Guidelines

We recommend that authors review the About the Journal page for the journal's section policies first.

1. Registration

Authors need to register with the journal prior to submitting, or if already registered can simply log in and begin the 5 step process.
During registration authors will be asked to fill out a form giving details on their name, affiliation, address, email, phone, discipline and a short bio statement. This data is used for internal communication and enables authors to foster their personal presence on the web (e.g. the bio statement and affiliation will be available with every article they will publish with JeDEM). Authors can administrate or update their profile at any time.

2. Submission

2.1 Authors start with choosing the section they want to submit their paper to; check the submissions checklist and agree to the terms of the Copyright notice.

2.2 The authors data is automatically imported from the registration database. If a submission has multiple authors, additional authors’ data should be entered now. The author has to add title, metadata for indexing (academic discipline and sub-disciplines, keywords, methodology or approach, and language), and, if appropriate, supporting agencies. Authors can administrate or update the metadata (important for visibility on the web) during the review process until the article is published online.

2.3 Authors upload the first draft of their paper. They must use our Word-template for formating their contribution according to our formal guidelines. The template for Word can be DOWNLOADED HERE. Authors should have a close look at Ensuring a Blind Peer Review before submitting their draft papers. The authors of the document have to delete their names from the text, with "Author" and year used in the references and footnotes, instead of the authors' name, article title, etc.

3. Types of reviewing

JeDEM offers double-blind and editorial review. Double-blind reviewing will be applied on submitted scientific papers and case studies, whereas project descriptions will be allocated to editorial reviews. Reflections (comments, reviews, discussions, interviews, etc) are welcome, but not peer-reviewed.

4. Template

The template gives clear directions how to format the submission.

(JeDEM TEMPLATE)

5. Word count limits:

Length of paper: 7,500-12,000 words.