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).
  • The submission file is an anonymised OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs and DOIs for the references have been provided. Please use ShortDOI (http://shortdoi.org/).
  • Is the Manuscript prepared in the template of Cognitive Sustainability?
  • The journal operates as open access journal, the publishing process is covered by Article Publication Charges (APCs) of 300EUR (+27% VAT) in case of acceptance before being published in Online First Section. This charge includes all costs of the review process, system maintaining, web-publication and long term archiving.

Author Guidelines

Please use our WORD template and upload an anonymised document. 

All submissions are subjected to peer review.  A double-blind peer-review system is used, where the authors don’t know the reviewers’ names and the reviewers don’t know the author’s name.  The reviewers are international experts in the field, making sure that reviewers have no conflict of interest with the authors. The reviews are based on the objective evaluation of the scientific merits and the contribution to the state of the art. Editors and reviewers handle the submission confidentially.

Authors are obliged to participate in the peer review process, follow the advice of the reviewers, meet the required deadlines, and provide retractions or corrections of mistakes if any occur.

In this journal, downloading articles is free of charge, and open access. The journal does charge authors with article processing charges (APCs) of 300 EUR. Users have the right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full text of these articles. 

Copyright Notice

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).

The publisher and the editors are committed to maintain high ethical standards and prevent publications where research misconduct has occurred.