnote

* Scientific rank, field or study group, faculty and university, city, country. Avoid using items such as faculty members.

** Scientific rank, field or study group, faculty and university, city, country, email and phone number of the responsible author.

*** Scientific rank, field or study group, faculty and university, city, country.

Order of article titles

The order of the article titles should include the following:

1) Abstract:

     Persian abstract: a brief Persian abstract (up to 250 words), fluent and expressive and including the purpose, method (type of research, population and sample, sampling method, tools, validity and reliability report, data analysis method, used software) Findings (documented with statistics and figures) and conclusions. The abstract should be only in one paragraph without any citations and references to references and footnotes.
     English abstract: The English abstract of the article must be exactly the same as the translation of the Persian abstract (following all the instructions of the Persian abstract writing in this section is also mandatory) and should be written from the left side of the paper, with lined edges (Justify Low). . The number of abstract words should not be less than 150 words and not more than 250 words.
     Keywords: correct and comprehensive selection of keywords (minimum four and maximum seven items based on alphabets separated by dots (;)) in order and number should be the same as the English translation of Persian keywords.

2) Introduction and statement of the problem:

      Introduction of the topic: starting the discussion and stating the topic according to the field and the general field under discussion and the topics of the day + history of the topic.
     Necessity of the subject: expressing the needs and necessity of the subject of the article according to previous studies and existing evidence or criticism.
     Importance of the topic: expressing the importance and benefits and functions of examining the topic of the article from a theoretical and practical point of view.
     Main issue: clear and complete statement of the main issue and question or questions of the article.
     Statement of goals and questions: The goals and questions should be proposed and the article based on them should be prepared in order to achieve them.
     How to organize the article: how to organize the article in order to answer the questions (or achieve the goals of the article) by using the analogy approach (whole to part) and the clauses of the problem are connected in a chain and at the end of the last sentence, the problem is expressed in a question form. be designed
     Writing tips: To type the article in Farsi, use Microsoft Word 2010 software only (MS-Word 2010