Author Guidelines

Thank you for choosing to submit your paper to us. These instructions will ensure we have everything required so your paper can move through peer review, production and publication smoothly. Please take the time to read and follow them as closely as possible, as doing so will ensure your paper matches the journal's requirements.

The Editorial Office is pleased to answer any questions you may have about preparing your manuscript in accordance with our guidelines.

Email: editorialoffice@editingpractice.com

ABOUT THE JOURNAL

Editing Practice is a peer-reviewed online journal with continuous print on demand compilation of issues published. The journal is academically supported by Publishing Research Institute, Peking University. It’s full text is available online at www.editingpractice.com. The journal allows free access (Open Access) to its contents and permits authors to self-archive final accepted version of the articles on any OAI-compliant institutional/subject-based repository. The journal does not charge for submission, processing or publication of manuscripts and even for color reproduction of photographs.

Aims and scope

-Publish the latest achievements of academic progress and lead the direction of academic exchange, publishing practice and academic communication;

-Build a platform for academic exchange and innovate the way of editing exchange and cooperation;

-Shape a new academic ecology of editing, publishing, management and operation, open up the editorial practice industry chain, and promote the development of research and practice in related disciplines;

-Improve the editing practice ability of relevant editorial talents, academic professionals, library and information personnel, academic information management personnel and related teaching personnel, thus promoting academic exchanges and the prosperity of editing and publishing.

The journal publishes academic progress, technical progress, editorial, review, research, continuing education, knowledge service, scientific evaluation, readers' letters, people's stories, etc.

Target audience

Text editor (language and content), Art editor, Science editor, Planning editor, New media editors, Technical editor, Production editor, Managing editor, Publisher, and all those people involved in the whole process or single section of editing and publishing.

How the Editorial Team deals with your submission—please read carefully as this contains important information for you

To ensure that the Editorial Team is able to dedicate sufficient time to making sure that each manuscript under consideration receives the attention it deserves, the Journal has adopted a two-stage selection process.

In stage one, the Editor-in-Chief will make the initial assessment of the potential and relevance of the manuscript. This will be based on the Journal objectives as stated in the Aims and Scope section with the primary questions being:

Does this article contribute to either theoretical advancement and/or to potentially informing policy and practice in editing/publishing?
Is the article appropriately grounded in editing/publishing literature?
Will this article be of interest to our international and diverse audience?
Is the article within the journal’s word limit and does it meet other technical requirements?

Manuscripts that do not clearly meet these minimum expectations will be desk rejected.

The abstract: To facilitate the initial assessment of your manuscript, please ensure that the abstract clearly communicates the contributions, approach, and significance of the study. While the initial review will consider the full manuscript, an unclear abstract may be a reason for desk rejection if it hinders the ability of editors and reviewers to understand the nature of the study.

If your manuscript proceeds to stage two, it will be sent on to one of the Associate Editors for closer scrutiny. They will undertake a more detailed look at the manuscript, assessing its theoretical foundations, implications for policy and practice, methodological soundness, and conclusions, including the broader significance of the study. If they feel that your contribution addresses these aspects in sufficient depth, with clarity and rigour, they will then select appropriate peer reviewers and send the manuscript out for full expert review. If their assessment is negative, the manuscript will be rejected at this point in stage two.

Reviewer selection is a carefully constructed process to ensure that, if your paper gets to the review stage, it will receive at least two expert, anonymous, independent peer reviews.

In the case of rejection, at either stage, we aim to let you know within four weeks of our decision so that you may seek an alternative publication outlet. We believe a quick process is in the interest of all concerned.

JOURNAL POLICIES

Peer review

EP operates a double-blind external peer review process. We invite worldwide experts in the relevant field to make a double-blind peer review of manuscripts submitted by authors. Review comments are fully considered to ensure the academic value of the journal. The primary task of reviewers is to evaluate the validity of the approach, the significance and originality of the finding, its interest and timeliness to the scientific community, and the clarity of the writing. A qualified peer reviewer should send his/her feedback (even decline to review due to some reasons) as per the time frame of the journal. All peer reviewers must maintain a strict and perpetual confidentiality for the content of all manuscripts under their review and for any related correspondences with the journal editorial team. Reviewers must not share any part of the manuscript with a third party or discuss its content with the authors of the manuscript or any other person. Reviewers must not plagiarize or cite any of the contents of a manuscript before the manuscript has been formally published. Reviewers will decline participation in the peer review process for any manuscript if a conflict of interest exists, including interests related to the manuscript’s authors, personal interests, or academic or economic interests. If a conflict of interest becomes apparent during the peer review process, the reviewer must inform the Editorial Office immediately. The following reasons are adequate, alone or in combination, for rejection of a manuscript for publication: (1) The scientific content does not correspond to the journal’s aims and scope; (2) The research is not reasonably designed and the data are inadequate to support proper explanations or conclusions; (3) Related work has been previously published and only a few new points have been added; (4) The article contains accumulated information that has been previously published, with only few technical improvements; (5) The article is expected to attract only a very small portion of the journal’s readership audience; (6) The article has been rejected previously and resubmitted without adding any new valuable content.

