Extended Guidelines

Extended Guidelines for Authors

1. Formatting your paper

The following guidelines have been devised so that papers can be published as quickly and efficiently as possible. Any paper that does not follow these guidelines after acceptance will be returned to the corresponding author for amendment. Please direct any queries to the editors.

  1. Text should be simply laid out and consistent, and be suitably formatted for publication, as below
  2. Submissions will be accepted only by an upload to the platform.
  3. Articles submitted for publication should not normally exceed 8,000 words (plus references)
  4. File format: Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) format or Open Document Format for Office Applications (.odt or .fodt)
  5. Font: Times New Roman 12 point, single line spacing, fully-justified text
  6. Use no extra line between paragraphs; add double spaces between sections.
  7. For clarity during paper production, please indicate the hierarchy of headings and subheadings using 1.1, 1.2, 1.2.1 etc.
  8.  Do not use italics or bold text

A separate title page should include the following information:

  1. Title of the paper
  2. Name(s) of Author(s)
  3. Affiliation(s)
  4. E-mail address(es) and ORCID iD(s) where available
  5. Corresponding author’s details including address, URL if appropriate

An abstract of no more than 200 words should be included in the title page, summarising the content of the paper.

A short acknowledgement of assistance, funding, etc., can also be included at the end.

Tables and figures should be inserted into the text as appropriate, with titles above and source information (if applicable) below. They should be titled, numbered and referred to in the text.

Do not use footnotes; endnotes may be used sparingly. Footnotes will be converted to endnotes.

Appendices usually comprise material which may be too detailed to be included in the main text, but which is of use to some readers. They should appear at the back of the paper behind the references, and be referred to in the text.

References should be placed in a separate section at the end of the article, titled References. All references used in the text must have the corresponding full reference in the list of references and all references appearing in the list at the end of the paper must appear and be used in the paper at least once. Inline citations of author, date format should be used, e.g. (Gilbert and Kenny 2014). References should follow the APA7 format, see the actual APA style guide.

 

2. Some advice about the language format

The International Journal of Community Currency Research is published in English.

Publishing in an international journal aims to facilitate communication and reach the widest possible readership. Achieving those aims depends on using language that is accessible to everyone.

In order to improve your experience as an author collaborating with our Journal for submitting and publishing a paper with us, we recommend that you proof-read your paper. Here is some practical advice that might be useful for you to improve the presentation of your paper:

  1. Proof-read your paper as many times as you can.
  2. Write short sentences.
  3. Explain as if you explain to a non-expert, in particular to someone who might have had no university education.
  4. If you use words and abbreviations that are technical or specially used in your field, please, provide an explanation for their meaning in the paper.
  5. If you feel like writing in the first person, write in the first person.
  6. Use one idea per paragraph. Better to break a paragraph into two or more paragraphs. Each paragraph has to have more than 1 short sentence.
  7. Automatic grammar checkers “see” errors when the sentences are simple, so it is to your benefit to keep your sentences simple.
  8. When proof-reading your paper on your own, read it aloud. The sound of the language will show you whether you have sentences that are too long and whether something does not seem or does not sound right.
  9. Get someone you know who has good English to read the paper for you and tell you what is not clear and any mistakes they spotted.

 

3. Anonymisation of the paper

The IJCCR requires that the authors provide, apart from the full version of their paper, an anonymised version of the same paper, in order to share that anonymised version with the reviewers who are also anonymous for the authors. To anonymise a paper for submission, please take into account the following:

  1. Anonymised means that the author details do not appear anywhere as author of the paper. If using Microsoft Word, you should use the Check for Issues option in Word to make sure no author information is embedded in the document when saving it.
  2. Any information in the acknowledgements or funding disclosure that might identify the author needs to be erased.
  3. If you erase a self-reference with your name, you erase the whole reference from the reference lists replacing it with “Author,(year)”. This also holds for co-authored works where you are one of the authors.
  4. Using too many references where you appear as a (co-)author makes the paper author identifiable. If you cannot choose which of all those self-references you will use in a context that does not make you identifiable, better to erase them all. A paper where the same authors appear again and again makes the author identifiable.

The IJCCR Editorial Board retains the right to erase all self-references if those are possible to identify the author of a paper and also retains the right to return the submitted paper to the author until all anonymisation requirements are fulfilled.