Submissions

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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • I have read and understood the Ethical Guidelines of this journal, agree with the content, and have taken appropriate actions.
  • I have read and understood the Author Guidelines and have adhered to them.
  • I have filled in and signed the Publishing Agreement and will upload it along with the manuscript. Without this Publishing Agreement, the manuscript will not be reviewed.
  • All authors/co-authors use their institutional email addresses.
  • If you are member of IGIP, please leave a remark in the "Comments to the editor" text field below.

Author Guidelines

Scientific Writing

Submissions have to fulfill all requirements of scientific writing as summarized in https://online-journals.org/index.php/i-jep/article/view/28253.

Key Points
  • Articles will be accepted only in English.
  • Page numbers are limited (see APC below)
  • Use IEEE citation style (IEEE Citation Reference).
  • Articles which do not comply with the Author Guidelines will be summarily declined. PLEASE CAREFULLY READ THOSE GUIDELINES BEFORE PREPARING AND SENDING YOUR ARTICLE.
  • Template: see Author Guidelines
  • An article can have 1 corresponding author (primary contact) who
    • handles all editorial communication
    • will receive the invoice
    • will receive the page proof and will be responsible for its approval
    • is responsible for correct metadata in the system
  • Use your institutional email address in the journal metadata and the article itself and check spam on a regular basis

 

What should you submit?

Submitted contributions undergo a double-blind review. In order to make this possible, please:

  1. Submit an anonymized DOC, DOCX or RTF file without the authors' names.
  2. Once your paper is accepted, please upload a final DOC, DOCX or RTF version with the authors' names in it. Please do not forget to add the authors  directly below the paper title and in the CV section at the end of the paper.
Procedure
  1. Article submission
  2. Decision about acceptance for review (around 2 weeks)
  3. Peer Review (around 6 weeks)
  4. If accepted, invoice is sent to corresponding author, upload of final version will be required
  5. When payment AND final version have been received, the paper will be scheduled – provisionally – for an issue
  6. Later: the page proof is announced
  7. The page proof will be sent (make sure you reply)
  8. Your paper will be published

All correspondence will be done with the corresponding author. She/he should use an institutional email address that works and check spam on a regular basis. The email address must be the same in the paper and in the article metadata in the journal.

Review-to-publish

Please note: iJEP applies a "review-to-publish" policy – the author must participate in the reviewing process. By submitting a paper the author agrees to be a reviewer.

Article Processing Charges (APC)
  • Full papers: 800 EUR – 12-16 pages (+25 EUR/each additional page)
  • Short Papers: 700 EUR – max. 8 pages
  • Reports, Application Notes: 700 EUR – max. 16 pages (+25 EUR/each additional page)

Corrigenda are charged 200 EUR. Corrigenda are described in the Ethical Guidelines. These are post-publication corrections asked by the authors, that could have been discovered by the authors during the proof phase.

Latest two weeks after submission authors will be informed about acceptance for review or rejection. Our average review time is 6 weeks.

This journal has no submission charges.

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