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Sustainability at the Intersection of Environmental Policy and Public Health: Cutting-Edge Strategies for A Resilient Future

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Sustainability at the Intersection of Environmental Policy and Public Health: Cutting-Edge Strategies for A Resilient Future

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Sustainability at the Intersection of Environmental Policy and Public Health: Cutting-Edge Strategies for A Resilient Future

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The 21st century has ushered in an era marked by profound environmental and public health challenges that are intricately linked to global sustainability.…

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The Contribution of Ocean Carbon Sinks to Climate Change Mitigation

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The Contribution of Ocean Carbon Sinks to Climate Change Mitigation

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Introduction

International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management (IJCCSM) is delighted to announce a special issue focusing on The Contribution of Ocean Carbon Sinks to Climate Change Mitigation. Halfway through Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, only 15% of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been reached. Adopting the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development requires balancing sustainable growth with the fight against climate change. Identifying the precise role of ocean carbon sinks in combating climate change is imperative. It is essential to explore viable strategies and actions that could expedite the fulfilment of the SDGs based on the contribution of ocean carbon sinks within the stipulated timeframe.

List of topic areas

Proposed topics include but are not limited to:

Ocean carbon sinks across nations: Status, limitations, and challenges

Impact assessment of scientific advances (e.g., Ocean Negative Carbon Emissions) on climate change adaptation

The integration of science, information, and policy relating ocean carbon sinks

Integrated coastal management and land-sea carbon flow

Designing inclusive climate policies for ocean carbon sinks in the face of uncertainty

Trading policies and climate action: How to boost ocean carbon sequestration

The development of a common shared set of rules and guidelines for ocean carbon sinks: A roadmap

Developing regional (and subnational) strategies and initiatives for ocean carbon sinks and climate change mitigation

Assessing the potential and challenges of ocean carbon sinks for a sustainable future

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Key deadlines

Opening date for manuscripts submission: 1st September, 2024

Closing date for manuscripts submission: 30th April, 2025

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The Contribution of Ocean Carbon Sinks to Climate Change Mitigation

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Exploring the role of ocean carbon sinks in mitigating climate change through interdisciplinary research and innovative strategies.

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Global Excellence in Sustainability: Europe

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Frontiers | Global Excellence in Sustainability: Europe

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Frontiers in Sustainability welcomes researchers from around the world to contribute to a special edition Research Topic, emphasizing the crucial role of glo…

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Sustainability Challenges Around Energy Poverty in an Era of Global Environmental and Economic Crisis

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Sustainability Challenges Around Energy Poverty in an Era of Global Environmental and Economic Crisis

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About this Research Topic

Background

Energy is crucial at the industrial and domestic levels. Access to affordable energy must be a priority on the governmental agenda, specifically at times of environmental crisis and economic uncertainty. Lack of access to affordable energy pushes citizens towards energy poverty. The significance of this topic was highlighted when United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) addressed it in SDG 7. As energy is crucial for economic development and well-being, the UN calls for urgent energy action to address energy poverty and energy access to advance the SDGs. Health care, education, access to essential commodities, services, and information, as well as opportunities for work and creative activities, all require affordable and reliable energy services. Thus, SDG7 is strongly interlinked to SDG1, which is focused on poverty eradication. According to the UN, the pandemic is also obstructing the progress towards SDG 7 and SDG 1. Extreme poverty and energy poverty are disproportionately associated with hindered development in regions and populations, and the two are inextricably intertwined. It is recognized that energy poverty is widespread throughout the world, but it is especially prominent in developing countries, with limited research being available in this respect. In order to accurately measure and assess energy poverty, it becomes necessary to distinguish between low energy supply and home service shortages. The current target SDG7.1 indicators, 7.1.1 (Proportion of population with access to electricity) and 7.1.2 (Proportion of population with primary reliance on clean fuels and technology) are clearly not enough, contributing to an underestimation of the difficulties of ending energy poverty. The numerous dimensions of poverty, including energy poverty, need to be further addressed in order to create resilience and improve well-being. Within energy poverty, the issues involve energy policy, efficiency, security, transition, and action.

The linkages to be addressed involve both environmental and social dimensions that need to be assessed. The approach to be pursued will demand a variety of methodologies contributing to the analysis of this global, yet so specific, topic. The solutions must consider broader sustainability challenges at the global level, comprising environmental, economic, and sociodimensional resilience, improving policy coherence to increase the focus of energy access policy. Policymakers, stakeholders, and civil society all need to make a worldwide commitment to improve social cohesion by adopting common goals.

This Research Topic aims to explore contributions to energy poverty and interconnections with climate policy, pandemics, sustainable patterns, and socioeconomic inequality in the broader context of sustainability concerns. Contributions from a variety of views, both theoretical and practical, are encouraged. The goal is to help advance sustainable development by offering relevant perspectives and studies that will able to be replicated in other countries and circumstances, advancing knowledge in this topical area.

The authors are encouraged to address submissions covering the following topics:

* Energy poverty in the COVID-19 pandemic area;
* Environmental and economic policies and sustainability dimension;
* Enabling technology in poverty alleviation;
* Methods of measuring energy poverty;
* Addressing the many facets of poverty and energy poverty;
* The Income-to-Energy Poverty Nexus;
* Sustainable Development Challenges in energy poverty;
* Challenges and barriers affecting the energy access;
* Regional inequality in energy burden;
* The role of international partnerships in SDG implementation in fighting energy poverty;
* Green finance's role in reducing energy poverty;

This Research Topic aims to interdisciplinary address the crucial factors contributing to energy poverty worldwide, affecting global sustainable development.

Keywords: environmental crisis, economic uncertainty, sustainability, sustainable development goals (SDGs), emerging trends, energy policy, energy efficiency, energy security, energy transition, energy action

Important note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.

