Journal of Contemporary Studies on Religion and Science (JCSRS)

Journal of Contemporary Studies on Religion and Science (JCSRS)

Guide for Authors

These policies describe guidelines in the publication process of The Journal of Contemporary Studies on Religion and Science (JCSRS):

 

Affiliations

All authors should list all current institutional affiliation. If you have moved to a different institution before the article has been published, you must list the affiliation where the study was performed. You can state your independent status if you don't have a current relevant institutional affiliation.

 

Authorship

All authors must have made relevant contributions to: (1) conception and design of the study, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data, (2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content, (3) final approval of the version.

 

 Author identification

At least the corresponding author should provide his/her Open Researcher and Contributor Identifier (ORCID) ID.

 

Competing interests

The Journal of Contemporary Studies on Religion and Science requires that all authors disclose any potential sources of conflict of interest.

 

Confidentiality

The journal reserves the right to contact funders, regulatory bodies, journals, and the authors’ institutions in cases of suspected research or publishing misconduct.

 

Plagiarism and duplicate publication

The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) defines plagiarism as: “When somebody presents the work of others (data, words or theories) as if they were his/her own and without proper acknowledgment.” This can include abstracts, seminar presentations, laboratory reports, thesis or dissertation, research proposals, online posts, literature, unpublished or published manuscripts and same issues.

 

Policy on duplicate publication

Material submitted to the Journal of Contemporary Studies on Religion & Science should not publish or concurrently submitted for publication elsewhere. Authors submitting a contribution to this journal, who have related material under consideration or in press elsewhere must upload a clearly marked copy at the time of submission and draw the editors' attention to it in a cover letter. 

 

 Peer-review policy

  • All submitted manuscripts are subjected to the external peer review and editorial approval.
  • The reviewers are blinded to the authors' identities and their affiliations while the associate editors have full access to them.
  • Reviewers are selected based on their expertise.
  • After receiving the reviewers’ comments, authors are requested to send the revised article and a copy of their reply to the reviewers including the comment and explaining the replies to the questions and the changes made to the revised version.

 

Writing style

Material submitted to the Journal of Contemporary Studies on Religion & Science should be prepared based on “Chicago Citation style (17th Edition)

 

Others

  1. The journal does not charge for receiving, and publishing articles, and if this policy changes, it will be notified during the process of receiving articles.
  2. The journal is affiliated with the Research Institute of Science and Strategic Evolution (RISSE), which is not affiliated with the government.
  3. If an author intends to cooperate as a reviewer of the journal, can send it by email to the journal.
  4. The quality of the articles is important for the journal, and if the article is in a non-English language, but it has the right conditions in terms of quality, the journal can cooperate with the author/authors.
  5. The entire process of receiving and evaluating articles is done through the journal's website.
  6. Any other questions about the journal can be asked by sending an email.