Submissions
Submission Preparation Checklist
All submissions must meet the following requirements.
- This submission meets the requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
- This submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration.
- All references have been checked for accuracy and completeness.
- All tables and figures have been numbered and labeled.
- Permission has been obtained to publish all photos, datasets, and other material provided with this submission.
All submissions shall include the following as attachments:
(a) Cover letter (in .pdf format) from the corresponding author explaining why their manuscript satisfies the Journal publication criteria of originality, merit, scientific novelty, and significance; the letter must contain the email addresses of all contributing authors. It must declare that the manuscript and portions of it have never appeared and is currently not under consideration in other journals elsewhere.
(b) Abstract and Author Information
(c) Full manuscript (with no author information; in doc/docx format) with figures and tables.
(d) An accomplished authorship sheet (in .pdf format) stating the specific contribution of each author in the conception, design, analysis, writing, or revision of the manuscript.
Incomplete submissions will not be reviewed.
Articles
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Review Articles
A review article can also be called a literature review, or a review of literature. It is a survey of previously published research on a topic. It should give an overview of current thinking on the topic. And, unlike an original research article, it will not present new experimental results.
Writing a review of literature is to provide a critical evaluation of the data available from existing studies. Review articles can identify potential research areas to explore next, and sometimes they will draw new conclusions from the existing data.
Short Report
Short reports are suitable for the presentation of research that extends previously published research, including the reporting of additional controls and confirmatory results in other settings, as well as negative results. Authors must clearly acknowledge any work upon which they are building, both published and unpublished.
Short reports should be no longer than 2500 words*.
Letter to the Editor
We recognize the importance of post-publication commentary on published research as necessary to advancing scientific discourse. Formal post-publication commentary on published papers can involve either challenges, clarifications or in some cases, replication of the published work and may, after peer review, be published online as a letter to the Editor, usually alongside a reply from the original authors.
Letters to the Editor should ideally be based on knowledge contemporaneous with the original paper, rather than subsequent scientific developments.
If the submission serves only to identify an important error or mistake in the published paper, it will usually lead to the publication of a clarification statement (correction or retraction, for example).
Letters to the Editor and replies are bidirectionally linked with the original published paper. The journal does not consider Letters to the Editor on papers published in other journals. Contributions that do not comply with our submission criteria will not be considered.
Before formal submission, the author(s) should contact the journal with a pre-submission enquiry. If approved for submission as a Letter to the Editor, the article should then be submitted through the submission system.
Letters to the Editor should be around 800 words, excluding references. They should be written in a neutral tone and all comments/discussion must relate to the original published article. All such articles considered for publication will be subject to peer review, and the decision to accept or reject an article is at the Editor’s discretion.
Commentaries
Commentaries are short (~2500 words*) articles covering a contemporary issue that is relevant to the journal's scope. They are usually commissioned by the journal, but we do on occasion consider and peer review unsolicited submissions.
Commentaries are not mini reviews and generally take one of two forms:
The first form is editorial in nature, grounded in the relevant literature and covers an important aspect of implementation research practice and or seeks to move the field forward in some way.
The second form is a commentary on a study or review that was recently published or that is soon to be published, and that is interesting enough to warrant further comment or explanation. This type of commentary discusses specific issues within a subject area rather than the whole field, explains the implications of the article, and puts it in context. Opinions are welcome as long as they are factually based.
A maximum of twenty articles may be included in the references.
*The word count includes the words from the main text, ie “Introduction” to the end of “Conclusions”. It doesn’t include abstracts, tables, figures, etc.
Copyright Notice
Pure Open Access Journals allow the author to retain the copyright in their articles. Contents of the Journal are subject to the existing intellectual property law. Articles can be accessed and reproduced on paper or digital media, provided that they are strictly used for personal, scientific, or educational purposes excluding any commercial exploitation. Reproduction must necessarily mention the editor, the journal name, the author, and the document reference. Any other reproduction is strictly forbidden without permission of the publisher or the author.
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