Editorial policy

Manuscripts received from Editorial Board Members will be screened by the Editor-in-Chief and sent to external peer reviewers. The Editorial Board Members, who submit manuscripts to the journal as authors or co-authors, will be excluded from publication decisions.

Manuscripts received from Editor-in-Chief will be handled by the other co-Editor-in-Chief or one of the Associate Editor of the journal and will be sent to external peer reviewers. The contributing Editor-in-Chief will be excluded from decision-making of his/her manuscript.

Editors are not involved in decisions about papers which they have written themselves or have been written by family members or colleagues or whoever relate to products or services in which the editor has an interest. Any such submission is subject to the journal’s standard procedures, with peer review handled independently of the relevant editor and their research groups.

Appeal

The authors have the right to appeal if they have a genuine cause to believe that the editorial board has wrongly rejected the paper. If the authors wish to appeal against the editorial decision, they should email the editorial office (Email: editorialoffice@editingpractice.com) explaining in detail the reason for the appeal. The appeals will be acknowledged by the editorial office and will be investigated in an unbiased manner. The processing of appeals will be done within 6–8 weeks. While under appeal, the said manuscript should not be submitted to other journals. The final decision rests with the Editor-in-Chief of the journal. Second appeals are not considered.

AI policy

To reviewers: EP suggests that peer reviewers should maintain a cautious attitude when using AI tools such as ChatGPT or Large Language Models to assist in peer-reviewing, but the whole article should not be fully-uploaded to GenAI tools in case the information leakage. Meanwhile, reviewer should inform the editorial department about using AI tools to review. At the same time, reviewers should be responsible for reviewing results and a check through of the results should be made by fully utilizing their professional judgment and unique insights to ensure the fairness and accuracy of the review results.

To authors: The use of AI tools such as ChatGPT or Large Language Models in research publications is expanding rapidly. EP bear the same attitude as COPE to authors. Authors may use AI tools and should be responsible for the result and state the utilizing fact as well. Be cautious that AI tools cannot be listed as an author of a paper.

Open access

All the articles published on this journal (Editing Practice) are under Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 (CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0), details please visit Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0. Editing Practice does not charge any fees for all the authors.

Authors retain all rights. Once the peer-review is done and before publishing, the author needs to grant this journal (Editing Practice) a “License to Publish” for the article and identify the journal as the original publisher.

Permitted the third party to reuse is defined by the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. This license allows users to copy and distribute the article, provided:

This is not allowed to use the articles for commercial purposes and further does not permit distribution of the article if it is changed or edited in any way.
No derivatives including remix, transform, or build upon the material was allowed for distribution.

Some exceptions

Although in all such cases, access to the OA articles is free from fees and under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. There are some exceptions:

If you need information specifically regarding permissions and reprints, please contact us by the address on Contact page. We would be happy to explain and help.

Using third-party material

You must obtain the necessary permission to reuse third-party material in your article. The use of short extracts of text and some other types of material is usually permitted, on a limited basis, for the purposes of criticism and review without securing formal permission. If you wish to include any material in your paper for which you do not hold copyright, and which is not covered by this informal agreement, you will need to obtain written permission from the copyright owner prior to submission.

A copy of the permission obtained must accompany the manuscript. Copies of any and all published articles or other manuscripts in preparation or submitted elsewhere that are related to the manuscript must also accompany the manuscript. The material should be sent to any of the two addresses given above.

Plagiarism

Authors must not use the words, figures, or ideas of others without attribution. All sources must be cited at the point they are used, and reuse of wording must be limited and be attributed or quoted in the text.

The journal uses Crossref Similarity Check (iThenticate) to detect submissions that overlap with published and submitted manuscripts.

