Paper Submission Guide
Dear Visitors,
We have introduced a new website and publishing system since July 22, 2018. THIS WEBSITE IS SHUTDOWN.
To find author guide and submit manuscripts, please visit the new website: journal.ccsenet.org , click "Submission" after the journal title.
You will enjoy the better interface and faster access to the contents and webpages, as well as a convenient process for manuscript submission.
If you have articles under peer review (in the former OJS system), they will not get lost, but you could not login to check the status. You may send email to the journal editor to request the status; or, just waiting for the notification from the journal editor.
Thanks.
The CCSE Technical Team
- General Information
- Manuscript Selection
- Journal Publishing Workflow
- Authorship, Misconduct and Ethical Issues
- Retraction
Paper Submission Guide MS-Word or PDF
Paper Template MS-Word
Title Page Template MS-Word
LaTeX: Paper Template, TitlePage Template (Only for Journal of Mathematics Research & International Journal of Statistics and Probability)
Competing Interests Statement MS-Word (All submissions to biomed journals shall include the Competing Interests Statement)
Application Form for Free Print Journals MS-Word (Authors only)
Tutorial for Creating an Account WWW
Tutorial for Online Submission WWW
The Canadian Center of Science and Education (CCSE) has developed a manuscript-selection system called the Star System for Journal Quality.
Step 1: Basic Check
The editor or editorial assistant checks a received manuscript to determine whether it fits the journal’s aim and scope. Manuscripts out of the journal’s scope are rejected. Articles published fully or partly in other publications/websites are not reviewed or accepted.
Step 2: Similarity Check
Please be aware that we check all submitted manuscripts for plagiarism. We use CrossCheck (powered by iThenticate, the leading plagiarism-detection system) to check for similarity to previously published documents. All manuscripts containing plagiarism, including self-plagiarism, and dishonesty are rejected.
Step 3: Peer Review
We use a double-blind system for peer review; both reviewers’ and authors' identities remain anonymous. The submitted manuscript will be reviewed by at least two experts: one editorial staff member as well as one to three external reviewers. The review process may take two to four weeks. In some rare cases, according to the recommendations from editors and reviewers, a second round of peer review may be initiated. Please see a sample of Result of Review.
Step 4: Acceptance/Rejection Decision
The decision to accept an article is based on the average score given by reviewers. The reviewers grade a submitted manuscript on a scale of 1 to 5. To be accepted for publication, the manuscript must obtain an average score not less than 2.5 (some journals require a higher score). However, we may reject a manuscript with a score higher than 2.5 when an editor or reviewer thinks it is not suitable for publication.
Please see the workflow for the article publication:
Authorship, Misconduct and Ethical Issues
We follow the the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)'s Core Practices and its advices. It covers: authorship, conflict of interest, data, ethical problems, peer review, plagiarism, redundant (duplicate) publication, and Whistleblowing.
We follow the the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)'s Retraction Guidelines.