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Frontiers | Sustainability Challenges Around Energy Poverty in an Era of Global Environmental and Economic Crisis

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Waste Challenges in the Context of Broad Sustainability Challenges

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Waste Challenges in the Context of Broad Sustainability Challenges

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Frontiers | Waste Challenges in the Context of Broad Sustainability Challenges

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It is now undeniable that human relationship with the planet is sick. The most effective approach to restrict the degradation of ecosystems is to significant…

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Environmental Institutional Awareness in the Context of Sustainable Development

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Special Issue Editors

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue will address the actions and attitudes of institutions towards environmental education in the framework of sustainable development. Raising awareness in environmental education is important to sensitize institutions and companies in distinct aspects related to a sustainable environment. Papers in this Special Issue should address measures that contribute to the best methodological practices in the context of mitigating environmental impacts within the scope of institutions as a whole, considering the role they play in society. Selected papers may comprise a wide range of aspects related to environmental sustainability, including instruments and tools within institutions and companies, used to raise environmental awareness and combat fragilities in local contexts of environmental information. Papers related to the multiple benefits of ecosystem services in urban contexts are also welcome. Papers addressing the use of institutional environmental instruments in the scope of sustainable knowledge management are particularly welcome. The methodology used by institutions to raise environmental awareness should be detailed. Papers selected may also address the institutional assessment of environmental sustainability, considering the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). All relevant measures contributing to overall environmental knowledge within institutions and companies are also welcome.
References:
Clegg, T., Boston, C., Preece, J., Warrick, E., Pauw, D. & Cameron, J. (2019). Community-driven informal adult environmental learning: Using theory as a lens to identify steps toward conscientization. The Journal of Environment Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/00958964.2019.1629380

Hill, A. (2012). Developing approaches to outdoor education that promote sustainability education. Journal of Outdoor and Environmental Education. 16: 15. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03400935

Ioan, C. C., & Carcea, M. I. (2013). Awareness and environmental attitude in the context sustainable development within a knowledge-based society. Environmental Engineering and Management Journal 12: 8. https://doi.org/10.30638/eemj.2013.197

Johns, R.A. & Pontes, R. (2019). Parks, rhetoric and environmental education: challenges and opportunities for enhancing ecoliteracy. Journal of Outdoor and Environmental Education. 22: 1. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42322-019-0029-x

North, C. & Jansen, C. (2013). Holding a sustainability bearing through cutty-grass and clearings: Implementing sustainability during disruptive organisational changes. Journal of Outdoor and Environmental Education. 16: 2. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03400941

Schank, C. & Rieckmann, M. (2019). Socio-economically Substantiated Education for Sustainable Development: Development of Competencies and Value Orientations Between Individual Responsibility and Structural Transformation. Journal of Education for Sustainable Development 13 (1) 67-91. https://doi.org/10.1177/0973408219844849

Schnitzler. T. (2019). The Bridge Between Education for Sustainable Development and Transformative Learning: Towards New Collaborative Learning Spaces. Journal of Education for Sustainable Development 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1177/0973408219873827

Prof. Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis
Prof. Cláudia Oliveira Fernandes
Guest Editors
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Keywords

Best environmental practices

Ecosystem services

Education for sustainable development

Environment and society

Environmental awareness

Environmental education

Environmental sociology

Environmental sustainability

Ethical awareness

Outdoor education

Sustainable development

Sustainable health

Sustainable education

Sustainable future

Sustainable knowledge management

Sustainable landscape management

Sustainable urban ecosystems

Sustainable landscape planning

Corporate social responsibility

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Published Papers (2 papers)

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Environmental Institutional Awareness in the Context of Sustainable Development

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Special Issue in journal Sustainability: Environmental Institutional Awareness in the Context of Sustainable Development

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CA20138 / European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST)

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CA20138 / European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST)

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Network on Water-Energy-Food Nexus for a Low-Carbon Economy in Europe and Beyond (Nexusnet)

(https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA20138/#tabs+Name:Working%20Groups%20and%20Membership)

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NETWORK ON WATER-ENERGY-FOOD NEXUS FOR A LOW-CARBON ECONOMY IN EUROPE AND BEYOND

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An international network of researchers is working with policymakers and the business sector to better understand how the water-energy-food Nexus fosters policy coherence in the domains of water, ener…

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Improving disaster health and climate resilience at the expanded environmental crisis in Nepal and Bangladesh

Project 101083080 / 36 months (https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/erasmus-edu-2022-cbhe-strand-1)

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The Funding and Tenders Portal is the single entry point (the Single Electronic Data Interchange Area) for applicants, contractors and experts in funding programmes and procurements managed by the European Commission.

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Gestão sustentável de resíduos: um desafio por resolver

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Gestão sustentável de resíduos: um desafio por resolver

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https://poderlocal.dn.pt/2023/gestao-sustentavel-de-residuos-um-desafio-por-resolver/

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Sabe que efeito têm as garrafas de plástico no planeta?

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Sabe que efeito têm as garrafas de plástico no planeta?

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Sabe que efeito têm as garrafas de plástico no planeta?

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Pelo menos uma cidade norte-americana e outra australiana proibiram o uso de garrafas de plástico aos seus habitantes, devido à poluição devastadora que implicam. Só para fabricar garrafas descartáveis são necessários milhões de barris de petróleo por ano. Para se decomporem, demoram centenas de anos.

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Beatas de cigarro podem ser transformadas em papel

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Beatas de cigarro podem ser transformadas em papel

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Beatas de cigarro podem ser transformadas em papel

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Cerca de mil milhões de cigarros são fumados todos os meses em Portugal. Saiba o que acontece sempre que se apaga um cigarro no chão e como podem ser recicladas as beatas.

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Projeto Exploratório ACAMAI - Automatizar o Mapeamento de Acessibilidades Urbanas com IA / Automating City Accessibility Mapping using AI

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Projeto Exploratório ACAMAI - Automatizar o Mapeamento de Acessibilidades Urbanas com IA / Automating City Accessibility Mapping using AI

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Investigação, Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FFP

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2022-Present: Deputy Editor, International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, Emerald Publishing

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There are a few other important points to note:

All figures should be supplied at the highest resolution/quality possible with numbers and text clearly legible.

Acceptable formats are .ai, .eps, .jpeg, .bmp, and .tif.

Electronic figures created in other applications should be supplied in their original formats and should also be either copied and pasted into a blank MS Word document, or submitted as a PDF file.

