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Description

Reference Services Review is defended to the enrichment and advancement of reference knowledge and the improvement of professional practice

Ranging from case studies to conceptual papers, the journal's articles cover all aspects of reference and library user services in a digital historic period. Articles draw upon traditional areas of research within the fields of information studies and education, every bit well as from newer interdisciplinary perspectives such as disquisitional pedagogy.

The journal raises questions, explores new frameworks for user services, advances fresh analyses and inquiry, and proposes solutions to diverse operational issues facing librarians and information professionals.

• Editor

  • Ms Sarah Barbara Watstein
    Dean of the Library, Lemieux Library, Seattle University, WA - Usa
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• Acquaintance Editor

  • Liz Johns
    Associate Faculty, Department of Library and Information science, Indiana Academy - USA
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• Special Issues Editor

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• Emeritus co-editor

  • Eleanor Mitchell
    Director of Library Services, Dickinson College - Usa
    [email protected]

• Editorial Advisory Board

  • Stephanie J. Graves
    Texas A&Thou University Libraries - Usa
    
  • Ms Tammy Ivins
    Library & Information Resource Network - Us
    
  • JJ Pionke
    Banana Professor, University Library, Applied Wellness Sciences Librarian, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign - USA
    
  • Professor Dr Michael Seadle
    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Executive Director, iSchools, Inc., - Germany
    
  • Sylvia Tag
    Western Libraries, Western Washington Academy - USA
    
  • Mr David Tyckoson
    California State University - USA
    
  • Dr Geoff Walton
    Manchester Metropolitan Academy - Great britain
    
  • Dr Steven Zink PhD
    University Libraries, Emeritus, Academy of Nevada - USA
    

• Emeritus Editorial Squad and Board Members

  • Charles Westward Bailey Jr
    Digital Scholarship, Houston - The states
    
  • Christine Bombaro
    Associate Director Information Literacy & Research Services, Dickinson Higher, United states of america - U.s.a.
    
  • Dr Christine Bruce
    Faculty of It, Queensland University of Technology - Australia
    
  • Professor Dr Elke Greifeneder
    Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin - Germany
    
  • Professor Jim Hahn
    Head of Metadata Enquiry at the University of Pennsylvania, Penn Libraries - Us
    
  • Ms Carol Hammond
    Thunderbird School of Global Management - United states of america
    
  • Mr Martin A. Kesselman
    Library technology empowerment specialist, NJ - The states
    
  • Dr David F. Kohl
    Academy of Cincinnati - The states
    
  • John Kupersmith
    Doe Memorial Library, Academy of California Berkeley - United states of america
    
  • Ms Margy MacMillan
    Mountain Regal Academy Library, Calgary, AB - Canada
    
  • Deborah Prosser
    Director of Olin Library at Rollins College - USA
    
  • Ms Hannelore B Rader
    University of Louisville - U.s.a.
    
  • Mr James Rettig
    Williamsburg, VA, 23188 - USA
    
  • Professor John Five Richardson, Jr
    UCLA Graduate School of Education & Data Studies - USA
    
  • Mary Ellen Spencer
    Pellissippi State Customs College - Usa
    

• Periodical Editorial Office (For queries related to pre-acceptance)

  • Jerin Paulachan
    Emerald Publishing
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• Supplier Project Manager (For queries related to post-credence)

  • Subha Arounkumar
    Emerald Publishing
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• Commissioning Editor

  • Commissioning Editor Samuel Beattie
    Emerald Publishing - UK
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Before y'all start

For queries relating to the status of your paper pre-decision, please contact the Editor or Journal Editorial Office. For queries post-acceptance, please contact the Supplier Project Director. These details can be found in the Editorial Squad section.

Author responsibilities

Our goal is to provide you with a professional and courteous experience at each stage of the review and publication procedure. In that location are also some responsibilities that sit with you as the author. Our expectation is that you will:

• Respond swiftly to any queries during the publication process.
• Be accountable for all aspects of your piece of work. This includes investigating and resolving any questions well-nigh accuracy or research integrity
• Treat communications betwixt you and the periodical editor as confidential until an editorial decision has been fabricated.
• Read almost our research ethics for authorship. These state that you must:
  • Include anyone who has fabricated a substantial and meaningful contribution to the submission (anyone else involved in the paper should be listed in the acknowledgements).
  • Exclude anyone who hasn't contributed to the paper, or who has chosen not to exist associated with the research.
• If your article involves human participants, you must ensure you have considered whether or not y'all require upstanding approval for your research, and include this data equally office of your submission. Find out more about informed consent.

