News
  • PSSR is handed over to Orients Social Research Consultancy (OSRC) from Fatima Gohar Educational and Welfare Society
  • Only through proper channel submitted articles via Open Journal System (OJS) will be entertained.
  • Quarterly Published
  • The manuscript may be submitted electronically by 31st of January for Issue-I (January-to-March), 30th April for Issue II (April-to-June)
  • , 31st July for issue III (July-to-September) and 31st of October for Issue-IV (October-to-December)
  • Recognition by Govt of Pakistan (HEC) in Y category.
Open Access

RESEARCH OF SOCIAL SCIENCES (SMC-PRIVATE) LIMITED(ROSS) & PAKISTAN SOCIAL SCIENCES REVIEW (PSSR) adheres to Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International License. The authors submitting and publishing in PSSR agree to the copyright policy under creative common license 4.0 (Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International license). Under this license, the authors published in PSSR retain the copyright including publishing rights of their scholarly work and agree to let others remix, tweak, and build upon their work non-commercially. All other authors using the content of PSSR are required to cite author(s) and publisher in their work. Therefore, RESEARCH OF SOCIAL SCIENCES (SMC-PRIVATE) LIMITED(ROSS) & PAKISTAN SOCIAL SCIENCES REVIEW (PSSR) follow an Open Access Policy for copyright and licensing.

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Instructions / Guidelines for the Author

Instructions for Author's

The aim of the journal is to provide readers and students of Social Sciences; articles, book reviews, review articles and policy papers on themes of contemporary domestic, regional and international issues with particular reference to Pakistan’s politics, society and culture

The documents should be typed in (MS Word) double space with wide margins. All tables and statistical data should be organized with consistent style so that it may easily be composed for the Journal.

Authors should submit abstracts of their articles 100-150 words along with three to five key words. The first page should include the title, author’s full name, designation, institutional affiliation, address and email address. The manuscript should be between 3000-5000 words.

The journal follows Double-blind review policy. The articles will be sent to referees (national and international) for blind review. Contributors will be informed about comments of the referees and will be required to revise the article accordingly, if required

The Editor/Advisory Board reserves the right to make necessary editorial revisions. Opinions expressed in articles are those of the contributors and should not be attributed to the Department, the Editor or Editorial Board in any way

The contributors are advised to submit manuscript sent via email as an attachment (Ms Word). It is desirable that referencing be in APA citation style at the end of the documents,

Citation must be Scopus based Journal those are considered valid on international basis.

APA Citation Guide

The American Psychological Association reference style uses the Author-Date format. Refer to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.) for more information. Check the Library Catalogue for call number and location(s). When quoting directly or indirectly from a source, the source must be acknowledged in the text by author name and year of publication. Authors should follow these instructions.

  Citation Guide APA (6th Edition)