All figures should be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals and have clear captions.

All photographs should be numbered as Plate 1, 2, 3, etc. and have clear captions.

All figure/table captions should include the necessary credit line, acknowledgement, or attribution if you have been given permission to use the figure/table; if the figure/table is the property of the author(s), this should be acknowledged in the caption.

Tables should be typed and submitted in a separate file to the main body of the article. The position of each table should be clearly labelled in the main body of the article with corresponding labels clearly shown in the table file. Tables should be numbered consecutively in Roman numerals (e.g. I, II, etc.).

Give each table a brief title. Ensure that any superscripts or asterisks are shown next to the relevant items and have explanations displayed as footnotes to the table, figure or plate.

Where tables, figures, appendices, and other additional content are supplementary to the article but not critical to the reader's understanding of it, you can choose to host these supplementary files alongside your article on Insight, Emerald's content-hosting platform (this is Emerald's recommended option as we are able to ensure the data remain accessible), or on an alternative trusted online repository. All supplementary material must be submitted prior to acceptance.

Emerald recommends that authors use the following two lists when searching for a suitable and trusted repository:

If you choose to host your supplementary files on Insight, you must submit these as separate files alongside your article. Files should be clearly labelled in such a way that makes it clear they are supplementary; Emerald recommends that the file name is descriptive and that it follows the format 'Supplementary_material_appendix_1' or 'Supplementary tables'. All supplementary material must be mentioned at the appropriate moment in the main text of the article; there is no need to include the content of the file only the file name. A link to the supplementary material will be added to the article during production, and the material will be made available alongside the main text of the article at the point of EarlyCite publication.

Please note that Emerald will not make any changes to the material; it will not be copy-edited or typeset, and authors will not receive proofs of this content. Emerald therefore strongly recommends that you style all supplementary material ahead of acceptance of the article.

Emerald Insight can host the following file types and extensions:

Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)

MS Word document (.doc, .docx)

MS Excel (.xls, xlsx)

MS PowerPoint (.pptx)

Image (.png, .jpeg, .gif)

Plain ASCII text (.txt)

PostScript (.ps)

Rich Text Format (.rtf)

If you choose to use an alternative trusted online repository, you should ensure that the supplementary material is hosted on the repository ahead of submission, and then include a link only to the repository within the article. It is the responsibility of the submitting author to ensure that the material is free to access and that it remains permanently available. Where an alternative trusted online repository is used, the files hosted should always be presented as read-only; please be aware that such usage risks compromising your anonymity during the review process if the repository contains any information that may enable the reviewer to identify you; as such, we recommend that all links to alternative repositories are reviewed carefully prior to submission.

Please note that extensive supplementary material may be subject to peer review; this is at the discretion of the journal Editor and dependent on the content of the material (for example, whether including it would support the reviewer making a decision on the article during the peer review process).

All references in your manuscript must be formatted using one of the recognised Harvard styles. You are welcome to use the Harvard style Emerald has adopted - we've provided a detailed guide below. Want to use a different Harvard style? That's fine, our typesetters will make any necessary changes to your manuscript if it is accepted. Please ensure you check all your citations for completeness, accuracy and consistency.
Emerald's Harvard referencing style
References to other publications in your text should be written as follows:

Single author: (Adams, 2006)

Two authors: (Adams and Brown, 2006)

Three or more authors: (Adams et al., 2006) Please note, 'et al' should always be written in italics.

A few other style points. These apply to both the main body of text and your final list of references.

When referring to pages in a publication, use 'p.(page number)' for a single page or 'pp.(page numbers)' to indicate a page range.

Page numbers should always be written out in full, e.g. 175-179, not 175-9.

Where a colon or dash appears in the title of an article or book chapter, the letter that follows that colon or dash should always be lower case.

When citing a work with multiple editors, use the abbreviation 'Ed.s'.

At the end of your paper, please supply a reference list in alphabetical order using the style guidelines below. Where a DOI is available, this should be included at the end of the reference.

Surname, initials (year), "title of paper", paper presented at [name of conference], [date of conference], [place of conference], available at: URL if freely available on the internet (accessed date).

e.g. Aumueller, D. (2005), "Semantic authoring and retrieval within a wiki", paper presented at the European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), 29 May-1 June, Heraklion, Crete, available at: http://dbs.uni-leipzig.de/file/aumueller05wiksar.pdf (accessed 20 February 2007).

Surname, initials (year), "title of article", working paper [number if available], institution or organization, place of organization, date.

e.g. Moizer, P. (2003), "How published academic research can inform policy decisions: the case of mandatory rotation of audit appointments", working paper, Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds, Leeds, 28 March.

Title of encyclopaedia (year), "title of entry", volume, edition, title of encyclopaedia, publisher, place of publication, page numbers.

e.g. Encyclopaedia Britannica (1926), "Psychology of culture contact", Vol. 1, 13th ed., Encyclopaedia Britannica, London and New York, NY, pp.765-771.

(for authored entries, please refer to book chapter guidelines above)

For archival or other unpublished sources

Surname, initials (year), "title of document", unpublished manuscript, collection name, inventory record, name of archive, location of archive.

e.g. Litman, S. (1902), "Mechanism & Technique of Commerce", unpublished manuscript, Simon Litman Papers, Record series 9/5/29 Box 3, University of Illinois Archives, Urbana-Champaign, IL.

For electronic sources

If available online, the full URL should be supplied at the end of the reference, as well as the date that the resource was accessed.

Surname, initials (year), "title of electronic source", available at: persistent URL (accessed date month year).

e.g. Weida, S. and Stolley, K. (2013), "Developing strong thesis statements", available at: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/588/1/ (accessed 20 June 2018)

Standalone URLs, i.e. those without an author or date, should be included either inside parentheses within the main text, or preferably set as a note (Roman numeral within square brackets within text followed by the full URL address at the end of the paper).

Submit your manuscript

There are a number of key steps you should follow to ensure a smooth and trouble-free submission.