Research and publishing ethics

Our editors and employees piece of work hard to ensure the content nosotros publish is ethically sound. To assist us achieve that goal, we closely follow the advice laid out in the guidelines and flowcharts on the COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) website.

We have also adult our inquiry and publishing ideals guidelines. If you haven't already read these, nosotros urge yous to practise so – they volition assistance you avoid the almost mutual publishing ethics problems.

A few key points:

• Any manuscript you lot submit to this journal should be original. That means it should not have been published earlier in its current, or similar, form. Exceptions to this rule are outlined in our pre-print and conference paper policies.  If whatever substantial chemical element of your paper has been previously published, y'all need to declare this to the journal editor upon submission. Please notation, the journal editor may use Crossref Similarity Check to check on the originality of submissions received. This service compares submissions against a database of 49 million works from 800 scholarly publishers.
• Your piece of work should not accept been submitted elsewhere and should non be under consideration by whatsoever other publication.
• If y'all have a disharmonize of interest, you must declare it upon submission; this allows the editor to decide how they would similar to keep. Read about conflict of involvement in our research and publishing ethics guidelines.
• By submitting your work to Emerald, you are guaranteeing that the piece of work is not in infringement of any existing copyright.

3rd party copyright permissions

Prior to article submission, you need to ensure you've practical for, and received, written permission to use any cloth in your manuscript that has been created by a third party. Please annotation, nosotros are unable to publish any article that still has permissions pending. The rights we require are:

• Non-exclusive rights to reproduce the material in the commodity or volume chapter.
• Print and electronic rights.
• Worldwide English language-language rights.
• To apply the textile for the life of the work. That means there should be no fourth dimension restrictions on its re-use east.thou. a one-twelvemonth licence.

Nosotros are a member of the International Clan of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers (STM) and participate in the STM permissions guidelines, a reciprocal complimentary commutation of material with other STM publishers.  In some cases, this may mean that you don't demand permission to re-employ content. If so, please highlight this at the submission phase.

Please take a few moments to read our guide to publishing permissions to ensure you have met all the requirements, and so that we can process your submission without filibuster.

Open up access submissions and information

All our journals currently offer two open access (OA) publishing paths; aureate open admission and green open access.

If you would like to, or are required to, make the branded publisher PDF (likewise known as the version of tape) freely available immediately upon publication, you should select the gold open access route during the submission process.

If you've chosen to publish golden open admission, this is the point you will be asked to pay the APC (article processing accuse). This varies per periodical and can be found on our APC toll list or on the editorial system at the point of submission. Your article will be published with a Artistic Commons CC By 4.0 user licence, which outlines how readers tin can reuse your work.

Alternatively, if you would like to, or are required to, publish open up access simply your funding doesn't embrace the cost of the APC, y'all tin can choose the green open access, or self-archiving, road. As soon as your article is published, you tin can brand the writer accustomed manuscript (the version accepted for publication) openly bachelor, complimentary from payment and embargo periods.

For U.k. journal commodity authors - if y'all wish to submit your work accustomed by us to REF 2021, you must make a 'closed deposit' of your accepted manuscript to your respective institutional repository upon acceptance of your commodity. Articles accepted for publication subsequently 1st Apr 2018 should be deposited equally soon every bit possible, but no later than 3 months after the acceptance date. For further information and guidance, please refer to the REF 2021 website.

You tin find out more nigh our open admission routes, our APCs and waivers and read our FAQs on our open up inquiry page.

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Transparency and Openness Promotion (Tiptop) Guidelines

We are a signatory of the Transparency and Openness Promotion (Superlative) Guidelines, a framework that supports the reproducibility of research through the adoption of transparent enquiry practices. That means we encourage you to:

• Cite and fully reference all data, plan lawmaking, and other methods in your article.
• Include persistent identifiers, such equally a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), in references for datasets and program codes. Persistent identifiers ensure future access to unique published digital objects, such as a slice of text or datasets. Persistent identifiers are assigned to datasets by digital archives, such as institutional repositories and partners in the Information Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences (Data-PASS).
• Follow appropriate international and national procedures with respect to data protection, rights to privacy and other ethical considerations, whenever you cite data. For further guidance please refer to our research and publishing ideals guidelines. For an example on how to cite datasets, please refer to the references section below.