Manuscripts that are found to have been plagiarized from a manuscript by other authors, whether published or unpublished, will be rejected and the authors may incur sanctions. Any published articles may need to be corrected or retracted.

Duplicate submission and redundant publication

The journal considers only original content, i.e. articles that have not been previously published. Articles based on content previously made public only on a preprint server, institutional repository, or in a thesis will be considered.

Manuscripts submitted to the journal must not be submitted elsewhere while under consideration and must be withdrawn before being submitted elsewhere. Authors whose articles are found to have been simultaneously submitted elsewhere may incur sanctions.

If authors have used their own previously published work, or work that is currently under review, as the basis for a submitted manuscript, they must cite the previous articles and indicate how their submitted manuscript differs from their previous work. Reuse of the authors’ own words outside the Methods should be attributed or quoted in the text. Reuse of the authors’ own figures or substantial amounts of wording may require permission from the copyright holder and the authors are responsible for obtaining this.

The journal will consider extended versions of articles published at conferences provided this is declared in the cover letter, the previous version is clearly cited and discussed, there is significant new content, and any necessary permissions are obtained.

Redundant publication, the inappropriate division of study outcomes into more than one article (also known as salami slicing), may result in rejection or a request to merge submitted manuscripts, and the correction of published articles. Duplicate publication of the same, or a very similar, article may result in the retraction of the later article and the authors may incur sanctions.

Citation manipulation

Authors whose submitted manuscripts are found to include citations whose primary purpose is to increase the number of citations to a given author’s work, or to articles published in a particular journal, may incur sanctions.

Editors and reviewers must not ask authors to include references merely to increase citations to their own or an associate’s work, to the journal, or to another journal they are associated with.

Fabrication and falsification

The authors of submitted manuscripts or published articles that are found to have fabricated or falsified the results, including the manipulation of images, may incur sanctions, and published articles may be retracted.

Corrections and retractions

In line with the journal’s policy, corrections to, or retractions of, published articles will be made by publishing a Correction or a Retraction note bidirectionally linked to the original article.

Changes to published articles that affect the interpretation and conclusion of the article, but do not fully invalidate the article, will, at the Editor(s)’ discretion, be corrected via publication of a Correction that is indexed and bidirectionally linked to the original article.

On rare occasions, when the interpretation or conclusion of an article is substantially undermined, it may be necessary for published articles to be retracted. The journal will follow the COPE guidelines in such cases. Retraction notices are indexed and bidirectionally linked to the original article. The original article is watermarked as retracted and the title is amended with the prefix “Retracted article:”

Preparation of Manuscripts

The uniform requirements and specific requirement are summarized below. Before submitting a manuscript, contributors are requested to check for the latest instructions available.

The journal accepts manuscripts written in American English.

TYPES OF MANUSCRIPTS

Original Articles:

The text of original articles amounting to up to 3,000 words (excluding abstract, references, and tables) should be divided into sections with the headings Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Material and Methods, Results, Discussion, References, Tables, and Figure legends.

Review Articles:

It is expected that these articles would be written by individuals who have done substantial work on the subject or are considered experts in the field. A short summary of the work done by the contributor(s) in the field of review should accompany the manuscript.

The prescribed word count is up to 3,000 words excluding tables, references, and abstract. The manuscript may have about 90 references. The manuscript should have an unstructured abstract (250 words) representing an accurate summary of the article. The section titles would depend upon the topic reviewed. Authors submitting the review article should include a section describing the methods used for locating, selecting, extracting, and synthesizing data. These methods should also be summarized in the abstract.

Letter to the Editor:

These should be short and decisive observations. They should preferably be related to articles previously published in the Journal or views expressed in the journal. They should not be preliminary observations that need a later paper for validation. The letter could have up to 500 words and 5 references. It could be generally authored by not more than four authors.

Editorial:

Editorials are brief articles on academic publishing prepared by an editor or by an invited expert. It also can be a commentary on current topics or on papers published elsewhere in the issue. The editorial could be authored by up to three authors, up to 1,000 words, and no more than 10 references.

Commentary：

A commentary type of article is generally solicited by the editors. A commentary discusses a paper or report or event within the past few months or so, or in the near future. It should set the problems addressed by the paper/report/event in the wider context of the field. The commentary could have up to 1,500 words and 20 references. It could be generally authored by not more than three authors.