Double check your manuscript

Before submitting your work, it is your responsibility to check that the manuscript is complete, grammatically correct, and without spelling or typographical errors. A few other important points:

Give the journal aims and scope a final read. Is your manuscript definitely a good fit? If it isn't, the editor may decline it without peer review.

Does your manuscript comply with our research and publishing ethics guidelines?

Have you cleared any necessary publishing permissions?

Have you followed all the formatting requirements laid out in these author guidelines?

Does the manuscript contain any information that might help the reviewer identify you? This could compromise the anonymous peer review process. A few tips:

If you need to refer to your own work, use wording such as 'previous research has demonstrated' not 'our previous research has demonstrated'.

If you need to refer to your own, currently unpublished work, don't include this work in the reference list.

Any acknowledgments or author biographies should be uploaded as separate files.

Carry out a final check to ensure that no author names appear anywhere in the manuscript. This includes in figures or captions.

You will find a helpful submission checklist on the website Think.Check.Submit.

The submission process

All manuscripts should be submitted through our editorial system by the corresponding author.

The only way to submit to the journal is through the journal's ScholarOne site as accessed via the Emerald website, and not by email or through any third-party agent/company, journal representative, or website. Submissions should be done directly by the author(s) through the ScholarOne site and not via a third-party proxy on their behalf.

A separate author account is required for each journal you submit to. If this is your first time submitting to this journal, please choose the Create an account or Register now option in the editorial system. If you already have an Emerald login, you are welcome to reuse the existing username and password here.

Please note, the next time you log into the system, you will be asked for your username. This will be the email address you entered when you set up your account.

Don't forget to add your ORCiD IDduring the submission process. It will be embedded in your published article, along with a link to the ORCiD registry allowing others to easily match you with your work.

Don't have one yet? It only takes a few moments to register for a free ORCiD identifier.

Visit the ScholarOne support centre for further help and guidance.

What you can expect next

You will receive an automated email from the journal editor, confirming your successful submission. It will provide you with a manuscript number, which will be used in all future correspondence about your submission. If you have any reason to suspect the confirmation email you receive might be fraudulent, please contact the journal editor in the first instance.

Post submission

Review and decision process

Each submission is checked by the editor. At this stage, they may choose to decline or unsubmit your manuscript if it doesn't fit the journal aims and scope, or they feel the language/manuscript quality is too low.

If they think it might be suitable for the publication, they will send it to at least two independent referees for double anonymous peer review. Once these reviewers have provided their feedback, the editor may decide to accept your manuscript, request minor or major revisions, or decline your work.

This journal offers an article transfer service. If the editor decides to decline your manuscript, either before or after peer review, they may offer to transfer it to a more relevant Emerald journal in this field. If you accept, your ScholarOne author account, and the accounts of your co-authors, will automatically transfer to the new journal, along with your manuscript and any accompanying peer review reports. However, you will still need to log in to ScholarOne to complete the submission process using your existing username and password. While accepting a transfer does not guarantee the receiving journal will publish your work, an editor will only suggest a transfer if they feel your article is a good fit with the new title.

While all journals work to different timescales, the goal is that the editor will inform you of their first decision within 60 days.

During this period, we will send you automated updates on the progress of your manuscript via our submission system, or you can log in to check on the current status of your paper. Each time we contact you, we will quote the manuscript number you were given at the point of submission. If you receive an email that does not match these criteria, it could be fraudulent and we recommend you contact the journal editor in the first instance.

If your submission is accepted

Open access

Once your paper is accepted, you will have the opportunity to indicate whether you would like to publish your paper via the gold open access route.

If you've chosen to publish gold open access, this is the point you will be asked to pay the APC (article processing charge). This varies per journal and can be found on our APC price list or on the editorial system at the point of submission. Your article will be published with a Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 user licence, which outlines how readers can reuse your work.

For UK journal article authors - if you wish to submit your work accepted by Emerald to REF 2021, you must make a 'closed deposit' of your accepted manuscript to your respective institutional repository upon acceptance of your article. Articles accepted for publication after 1st April 2018 should be deposited as soon as possible, but no later than three months after the acceptance date. For further information and guidance, please refer to the REF 2021 website.

Copyright

All accepted authors are sent an email with a link to a licence form. This should be checked for accuracy, for example whether contact and affiliation details are up to date and your name is spelled correctly, and then returned to us electronically. If there is a reason why you can't assign copyright to us, you should discuss this with your journal content editor. You will find their contact details on the editorial team section above.

Proofing and typesetting

Once we have received your completed licence form, the article will pass directly into the production process. We will carry out editorial checks, copyediting, and typesetting and then return proofs to you (if you are the corresponding author) for your review. This is your opportunity to correct any typographical errors, grammatical errors or incorrect author details. We can't accept requests to rewrite texts at this stage.

When the page proofs are finalised, the fully typeset and proofed version of record is published online. This is referred to as the EarlyCite version. While an EarlyCite article has yet to be assigned to a volume or issue, it does have a digital object identifier (DOI) and is fully citable. It will be compiled into an issue according to the journal's issue schedule, with papers being added by chronological date of publication.

How to share your paper

Visit our author rights page to find out how you can reuse and share your work.

To find tips on increasing the visibility of your published paper, read about how to promote your work.

Correcting inaccuracies in your published paper

Sometimes errors are made during the research, writing and publishing processes. When these issues arise, we have the option of withdrawing the paper or introducing a correction notice. Find out more about our article withdrawal and correction policies.

Need to make a change to the author list? See our frequently asked questions (FAQs) below.

Frequently asked questions

The only time we will ever ask you for money to publish in an Emerald journal is if you have chosen to publish via the gold open access route. You will be asked to pay an APC (article-processing charge) once your paper has been accepted (unless it is a sponsored open access journal), and never at submission.
Read about our APCs
At no other time will you be asked to contribute financially towards your article's publication, processing, or review. If you haven't chosen gold open access and you receive an email that appears to be from Emerald, the journal, or a third party, asking you for payment to publish, please contact our support team via [email protected] .

Please contact the editor for the journal, with a copy of your CV. You will find their contact details on the editorial team tab on this page.

