Author Guidelines

Please follow the template provided by JIIM to prepare a draft of your manuscript for the blind peer review. Our manuscript template is designed to enable blind peer review and simplify manuscript preparation for authors. It is also compliant with our manuscript presentation requirements. It also addresses the common presentation errors that can occasionally contribute to poor peer review outcomes. The template indicates the placement and presentation of common manuscript elements. It also includes a set of ready-to-use text styles, which authors can modify if they wish. This file is supplied in DOC format.

- Template in Microsoft Word Format (click here)

- CV template (click here)

Apart from the templates given for submitting articles, authors must consider the following:

Article Type

Please indicate the article as either a Research Article, Review Article, Case Study, or Book Review on the Title Page.

 Topics

Please indicate the topic of the submission on the Title Page as one or up to three of the following (use semicolons to separate):

Archival Studies; Records and Documents Management; Big data; Research Data Management; Data Visualization; Metadata Standards; Information Communication Exchange Standards; Library and Information Science (LIS); Integrated Information Management; Digital libraries; Digital Curation and Collections; Digital Data Preservation; Material Conservation and Preservation; Information Access and Behavior; Information Policy and Law; Publishing; Government Information; Educational Information; Information Management Systems; Information Technology; Content Delivery, Storage and Presentation; Bibliometrics and Altmetrics; Philosophical and Methodological Approaches to LIS; New and Emerging Agendas for Information Science; Health information; Digital Humanities; Management of Information Organizations; Human Resource Management; Project Management; Business Information Systems; Marketing and Communication; Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Subject Approach to Information and Semantics; Cultural Heritage Management; Services for Targeted or Underserved Populations; Libraries for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.

Article Length

Articles should be between 4000 and 9000 words in length. This includes all text, including references and appendices. Please allow 280 words for each figure or table.

Article Title

A title of not more than 16 words should be provided.

Author details

All contributing authors’ names should be added and their names arranged in the correct order for publication during the submission process (Enter Metadata step)

• Correct email addresses should be supplied for each author.
• The full name of each author must be present in their author in the exact format they should appear for publication, including or excluding any middle names or initials as required.
• The affiliation of each contributing author should be correct. The affiliation listed should be where they were based at the time that the research for the paper was conducted.

Biographical note
Each named author should provide a brief professional biography of no more than 100 words. Authors' biographies should be uploaded as a separate file (use the Upload Supplementary Files step).
 
Research funding
Authors must declare all sources of external research funding in their article, and a statement to this effect should appear in the Acknowledgements section. Authors should describe the role of the funder or financial sponsor in the entire research process, from study design to submission.

Structured Abstract

Authors must supply a structured abstract (no more than 300 words in total), containing the following headings (as in-line or run-in headings in bold):

• Purpose (mandatory)
• Design/methodology/approach (mandatory)
• Findings (mandatory)
• Research limitations/implications (if applicable)
• Practical implications (if applicable)
• Social implications (if applicable)
• Originality/value (mandatory)

Authors should avoid using personal pronouns in the structured abstract and body of the paper (e.g., "this paper investigates..." is correct, "I investigate..." is incorrect).
 
Keywords
Authors should provide appropriate and short keywords that encapsulate the principal topics of the paper after the Abstract (assigned as Index Terms). Use semicolons to separate them. The maximum number of keywords is 6.

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Peer Review Process

Scholarly double-blind peer review is carried out by two referees, who are experts in the same field, before a paper is published in JIIM.

Taking into account the journal guidelines, the decision and comments from the reviewers, and the editorial board's final approval, an article may either be accepted, considered acceptable with revisions (minor or major), or rejected (out of scope).

The journal editors perform an initial preview to ensure that the article's scope is among journal topics and of broad interest and that the English language is used correctly. Articles that do not fulfil the above-described criteria are often not accepted, resulting in a shorter processing time. Depending on the quality of the article, acceptance notification could take up to four weeks after submission.

After receiving a positive decision notification and comments from the reviewers, authors are required to return the revised article along with a detailed letter responding to the comments made by the referees. Authors should respond to all referees’ suggestions; if they disagree with any suggestions, they should justify the reasons for not accepting them. The Editor may again contact reviewers for final or additional comments. Articles will be accepted only after the Editor approves the revised version. Authors will receive an acceptance notification for the revised article by e-mail. Once an article has been accepted, it should be sent in word-processing format (i.e. MS Word file, not PDF) with separate figure files. Articles returned to authors for revision should be revised and resubmitted within three months; otherwise, they may be considered as withdrawn and treated as new submissions.

Blind Review Preparation

For article submissions, please use the JIIM electronic management system.

After the registration, the manuscript of the article should be prepared for blind review using the template and following the guidelines below:

Information to help prepare the Title Page

This should include the title, authors' names and affiliations, and a complete address for the corresponding author, including telephone and e-mail addresses.

Information to help prepare the Blinded Manuscript

Besides the obvious need to remove names and affiliations under the title within the manuscript, there are other steps that need to be taken to ensure the manuscript is correctly prepared for double-blind peer review.  To assist with this, process the key items that need to be observed are as follows:

• Use the third person to refer to work the Authors have previously undertaken, e.g. replace any phrases like “as we have shown before” with “… has been shown before [Anonymous, 2007]”.
• Make sure figures do not contain any affiliation-related identifier.
• Do not eliminate essential self-references or other references, but limit self-references only to papers that are relevant to those reviewing the submitted paper.
• Cite papers published by the Author in the text as follows:  ‘[Anonymous, 2007]’.
• For blinding in the reference list:  ‘[Anonymous 2007] Details omitted for double-blind reviewing.’
• Remove references to funding sources.
• Do not include acknowledgements.
• Remove any identifying information, including author names, from file names and ensure document properties are anonymized.