Prepare your submission

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Manuscript requirements

Earlier you submit your manuscript, information technology'due south important you read and follow the guidelines below. You volition also find some useful tips in our construction your journal submission how-to guide.

Format	Article files should exist provided in Microsoft Word format While you lot are welcome to submit a PDF of the certificate alongside the Word file, PDFs lone are not adequate. LaTeX files tin can also exist used just only if an accompanying PDF document is provided. Acceptable effigy file types are listed further below.
Commodity length / word count	Articles should exist between 4000  and 9000 words in length. This includes all text, for example, the structured abstract, references, all text in tables, and figures and appendices. Delight allow 280 words for each figure or table.
Commodity title	A concisely worded title should be provided.
Author details	The names of all contributing authors should be added to the ScholarOne submission; please list them in the club in which you lot'd similar them to be published. Each contributing author will need their own ScholarOne writer account, from which we will extract the following details: Writer email address (institutional preferred). Author name. We volition reproduce information technology exactly, and then any middle names and/or initials they want featured must be included. Writer amalgamation. This should be where they were based when the research for the paper was conducted. In multi-authored papers, it'south of import that ALL authors that have fabricated a significant contribution to the paper are listed. Those who have provided support simply have not contributed to the research should be featured in an acknowledgements department. You should never include people who accept not contributed to the paper or who don't want to be associated with the research. Read about our inquiry ethics for authorship.
Biographies and acknowledgements	If you want to include these items, save them in a divide Microsoft Discussion document and upload the file with your submission. Where they are included, a brief professional biography of non more than than 100 words should be supplied for each named author.
Research funding	Your article must reference all sources of external research funding in the acknowledgements section. You lot should describe the role of the funder or financial sponsor in the entire enquiry process, from study blueprint to submission.
Structured abstract	All submissions must include a structured abstruse, following the format outlined below. These four sub-headings and their accompanying explanations must always be included: Purpose Blueprint/methodology/approach Findings Originality The post-obit iii sub-headings are optional and can exist included, if applicable: Research limitations/implications Practical implications Social implications You can find some useful tips in our write an commodity abstruse how-to guide. The maximum length of your abstract should be 250 words in total, including keywords and article classification (meet the sections below).
Keywords	Your submission should include up to 12 appropriate and brusk keywords that capture the principal topics of the paper. Our Creating an SEO-friendly manuscript how to guide contains some practical guidance on choosing search-engine friendly keywords. Please note, while nosotros will ever endeavor to use the keywords yous've suggested, the in-firm editorial team may supplant some of them with matching terms to ensure consistency across publications and meliorate your article's visibility.
Commodity classification	During the submission process, you will exist asked to select a type for your paper; the options are listed below. If you don't see an exact match, delight cull the best fit: Original Commodity You will besides be asked to select a category for your paper. The options for this are listed below. If you don't see an exact friction match, delight choose the all-time fit: Research paper. Reports on any type of research undertaken by the author(s), including: The construction or testing of a model or framework Activity enquiry Testing of data, market enquiry or surveys Empirical, scientific or clinical enquiry Papers with a practical focus Viewpoint. Covers whatsoever newspaper where content is dependent on the author'due south opinion and estimation. This includes journalistic and magazine-manner pieces. Technical newspaper. Describes and evaluates technical products, processes or services. Conceptual paper. Focuses on developing hypotheses and is usually discursive. Covers philosophical discussions and comparative studies of other authors' work and thinking. Case report. Describes actual interventions or experiences within organizations. It tin can be subjective and doesn't by and large report on enquiry. Also covers a description of a legal instance or a hypothetical example study used as a teaching exercise. Literature review. This category should simply be used if the main purpose of the newspaper is to annotate and/or critique the literature in a item field. It could be a selective bibliography providing advice on information sources, or the paper may aim to comprehend the main contributors to the development of a topic and explore their different views. General review. Provides an overview or historical test of some concept, technique or phenomenon. Papers are likely to be more descriptive or instructional ('how to' papers) than discursive.
Headings	Headings must exist concise, with a clear indication of the required hierarchy. The preferred format is for first level headings to be in bold, and subsequent sub-headings to be in medium italics.
Notes/endnotes	Notes or endnotes should merely be used if admittedly necessary. They should be identified in the text by consecutive numbers enclosed in foursquare brackets. These numbers should then be listed, and explained, at the end of the article.
Figures	All figures (charts, diagrams, line drawings, webpages/screenshots, and photographic images) should be submitted electronically. Both color and black and white files are accepted. There are a few other important points to annotation: All figures should be supplied at the highest resolution/quality possible with numbers and text clearly legible. Acceptable formats are .ai, .eps, .jpeg, .bmp, and .tif. Electronic figures created in other applications should be supplied in their original formats and should likewise exist either copied and pasted into a blank MS Discussion document, or submitted as a PDF file. All figures should be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals and take clear captions. All photographs should be numbered equally Plate 1, 2, 3, etc. and have clear captions.