Opinion：

Review and discussion of the primary research literature in which the authors may express particular points of view about academic publishing-related science and social issues. The opinion could have up to 3000 words and 20 references. It could be generally authored by not more than three authors.

References

You must avoid excessive and inappropriate self-citation or pre-arrangements among author groups to inappropriately cite each other’s work, as this can be considered a form of misconduct called citation manipulation. Read the COPE guidance on citation manipulation.

Please ensure that the references you cite are relevant and provide a fair and balanced overview of the current state of research or scholarly work on the topic. Your references should not be unfairly biased towards a particular research group, organization or journal.

References should be numbered consecutively in the order in which they are first mentioned in the text (not in alphabetic order). Identify references in text, tables, and legends by Arabic numerals in superscript with square bracket after the punctuation marks. References cited only in tables or figure legends should be numbered in accordance with the sequence established by the first identification in the text of the particular table or figure. Use the style of the examples below, which are based on the formats used by the NLM in Index Medicus. The titles of journals should be abbreviated according to the style used in Index Medicus. Use complete name of the journal for non-indexed journals. Avoid using abstracts as references. Information from manuscripts submitted but not accepted should be cited in the text as "unpublished observations" with written permission from the source. Avoid citing a "personal communication" unless it provides essential information not available from a public source, in which case the name of the person and date of communication should be cited in parentheses in the text.
The commonly cited types of references are shown here, for other types of references such as newspaper items please refer to ICMJE Guidelines (http://www.icmje.org or http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.html).

Articles in Journals

Standard journal article (for up to six authors): Parija SC, Ravinder PT, Shariff M. Detection of hydatid antigen in the fluid samples from hydatid cysts by co-agglutination. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg. 1996;90:255–256.
Standard journal article (for more than six authors): List the first three contributors followed by et al., like this: Roddy P, Goiri J, Flevaud L, et al. Field Evaluation of a Rapid Immunochromatographic Assay for Detection of Trypanosoma cruzi Infection by Use of Whole Blood. J Clin Microbiol. 2008;46: 2022-2027.
Volume with supplement: Otranto D, Capelli G, Genchi C: Changing distribution patterns of canine vector borne diseases in Italy: leishmaniosis vs. dirofilariosis. Parasites Vectors. 2009;Suppl 1:S2.

Books and Other Monographs

Personal author(s): Parija SC. Textbook of Medical Parasitology. 3rd ed. All India Publishers and Distributors; 2008.
Editor(s), compiler(s) as author: Garcia LS. Filarial Nematodes. In: Garcia LS, ed. Diagnostic Medical Parasitology. ASM press; 2007: 319-356.
Chapter in a book: Nesheim MC. Ascariasis and human nutrition. In: Crompton DWT, Nesbemi MC, Pawlowski ZS, eds. Ascariasis and its prevention and control. Taylor and Francis; 1989: 87–100.

Website

Xiao H. [Facing the world to establish international leading academic journals]. China Press, Publication and Broadcasting Network. Updated December 29, 2016. Accessed December 20, 2022. https://epaper.chinaxwcb.com/epaper/2016-12/29/content_99754433.html

Checklist: What to include

Author details

All authors of a manuscript should include their full name and affiliation on the cover page of the manuscript (which will be anonymized/hidden when the manuscript is sent to peer review). At least one author will need to be identified as the corresponding author, with their email address and ORCiD normally displayed in the article PDF (depending on the journal) and the online article. Authors’ affiliations are the affiliations where the research was conducted. If any of the named co-authors moves affiliation during the peer-review process, the new affiliation can be given as a footnote.

Acknowledgements

All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in an "Acknowledgements" section.

Author Contributions

Generally, the journal follows CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) rule. Journals mandating CRediT will enable authors to provide information on submission, allowing for detailed information about individual contributions to the work. The submitting author is responsible for ensuring that contributions of all authors are correct. It is expected that all authors will have reviewed, discussed and agreed to their individual contributions as shared by the submitting author. The authors’ contribution statement will be published with the final article and should accurately reflect contributions to the work.

An example of an Authors’ Contribution statement:

Author 1 name: Conceptualization, Methodology, Software. Author 2 name: Data curation, Writing- Original draft preparation. Author 3 name: Visualization, Investigation. Author 4 name: Supervision. Author 5 name: Software, Validation. Author 6 name: Writing- Reviewing and Editing.

