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Prepare your manuscript for Australasian Journal of Philosophy.

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Article types

Review
Original Article
Discussion Note
Book Review
Editorial
Clinical Trial
Protocol
Systematic Review
Letter
Lectio

Readiness requirements

Review the key details below, or download the complete checklist with every stored source-backed requirement.

Abstract length

  • Provide an author-written abstract of no more than 250 words.
  • Book Review: Provide an author-written abstract of no more than 200 words.
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  • Use a structured abstract.
  • Book Review: For all submissions other than book reviews and book notes, a short but properly informative abstract (maximum 200 words for a full-length paper) at the beginning of the paper is required, followed by 3 to 6 keywords.
  • Please note that the abstract must not merely be repeating a paragraph, say, from within the body of the paper.
  • In other words, the abstract must add something new for readers.
  • A non-structured abstract of no more than 250 words.

Keywords

  • Provide 3-6 keywords chosen by the author.
  • Existing users must ensure that their account details and research keywords are up-to-date before proceeding.
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  • If you are a new user, you will be prompted to enter some keywords: you should enter keywords identifying your areas of research expertise; there is provision to make these quite detailed. (They will help us if we later decide we wish to engage your services as a referee.) Once logged on to the site, users should submit their papers via the Author Centre.

Reference style

  • Articlo formats your supplied references to the journal's stored style and checks that citations match the reference list; source validity is not verified.
  • is a surprisingly vexed one. (The COPE discussion paper 'Authorship' [ doi:10.24318/cope.2019.3.3 ] provides a useful entry point.) For AJP purposes, this definition of authorship is a useful one: Each author is expected to have made substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data; or the creation of new software used in the work; or have drafted the work or substantively revised it; AND to have approved the submitted version (and any substantially modified version that involves the author’s contribution to the study); AND to have agreed both to be personally accountable for the author’s own contributions and to ensure that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work, even ones in which the author was not personally involved, are appropriately investigated, resolved, and the resolution documented in the literature. (McNutt et al., 2018, doi:10.1073/pnas.1715374115 ) This definition requires that submissions should not have 'guest authors' credited for work they did not substantially contribute to (such individuals more properly should be mentioned in the acknowledgements).
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  • Readers should be able to interpret the table without reference to the text.
  • Book notes must also contain no bibliography.
  • A declaration must be included within the submission stating: Confirmation the authors take full responsibility for the integrity of the whole content, including accuracy of references.
  • Any notes should be presented as footnotes, not endnotes, and every manuscript must be accompanied by a final consolidated bibliography matching the manuscript’s in-text citations.
  • All unavoidable references to an author's own work(s) must be disguised, either by suppressing any identifying bibliographic information, or by being made in an impersonal and neutral form.
  • The question, what is an author?

Figure and table rules

  • Keep every figure and table numbered, captioned, and cited in the manuscript. Keep figures embedded; Articlo also extracts numbered source files for the package.
  • Figures should be high quality (1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for color, at the correct size).
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  • All figures must be numbered in the order in which they appear in the manuscript (e.g. Figure 1, Figure 2).
  • In multi-part figures, each part should be labelled (e.g. Figure 1(a), Figure 1(b)).
  • Figures should be saved as TIFF or PostScript files.
  • Please provide the highest quality figure format possible.
  • Figure captions must be saved separately, as part of the file containing the complete text of the manuscript, and numbered correspondingly.
  • Tables should present new information rather than duplicating what is in the text.
  • Figures must be saved separate to text.
  • Please do not embed figures in the manuscript file.

Funding statement

  • Add or confirm the author-written Funding statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • You should declare only the acquired funds and grants that are directly relevant to the work reported in your article; for example, This work was supported by the [Funding Agency #1] under Grant [number xxxx]; [Funding Agency #2] under Grant [number xxxx]; and [Funding Agency #3] under Grant [number xxxx].
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  • The general thrust of these remarks applies, mutatis mutandis, to the declaration of research funding and conflicts of interest: all must be declared.

Competing interests

  • Include or confirm the competing interests required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Ethics statement

  • Include or confirm the ethics statement required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Blinded manuscript

  • Review: Remove author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, and other direct identifiers from the blinded manuscript file.
  • The PDF should be uploaded as the “Manuscript - with author details”/”Manuscript - anonymous” file.
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  • These must meet the Minimum Standard described below (except that solicited contributions do not have to be made anonymous).
  • Review: In order to facilitate dispassionate refereeing, your should prepare your submission for anonymous review.

Cover letter

  • Using third-party material in your paper You must obtain the necessary permission to reuse third-party material in your article.
  • Review: The use of short extracts of text and some other types of material is usually permitted, on a limited basis, for the purposes of criticism and review without securing formal permission.
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  • If you wish to include any material in your paper for which you do not hold copyright, and which is not covered by this informal agreement, you will need to obtain written permission from the copyright owner prior to submission.

Author contributions

  • Submitting authors should be prepared to submit CRediT roles for themselves and their co-authors (where applicable) as part of the submission process.

Title page and author information

  • All authors of a manuscript should include their full name and affiliation on the cover page of the manuscript.
  • Authorship When submitting an unsolicited manuscript, the corresponding author must ensure that all and only authors are credited on the submission.
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  • One author will need to be identified as the corresponding author, with their email address normally displayed in the article PDF (depending on the journal) and the online article.