Who do I contact if I want to find out which volume and issue my accepted paper will appear in?

Typically, papers are added to an issue according to their date of publication. If you would like to know in advance which issue your paper will appear in, please contact the content editor of the journal. You will find their contact details on the editorial team tab on this page. Once your paper has been published in an issue, you will be notified by email.

Please email the journal editor - you will find their contact details on the editorial team tab on this page. If you ever suspect an email you've received from Emerald might not be genuine, you are welcome to verify it with the content editor for the journal, whose contact details can be found on the editorial team tab on this page.

If you've read the aims and scope on the journal landing page and are still unsure whether your paper is suitable for the journal, please email the editor and include your paper's title and structured abstract. They will be able to advise on your manuscript's suitability. You will find their contact details on the Editorial team tab on this page.

How do I make a change to the list of authors once the manuscript has been submitted?

Authorship and the order in which the authors are listed on the paper should be agreed prior to submission. We have a right first time policy on this and no changes can be made to the list once submitted. If you have made an error in the submission process, please email the Journal Editorial Office who will look into your request - you will find their contact details on the editorial team tab on this page.

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Before you start

For queries relating to the status of your paper pre decision, please contact the Editor or Journal Editorial Office. For queries post acceptance, please contact the Supplier Project Manager. These details can be found in the Editorial Team section.

Author responsibilities

Our goal is to provide you with a professional and courteous experience at each stage of the review and publication process. There are also some responsibilities that sit with you as the author. Our expectation is that you will:

Respond swiftly to any queries during the publication process.

Be accountable for all aspects of your work. This includes investigating and resolving any questions about accuracy or research integrity.

Treat communications between you and the journal editor as confidential until an editorial decision has been made.

Read about our research ethics for authorship. These state that you must:

Include anyone who has made a substantial and meaningful contribution to the submission (anyone else involved in the paper should be listed in the acknowledgements).

Exclude anyone who hasn't contributed to the paper, or who has chosen not to be associated with the research.

In accordance with COPE's position statement on AI tools, Large Language Models cannot be credited with authorship as they are incapable of conceptualising a research design without human direction and cannot be accountable for the integrity, originality, and validity of the published work. The author(s) must describe the content created or modified as well as appropriately cite the name and version of the AI tool used; any additional works drawn on by the AI tool should also be appropriately cited and referenced. Standard tools that are used to improve spelling and grammar are not included within the parameters of this guidance. The Editor and Publisher reserve the right to determine whether the use of an AI tool is permissible.

If your article involves human participants, you must ensure you have considered whether or not you require ethical approval for your research, and include this information as part of your submission. Find out more about informed consent.

Generative AI usage key principles

Copywriting any part of an article using a generative AI tool/LLM would not be permissible, including the generation of the abstract or the literature review, for as per Emerald's authorship criteria, the author(s) must be responsible for the work and accountable for its accuracy, integrity, and validity.

The generation or reporting of results using a generative AI tool/LLM is not permissible, for as per Emerald's authorship criteria, the author(s) must be responsible for the creation and interpretation of their work and accountable for its accuracy, integrity, and validity.

The in-text reporting of statistics using a generative AI tool/LLM is not permissible due to concerns over the authenticity, integrity, and validity of the data produced, although the use of such a tool to aid in the analysis of the work would be permissible.

Copy-editing an article using a generative AI tool/LLM in order to improve its language and readability would be permissible as this mirrors standard tools already employed to improve spelling and grammar, and uses existing author-created material, rather than generating wholly new content, while the author(s) remains responsible for the original work.

The submission and publication of images created by AI tools or large-scale generative models is not permitted.

Research and publishing ethics

Our editors and employees work hard to ensure the content we publish is ethically sound. To help us achieve that goal, we closely follow the advice laid out in the guidelines and flowcharts on the COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) website.

We have also developed our research and publishing ethics guidelines. If you haven't already read these, we urge you to do so - they will help you avoid the most common publishing ethics issues.

A few key points:

Any manuscript you submit to this journal should be original. That means it should not have been published before in its current, or similar, form. Exceptions to this rule are outlined in our pre-print and conference paper policies. If any substantial element of your paper has been previously published, you need to declare this to the journal editor upon submission. Please note, the journal editor may use Crossref Similarity Check to check on the originality of submissions received. This service compares submissions against a database of 49 million works from 800 scholarly publishers.

Your work should not have been submitted elsewhere and should not be under consideration by any other publication.

If you have a conflict of interest, you must declare it upon submission; this allows the editor to decide how they would like to proceed. Read about conflict of interest in our research and publishing ethics guidelines.

By submitting your work to Emerald, you are guaranteeing that the work is not in infringement of any existing copyright.

Third party copyright permissions

Prior to article submission, you need to ensure you've applied for, and received,written permission to use any material in your manuscript that has been created by a third party. Please note, we are unable to publish any article that still has permissions pending. The rights we require are:

Non-exclusive rights to reproduce the material in the article or book chapter.

Print and electronic rights.

Worldwide English-language rights.

To use the material for the life of the work. That means there should be no time restrictions on its re-use e.g. a one-year licence.

We are a member of the International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers (STM) and participate in the STM permissions guidelines, a reciprocal free exchange of material with other STM publishers. In some cases, this may mean that you don't need permission to re-use content. If so, please highlight this at the submission stage.

Please take a few moments to read our guide to publishing permissions to ensure you have met all the requirements, so that we can process your submission without delay.

Open access submissions and information

All our journals currently offer two open access (OA) publishing paths; gold open access and green open access.

If you would like to, or are required to, make the branded publisher PDF (also known as the version of record) freely available immediately upon publication, you can select the gold open access route once your paper is accepted.

If you've chosen to publish gold open access, this is the point you will be asked to pay the APC (article processing charge). This varies per journal and can be found on our APC price list or on the editorial system at the point of submission. Your article will be published with a Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 user licence, which outlines how readers can reuse your work.

Alternatively, if you would like to, or are required to, publish open access but your funding doesn't cover the cost of the APC, you can choose the green open access, or self-archiving, route. As soon as your article is published, you can make the author accepted manuscript (the version accepted for publication) openly available, free from payment and embargo periods.