For more information, please see the taxonomy website: https://credit.niso.org/

Funding details

A financial disclosure section is part of the submission process and must be completed by each author at first revision. You are requested to identify who provided financial support for the conduct of the research and/or preparation of the article and to briefly describe the role of the sponsor(s), if any, in study design; in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; and in the decision to submit the article for publication. If the funding source(s) had no such involvement then this should be stated. This information is for review by the Editors but will be published if relevant to the content of the accepted manuscript.

Ethics approval

Research involving human participants, human material, or human data, must have been performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and must have been approved by an appropriate ethics committee. A clear statement, including the name of the ethics committee and the reference number where appropriate, must appear in the method part of all manuscripts reporting such research. If authors declared that his study has been granted an exemption from requiring ethics approval, and this exemption should also be stated in the proper part of the manuscript. Editors may contact authors for further information and documentation to support this, it should be made available to the Editor on request. And editors have the right to reject manuscripts if they consider the research has not been carried out within an appropriate ethical framework. The editors may also contact the ethics committee for further information, if necessary.

Retrospective ethics approval: If a study has not been granted ethics committee approval prior to commencing, retrospective ethics approval usually cannot be obtained and it may not be possible to consider the manuscript for peer review. The decision on whether to proceed to peer review in such cases is at the Editor's discretion.

Consent to participate

For all research involving human participants, informed consent to participate in the study should be obtained from participants (or their parent or legal guardian in the case of children under 16) and a statement to this effect should appear in the declaration part of the manuscript.

Conflict of Interest

All authors must disclose any conflict of interest. Examples of potential conflicts of interest include employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent applications/registrations, and grants or other funding. Details must be included at the end of your manuscript and in a file that must be uploaded on submission. If there are no conflicts of interest then please state this: The author has no conflicts of interest to declare.

Data availability statements

Data availability statements are required for all articles published in EP. During the peer review and editorial decision process, authors can be asked to share existing datasets or raw data that have been analyzed in the manuscript, and whether they will be made available to other researchers following publication. Authors will also be asked for the details of any existing datasets that have been analyzed in the manuscript.

Tables

Tables should be self-explanatory and should not duplicate textual material.
Number tables, in Arabic numerals, consecutively in the order of their first citation in the text and supply a brief title for each.
Place explanatory matter in footnotes, not in the heading.
Explain in footnotes all non-standard abbreviations that are used in each table.
Obtain permission for all fully borrowed, adapted, and modified tables and provide a credit line in the footnote.
For footnotes use the following symbols, in this sequence: *, †, ‡, §, ||,¶ , **, ††, ‡‡
Tables with their legends should be provided at the end of the text after the references. The tables along with their number should be cited at the relevant place in the text

Illustrations (Figures)

Upload the images in JPEG format. The file size should be within 1024 kb in size while uploading.
Figures should be numbered consecutively according to the order in which they have been first cited in the text.
Labels, numbers, and symbols should be clear and of uniform size. The lettering for figures should be large enough to be legible after reduction to fit the width of a printed column.
Symbols, arrows, or letters used in photomicrographs should contrast with the background and should be marked neatly with transfer type or by tissue overlay and not by pen.
Titles and detailed explanations belong in the legends for illustrations not on the illustrations themselves.
When graphs, scatter-grams or histograms are submitted the numerical data on which they are based should also be supplied.
The photographs and figures should be trimmed to remove all the unwanted areas.
If photographs of individuals are used, their pictures must be accompanied by written permission to use the photograph.
If a figure has been published elsewhere, acknowledge the original source and submit written permission from the copyright holder to reproduce the material. A credit line should appear in the legend for such figures.
Legends for illustrations: Type or print out legends for illustrations using double spacing, with Arabic numerals corresponding to the illustrations. When symbols, arrows, numbers, or letters are used to identify parts of the illustrations, identify and explain each one in the legend.
Final figures for print production: Send sharp, glossy, un-mounted, color photographic prints, with height of 4 inches and width of 6 inches at the time of submitting the revised manuscript. Print outs of digital photographs are not acceptable. If digital images are the only source of images, ensure that the image has minimum resolution of 300 dpi or 1800 x 1600 pixels in TIFF format. The Journal reserves the right to crop, rotate, reduce, or enlarge the photographs to an acceptable size.

PERMANENT ARCHIVE

To ensure long-term digital preservation, all the published articles will be archived on Portico platform.