Author Guidelines

Submission

All contributions should be made online at the  Journal of Architecture and Theory website via the “Make a Submission” button. New users will have set up an account. Once logged in, authors can make a submission or check the progress of their manuscript. 

Peer-review and decisions

To eliminate bias, the journal uses double-blind peer review (neither the authors nor the reviewers know each other’s identities). See the journal policies. Peer review

Manuscripts should be submitted as two independent Word files (as described in the manuscript template).

Following submission, all papers are reviewed by the editorial office and may be rejected immediately if they are deemed to be outside the scope of the journal or otherwise unsuitable for publication. Articles that passed the initial inspection will be sent out for external review. Reviewer reports with an editor’s decision will be sent to the authors as quickly as possible, but please be patient, as reviewing might take up to 60 days.

After review, the editor will decide whether to reject, approve, or alter. Revisions might be major or minor. If a revision decision is made, authors are asked to submit their adjustments as soon as possible; if an article is revised after a significant delay, it may be deemed a new submission. Depending on the level of editing required, revised articles may be resubmitted for approval.

Publication charges 

The journal is an open access peer-reviewed journal owned by Basanta Misra Education and Welfare Trust). It provides free and unrestricted access to published content for readers, while publication fees apply to authors.

See the journal policies Fees & Charge

Copyright and publication

During submission, you will be required to sign numerous warranties about the article (see Journal policies ). These include stating that it is original and does not violate any legal or personal rights (such as copyright, libel, or privacy). Authors maintain copyright in their articles while granting The journal operates under an open-access model, providing free and unrestricted access to published content for readers, while publication fees apply to authors.  the right of first publication.

All papers will be released in open access under the Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. This ensures that they receive maximum diffusion because there are no obstacles to entry. This license permits readers to disseminate and reuse the paper as long as they give full credit to the authors and the original publication.

See the journal policies. Open access

Article types

The journal accepts original submissions of articles and reviews that align with its Aims and Scope.

All contributions must be original and not already under review by another journal. If the manuscript incorporates previously published material (for example, figures), it must be stated, and the authors are responsible for securing necessary permissions to reprint. If required, evidence of authorization must be supplied (see Reproduction of copyright material).

Template of a manuscript

The paper should be provided as two separate word documents. Use the linked <Word template for Title Page> and <Word template for Anonymized Document>

The title page should include the paper’s title, authors’ names, institutional affiliations, addresses, e-mails, ORCID, the corresponding author’s identity, the abstract, and key words. To guarantee author anonymity, acknowledgements, funding, disclosure statements, and contributions should be included only on the title page (not in the Anonymized Document file).

General guidelines

Only English language articles are accepted. Authors are responsible for the language quality in their article, and it is strongly recommended to have your manuscript checked by a native speaker or an English language specialist before submission, in order to ensure that the language is acceptable. For all manuscripts non-discriminatory language is mandatory. Sexist or racist terms must not be used.

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 
•  Clear identification of the corresponding author (who will be responsible for ensuring that the correct version is submitted and that all authors agree to publication and approve any corrections 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 200 words: this should summarise the article, not simply introduce the topic
•  Between 6–10 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

Text sections may be numbered sequentially for clarity. Introduction, Conclusions, References are not numbered. Authors must adhere to SI units. Units are not italicised. When using a word which is or is asserted to be a proprietary term or trade mark, authors must use the symbol ® or ™

Equations

Formulas, equations and their components presented in the text must be written in the Equation Editor. The size of basic symbols in equations should correspond to the letter size of the main text – 10 pt; indexes should be in 7 pt, sub-indexes – 6 pt. For more details see the Template of the Manuscript.

Tables

Tables should be created in Word or Excel and should be designed so that they easily fit a regular journal page. Each table should be numbered sequentially throughout the article and mentioned in the main text. Each table must have an informative caption to describe the table. They may have footnotes if explanations of abbreviations, etc., are required.

Figures

Figures may be supplied within the text file at submission, but on article acceptance they must be supplied as separate files. Each figure should be numbered sequentially throughout the article and mentioned in the main text. Each figure must have an informative caption to describe the figure. Please be sure that all figures are at the appropriate resolution: 1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for colour. Diagrams, charts and schemes: font – Times New Roman from 5 to 8 pt, line thickness – from 0.3 to 2 pt, file formats – *.pdf, *.eps, *.cdr, *.xls, *.xlsx, *.dwg

Author Contributions and Acknowledgments

Each person who made an intellectual contribution to the research, and the evaluation/analysis and to the writing of the article (see the ICMJE definition of authorship) should be named as an author. People who contributed to the work (but do not fulfil the authorship criteria) should be listed in the Acknowledgments, along with their contributions. You must ensure that anyone named in the acknowledgments agrees to being named.

