Journal Submission Guidelines
1. Author Guidelines
Authors are invited to make a submission to this journal. This journal is dedicated to publishing high quality original research, review articles and other forms of scholarship that provide important references for academic and practical applications. All submissions will be assessed by an editor to determine whether they meet the aims and scope of this journal. Those considered to be a good fit will be sent for peer review before determining whether they will be accepted or rejected. In order to help authors to complete the submission process and to ensure that the manuscript meets the requirements of the editorial and review process, we have developed detailed submission guidelines, please read them carefully and comply with the following requirements before submitting your manuscript.
Please refer to the following link for the template of submission: Moi-template
Before making a submission, authors are responsible for obtaining permission to publish any material included with the submission, such as photos, documents and datasets. All authors identified on the submission must consent to be identified as an author. Where appropriate, research should be approved by an appropriate ethics committee in accordance with the legal requirements of the study’s country.
An editor may desk reject a submission if it does not meet minimum standards of quality. Before submitting, please ensure that the study design and research argument are structured and articulated properly. The title should be concise and the abstract should be able to stand on its own. These guidelines are intended to provide authors with clear guidance on the formatting of manuscripts, the submission process, and relevant publication policies. It is important that the following requirements are strictly adhered to in the preparation and submission of your manuscript to increase the likelihood of it reaching peer review and eventual publication.
Manuscripts types
(1) Articles
Original research articles (The total length should be less than 10,000 words that includes tables and figures, but not the references), and comprehensive review papers (maximum length should not exceed 12,000 words, not including references)
(2) Manuscripts in the category of works
Manuscripts of works (1000-4000 words, including Chinese and English abstracts, key words, drawings, real photos and project files)
Peer review
This journal employs a double-blind peer review process. Upon submission, manuscripts are preliminarily evaluated by our editorial team to ascertain their compatibility with the journal’s publication criteria. Should your manuscript meet the initial standards, it will generally be forwarded to at least two independent experts for rigorous assessment of its scholarly merit. The final decision regarding acceptance or rejection of your article rests with our editorial board.
Changes to authorship
The editors of this journal generally will not consider changes to authorship once a manuscript has been submitted. It is important that authors carefully consider the authorship list and order of authors and provide a definitive author list at original submission.
Funding sources
Authors are required to transparently disclose all funding sources that have financially supported the research and/or the preparation of the manuscript. The extent of the sponsors’ involvement, if any, must be clearly stated in relation to the study’s design, data collection, analysis, interpretation, report writing, and the decision to submit the manuscript for publication.
Funding should be listed as follows to ensure adherence to the funders’ stipulations:
Funding: The research presented herein was funded by the National Institutes of Health [grant numbers xxxx, yyyy].
If no funding has been provided for the research, it is recommended to include the following sentence:
This study did not receive any designated funding from agencies in the public, commercial, or non-profit sectors.
Declaration of interests
All authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence or bias their work.
The resulting PDF document containing your declaration should be uploaded at the “upload files” step in the submission process. The document must be saved in the .pdf file format. Author signatures are not required.
If no conflicts exist, the authors should state:
Conflicts of Interest: The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
File formats
We do not have strict formatting requirements, but all manuscripts must contain the required sections: Author Information, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Materials & Methods, Results, Conclusions, Figures and Tables with Captions, Funding Information, Author Contributions, Conflict of Interest and other Ethics Statements.
Some guidelines:
- Article title, all author names, affiliations, and present email should be included in your Title Page.
- Manuscripts should be double-spaced.
- Add line numbers and pages to your manuscript.
- Lay out text in a single-column format.
- Use spell-check and grammar-check functions to avoid errors.
- Your references may be in any style, provided that you use the consistent formatting throughout.
- Save files in the extension .pdf for PDF files. A Word file is not an acceptable source file.
- When your manuscript reaches the revision stage, you will be requested to format the manuscript according to the journal guidelines.
2. Before you begin
Thank you for submitting to the Journal of world Chinese architects. You will be asked to upload files, identify co-authors, and provide information such as the title and abstract. The journal supports manuscripts in Chinese. For Chinese manuscripts, the title, abstract and keywords must be presented in both English and Chinese.
Please read our Submission Guidelines if you have not done so already. When filling out the forms, provide as many details as possible in order to help our editors evaluate your work.
Once you begin, you can save your submission and come back to it later. You will be able to review and correct any information before you submit.
3. Submission Checklist
When authors submit an article to the journal it is implied that:
- one author has been designated as the corresponding author and their full contact details (email address, full postal address and phone numbers) have been provided.
- the work described has not been published previously except in the form of a preprint, an abstract, a published lecture, academic thesis or registered report.
- the article is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
- the article’s publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out.
- if accepted, the article will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, including electronically without the written consent of the copyright-holder.
4. Upload Files
Provide your title page (with author details), anonymized manuscript (without author details), cover letter, and declaration of interest statement in your submission. Please notice that all files are in the extension .pdf for PDF files.
5. Contributors
Add details for all of the contributors to this submission. Contributors added here will be sent an email confirmation of the submission, as well as a copy of all editorial decisions recorded against this submission.
If a contributor can not be contacted by email, because they must remain anonymous or do not have an email account, please do not enter a fake email address. You can add information about this contributor in a message to the editor at a later step in the submission process.
For research articles with several authors, a short paragraph specifying their individual contributions must be provided. The following statements should be used “Conceptualization, X.X. and Y.Y.; Methodology, X.X.; Software, X.X.; Validation, X.X., Y.Y. and Z.Z.; Formal Analysis, X.X.; Investigation, X.X.; Resources, X.X.; Data Curation, X.X.; Writing – Original Draft Preparation, X.X.; Writing – Review & Editing, X.X.; Visualization, X.X.; Supervision, X.X.; Project Administration, X.X.; Funding Acquisition, Y.Y.”, please turn to the CRediT taxonomy for the term explanation.
6. For the Editors
A cover letter must be included with each manuscript submission. It should be concise and explain why the content of the paper is significant, placing the findings in the context of existing work. All cover letters are required to include the following statements:
- We confirm that neither the manuscript nor any parts of its content are currently under consideration for publication with or published in another journal.
- All authors have approved the manuscript and agree with its submission to XXX.
7. Review and Submit
Review the information you have entered before you complete your submission. You can change any of the details displayed here by clicking the edit button at the top of each section.
Once you complete your submission, a member of our editorial team will be assigned to review it. Please ensure the details you have entered here are as accurate as possible.
8. Copyright Notice
Authors should be aware that upon acceptance and publication of their manuscript in this Journal, they, as the copyright holders, retain the right to republish the article in the same form, in any language, including English and other languages, electronically or otherwise. The copyright of the article does not reside with the Journal.