Author Guidelines
To ensure a smooth process from submission to publication, please carefully follow these guidelines. Adhering to these instructions will help align your submission with the journal’s requirements.
Peer Review, Editorial Procedures and Ethics
The Journal of Practice Theory is dedicated to maintaining the integrity of the peer review process and upholding the highest ethical standards. After an initial suitability assessment by the editor, your paper will undergo peer review.
Please review our policy and explanation of the Peer Review Process for further details on what to expect during this stage.
Please also read our Statement on Publication Ethics and on Editorial and Publication Procedures for information about the standards that we we uphold and expect of all authors, contributors, reviewers, and editors.
Preparing Your Paper
Type of Contribution:
Indicate the Type of Contribution (e.g., research article, essay, column, editorial) by submitting to that specific section of the journal. If uncertain, or if you wish to discuss the most suitable format, or to propose an innovative format, please contact us.
Submission Structure:
Anonymised Main Document (Article Text): This should include all footnotes, tables, figures, captions, and the abstract. Please submit as a Microsoft word (or similar editable) file in the House Style. We will check the anonymisation and formatting and produce a pdf. file for review.
Title Page: Include the title; full names and affiliations of all authors (including ORCiDs and social media handles, if available); and the corresponding author’s email, which will be displayed in the published article.
N.B. If any of the named co-authors moves affiliation during the peer-review process, the new affiliation can be given as a footnote. No changes to affiliation can be made after a paper is accepted.
Additional Information Page: Include acknowledgments, funding statements, declarations of interest, and data availability statements.
N.B. This is to acknowledge any financial or non-financial interest that has arisen from the direct applications of your research. If there are no relevant competing interests to declare please state this as part of the additional information.
Image: Please propose an an image to represent the article on the website and in promotional materials (e.g., social media). See copyright and licensing information below for more details. If you do not wish to submit an image for us to consider, we will work with you following the peer-review process to agree on one.
Formatting and Referencing: Please adhere to the House Style for formatting and referencing. It helps us if you can format in the House Style and provide the complete references and DOIs on initial submission. Note that articles will be returned for formatting and referencing adjustments in line with the House Style following acceptance as part of the production process.
Word Limit: The word limit includes all references, footnotes, tables, figures, and captions but varies by the type of contribution (see Types of Contribution).
Third-Party Material
If your article includes third-party material for which you do not hold copyright, you must obtain written permission from the copyright owner before submission, unless the material is covered by fair use for purposes of criticism and review.
Data Sharing
The Journal of Practice Theory supports the principle of transparency that the data that inform research should be open, shared, and, where appropriate, made available to other researchers. Authors are encouraged to:
- Share or make open the data supporting the results or analyses presented in their paper, provided this does not violate the protection of human subjects or other privacy/security concerns;
- Deposit datasets in a recognised data repository that can mint a persistent digital identifier (e.g., DOI) and ensure long-term preservation;
- Provide a Data Availability Statement.
At submission, please indicate in the ‘Additional Information Page’ if there is an associated dataset. If yes, provide the DOI, pre-registered DOI, hyperlink, or another persistent identifier.
Datasets are not peer-reviewed as part of the journal submission process but please be prepared to share the URL associated with your data deposit if requested by reviewers. The author is responsible for the accuracy of the data.
Publication Charges
There are no submission, publication, or processing fees. The Journal of Practice Theory does not charge authors for their contributions.
Copyright Notice
Authors will be required to confirm that they agree with the copyright notice before their submission is complete and on approving the final version for publication enter into a Publication Agreement with the Journal.
For full details, see our information on Open Access and Copyright and Licensing.
Intellectual Property
Authors are required to confirm that their submission is original, has not been previously published, and is not and will not be under consideration by another journal while it is under consideration by the Journal of Practice Theory. Submitting a manuscript to the Journal of Practice Theory implies that all authors have agreed to these conditions.
Copyright
Authors are required to complete a publishing agreement prior to final publication, certifying that no other publishers hold copyright claims over the manuscript that would prevent publication in the Journal of Practice Theory.
Licensing
Authors are permitted to enter into additional non-exclusive agreements for the distribution of the published version of the article (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or include it in a book), with the condition that the original publication in the Journal of Practice Theory is acknowledged.
Image Copyright and Licensing
Images included in the publication must be licensed under terms consistent with the journal’s licensing policy, which typically means either the author owns the copyright, or the images are made available under a Creative Commons license. Authors must ensure that these licenses permit reproduction and distribution under the terms of the journal's CC BY-NC 4.0 license.
For more detail, see full information on Copyright and Licensing.