See the journal Policies Authorship.

Conflict of Interest

Authors must also provide a disclosure statement within the article which will acknowledge any financial, professional, personal interest or benefit they have arising from the direct applications of their research.

Funding

Please supply all details required by any funding and grant-awarding bodies as Funding in a separate paragraph as follows:

• For single agency grants:
  • This work was supported by the <Funding Agency> under Grant [number xxxx].

• For multiple agency grants:
  • This work was supported by the <Funding Agency #1> under Grant [number xxxx]; <Funding Agency #2> under Grant [number xxxx]; and <Funding Agency #3> under Grant [number xxxx].

References

(THE EXAMPLE FOR REFERENCE WILL BE SAME???)

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.

Supplemental online material

The journal can accept supplementary files that support the submitted article (e.g. audio, movie, or text files: for example a survey questionnaire which is described in the article). Supplemental information should be provided with the submission. It will not be formally reviewed but will be considered to determine whether it is required by the article. Please note that authors take full responsibility for the content of any supplemental information, and a disclaimer on the supplemental information must clearly state that they have not been formally reviewed.

Data

We encourage all researchers to archive and share their data. Several grant funders now require this, and we believe that it benefits research by enabling other researchers to reuse and reinterpret data for the benefit of all. We encourage all authors to make their data available in suitable repositories (for example FigShare, or other similar repository) where the item will be safely archived and given a unique reference number (DOI or similar), so that it can be cited in the authors’ articles. They should then be referenced in the article (see an example ‘Data sets in repositories’ in References).

Reproduction of copyright material

If you wish to include any material in your manuscript in which you do not hold copyright, you must obtain written permission from the copyright owner, prior to submission. Such material may be in the form of text, data, table, illustration, photograph, line drawing, audio clip, video clip, film still, and screenshot, and any supplemental material you propose to include. This applies to direct (verbatim or facsimile) reproduction as well as “derivative reproduction” (where you have created a new figure or table which derives substantially from a copyrighted source).

You must ensure appropriate acknowledgement is given to the permission granted to you for reuse by the copyright holder in each figure or table caption. You are solely responsible for any fees which the copyright holder may charge for reuse. The reproduction of short extracts of text for the purposes of criticism may be possible without formal permission on the basis that the quotation is reproduced accurately and full attribution is given.

Publication Ethics

The journals published by The journal operates under an open-access model, providing free and unrestricted access to published content for readers, while publication fees apply to authors. across all documents all adhere to the Core Practices of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE, https://publicationethics.org/core-practices) and follow their guidelines in respect of publication ethics and managing problems when they arise. All authors are expected to comply with good practice in regard to their research and the reporting of their research. See further in the Journal policies.

Authors’ responsibilities include the following issues:

Plagiarism. The unattributed copying of another published or unpublished work, or the theft of the ideas of another researcher is considered a serious offence. If suspected authors will be contacted and – if under review – the article will be held until the issue is resolved. Note that all articles are checked for plagiarism when submitted.

Authorship: all people who comply with the definition of authors (above) should be named as authors on the article, and, similarly, nobody who does not comply should be included as an author. Authors may not be added or deleted after submission without full explanation and written consent of all authors.

Conflict of Interest: all authors must declare if they have any conflict of interest that may have biased either their research or the article submitted.

Misleading or misreporting of findings: authors are required to ensure that they do not selectively, or incorrectly, report their findings, or use language to mislead the readers.

In all cases, the publisher reserves the right to contact the authors’ institutions if serious misconduct has been identified, and to retract any articles in which serious misconduct has been identified.

Corrections after publication

If any errors are discovered after publication the journal editors, in partnership with BMEW TRUST and the authors will determine the right method of correction. See the Journal policies [Insert Link]

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms

• Authors confirm that their submitted work does not infringe any existing copyright or third-party rights and does not contain defamatory, confidential, or otherwise unlawful material. Authors agree to indemnify and hold harmless the Editor and the Publisher against any claims or expenses, including legal costs, arising from a breach of this assurance.
• Authors affirm that permission has been obtained for all illustrations, diagrams, or other third-party material included in the article and that all such sources are properly acknowledged.
• On behalf of all co-authors, authors agree to the publication of the work in the Journal of Architecture and Theory as Open Access under the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY 4.0).

Authors who are not copyright holders (e.g., government employees) are requested to contact Basanta Misra Educational Fund Trust (BMEW Trust) to arrange alternative agreements.

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