COVER LETTER TEMPLATE

COVER LETTER TEMPLATE

 

[Date]

To the Editor-in-Chief
Education in the 21st Century
Yerevan State University Publishing House

Dear Editor-in-Chief,

I am submitting the manuscript entitled "[Full title of the manuscript]" for consideration in Education in the 21st Century.

Type of contribution: [Empirical study (quantitative / qualitative / mixed-methods) | Theoretical or conceptual article | Systematic or scoping review | Methodological article | Case study | Research note]

Language of the manuscript: [English | Russian]. The second-language block required by Section 4.3 (title, abstract and keywords in [Armenian | English]) is placed after the Conclusion and before the reference list.

What the manuscript adds to the field: [Two to four sentences stating the problem addressed, the approach taken, and the specific contribution. Avoid repeating the abstract.]

I confirm, on behalf of all authors, that:

1. The manuscript is original, has not been published previously, and is not under consideration by any other journal. [If applicable: An earlier version was made available as a preprint / presented at a conference, disclosed as follows and cited in the manuscript: (full reference and link).]
2. All persons listed as authors meet the journal's authorship criteria, have made a significant contribution to the work, have read and approved the final version, and agree to its submission. Each author's contribution is set out in the CRediT statement on the title page.
3. The study has been conducted in accordance with the journal's Ethical Guidelines and reported in accordance with the APA 7th Edition. All declarations required by Section 5 of the Instructions for Authors — ethical approval and informed consent (or a statement of why approval was not required), consent for identifiable material, conflicts of interest, funding, data availability, and the use of generative artificial intelligence — are given in full on the title page.
4. File 2 (Anonymous Manuscript) contains no author names, affiliations, e-mail addresses, funder or project names, or other identifying information in the text, in tables and figures, in the file name, or in the document properties, and references to our own earlier work are anonymised.
5. The manuscript complies with the formatting requirements set out in Section 3 of the Instructions for Authors, and every in-text citation corresponds to an entry in the reference list and vice versa.

I confirm that I am authorised to correspond with the journal on behalf of all authors and to act on their behalf throughout the review process.

Sincerely,

[Full name of the corresponding author]
[Position, department, institution]
[City, country]
[Institutional e-mail] | ORCID: [https://orcid.org/0000-0000-0000-0000]

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