Information For Authors
Please see author guidelines for article submissions on this website. Click on the link to the right, "Make a submission."
We respond to an author within two months to acknowledge the submission of an article or an abstract. If a submitted article is sent out for peer review a response may take longer time, typically two to four months. If longer than two months an editor will inform the author that the process is taking longer time (this can be due to the process of finding suitable reviewers).
INFORMATION ABOUT OUR REVIEW PROCESS
The review process works as follows:
- Article submissions are given an initial prereview screening by one of the journal’s editors. The editor decides, based on the submissions alignment with the journal’s profile and its adherence to the submission guidelines, whether to send the submission out for peer review. If the decision is not to send the article out for review, the editor contacts the author explaining the decision.
- The editor assigns two blinded peer reviewers to comment on the article and make a recommendation as to whether it should be published.
- The editor receives the referee reports and weights their comments and recommendations.
- The editor contacts the author with one of the following decisions:
- Accepted, possibly with some minor revisions
- Accepted conditionally, subject revisions carried out to the satisfaction of the editor and in the time frame specified by the editor.
- Rejected with encouragement to revise and resubmit. Resubmissions should be made within three months of the original decision and should track and/or outline how the revisions have addressed the referee comments. The resubmission will be sent out to at least one blinded referee, and acceptance will be conditional on the suggested revisions being carried out to the satisfaction of the editor.
- Rejected
- The editor will include comments from the peer reviewers alongside the decision. The editor has the discretion over what comments are forwarded to the author. Comments specifically written for the editors are not forwarded to the author.
Manuscripts accepted for publication that do not conform to the style guide may be rejected or returned to the author for amendment. The editors also reserve the right to alter usage to conform to the style guide issued by the publisher. Authors cannot supply new materials or request major alterations following the copyediting stage, so please ensure that all text is final upon acceptance.