Submission guidelines
To submit articles, book reviews, new reports and information on recent research for review to the journal, please email a Word file to Editorial Assistant Mette Trier, Mette.Trier@simcorp.com.
Author guidelines
Contributors must in addition to the individual article include elements 1-3, and the full submission text must follow the guidelines numbered 4-10 below:
- A biography of approximately 40-50 words as well as contact information (email and post address).
- A photo for the journal – and for journalists – which should ideally be a professionally taken colour portrait, as large as possible (preferably 300 ppi).
If this cannot be provided, please observe these requirements:
The size of the photo should be at least 10 x 13 cm/300 ppi, which equals approximately 1200 x 1500 pixels and 7 MB. Colour: CMYK.
The background must not be busy, but be one colour.
- In general, manuscripts should be in British English and follow The Economist's style guide, http://www.economist.com/research/StyleGuide. Submissions must be made in Word format.
- Below the title of article, include a standfirst with short introductory or summary information.
- Use footnotes instead of endnotes. Keep number and length of footnotes to a minimum.
- Abbreviations – spell out word at first mention and put abbreviation in brackets after this. Avoid using e.g. and i.e. if possible.
- Clearly indicate level of headings by font size. Please break up sections of more than approx. 200 words with subheadings as appropriate (if figures, tables and bullet lists break up large parts of text this can be sufficient).
- List source references alphabetically at the end of the manuscript, including the following elements in the sequence illustrated hereafter:
Last name/first name/publication year/article name/title of book or journal/publisher
- Tables and figures should be able to stand alone. Make accompanying headings descriptive and easily understood. Define all variables and abbreviations. Present and submit each table or figure on a separate page/file. Tables and figures must be available in an electronic form which allows reproduction. If diagrammes like bar charts, pie charts and fever charts are based on a long string of data, we need this data in order to generate the chart in the graphical applications. If no data exists, the only alternative is to draw the figures from scratch, using the submitted illustration as a template, but this is time-consuming and not as accurate.
Authors are required to assign copyright of their paper to the Journal of Applied IT and Investment Management. Copyright assignment is a condition of publication and articles will not be passed for production unless copyright has been assigned.
