Submission

All online submissions should be made via the “Make a Submission” button on the Journal of Architecture and Theory website https://architecture-theory.com/submission/

New users will need to create an account. After logging in, authors can submit their work or track the progress of their manuscript.

Peer-review and decisions

To avoid bias, the journal uses double-blind peer review, which means neither the authors nor the reviewers are aware of each other’s identities. Review the journal’s policies. https://architecture-theory.com/journal-policies/peer-review/

It is urged that manuscripts be submitted in two separate Word files (per the submission template). After submission, all papers are reviewed by the editorial office, and if they are found to be outside the scope of the journal or otherwise unsuitable for acceptance, they may be rejected immediately. Articles that pass the preliminary review will be forwarded to an external reviewer. Please be patient, as reviews can take up to 60 days. The authors will receive their reviewer reports and editor’s decisions as soon as possible. Following review, the editor will determine whether to approve, reject, or revise. Both minor and major revisions are possible. If the decision is made to revise an article, authors are encouraged to do so as soon as possible; if they wait too long, the article may be considered a new submission. Depending on the level of editing required, revised articles can be sent out for further review.

Publication charges

The journal, owned by the Basanta Misra Education and Welfare Trust (BMEW Trust), is open access and peer-reviewed. See the journal’s Fees and Charges policy.  https://architecture-theory.com/journal-policies/fees-charges/ ‎

Copyright and publication

During the submission process, you will be asked to sign various warranties about the article (see Journal policies). One of these is stating that it is original and does not infringe on any legal or private rights (such as copyright, libel, or privacy). While granting the BMEW Trust the right of first publication, authors retain copyright to their works.

All papers will be published as open access under the Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. Because there are no barriers to entry, they will receive the maximum amount of exposure. Although readers may distribute and reuse the material under this license, they must always give full credit to the authors and the original publication. View the journal’s policies open access. https://architecture-theory.com/journal-policies/open-access/

Article types

All original contributions of articles and reviews that are applicable to the journal’s goals and scope are encouraged. Each contribution must be original and have not previously been accepted by another journal. Any previously published material (such as figures) must be disclosed in the work, and authors are responsible for obtaining all necessary permissions before republishing. If asked for, proof of authorization must be provided; see Reproduction of Copyright Material.

Template of a manuscript

The paper should be submitted as two separate word documents. Please use the linked <Word template for Title Page> and <Word template for Anonymized Document>  to prepare your manuscript for this journal. The title page should include the paper’s title, authors’ names, institutional affiliations, addresses, email addresses, ORCID, corresponding author identification, abstract, and keywords. To maintain author anonymity, acknowledgements, funding, disclosures, and contributions should only appear on the title page (not in the anonymized document file).

To ensure author anonymity, an anonymous document should include a title, abstract, key words, the main body of the text (with personal information included in the Title Page file), and references. Following the peer-review process, the accepted manuscript will include personal information.

General guidelines

The articles must be written in English. Since authors are responsible for the language used in their articles, it is strongly advised that you have a native speaker or English language expert review your work before submitting it to ensure that the language is appropriate. All manuscripts must be written in non-discriminatory language. Terms that are racist or sexist should be avoided.

Authors should provide the following information:

• Full name
• Affiliation (where the author was positioned when the research was undertaken – if authors change affiliation before publishing this should be given as a footnote)
•  Address
•  Email address
•  ORCiD, this is not mandatory, but highly recommended for the benefit of authors: unique author identifier that ensures that all your works are correctly attributed to you – see https://orcid.org
•  The corresponding author should be clearly identified as the person who will be in charge of making sure the right version is submitted, that all authors consent to publication, and that any revisions are approved both during peer review and after acceptance.