You can find out more about our open access routes, our APCs and waivers and read our FAQs on our open research page.
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Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines

We are a signatory of the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines, a framework that supports the reproducibility of research through the adoption of transparent research practices. That means we encourage you to:

Cite and fully reference all data, program code, and other methods in your article.

Include persistent identifiers, such as a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), in references for datasets and program codes. Persistent identifiers ensure future access to unique published digital objects, such as a piece of text or datasets. Persistent identifiers are assigned to datasets by digital archives, such as institutional repositories and partners in the Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences (Data-PASS).

Follow appropriate international and national procedures with respect to data protection, rights to privacy and other ethical considerations, whenever you cite data. For further guidance please refer to our research and publishing ethics guidelines. For an example on how to cite datasets, please refer to the references section below.

Prepare your submission

Manuscript support services

We are pleased to partner with Editage, a platform that connects you with relevant experts in language support, translation, editing, visuals, consulting, and more. After you've agreed a fee, they will work with you to enhance your manuscript and get it submission-ready.

This is an optional service for authors who feel they need a little extra support. It does not guarantee your work will be accepted for review or publication.
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Manuscript requirements

Before you submit your manuscript, it's important you read and follow the guidelines below. You will also find some useful tips in our structure your journal submission how-to guide.

Article files should be provided in Microsoft Word format.

While you are welcome to submit a PDF of the document alongside the Word file, PDFs alone are not acceptable. LaTeX files can also be used but only if an accompanying PDF document is provided. Acceptable figure file types are listed further below.

Article length / word count

Articles should be between 6000 and 8000 words in length. This includes all text, for example, the structured abstract, references, all text in tables, and figures and appendices.

Please allow 280 words for each figure or table.

The names of all contributing authors should be added to the ScholarOne submission; please list them in the order in which you'd like them to be published. Each contributing author will need their own ScholarOne author account, from which we will extract the following details:

Author email address (institutional preferred).

Author name. We will reproduce it exactly, so any middle names and/or initials they want featured must be included.

Author affiliation. This should be where they were based when the research for the paper was conducted.

In multi-authored papers, it's important that ALL authors that have made a significant contribution to the paper are listed. Those who have provided support but have not contributed to the research should be featured in an acknowledgements section. You should never include people who have not contributed to the paper or who don't want to be associated with the research. Read about our research ethics for authorship.

All submissions must include a structured abstract, following the format outlined below.

These four sub-headings and their accompanying explanations must always be included:

Purpose

Design/methodology/approach

Findings

Originality

The following three sub-headings are optional and can be included, if applicable:

Research limitations/implications

Practical implications

Social implications

You can find some useful tips in our write an article abstract how-to guide.

The maximum length of your abstract should be 250 words in total, including keywords and article classification (see the sections below).

Your submission should include up to 12 appropriate and short keywords that capture the principal topics of the paper. Our Creating an SEO-friendly manuscript how to guide contains some practical guidance on choosing search-engine friendly keywords.

Please note, while we will always try to use the keywords you've suggested, the in-house editorial team may replace some of them with matching terms to ensure consistency across publications and improve your article's visibility.

Article classification

During the submission process, you will be asked to select a type for your paper; the options are listed below. If you don't see an exact match, please choose the best fit:

You will also be asked to select a category for your paper. The options for this are listed below. If you don't see an exact match, please choose the best fit:

Research paper. Reports on any type of research undertaken by the author(s), including:

The construction or testing of a model or framework

Action research

Testing of data, market research or surveys

Empirical, scientific or clinical research

Papers with a practical focus

Viewpoint. Covers any paper where content is dependent on the author's opinion and interpretation. This includes journalistic and magazine-style pieces.

Technical paper. Describes and evaluates technical products, processes or services.

Conceptual paper. Focuses on developing hypotheses and is usually discursive. Covers philosophical discussions and comparative studies of other authors' work and thinking.

Case study. Describes actual interventions or experiences within organizations. It can be subjective and doesn't generally report on research. Also covers a description of a legal case or a hypothetical case study used as a teaching exercise.

Literature review. This category should only be used if the main purpose of the paper is to annotate and/or critique the literature in a particular field. It could be a selective bibliography providing advice on information sources, or the paper may aim to cover the main contributors to the development of a topic and explore their different views.

General review. Provides an overview or historical examination of some concept, technique or phenomenon. Papers are likely to be more descriptive or instructional ('how to' papers) than discursive.

Headings must be concise, with a clear indication of the required hierarchy.

The preferred format is for first level headings to be in bold, and subsequent sub-headings to be in medium italics.

All figures (charts, diagrams, line drawings, webpages/screenshots, and photographic images) should be submitted electronically. Both colour and black and white files are accepted.

There are a few other important points to note:

All figures should be supplied at the highest resolution/quality possible with numbers and text clearly legible.

Acceptable formats are .ai, .eps, .jpeg, .bmp, and .tif.

Electronic figures created in other applications should be supplied in their original formats and should also be either copied and pasted into a blank MS Word document, or submitted as a PDF file.

All figures should be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals and have clear captions.

All photographs should be numbered as Plate 1, 2, 3, etc. and have clear captions.

All figure/table captions should include the necessary credit line, acknowledgement, or attribution if you have been given permission to use the figure/table; if the figure/table is the property of the author(s), this should be acknowledged in the caption.

Tables should be typed and submitted in a separate file to the main body of the article. The position of each table should be clearly labelled in the main body of the article with corresponding labels clearly shown in the table file. Tables should be numbered consecutively in Roman numerals (e.g. I, II, etc.).

Give each table a brief title. Ensure that any superscripts or asterisks are shown next to the relevant items and have explanations displayed as footnotes to the table, figure or plate.

Where tables, figures, appendices, and other additional content are supplementary to the article but not critical to the reader's understanding of it, you can choose to host these supplementary files alongside your article on Insight, Emerald's content-hosting platform (this is Emerald's recommended option as we are able to ensure the data remain accessible), or on an alternative trusted online repository. All supplementary material must be submitted prior to acceptance.

