Submissions

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

• All invited and unsolicited manuscripts must be original works written in English or Mandarin Chinese. The text length limit is 10,000 words for English manuscripts and 20,000 words for Chinese manuscripts (including references). The authors may be asked to provide an English editing certificate.
• Please include the following information in the manuscript: title, author name, job title, affiliation, email, abstract (300 words), and keywords (no more than five). Manuscripts written in Chinese must provide the aforementioned information in both Chinese and English.
• When submitting a manuscript with multiple authors, the first author would be designated as the 'primary author.' The same individual or another author may be appointed as the 'corresponding author,' responsible for manuscript correspondence and academic communications.
• The submission file should be prepared in Microsoft Word compatible format (no PDF). Figures should be prepared in JPEG (at least 300 dpi), TIFF or PNG. Authors are responsible for obtaining copyright clearance for any copyrighted material used in their manuscripts, and JLIS assumes no responsibility for the use of such materials.
• All manuscripts must conform to the seventh edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. Once a submission is accepted through the journal’s review process, JLIS reserves the right to make editorial changes.