Tables	Tables should be typed and submitted in a separate file to the main body of the article. The position of each table should be conspicuously labelled in the primary torso of the article with corresponding labels clearly shown in the table file. Tables should be numbered consecutively in Roman numerals (e.g. I, II, etc.). Give each tabular array a cursory championship. Ensure that any superscripts or asterisks are shown side by side to the relevant items and have explanations displayed as footnotes to the table, figure or plate.
References	All references in your manuscript must be formatted using one of the recognised Harvard styles. Y'all are welcome to apply the Harvard way Emerald has adopted – nosotros've provided a detailed guide beneath. Want to use a different Harvard style? That's fine, our typesetters will make any necessary changes to your manuscript if information technology is accepted. Please ensure you cheque all your citations for completeness, accuracy and consistency. Emerald'due south Harvard referencing style References to other publications in your text should be written equally follows: Single author: (Adams, 2006) Two authors: (Adams and Brownish, 2006) Three or more authors: (Adamset al., 2006) Please note, 'et al' should always be written in italics. A few other manner points. These apply to both the main body of text and your final list of references. When referring to pages in a publication, use 'p.(page number)' for a single page or 'pp.(page numbers)' to point a page range. Folio numbers should always be written out in full, e.grand. 175-179, not 175-9. Where a colon or dash appears in the title of an commodity or book affiliate, the letter that follows that colon or nuance should always exist lower example. When citing a work with multiple editors, utilise the abridgement 'Ed.due south'. At the end of your paper, please supply a reference listing in alphabetical social club using the style guidelines below. Where a DOI is bachelor, this should be included at the end of the reference.
For books	Surname, initials (twelvemonth),title of book, publisher, place of publication. e.g. Harrow, R. (2005),No Place to Hide, Simon & Schuster, New York, NY.
For book chapters	Surname, initials (yr), "affiliate championship", editor's surname, initials (Ed.), title of book, publisher, place of publication, page numbers. e.1000. Calabrese, F.A. (2005), "The early on pathways: theory to practice – a continuum", Stankosky, M. (Ed.),Creating the Discipline of Knowledge Management, Elsevier, New York, NY, pp.15-20.
For journals	Surname, initials (yr), "championship of commodity",journal proper noun, book issue, folio numbers. e.g. Capizzi, M.T. and Ferguson, R. (2005), "Loyalty trends for the 20-first century",Journal of Consumer Marketing, Vol. 22 No. 2, pp.72-80.
For published conference proceedings	Surname, initials (year of publication), "title of paper", in editor'due south surname, initials (Ed.),title of published proceeding which may include place and date(s) held, publisher, place of publication, page numbers. e.g. Wilde, S. and Cox, C. (2008), "Principal factors contributing to the competitiveness of tourism destinations at varying stages of development", in Richardson, S., Fredline, L., Patiar A., & Ternel, M. (Ed.s),CAUTHE 2008: Where the 'bloody hell' are we?, Griffith University, Golden Declension, Qld, pp.115-118.
For unpublished conference proceedings	Surname, initials (year), "championship of paper", paper presented at [name of conference], [engagement of conference], [place of conference], available at: URL if freely available on the internet (accessed date). e.chiliad. Aumueller, D. (2005), "Semantic authoring and retrieval within a wiki", newspaper presented at the European Semantic Web Briefing (ESWC), 29 May-i June, Heraklion, Crete, available at: http://dbs.uni-leipzig.de/file/aumueller05wiksar.pdf (accessed twenty February 2007).
For working papers	Surname, initials (year), "title of article", working paper [number if available], institution or organization, place of organization, date. east.k. Moizer, P. (2003), "How published academic research tin inform policy decisions: the case of mandatory rotation of inspect appointments", working paper, Leeds University Business Schoolhouse, University of Leeds, Leeds, 28 March.
For encyclopaedia entries (with no author or editor)	Championship of encyclopaedia (yr), "title of entry", volume, edition, title of encyclopaedia, publisher, place of publication, page numbers. due east.grand.Encyclopaedia Britannica (1926), "Psychology of culture contact", Vol. 1, 13th ed., Encyclopaedia Britannica, London and New York, NY, pp.765-771. (for authored entries, please refer to book affiliate guidelines above)
For newspaper articles (authored)	Surname, initials (year), "article championship",paper, date, page numbers. east.g. Smith, A. (2008), "Money for old rope",Daily News, 21 January, pp.one, 3-4.
For newspaper articles (non-authored)	Newspaper (twelvemonth), "article championship", date, page numbers. e.m.Daily News (2008), "Small modify", 2 February, p.7.
For archival or other unpublished sources	Surname, initials (twelvemonth), "title of document", unpublished manuscript, collection proper noun, inventory record, name of archive, location of annal. eastward.g. Litman, S. (1902), "Mechanism & Technique of Commerce", unpublished manuscript, Simon Litman Papers, Tape series 9/5/29 Box 3, University of Illinois Archives, Urbana-Champaign, IL.
For electronic sources	If bachelor online, the full URL should be supplied at the end of the reference, as well equally the date that the resources was accessed. Surname, initials (year), "title of electronic source", available at: persistent URL (accessed date month year). e.1000. Weida, S. and Stolley, Yard. (2013), "Developing strong thesis statements", bachelor at: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/588/ane/ (accessed 20 June 2018) Standalone URLs, i.e. those without an writer or date, should be included either inside parentheses within the main text, or preferably prepare every bit a notation (Roman numeral inside square brackets within text followed by the full URL address at the end of the newspaper).
For data	Surname, initials (year),championship of dataset, proper noun of data repository, bachelor at: persistent URL, (accessed engagement month year). e.g. Campbell, A. and Kahn, R.L. (2015),American National Election Study, 1948, ICPSR07218-v4, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (distributor), Ann Arbor, MI, bachelor at: https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07218.v4 (accessed 20 June 2018)