Emerald recommends that authors use the following two lists when searching for a suitable and trusted repository:

If you choose to host your supplementary files on Insight, you must submit these as separate files alongside your article. Files should be clearly labelled in such a way that makes it clear they are supplementary; Emerald recommends that the file name is descriptive and that it follows the format 'Supplementary_material_appendix_1' or 'Supplementary tables'. All supplementary material must be mentioned at the appropriate moment in the main text of the article; there is no need to include the content of the file only the file name. A link to the supplementary material will be added to the article during production, and the material will be made available alongside the main text of the article at the point of EarlyCite publication.

Please note that Emerald will not make any changes to the material; it will not be copy-edited or typeset, and authors will not receive proofs of this content. Emerald therefore strongly recommends that you style all supplementary material ahead of acceptance of the article.

Emerald Insight can host the following file types and extensions:

Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)

MS Word document (.doc, .docx)

MS Excel (.xls, xlsx)

MS PowerPoint (.pptx)

Image (.png, .jpeg, .gif)

Plain ASCII text (.txt)

PostScript (.ps)

Rich Text Format (.rtf)

If you choose to use an alternative trusted online repository, you should ensure that the supplementary material is hosted on the repository ahead of submission, and then include a link only to the repository within the article. It is the responsibility of the submitting author to ensure that the material is free to access and that it remains permanently available. Where an alternative trusted online repository is used, the files hosted should always be presented as read-only; please be aware that such usage risks compromising your anonymity during the review process if the repository contains any information that may enable the reviewer to identify you; as such, we recommend that all links to alternative repositories are reviewed carefully prior to submission.

Please note that extensive supplementary material may be subject to peer review; this is at the discretion of the journal Editor and dependent on the content of the material (for example, whether including it would support the reviewer making a decision on the article during the peer review process).

All references in your manuscript must be formatted using one of the recognised Harvard styles. You are welcome to use the Harvard style Emerald has adopted - we've provided a detailed guide below. Want to use a different Harvard style? That's fine, our typesetters will make any necessary changes to your manuscript if it is accepted. Please ensure you check all your citations for completeness, accuracy and consistency.
Emerald's Harvard referencing style
References to other publications in your text should be written as follows:

Single author: (Adams, 2006)

Two authors: (Adams and Brown, 2006)

Three or more authors: (Adams et al., 2006) Please note, 'et al' should always be written in italics.

A few other style points. These apply to both the main body of text and your final list of references.

When referring to pages in a publication, use 'p.(page number)' for a single page or 'pp.(page numbers)' to indicate a page range.

Page numbers should always be written out in full, e.g. 175-179, not 175-9.

Where a colon or dash appears in the title of an article or book chapter, the letter that follows that colon or dash should always be lower case.

When citing a work with multiple editors, use the abbreviation 'Ed.s'.

At the end of your paper, please supply a reference list in alphabetical order using the style guidelines below. Where a DOI is available, this should be included at the end of the reference.

Surname, initials (year), "title of paper", paper presented at [name of conference], [date of conference], [place of conference], available at: URL if freely available on the internet (accessed date).

e.g. Aumueller, D. (2005), "Semantic authoring and retrieval within a wiki", paper presented at the European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), 29 May-1 June, Heraklion, Crete, available at: http://dbs.uni-leipzig.de/file/aumueller05wiksar.pdf (accessed 20 February 2007).

Surname, initials (year), "title of article", working paper [number if available], institution or organization, place of organization, date.

e.g. Moizer, P. (2003), "How published academic research can inform policy decisions: the case of mandatory rotation of audit appointments", working paper, Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds, Leeds, 28 March.

Title of encyclopaedia (year), "title of entry", volume, edition, title of encyclopaedia, publisher, place of publication, page numbers.

e.g. Encyclopaedia Britannica (1926), "Psychology of culture contact", Vol. 1, 13th ed., Encyclopaedia Britannica, London and New York, NY, pp.765-771.

(for authored entries, please refer to book chapter guidelines above)

For archival or other unpublished sources

Surname, initials (year), "title of document", unpublished manuscript, collection name, inventory record, name of archive, location of archive.

e.g. Litman, S. (1902), "Mechanism & Technique of Commerce", unpublished manuscript, Simon Litman Papers, Record series 9/5/29 Box 3, University of Illinois Archives, Urbana-Champaign, IL.

For electronic sources

If available online, the full URL should be supplied at the end of the reference, as well as the date that the resource was accessed.

Surname, initials (year), "title of electronic source", available at: persistent URL (accessed date month year).

e.g. Weida, S. and Stolley, K. (2013), "Developing strong thesis statements", available at: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/588/1/ (accessed 20 June 2018)

Standalone URLs, i.e. those without an author or date, should be included either inside parentheses within the main text, or preferably set as a note (Roman numeral within square brackets within text followed by the full URL address at the end of the paper).

Submit your manuscript

There are a number of key steps you should follow to ensure a smooth and trouble-free submission.

Double check your manuscript

Before submitting your work, it is your responsibility to check that the manuscript is complete, grammatically correct, and without spelling or typographical errors. A few other important points:

Give the journal aims and scope a final read. Is your manuscript definitely a good fit? If it isn't, the editor may decline it without peer review.

Does your manuscript comply with our research and publishing ethics guidelines?

Have you cleared any necessary publishing permissions?

Have you followed all the formatting requirements laid out in these author guidelines?

Does the manuscript contain any information that might help the reviewer identify you? This could compromise the anonymous peer review process. A few tips:

If you need to refer to your own work, use wording such as 'previous research has demonstrated' not 'our previous research has demonstrated'.

If you need to refer to your own, currently unpublished work, don't include this work in the reference list.

Any acknowledgments or author biographies should be uploaded as separate files.

Carry out a final check to ensure that no author names appear anywhere in the manuscript. This includes in figures or captions.

You will find a helpful submission checklist on the website Think.Check.Submit.

The submission process

All manuscripts should be submitted through our editorial system by the corresponding author.

