Ingensious publishes high-quality peer-reviewed original articles that are not under review in any other academic outlet. Please be advised that Ingensious relies on anti-plagiarism programs and submission for publication implies permission for the editors to put the article through such program. Before submitting your paper for review make sure that it follows the Journal’s established guidelines.

Articles should be between 7000 – 10,000 words long including footnotes and references

All articles should be written in English;
Articles should be typed in Times New Roman, 12 point type font, and be double-spaced throughout including footnotes and references;
Review Articles should not exceed 3,000 words, and Book Reviews should not exceed 1,000 words.

A word count must be provided in all cases.
Articles should have an abstract of 200-250 words long
Articles should have 3-6 keywords at the end of the abstract;
The cover page of the article should include the name of the author, academic title, institution affiliation, the email of the corresponding author, and the author(s) ORCID ID.

Ingenious publishes original articles by authors which have not previously been published and which are not under consideration for publication in other journals. The submission of a manuscript implies its publication has been approved by all co-authors. Authors who submit articles to our journal read and approve the following copyright agreement while uploading their manuscript to our journal’s online system.

The manuscripts published in Ingenious are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0). If and when the manuscript is accepted for publication, the author(s) still hold the copyright and the moral rights, but under the licence Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0) which Ingenious use, author(s) transfer the commercial rights to the publisher of the journal. In this respect, author(s) and others are allowed to download, share, print, multiply, and re-use the article for any non-commercial purpose. The authors are deemed to have accepted the following terms by submitting their manuscript to the journal under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license. However, the journal will not refuse any reasonable request from authors for permission to reproduce their contributions for commercial purposes.

All articles published in Ingenious are available under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 which formalises the relation between authors, publisher and third parties.

The license type is (CC BY-NC 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

After the article is accepted, it is published online for early view so that accepted articles do not have to wait for the scheduled print issue to become public.

The initial appraisal of each manuscript is made by the Editors. In case the topic, treatment and geographical focus fit to journal’s aims and objectives, the anonymized manuscript is assigned to two peer-reviewers.

Once the reviewers have decided, i.e., acceptance, revision, or rejection of your manuscript, the Editor-in-Chief makes the final decision. We apply a double-blind peer review, meaning that the author’s name and affiliation are not made public to the reviewers. The reviewers’ names and affiliations are also not revealed to the author.

Review requests are sent to peers that are qualified to assess the works in terms of the relevance of their thematic, theoretical, methodological, and/or geographic expertise. In cases of desk-rejections, the argumentation will be motivated, but cannot unfortunately be extended and detailed. A rejection based on the outcome of a review process will be backed up by the actual reviews, and a motivation by the editor. A decision on the manuscript generally may be expected within 5 weeks of submission, although delays in obtaining reviews may prolong this process. Manuscripts are sent out for review electronically, and all correspondence takes place via e-mail. If reviewers recommend revision of the manuscript, authors are requested to resubmit their revisions after receiving the notification. They are asked to then also submit a letter (as attachment to the editor’s e-mail) with a detailed description of how they have responded to the separate issues raised by the reviewers.

Occasionally, Ingenious invites guest-editors who wish to organize a special issue. In such cases, the guest-editors are responsible for setting up and carrying out the review process. After completion of the review process, they will issue an editorial advice. Also in this case, the Editor-in-Chief is responsible for the final decision.

All accepted manuscripts will also be checked for plagiarism using the Turnitin platform. Authors of finally accepted manuscripts will be asked to make the revision of proofs before printing.

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Ingenious allows all authors to deposit all versions of their article or publisher’s version/pdf for self-archiving (author’s personal website) or archive in any institutional or other non-commercial websites and repositories without embargo. When distributing, posting, or archiving articles, published sources must be acknowledged with citation. These practices benefit authors with productive exchanges as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.

Open Access pathways allowed by the repository policy of Ingenious journal are as follows by article version:

Submitted Version / Accepted Version / Published Version:

Embargo: No embargo

Licence: CC BY-NC 4.0

Copyright Owner: Authors

Location: Any repository of authors choice or a non-commercial website, including author’s homepage and the journal’s website.

Published sources must be acknowledged with citation.

Author Self-Archiving Policy

As Ingenious is an Open Access journal, authors have the right to make their articles publicly available under the terms of the CC BY-NC license. Publishing under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license, authors may share and distribute their articles on any website and repository for non-commercial purposes. Recommending it be deposited in an institutional or another repository of the author’s choice without embargo, such as:

             * Institutional repository of their University and public ones: Sherpa/Romeo, Mendeley etc.

             * Google Scholar, ORCID, ResearchID, ScopusID, Dimensions…

             * Scientific social networks: ResearchGate, Academia.edu.

             * Social networks: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn…

             * On the personal website of the author(s)