Submissions

This page is designed to help you ensure that your manuscript is ready to submit to the journal.

Before submitting, you should read over the “Author guidelines” and checklist below, ensuring that your submission also adheres to the “Focus and scope” of the journal, then register an account (or login if you have an existing account).

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Submission Checklist

Please follow the checklist below before submitting your manuscript to the International Labour Review, ensuring that:

  1. Submissions should address the meaningfulness of findings for research in the area(s) of the manuscript. Submissions that are strictly descriptive or only report on (experimental) findings without discussing their implications will be desk-rejected.
  2. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in “Comments to the Editor”).
  3. Any third-party-owned materials used have been identified with appropriate credit lines, and permission obtained from the copyright holder for all formats of the journal. ILR requires authors to secure any permissions for the reproduction as figures within articles of images that are currently licensed to be reproduced under restrictive terms (e.g. an artist's estate, archive or gallery). Evidence of any permissions granted will need to be shown to the Editorial Team prior to an article's publication in the journal. Permission to reproduce images must be obtained from the copyright holder prior to submission, and details of the permissions obtained, including a copy of any agreed licensing terms, should be included with your submission. Image permissions should permit open-access publication with no restrictions on duration of use or recurring renewal costs.
  4. All authors qualify as authors and have given permission to be listed on the submitted article, as per the publisher's guidance on authorship.
  5. Authors should declare any competing interests when they submit articles to the journal. For information on the publisher’s “Competing interests” policy, see the publisher's “Malpractice statement”. Information on how to declare a competing interest can be found here.
  6. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the journal's “Manuscript submission guidelines”. Every effort has been made to ensure that author names are removed from the manuscript (following the instructions to ensure an anonymous peer review).
  7. Tables and figures are all cited in the main text and are included within the text document.
  8. The manuscript complies with the journal's policy on statistical reporting and human research participants.
  9. Figures are all cited in the main text and are uploaded as supplementary files. Figures/images have a resolution of at least 150dpi (300dpi or above preferred). The files are in one of the following formats: JPG, TIFF, GIF, PNG, EPS (to maximize quality, the original source file is preferred). A Microsoft Excel file for figure(s) may be uploaded, however an editable vector file (such as an EPS file) is preferable.
  10. The submission includes a title page containing pertinent information about the authors (full author names, contact email address, institutional affiliation).
  11. The submission includes a complete references list.
  12. The manuscript includes: an abstract of <100 words, and between 4 and 8 keywords.
  13. The manuscript is presented in a Word document with a minimum of 7,000 words and a maximum of 10,000 words (including tables, boxes, footnotes and references).

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal. If you would prefer to publish your work under an alternative Creative Commons License, please indicate this in the “Comments for the Editor” box below, providing reasons for your request.

Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g. post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.

Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g. in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (see The effect of open access). Please indicate in the “Comments for the Editor” box below where you have posted this work online already (if applicable).

Peer Review

This journal operates a double-anonymous peer-review process, meaning that authors and reviewers remain anonymous for the review process. We apply robust editorial standards, requiring two positive independent scholarly reviews by experts in the field(s), before articles can be considered for publication. The article is first screened by the Managing Editor and the Editorial Board before being sent out for peer review. Peer reviewers are expected to return review reports after four weeks for editorial assessment, although this can, in exceptional cases, take longer. Reviewers are asked to provide formative feedback, even if an article is not deemed suitable for publication in the journal.

Further information on the journal's “Peer Review Policy” can be found on the “Journal Policies” page.

License

This journal recommends that authors retain their copyright via a CC BY 4.0 attribution license. This means that users accessing the work must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. They may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses them or their use of the work. No additional restrictions, however the user may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

Publication Fees

There are no publication fees. This journal is published by the Open Library of Humanities (OLH). Unlike many open-access publishers, the OLH does not charge any author fees. This does not mean that we do not have costs. Instead, our costs are paid by an international library consortium.

If your institution is not currently supporting the platform, we request that you ask your librarian to sign up. The OLH is extremely cost effective and is a not-for-profit charity. However, while we cannot function without financial support and we encourage universities to sign up, institutional commitment is not required to publish with us.

Publication Cycle

The journal is published quarterly online.

Special Issues of articles are welcomed and will be published as part of the normal issue cycle, and within a separate collection page.

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