Article structure and word limits

  • Original Article: A typical Original Article for this journal should be at least 4500 words, and no more than 8000 words.
  • Longer pieces of exceptional significance, up to a maximum of 15000 words, will be considered.
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  • The maximum length for a Critical Notice for this journal is 5000 words.
  • Review / Book Review: The maximum length for a Book Review for this journal is 1800 words.
  • The maximum length for a Book Note for this journal is 400 words.
  • The filename for a graphic should be descriptive of the graphic, e.g. Figure1, Figure2a.
  • It should be a maximum width of 525 pixels.
  • Review: These instructions will ensure we have everything required so your paper can move through peer review, production and publication smoothly.
  • Your research funder or your institution may require you to publish your article open access.
  • Use our APC finder to view the APC for this journal.
  • Editorial: Final manuscripts should be submitted in a format the editorial office can handle, typically Word or Markdown.
  • You will also need to upload your LaTeX source files, which should be uploaded as a single zip file alongside your submission and marked as “LaTeX Source Files”.
  • Queries Should you have any queries, please visit our Author Services website or contact us here.
  • A declaration must be included within the submission stating: Originality and accuracy of content has been confirmed by the authors.
  • Authors must provide full methodological details and adhere to relevant reporting guidelines where applicable.
  • Authors must retain the original and revised versions which must be shared upon request.
  • The PLSP guidelines for authors must be followed at all times.
  • Editorial: Authors should also take special note of the Journal's policy on word limits: see Editorial Policy.
  • Typescripts must be carefully proof-read prior to submission so that referees do not have their time wasted in identifying and listing errors.
  • Acknowledgements and thanks must likewise be omitted.
  • New users should first create an account; the Journal's referees have had an account created for them in advance.
  • Authors who write in LaTeX must convert their files to.pdf prior to submission, because the submission interface does not accept LaTeX files.
  • Manuscripts which contain any such characters must be submitted as.pdf files.
  • Book Review: Book reviews and book notes should be submitted as Word documents (.docx format).
  • The submission process cannot be completed unless the author certifies that the manuscript meets the Journal's Minimum Standard.
  • Journal Style For purposes of assessment, only the much less exacting Minimum Standard need be met.
  • Authors with a decision of conditional acceptance should bring their final manuscripts into conformity with Journal Style before final acceptance.
  • Please use SI units (non-italicized).
  • Editorial: Although submissions meeting only the above minimum standard will be considered for publication, it is Editorial Policy that any submission which is accepted (conditionally or unconditionally) for publication must be brought into conformity with the more exacting standards of journal style.
  • Once a paper has been accepted, the author(s) will be required to supply a final electronic version conforming to journal style before the AJP will proceed to publication.
  • Please do not embed it in the manuscript file but save it as a separate file, labelled GraphicalAbstract1.
  • This means a standard font, with linespacing of at least 1.5, and with margins of not less than 25mm.
  • If you haven't submitted a paper to this journal before, you will need to create an account in the submission centre.
  • Book Review: Manuscripts (other than book reviews or book notes; as to which, see below) may be submitted in a limited range of standard formats.
  • Authors who do not take this precaution are warned that their texts may contain non-obvious errors which can seriously mislead referees.
  • Image descriptions are typically used by systems such as pronouncing screen readers to make images accessible to people that cannot read or see the object due to a visual disability.

Reporting guidelines

  • Include or confirm the reporting guidelines required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Preprints and prior publication

  • If you have shared an earlier version of your Author’s Original Manuscript on a preprint server, please be aware that anonymity cannot be guaranteed.

Artificial intelligence disclosure

  • Add or confirm the author-written Artificial intelligence statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • Please include a statement disclosing whether and how generative AI has been used in the research and manuscript preparation process.
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  • Use of AI tools as part of ethical research studies is permitted.
  • A declaration must be included within the submission stating: The name and version number of the AI tool used.
  • Systematic Review: Use of AI tools as part of ethically conducted literature reviews, systematic reviews, meta-analysis and bibliometrics studies is permitted.
  • Use of AI tool assisted plain language summaries (PLS) of authors own work is permitted.
  • Please read our guidance on using AI tools in your research and manuscript preparation to understand scenarios where their use may be permissible, and the required information that must be disclosed.
  • A declaration must be included within the submission stating: Confirmation the authors have checked terms of use for the specific AI tool used, and therefore confirm suitability for publication.
  • So while AJP is not policing authors' use of these tools in the refinement of their submissions, authors must acknowledge and document any significant use of generative AI tools (beyond, for example, the use of such tools to improve prose style or to address issues with grammar).

Article type and manuscript length

  • Letter: The AJP does not require authors to include such a letter.

Manuscript structure

  • Discussion Note: The maximum length for a Discussion Note for this journal is 3000 words.
  • Authors must retain full records of the methods undertaken, including full descriptions and records of the prompts used, which must be shared with the journal upon request.
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  • They must contain no footnotes or endnotes.

Study reporting guidelines

  • Authors must provide full methodological details and adhere to relevant reporting guidelines where applicable (e.g. CONSORT-AI, STARD-AI, GAMER, TRIPOD-AI, etc).

Language and text style

  • Minimum Standard All submissions must be in English, formatted to be easily legible.

Authorship and originality

  • Moreover, corresponding authors should ensure that anyone who has made significant contributions to the conception, design, or writing of the submitted manuscript, or to any prior work from which it derives, are credited as authors – 'ghost' or 'orphan' authorship must be avoided.
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What your package checks

Abstract: 250 words
Paper: 8,000 words
Keywords: 3-6 keywords
Declarations: Funding, Acknowledgements, Artificial intelligence

Source transparency

This preparation guide uses published journal-specific author requirements. Journal instructions can change, so authors should complete a final review before submission.

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