Submission Guidelines
Submission of a manuscript is considered subject to the understanding that the manuscript is original and has not been published before in any form and is not being considered for publication elsewhere.
Due to a large number of submissions, at least for now, we are aiming to proceed only with articles falling in the top half of our normal range. The editorial board will have an initial review to decide whether a submission should be seriously refereed.
Manuscripts should be typed correctly in English, with double spacing, and with ample margins. If the manuscript was solely created electronically in Word format, Pdf or other formats cannot be approve. The title, a running head no longer than 35 letters, an abstract no longer than 150 words, key words and phrases, and the author’s complete address(es) should all appear on the first page of the work (s). If there are two or more writers, please specify which one the message should be addressed to. The authors should review the papers currently published in this journal for the general format.Double-Blind Peer Review Guidelines
This journal uses double-blind review, which means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process.
To facilitate this, authors need to ensure that their manuscripts are prepared in a way that does not give away their identity.
Submit the Title Page containing the Authors details and Blinded Manuscript with no author details as 2 separate files.
Information to help prepare the Title Page
This should include the title, authors’ names and affiliations, and a complete address for the corresponding author including telephone and e-mail address.
Information to help prepare the Blinded Manuscript
Besides the obvious need to remove names and affiliations under the title within the manuscript, there are other steps that need to be taken to ensure the manuscript is correctly prepared for double-blind peer review. To assist with this process the key items that need to be observed are as follows:
- Use the third person to refer to work the Authors have previously undertaken, e.g. replace any phrases like “as we have shown before” with “… has been shown before [Anonymous,0000]” .
- Make sure figures do not contain any affiliation related identifier
- Do not eliminate essential self-references or other references but limit self-references only to papers that are relevant for those reviewing the submitted paper.
- Cite papers published by the Author in the text as follows: ‘[Anonymous 0000]’.
- For blinding in the reference list: ‘[Anonymous 0000]’.
- Remove references to funding sources
- Do not include acknowledgments
- Remove any identifying information, including author names, from file names and ensure document properties are also anonymized.