Manuscript Structure

• Title page: in the identification page, title of the article, name and surname of the author(s), scientific rank, full address (postal code, telephone and fax numbers and email address), location of the research, person in charge for the article and date of sending the article should be mentioned. Corresponding author’s name should be specified with a star mark.
• Abstract: includes both Persian and English abstracts of the article and keywords (3 to 5 words). The Persian abstract should not exceed 300 words and should describe the purpose of the study, the methods, the results, and the conclusion should precede the main text. Also, authors should send 250 words English abstracts for their manuscripts, too. Meanwhile, for indexing and abstracting GUPR articles in international information database, authors should send an English extended abstract, including 750 to 1000 words, for their manuscripts. It should include introduction, methodology, results, discussion, conclusion and references in a way that could be published individually.
• Keywords: A maximum of 5 keywords or phrases should be provided; preferably, these should be selected from the body of the text.
• Introduction: includes background information, necessity of doing the research, unanswered questions about topics of the manuscript and purpose of the research and the method of manuscript for answering them.
• Methodology: includes designing the research, time and place of running the research, the study samples, sampling method, and process of gathering data, measurement tools and methods of quantity and quality analysis.
• Results: presenting precise results of important findings according to scientific principles and using the required tables and charts. 
• Conclusion and Discussion: includes the effects and the importance of the research findings and its relations with similar researches emphasizing on the differences, explains the manuscript’s potential to be universal and the scientific usage of the findings and presents necessary guidelines for continuing relative researches, conclusion, possible suggestions and recommendations. 

References:

• The references relied on should be mentioned both in the text and in the end of the manuscript. The authors are responsible for the accuracy of bibliographic information. Citations in the text should conform to the referencing style used by the last version of American Psychological Association (APA) style.