International Journal of Spice Studies

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.

1. 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).
2. The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
3. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
4. The text is double-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines
6. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
7. All Authors agree to submit the manuscript to International Journal of Spice Studies, and will not to submit in another journal
8. Authors agree to pay $75 once article accepted to publish.
9. Author is not allowed to submit the same manuscript in another journal (make double/multiple submission). Author is not allowed to withdraw submitted manuscripts, when the manuscript is still in the peer-reviewing process. If Author violate this rule,  the author will be blacklisted for publication in this journal.
10. Author is responsible to get permission from previous publisher or copyright holder if an author is re-using any part of paper (i.e. figure or figures) published elsewhere, or that is copyrighted.