Submit your manuscript

There are a number of cardinal steps y'all should follow to ensure a shine and trouble-free submission.

Double bank check your manuscript

Before submitting your piece of work, it is your responsibility to cheque that the manuscript is consummate, grammatically right, and without spelling or typographical errors. A few other important points:

• Give the journal aims and scope a final read. Is your manuscript definitely a good fit? If it isn't, the editor may decline it without peer review.
• Does your manuscript comply with our inquiry and publishing ethics guidelines?
• Take you cleared any necessary publishing permissions?
• Have you followed all the formatting requirements laid out in these author guidelines?
• Does the manuscript contain any information that might assist the reviewer identify yous? This could compromise the bullheaded peer review process. A few tips:
  • If you demand to refer to your own work, utilise diction such as 'previous enquiry has demonstrated' not 'our previous research has demonstrated'.
  • If you need to refer to your own, currently unpublished piece of work, don't include this piece of work in the reference list.
  • Any acknowledgments or author biographies should be uploaded as split up files.
  • Carry out a final check to ensure that no author names announced anywhere in the manuscript. This includes in figures or captions.

You volition observe a helpful submission checklist on the website Call up.Bank check.Submit.

The submission process

All manuscripts should be submitted through our editorial arrangement by the corresponding author.

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Please annotation, the next time you log into the system, you will exist asked for your username. This will exist the email address you entered when you set up your business relationship.

Don't forget to add your ORCiD ID during the submission process. It will be embedded in your published article, along with a link to the ORCiD registry assuasive others to easily match you with your work.

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During the submission procedure, yous will accept the opportunity to point whether you would similar to publish your newspaper via the gilt open up access route.

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What you lot can expect next

You will receive an automated email from the journal editor, confirming your successful submission. It will provide you with a manuscript number, which volition be used in all hereafter correspondence about your submission. If you lot have any reason to suspect the confirmation email you receive might be fraudulent, delight contact our Rights team.

Post submission

Review and decision process

Each submission is checked by the editor. At this stage, they may cull to turn down or unsubmit your manuscript if it doesn't fit the periodical aims and telescopic, or they feel the language/manuscript quality is too depression.

If they call up it might be suitable for the publication, they will ship it to at least two independent referees for double blind peer review.  Once these reviewers have provided their feedback, the editor may determine to accept your manuscript, asking minor or major revisions, or pass up your work.

