Submissions
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 text adheres to the layout, stylistic, and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
- The manuscript strictly follows the Article Template.
- The manuscript is 3500-5000 words (research-based articles) or 2500-3000 words (conceptual papers) in length, excluding abstract and references.
- The manuscript applies in-text citation format with APA 7th edition style. The use of Mendeley referencing tool is highly recommended.
- References must consist of at least 15 journal articles published in the last 10 years.
- The similarity index is not more than 20%.
- The submission file is in Microsoft Word (*.doc or *.docx) file format.
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- Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).
The authors submitting a manuscript do so on the understanding that if accepted for publication, the copyright for publishing (publishing right) of the article shall be assigned/transferred to the publisher of the Journal of Infrastructure Policy and Management (JIPM).
Upon acceptance of the manuscript, the authors will be asked to complete a 'Copyright Transfer Agreement for Publishing (CTAP)'. However, our journal Author(s) retain (or are granted back) significant scholarly rights as mentioned before.
The Editors and the Advisory International Editorial Board make every effort to ensure that no wrong or misleading data, opinions, or statements be published in the journal. In any way, the contents of the articles published in the Journal of Infrastructure Policy and Management (JIPM) are the exclusive responsibility of their respective authors.
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