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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.
  • I certify that my submission is my original work.
  • I certify that it has neither submitted nor published anywhere else.
  • I certify that I have identified and acknowledged the work which is not mine through proper and automatic referencing and the text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the author guidelines i.e. Chicago Manual 17th Edition Footnotes.
  • The submission file is in Open Office, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.

Author Guidelines

Ethical Guidelines for the Author(s)

Strategic Studies expect from authors to follow the following points align with the HEC ethical guidelines. The following ethical guidelines are obligatory for all author(s) violation of which may result in application of penalties by the editor, including but not limited to the suspension or revocation of publishing privileges.

  • It is the author(s)’ responsibility to ensure that the research report and data contain adequate detail and references to the sources of information in order to allow others to reproduce the results.
  • Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable.
  • It is the author(s)’ responsibility to ascertain that s/he has submitted an entirely original work, giving due credit, by virtue of proper citations, to the works and/or words of others where they have been used.
  • Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is not acceptable.
  • Material quoted verbatim from the author(s)’ previously published work or other sources must be placed in quotation marks.
  • As per HEC’s policy, in case the manuscript has a similarity index of more than 19%, it will either be rejected or left at the discretion of the Editorial Board for the purposes of a conditional acceptance.
  • Authors are required to provide an undertaking / declaration stating that the manuscript under consideration contains solely their original work that is not under consideration for publishing in any other journal in any form.
  • A manuscript that is co-authored must be accompanied by an undertaking explicitly stating that each author has contributed substantially towards the preparation of the manuscript in order to claim right to authorship.
  • It is the responsibility of the corresponding author that s/he has ensured that all those who have substantially contributed in the manuscripts have been included in the author list and they have agreed to the order of authorship.
  • Authors should not submit manuscripts describing essentially the same research to more than one journal or publication except if is a re-submission of a rejected or withdrawn manuscript.
  • Authors must respect the privacy of the participant of research and must not use any information obtained from them without their informed consent.
  • Authors should ensure that only information that improves understanding of the study is shared.
  • Authors must ensure that in instances where the identity of the participant needs to be revealed in the study, explicit and informed consent of the concerned party is obtained.
  • In the case of the demise of a participant, consent must be obtained from the family of the deceased.
  • If any question arises about the accuracy or validity of the research work during the review process, the author(s) should provide raw data to the Editor.
  • The author(s) should ensure that images included in an account of research performed or in the data collection as part of the research are free from manipulation.
  • The author(s) must provide an accurate description of how the images were generated and produced.
  • Authors may have to sign an agreement allowing the journal to reserve the right to circulate the article and all other derivative works such as translations.
  • The review period can last between 1-2 months or longer and during this period the author(s) reserve the right to contact the Editor to ask about status of the review.
  • Once the review process has been completed, the author will be informed about the status of the manuscript which could either be an acceptance, rejection or revisions. In the case of rejection, the author(s) reserves the right to publish the article elsewhere.
  • In case of revisions, the author(s) must provide an exposition of all corrections made in the manuscript and the revised manuscript should, then, go through the process of affirmation of revisions and be accepted or rejected accordingly.
  • By submitting and publishing an article in Strategic Studies, the author retains copyright and grants the journal the right of first publication. The published article will be made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). This licence permits others to copy, distribute, display, adapt and reuse the work, including for commercial purposes, provided appropriate attribution is given to the author(s) and the original publication in Strategic Studies, a link to the licence is included, and changes are indicated.

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Copyright for articles published in Strategic Studies is retained by the authors. Authors grant Strategic Studies the right of first publication. Articles are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, including commercial use, provided appropriate credit is given to the original author(s) and source, a link to the Creative Commons licence is provided, and any changes made are indicated.

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