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  • Title: Bold Arial 14, title case, max 15 words. Avoid abbreviations, formulas, years, and locations.

  • Authors & Affiliations: Bold Arial 12 for names. Affiliations in Arial 8 (department, city, postal code, country). Include the corresponding author’s email and mobile number (removed before peer review).

  • Abstract & Keywords: Single-spaced italic Arial 10, max 200–250 words. Must cover the community engagement issue, objectives, methods, results, and conclusions. Provide 3–5 alphabetical, italicized keywords.

  • Introduction: Arial 11 (1.15 spacing). Provide general problem context (quantitative data), local challenges, relevant prior studies, intended social changes, and objectives. Supported by APA-style literature from the last 10 years.

  • Methods: Describe research design (e.g., PAR, CBPR, SL, ABCD), location, socio-demographics, participants, variables, instruments (questionnaires, interviews), and data analysis (descriptive/inferential statistics, ethical clearance).

  • Results and Discussion: Combined in one concise section. Report findings chronologically using narrative text, tables, or graphs. Present participant characteristics and intervention effectiveness (mean, SD, p-value). The discussion must highlight unique findings, compare them with previous studies, explain broader ecological/societal impacts, and address limitations.

  • Illustrations: Captions positioned at the top for tables and at the bottom for figures (centered Arial 11, single-spaced).

  • Conclusion: Brief, narrative, and conceptual summary of the impact. Avoid bulleted lists.

  • Acknowledgments (Optional): Recognize funding agencies or technical contributors.

  • References: Minimum 20 references in APA style, with at least 70% from scientific journals published within the last 5 years.

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