Each article must comprise:

•  An informative title: ensure that it clearly explains what the article is about (not exceed 20 words)
•  An abstract of approximately 250 words: this should summarize the article, not simply introduce the topic
•  Between 3 – 7 key words
•  The main body of text should not exceed 4 000 to 5 000 words and should comprise:
  • An introduction to the topic, describing the research question being addressed
  • Methodology and/or theoretical framework
  • Results of the research
  • Discussion and interpretation of results obtained
  • Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements, funding, declarations of conflict of interest, authors’ contribution, etc.
  • References

For clarity, text sections can be sequentially numbered. There are no numbers in the introduction, conclusions, or references. SI units must be followed by authors. Italics are not used for units. Authors must use the symbol ® or TM when using a word that is or is claimed to be a proprietary term or trade mark.

Equations

The Equation Editor must be used to create formulas, equations, and their constituent parts, as shown in the text. Basic equation symbols should be 10 points in size, the same as the main text’s letter size; indexes and sub-indexes should be 7 and 6 points, respectively. See the Manuscript Template for more information.

Tables

Tables should be created in Word or Excel and designed to fit easily onto a standard journal page. Each table should be numbered sequentially throughout the article and referenced in the main text. Each table requires an informative caption to describe it. They may include footnotes if explanations of abbreviations, etc., are required.

Figures

Figures can be included in the text file before submission, but must be submitted separately after acceptance. Every figure in the article should be assigned a sequential number and cited within the text. Every figure must be described in an instructional caption. Please ensure that all figures have the necessary resolution: 1100 dpi for line art, 500 dpi for grayscale, and 250 dpi for color. Diagrams, charts, and schematics: Font: Times New Roman from 5 to 8 points, line thickness: 0.3 to 2 points, file formats: *.pdf, *.eps, *.cdr, *.xls, *.xlsx, *.dwg.

Author Contributions and Acknowledgments

Each person who made an intellectual contribution to the research, evaluation/analysis, or writing of the paper (as defined by the ICMJE) should be identified as an author. People who contributed to the work but did not meet the authorship standards should be mentioned in the Acknowledgments, along with their contributions. You must guarantee that anyone identified in the acknowledgments consents to being named.

Refer to the journal’s policies on authorship. https://architecture-theory.com/journal-policies/authorship/

Conflict of Interest

Authors must also include a statement of disclosure in the publication that recognizes any financial, professional, or personal interest or advantage they receive from the direct uses of their study.

Funding

• Please provide any details necessary by any financing and grant-awarding authorities in a separate paragraph, as follows:
• This work was supported by  <Funding Agency> under Grant [number xxxx].
• This work received funding from under Grant [number xxxx], under Grant [number xxxx], and under Grant [number xxxx]. 

References 

The Journal uses the APA Style (author–date method) short reference system for citations in the text with an alphabetical list at the end of the paper. Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list and vice versa. Please check if all names and surnames of the authors, also the details (title, year, volume, pages, etc.) in the list of references are correct.

In the text use the following style examples:

• This was discussed by Smart (2016)…” – single author item
• This was discussed in full (Smart, 2016)” – single author item
• This was discussed in full (Smart & Burkart, 2016) – two authors
• This was discussed in full (Smart et al., 2016)…” – 3 or more authors
• This was discussed in full (P. Smart, 2016; S. Smart, 2017)…” where items have similar author names
• This was discussed in full (Smart, 2016a, 2016b)…” where two or more items are published in the same year

Reference examples:

Book

• Montgomery, D. C. (2012). Introduction to statistical quality control (7th ed.). Wiley.

Book chapter

• Slack, B. (2007). The terminalisation of seaports. In J. Wang, D. Olivier, T. Notteboom, & B. Slack (Eds.), Ports, cities, and global supply chains (pp. 41–50). Ashgate.

Journal article

• Badami, M. G., & Haider, M. (2007). An analysis of public bus transit performance in Indian cities. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 41(10), 961–981. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2007.06.002

Conference proceedings

• Saraiji, R., Harb, A., & Hamdan, M. O. (2011). Performance of LED street lights in hot environments. In K. Domke & C. A. Brebbia (Eds.), Light in engineering, architecture and environment (pp. 147–158). WIT Press. https://doi.org/10.2495/LIGHT110131
• Brown, S., & Caste, V. (2004, May). Integrated obstacle detection framework. Paper presented at the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Detroit, MI.

