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Start SubmissionAuthors are invited to submit manuscripts that fall within the focus of the journal. Please read the information on the Peer Review Process and follow the below guidelines.
During the submission procedure, a list of sections to choose from will be offered by means of a drop down menu. In case you were not explicitly invited by the guest-editor of a special feature, we kindly ask you to select ‘research articles’ or ‘review articles’ when finalizing the submission of your manuscript. In case your paper does belong to a particular special feature, the guest-editor will have instructed you what section to select.
If a paper is accepted for publication, authors will be charged a per page fee (10 euros for IASC-members and 15 euros for non-IASC-members). Researchers with insufficient funding can ask for a waiver by mailing the editors. If your manuscript is part of a set of special feature articles, other rules apply. In that case, please contact your guest editor for details regarding payment of fees. Fees do not apply for book reviews.
The Journal provides immediate open access to its content. Author(s) retain copyright of their articles. Articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY 3.0)
The submission should contain the following parts:
The main text should not exceed 8,000 words, including tables, graphs, footnotes, and references.
All papers must be in English. Use either British or US spellings – do so consistently. Write with precision, clarity, and economy: use the active voice and first person whenever appropriate. Separate paragraphs with a space. Refrain from using italics for emphasis. Do not underline text.
Footnotes should be used when appropriate and placed on the relevant page of your manuscript. They should not be used for references alone. Do not use endnotes.
Standard headings must appear on a single line by themselves, and be UPPER CASE. Lower order headings must appear on a line by themselves and should be left-justified, italicized, and lowercase except for the initial letter of the first word which should be uppercase.
Refer to a table, a figure or a picture in the paragraph preceding its location. Our template will automatically reproduce a table, figure or picture after the paragraph in which it is first mentioned. A table, figure or picture will not show up, if no reference to it is made in the text.
IJC follows the standard set by The Chicago Manual of Style Online (15th edition) for science and social science. Check each citation in the text against the Literature Cited to ensure that they match exactly.
Figures and photographs must be supplied as graphic files (in GIF, JPG, or PNG formats) at 72 dpi and no wider than 700 pixels (unless given explicit permission by the managing editor). Please ensure that any text used in your figures is legible.
Insert the equation into the body text of your manuscript exactly where you would like the equation to appear. Please, send us picture format versions, of the equations that you use, as well (e.g. as an appendix).
You can find the IJC styleguide in pdf format below.
Find the detailed Author Guidelines in PDF here
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.
In the case of multiple authors, we will in the published article by default provide all email addresses.
All authors have given permission to be listed on the submitted paper. The corresponding author is authorized to speak on behalf of the authors.
The International Journal of the Commons provides immediate open access to its content.
Authors retain copyright of their articles. Articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY 3.0).
Authors are explicitly encouraged to deposit their article in their institutional repository.
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