Funding Policy

International Journal of Research in Vocational Studies (IJRVOCAS) requires authors to disclose all sources of financial support related to the submitted manuscript. Funding disclosure helps ensure transparency, accountability, and integrity in scholarly publishing.

Authors must clearly state any funding, grants, sponsorship, institutional support, or financial assistance received for the research, writing, editing, or publication of the manuscript. The funding statement should include the name of the funding agency, grant number where applicable, and the role of the funder in the research.

If the funder had any role in the study design, data collection, data analysis, interpretation of results, manuscript preparation, or decision to submit the manuscript for publication, this role must be clearly described.

If the funder had no role in the research or publication process, authors should state this clearly in the manuscript.

If the research received no specific funding, authors should include the following statement:

“This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.”

Funding disclosure does not influence editorial decisions, peer-review outcomes, or manuscript acceptance. All manuscripts are evaluated based on academic quality, originality, relevance, methodological soundness, ethical compliance, and contribution to the journal’s scope.

Failure to disclose relevant funding information may result in a request for clarification, correction, expression of concern, or other editorial action where necessary.