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Reference Services Review  welcomes submissions at any time. Accustomed manuscripts will be published within 32 days of acceptance discipline to prompt return of proofs .  Manuscripts are assigned to a forthcoming issue at the editors' and publisher's discretion. The tabular array beneath provides approximate dates and deadlines for Volume 50 Issues 1-iv. Quarterly cycles tend to be similar from year to year, so authors can safely estimate product dates and deadlines for future volumes and issues. The production bicycle will be updated annually, to coincide with the current volume.  Deadlines may differ for special issues.

Book Number	Result Number	Your article submission due to Scholar One This is 6 weeks before copy due to Emerald	Double Blind Peer Review	Writer Completes Major and Minor Revisions	Event due to Emerald	Articles scheduled to be available on Website	Online publication	Impress publication
Vol 50	1	5 November 2021	3–4 weeks	3 weeks for major revisions; ane–2 weeks for minor revisions	5 November 2021	Within 32 days of article acceptance	iii February 2022	14 February 2022
Vol fifty	2	thirty March 2022	three–4 weeks	3 weeks for major revisions; one–two weeks for pocket-sized revisions	3 April 2022	Within 32 days of article acceptance	two June 2022	thirteen June 2022
Vol 50	three	29 April 2022	3–iv weeks	three weeks for major revisions; one–2 weeks for minor revisions	29 May 2022	Inside 32 days of article acceptance	28 July 2022	eight Aug 2022
Vol 50	4	half dozen August 2022	3–4 weeks	three weeks for major revisions; 1–two weeks for minor revisions	5 September 2022	Within 32 days of article credence	3 Nov 2022	14 Nov 2022

While all journals work to different timescales, the goal is that the editor will inform y'all of their offset decision within 60 days.

During this menses, we will send you automated updates on the progress of your manuscript via our submission organisation, or y'all can log in to check on the current condition of your paper.  Each fourth dimension we contact you lot, we will quote the manuscript number yous were given at the point of submission. If you lot receive an email that does not match these criteria, it could be fraudulent and we recommend you email [email protected].

If your submission is accepted

Open access

If you lot've chosen to publish gilded open up access, this is the indicate you volition be asked to pay the APC (article processing accuse).  This varies per journal and can be found on our APC toll list or on the editorial system at the signal of submission. Your article volition be published with a Artistic Commons CC By 4.0 user licence, which outlines how readers can reuse your piece of work.

For United kingdom journal article authors - if yous wish to submit your piece of work accepted by Emerald to REF 2021, you must make a 'closed eolith' of your accepted manuscript to your corresponding institutional repository upon acceptance of your commodity. Articles accepted for publication afterwards 1st Apr 2018 should be deposited every bit soon every bit possible, but no later than three months subsequently the acceptance date. For further information and guidance, delight refer to the REF 2021 website.

Copyright

All accepted authors are sent an email with a link to a licence form.  This should exist checked for accurateness, for case whether contact and amalgamation details are up to appointment and your proper name is spelled correctly, and and so returned to united states electronically. If in that location is a reason why you can't assign copyright to u.s., you should discuss this with your journal content editor. You will find their contact details on the editorial team department higher up.

Proofing and typesetting

One time we have received your completed licence form, the article will pass straight into the product process. We volition carry out editorial checks, copyediting, and typesetting and then render proofs to yous (if y'all are the corresponding writer) for your review. This is your opportunity to correct whatsoever typographical errors, grammatical errors or incorrect author details. We can't accept requests to rewrite texts at this stage.

When the folio proofs are finalised, the fully typeset and proofed version of record is published online. This is referred to as the EarlyCite version. While an EarlyCite commodity has withal to exist assigned to a book or issue, it does have a digital object identifier (DOI) and is fully citable. It will be compiled into an effect according to the journal's consequence schedule, with papers existence added by chronological date of publication.

How to share your paper

Visit our author rights folio to observe out how you tin reuse and share your piece of work.

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Correcting inaccuracies in your published paper

Sometimes errors are made during the research, writing and publishing processes. When these issues ascend, we have the option of withdrawing the paper or introducing a correction notice. Find out more than virtually our article withdrawal and correction policies.

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Frequently asked questions

Is there a submission fee for the journal?	The but time we will ever enquire you for coin to publish in an Emerald journal is if you take chosen to publish via the gold open access route. You will be asked to pay an APC (article processing accuse) in one case your paper has been accepted (unless it is a sponsored open access journal). Read about our APCs At no other time will yous be asked to contribute financially towards your article's publication. If you haven't chosen gold open up access and y'all receive an e-mail which appears to be from Emerald, asking you for payment to publish, please contact our Rights team.
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