Author Guidelines
Submission types
We welcome contributions addressing all aspects of open research, for example open access, research data management, open research tools and support mechanisms, training and indicators. We use Open Journal Systems (OJS) for the submission of manuscripts. Submissions will not be accepted by email correspondence. A broad range of article types will be considered, including editorials, research articles, discussions, perspectives on open research practice and culture, reports of developments in the field, book reviews, registered reports, opinion pieces and meeting reports. For more information on the scope of our journal please refer to https://journals.gla.ac.uk/SJOR/about
Submissions can be made here: https://journals.gla.ac.uk/SJOR/about/submissions
Open Access
SJOR is a peer-reviewed open access journal with no submission charges or article processing charges. The default licence for all journal content is Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Authors may select a more restrictive open access licence by exception and following discussion with the editorial team (e.g. if necessitated by the inclusion of third-party material or other preexisting contractual arrangement).
Preparing your manuscript
We follow a format-free submission policy. There are no requirements on style and reference formatting; however, we kindly ask to submit articles as Word files (.doc/.docx), use grammar and spell check (in UK spelling), font size 12 and preferably font style Calibri, Aptos or Arial. We welcome any contribution from 500 to 5000 words.
Please list all authors with their affiliations and ORCID. If you don’t have an ORCID, you can sign up here https://orcid.org/: It’s easy, quick and free. Please indicate the corresponding author.
Submissions must be original work by the author. By making a submission to SJOR you agree, should it be accepted for publication, for your work to be assigned the following copyright license: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. However, your article may be based on previously published work in, for example, a blog post. SJOR will not be held legally responsible for any compensation claims arising from prior publication.
If any third party copyrighted material is used, you must ensure that permission to reuse has been obtained. Please get in touch with the SJOR editorial team for more detailed guidance if needed.
Guidelines
As part of the submission process, you will be asked for the following information:
- Title page: You will need to complete a title page during submission with author information, keywords and an abstract (up to 250 words).
- Abbreviations: Please define abbreviations at first mention and consider including a glossary if multiple field-specific terms are being used.
- Data, graphics and supplementary material: Please get in touch with the SJOR editorial team for formatting guidance if needed.
- Contribution statement (CRediT): Each author’s contribution must be acknowledged using CRediT (Contributor Role Taxonomy, https://credit.niso.org/). A free and open-source tool called Tenzing may be used to easily list contributions of multiple authors: https://rollercoaster.shinyapps.io/tenzing/ . Please upload your contribution statement as an additional document.
- Acknowledgements: If you are including an acknowledgements statement, please place it as a separate section before the references.
- Funding statement: If your submission was financially supported by any funding agencies, you must include the funder name and grant number.
- Conflict of interest: If any potential conflict of interest might arise in relation to the publication, a statement to this effect must be included.
- Data availability statement: Please note that your submission should include a data availability statement, even if no data were created.
- Ethical compliance statement: Depending on your article, an ethical compliance statement may be compulsory.
- References: We follow a format-free submission policy. For our published articles we use the referencing style “Cambridge A” Cambridge Style guide
Please note: SJOR will consider articles for review previously available as preprints. Authors may also post the submitted version of a manuscript to a preprint server at any time. Authors are requested to update any pre-publication versions with a link to the final published article.
