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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.

  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).

  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.

  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.

  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.

  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.

  • If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

Author Guidelines

All submissions should follow APA style (Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 7th edition, 2020). An abstract of 250-300 words or less, summarizing the main points of the article, should accompany the manuscript. The authors' names, affiliations, telephone numbers, and email addresses should appear on a separate title page, and only on this page, to ensure anonymity in the review process. The manuscript must be in Microsoft Word document format. Manuscripts should be single-spaced, with wide margins and pages numbered consequently. All tables and camera-ready figures should be included within the same document file as the rest of the manuscriptThe paper should be written in professional English. The length of 7000-10000 words is preferred. All manuscripts should be prepared in MS-Word format, and submitted online: http://www.ejecs.org/index.php/JECS/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions or sent to: info@ejecs.org

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Alert: Starting in 2020, the Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies will transition to the APA 7th edition style guide for publications and will expect that at least one author have an ORCID iD.

ORCID iDs: All published articles must include an ORCID iD for at least one author, preferably the first author (see APA 7 ed. Section 2.7). The open researcher and contributor identifier (ORCID) is a free, 16-digit, linkable, persistent digital identifier (iD) that helps keep individual researchers distinguished from one another, especially other researchers who may have the same name. The authors may want to read “What is ORCID before registering for one.

Artificial Intelligence

We at JECS recognize the value of artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential to help authors in the research and writing process. We also welcome advancements in this area to enhance opportunities for generating ideas, accelerating research discovery, synthesizing, or analyzing findings, polishing language, or structuring a submission. Lastly, we value accuracy, transparency, and integrity in the research and writing process.

To comply with this policy, authors

  • must disclose their use of AI and AI-assisted technologies in the body of the submission.
  • must not list Generative AI as an author of the submission.
  • should cite original sources, rather than Generative AI tools as primary sources within the reference.
  • must not use AI to create or manipulate images and figures.
  • must disclose on the AJQR submission page their use of any Generative AI or AI-assisted technologies in the research process reported in this submission including the creation of the report itself. In the disclosure, authors must name the tool, describe how it was used, and the reason for using it.

While submissions will not be rejected because of the disclosed use of Generative AI or AI-assisted technologies, if an editor becomes aware that Generative AI or AI-assisted technologies was inappropriately used in the preparation of a submission without disclosure, the editor reserves the right to reject the submission at any time during the publishing process. Inappropriate use of Generative AI includes the generation of incorrect text or content, plagiarism, or inappropriate attribution to prior sources.

 

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  • Copyright Policy:

Copyright on any article is retained by the author(s). Regarding copyright usage, please see below.

Authors give any third party the right to use the article freely as long as its original authors and citation details are identified.

The article and any associated published material are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY-NC 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed.en

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Any usage rights are regulated through the Creative Commons License. As CECS Journals is using the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY-NC 4.0), anyone (the author, his/her institution/company, the publisher, as well as the public) is free to copy, distribute, transmit, and adapt the work as long as the original author is credited (see above). Therefore, specific usage rights cannot be reserved by the author or his/her institution/company, and the publisher cannot include a statement "all rights reserved" in any published paper.

This license allows authors to use all articles, data sets, graphics and appendices in data mining applications, search engines, websites, blogs and other platforms by providing appropriate reference.

  • Privacy Statement

The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.

  • Plagiarism

Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies takes issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism, or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. We seek to protect the rights of our authors and we always investigate claims of plagiarism or misuse of published articles. Equally, we seek to protect the reputation of the journal against malpractice. Submitted articles may be checked with duplication-checking software. Where an article, for example, is found to have plagiarized other work or included third-party copyright material without permission or with insufficient acknowledgment, or where the authorship of the article is contested, we reserve the right to take action including, but not limited to: publishing an erratum or corrigendum (correction); retracting the article; taking up the matter with the head of department or dean of the author's institution and/or relevant academic bodies or societies; or taking appropriate legal action. The journal cooperates with iThenticate (https://www.ithenticate.com/) to detect plagiarism