SUBMISSIONS

Criteria for Submissions
1. Submissions should lean towards research that is qualitative and address such areas as human social relationships, bodily experience, emotional sentiment, mental states, and the contemporary contexts in which these occur. Such research may address areas of religion, spirituality, psychology, philosophy, sexuality, cultural practice and personal preference.

2. The theoretical framework upon which submissions are founded should draw on the work of theoreticians from within Continental Philosophy and in particular phenomenology. The submissions should relate aspects of these theories to those aspects of human experience to which contributors choose to draw attention.

3.  Submissions will not exceed 5 000 to 7 000 words, and be prefaced by a 300 word précis of the paper. Bibliographies, footnotes and research notes may be added but should not exceed 1 000 words.

4.  Submissions will be made electronically by e-mail to the Editor (editor@ipjp.org).

The preferred format is:

• MSWord

and the preferred referencing style is:

5. The Editors reserve the right to invite specific contributors to prepare articles for the Journal and to call for papers from the academic community. Moreover, the right is reserved to suggest alterations to contributions, and to reject papers as seen fit. Correspondence will not be entered into.

6. Editorial policy is to publish in the English language. Should submissions be received in other languages, contributors will be charged for the cost of translation into English.

7. Reviewers will be grouped into categories consistent with their areas of expertise; in philosophy, psychology, health and nursing, visual arts, social science, education, religion, etc. Articles related to these fields will generally be sent to reviewers whose expertise lies in the fields those articles seek to address.

8. On receipt of an article, the Editor-in-Chief will remove all references to the author identity and send the article to members of the review panel whose expertise relates to the subject area of the submitted article.

9. Within one week of acceptance of an article for publication, contributors are required to submit a brief professional biography to be published at the end of their article. These biographies should include the contributor's qualifications, current role and organisational affiliations, and / or recently published work. Contributors are encouraged to submit head-and-shoulder photographs (colour) of themselves for publication in the journal.

All articles will be blind-reviewed by two (2) or more reviewers. Reviewers have three options in respect of their recommendations:

• accept without qualification
• accept with qualification: publication subject to editing/rewriting as stipulated
• reject outright (in which case no correspondence will be entered into).

A Refereed and Peer Reviewed Journal
In order to achieve a high standard of academic excellence and acceptance by readers, the Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology is refereed by recognised scholars in the field, and chooses to make use of a process of blind review, which involves each manuscript being submitted to two or more reviewers who receive the manuscript but have no information about the author. The Journal seeks to conform to the highest standards for refereed and peer-reviewed electronic journals as recommended internationally by  SHERPA.

Undergraduate Submissions
In line with the spirit of the IPJP's vision of promoting the advancement of phenomenology - in all of its many variations and expressions - the journal wishes to encourage undergraduate students to give serious consideration to submitting their work in the field of phenomenological thought and action.

Examples of such work might be term papers, synopses of minor research projects, class papers and so on.
 
Each edition of the journal will aim to have a section devoted specifically to undergraduate work in the field of phenomenology.

Submissions will be subject to a specific review process which will take into account the nature of these submissions while simultaneously providing a quality assurance.

Copyright
The editorial policy on copyright is not to hold restrictive copyright on manuscripts for publication in the journal, but to require authors to assign to the Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology the right to publish their texts both electronically and in any other format they see fit, along with the right to store manuscripts in an electronic archive. As with accepted scholarly practice, authors wishing to quote text from this journal must cite in full the details of the author, title, journal title, edition number and date of the article/s they wish to cite.

The IPJP's policy in this regard accords with the best practice models supported by SHERPA. 

Authors might also wish to visit the SPARC hosted site dealing authors' rights as well as the Scholarly Communications section of the Duke University Library.