The only way to submit to the journal is through the journal's ScholarOne site as accessed via the Emerald website, and not by email or through any third-party agent/company, journal representative, or website. Submissions should be done directly by the author(s) through the ScholarOne site and not via a third-party proxy on their behalf.

A separate author account is required for each journal you submit to. If this is your first time submitting to this journal, please choose the Create an account or Register now option in the editorial system. If you already have an Emerald login, you are welcome to reuse the existing username and password here.

Please note, the next time you log into the system, you will be asked for your username. This will be the email address you entered when you set up your account.

Don't forget to add your ORCiD IDduring the submission process. It will be embedded in your published article, along with a link to the ORCiD registry allowing others to easily match you with your work.

Don't have one yet? It only takes a few moments to register for a free ORCiD identifier.

Visit the ScholarOne support centre for further help and guidance.

What you can expect next

You will receive an automated email from the journal editor, confirming your successful submission. It will provide you with a manuscript number, which will be used in all future correspondence about your submission. If you have any reason to suspect the confirmation email you receive might be fraudulent, please contact the journal editor in the first instance.

Post submission

Review and decision process

Each submission is checked by the editor. At this stage, they may choose to decline or unsubmit your manuscript if it doesn't fit the journal aims and scope, or they feel the language/manuscript quality is too low.

If they think it might be suitable for the publication, they will send it to at least two independent referees for double anonymous peer review. Once these reviewers have provided their feedback, the editor may decide to accept your manuscript, request minor or major revisions, or decline your work.

This journal offers an article transfer service. If the editor decides to decline your manuscript, either before or after peer review, they may offer to transfer it to a more relevant Emerald journal in this field. If you accept, your ScholarOne author account, and the accounts of your co-authors, will automatically transfer to the new journal, along with your manuscript and any accompanying peer review reports. However, you will still need to log in to ScholarOne to complete the submission process using your existing username and password. While accepting a transfer does not guarantee the receiving journal will publish your work, an editor will only suggest a transfer if they feel your article is a good fit with the new title.

While all journals work to different timescales, the goal is that the editor will inform you of their first decision within 60 days.

During this period, we will send you automated updates on the progress of your manuscript via our submission system, or you can log in to check on the current status of your paper. Each time we contact you, we will quote the manuscript number you were given at the point of submission. If you receive an email that does not match these criteria, it could be fraudulent and we recommend you contact the journal editor in the first instance.

If your submission is accepted

Open access

Once your paper is accepted, you will have the opportunity to indicate whether you would like to publish your paper via the gold open access route.

If you've chosen to publish gold open access, this is the point you will be asked to pay the APC (article processing charge). This varies per journal and can be found on our APC price list or on the editorial system at the point of submission. Your article will be published with a Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 user licence, which outlines how readers can reuse your work.

For UK journal article authors - if you wish to submit your work accepted by Emerald to REF 2021, you must make a 'closed deposit' of your accepted manuscript to your respective institutional repository upon acceptance of your article. Articles accepted for publication after 1st April 2018 should be deposited as soon as possible, but no later than three months after the acceptance date. For further information and guidance, please refer to the REF 2021 website.

Copyright

All accepted authors are sent an email with a link to a licence form. This should be checked for accuracy, for example whether contact and affiliation details are up to date and your name is spelled correctly, and then returned to us electronically. If there is a reason why you can't assign copyright to us, you should discuss this with your journal content editor. You will find their contact details on the editorial team section above.

Proofing and typesetting

Once we have received your completed licence form, the article will pass directly into the production process. We will carry out editorial checks, copyediting, and typesetting and then return proofs to you (if you are the corresponding author) for your review. This is your opportunity to correct any typographical errors, grammatical errors or incorrect author details. We can't accept requests to rewrite texts at this stage.

When the page proofs are finalised, the fully typeset and proofed version of record is published online. This is referred to as the EarlyCite version. While an EarlyCite article has yet to be assigned to a volume or issue, it does have a digital object identifier (DOI) and is fully citable. It will be compiled into an issue according to the journal's issue schedule, with papers being added by chronological date of publication.

How to share your paper

Visit our author rights page to find out how you can reuse and share your work.

To find tips on increasing the visibility of your published paper, read about how to promote your work.

Correcting inaccuracies in your published paper

Sometimes errors are made during the research, writing and publishing processes. When these issues arise, we have the option of withdrawing the paper or introducing a correction notice. Find out more about our article withdrawal and correction policies.

Need to make a change to the author list? See our frequently asked questions (FAQs) below.

Frequently asked questions

The only time we will ever ask you for money to publish in an Emerald journal is if you have chosen to publish via the gold open access route. You will be asked to pay an APC (article-processing charge) once your paper has been accepted (unless it is a sponsored open access journal), and never at submission.
Read about our APCs
At no other time will you be asked to contribute financially towards your article's publication, processing, or review. If you haven't chosen gold open access and you receive an email that appears to be from Emerald, the journal, or a third party, asking you for payment to publish, please contact our support team via [email protected] .

Please contact the editor for the journal, with a copy of your CV. You will find their contact details on the editorial team tab on this page.

Who do I contact if I want to find out which volume and issue my accepted paper will appear in?

Typically, papers are added to an issue according to their date of publication. If you would like to know in advance which issue your paper will appear in, please contact the content editor of the journal. You will find their contact details on the editorial team tab on this page. Once your paper has been published in an issue, you will be notified by email.

Please email the journal editor - you will find their contact details on the editorial team tab on this page. If you ever suspect an email you've received from Emerald might not be genuine, you are welcome to verify it with the content editor for the journal, whose contact details can be found on the editorial team tab on this page.

If you've read the aims and scope on the journal landing page and are still unsure whether your paper is suitable for the journal, please email the editor and include your paper's title and structured abstract. They will be able to advise on your manuscript's suitability. You will find their contact details on the Editorial team tab on this page.

How do I make a change to the list of authors once the manuscript has been submitted?

Authorship and the order in which the authors are listed on the paper should be agreed prior to submission. We have a right first time policy on this and no changes can be made to the list once submitted. If you have made an error in the submission process, please email the Journal Editorial Office who will look into your request - you will find their contact details on the editorial team tab on this page.

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