Thesis or dissertation

• Suwetwattanakul, C. (2010). Developing a knowledge sharing model for the implementation of the learning organization in Thailand (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia.

Internet documents

• Bown, J. (2019, December 17). How charity apps may be making us more generous. BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-50572939

Non-book and other formats

• Sidra Intersections. (2008). User guide-introduction. Akcelik & Associates Pty Ltd.

Standards

• European Committee for Standardization. (2005). Eurocode 3: Design of steel structures – Part 1-9: Fatigue (EN 1993-1-9). https://www.phd.eng.br/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/en.1993.1.9.2005-1.pdf
• International Organization for Standardization. (1998). Ergonomics of the thermal environment – Instruments for measuring physical quantities (ISO 7726:1998). Geneva, Switzerland.

Directives

• European Parliament, & Council of the European Union. (2009). Directive 2009/28/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2009 on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources and amending and subsequently repealing directives 2001/77/EC and 2003/30/EC. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:32009L0028

Please use the transliterated (not translated) version of the names and sources in non-Romanian alphabet. We encourage to follow the rules for Romanization recommended by The Library of Congress https://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman.html

For citing papers published in the journals available in two or more languages, please give the English citation first, followed by the original language citation.

Additional online materials

The journal accepts supplemental files that support the submitted article (e.g., audio, video, or text files, such as a survey questionnaire stated in the paper). Supplemental information should be included with the application. It will not be formally evaluated, but it will be considered to see if it is necessary for the article. Please keep in mind that authors are solely responsible for the content of any extra information, and a disclaimer must explicitly specify that it has not been properly evaluated.

Data

We encourage every researcher to archive and disseminate their findings. Several grant funders now require this, and we feel it improves research by allowing other researchers to reuse and reinterpret data for the benefit of everybody. We encourage all authors to make their data available in appropriate repositories (for example, FigShare or another similar repository), where the item will be carefully kept and assigned a unique reference number (DOI or similar), allowing it to be mentioned in the authors’ publications. They should therefore be cited in the text (for example, ‘Data sets in repositories’ under References).

Use of Copyright Material

If you want to incorporate any content in your manuscript for which you do not own the copyright, you must seek formal permission from the copyright owner prior to submission. Such material can take the shape of text, data, a table, an illustration, an image, a line drawing, an audio clip, a video clip, a film still, a screenshot, and any additional information you choose to incorporate. This applies to both direct (verbatim or facsimile) and “derivative reproduction” (creating a new figure or table that is significantly based on a copyrighted source).

Publication ethical standards

The journals published by the BMEW Trust all follow the Committee on Publication Ethics’ (COPE) Core Practices (https://publicationethics.org/core-practices) principles for publication ethics and problem management.

All authors are expected to follow good practice when conducting and reporting on their research. See further in the Journal’s policies. https://architecture-theory.com/journal-policies/

The author’s obligations include the following issues:

Plagiarism. Unauthorized copying of another published or unpublished work, as well as theft of another researcher’s ideas, is regarded as a serious offense. If suspected, the authors will be informed, and if the article is under review, it will be held until the issue is rectified. It is important to note that all submitted articles are scrutinized for plagiarism.

Authorship: Everyone who meets the criterion of an author (above) should be named as an author on the article, and no one who does not should be included. Authors may not be added or deleted after submission without a thorough explanation and signed approval from all authors. 

Potential Conflicts of Interest: All authors have to reveal any conflicts of interest that may have affected their study or the article submitted.

Misleading or misreporting of findings: authors must ensure that they do not select or inaccurately report their findings, or use language to mislead readers.

In all situations, the publisher reserves the right to contact the authors’ universities and retract any papers where substantial misbehavior has been detected.

Modifications after publishing

If any mistakes are identified after publication, the journal editors will work with the BMEW Trust and the authors to establish the best means of correction. See the Journal’s policies. https://architecture-theory.com/journal-policies/