Journal Submission Instructions

Direct Submissions | Conference Submissions | General Comments

In general, we invite direct submissions to any of our journals at any time, however, We ask that you not submit a direct journal submission between March 1 and April 15, nor from September 1 through October 15. These are our busiest times of the year and we encourage you to submit your paper through the Accelerated Review Process associated with the Conference if you wish to have a paper reviewed during this time.

Direct submissions are submitted electronically through email to Trey Carland (Executive Director), NOT to an individual Editor.  There will soon be a Direct Journal Submission Form for such submissions. In the meantime, prepare your paper in Word or Word Perfect and send it via email. Be sure the paper has a title page, which will be removed before processing, and that the rest of the paper does not contain any identifying information. Once received, the ED will issue the manuscript a tracking number, email it to you, then enter it into our tracking system and forward the manuscript to the appropriate Editorial Review Board.  Hard copy submissions are not accepted..

There are no formatting or length requirements for direct submissions, however, we do prefer manuscripts to be single spaced.  Any manuscript accepted for publication in a journal must be formatted in accordance with our Publication Guidelines and must fall within our other guidelines with respect to language, grammar and length.

In general, our Editors strive for a 25% acceptance rate on direct submissions. The referee process normally requires about two months. There is no submission fee, but all authors of manuscripts which are accepted for publication must become members of the appropriate Academy prior to publication of the manuscript. Membership fees are currently $75 per year.

As is the case with other journals, we do require the work to be original and unpublished. We also expect that manuscripts submitted for consideration will not be under review at any other journal.  Prior presentation of the material at a conference and/or publication in a proceedings does not preclude consideration for journal publication. In fact, if the manuscript has been presented at a previous Allied Academies' conference, you should disclose that fact on the submission form as we are especially pleased to have the opportunity to referee our members' work.

To be eligible for Accelerated Journal Consideration, a manuscript must have been accepted for presentation at the next scheduled Conference.  Please note that presentation includes participation in the Internet Division, as well as physical presentation.  Secondly, at least one author of the manuscript must have registered for the Conference.  After these requirements have been met, the paper can be submitted as instructed on the Submission Instructions page.

The Accelerated Journal Consideration Process is double blind refereed, and it also strives to produce an acceptance rate of 25%.  Members of the various Editorial Boards who have volunteered to participate in the accelerated review process evaluate the submissions and the process is completed within one month of the conference start date.  Announcements of the results are made at the Conference.  Because of the accelerated process, much more limited referee comments are available and there is no possibility for revisions.  However, a manuscript which has been submitted for accelerated consideration and failed to be selected can be submitted at a later date under our direct submission process.

As an added benefit to our members, authors of any manuscripts approved for publication under the Accelerated Consideration process are recognized at the Conference as distinguished researchers.  The accelerated arena is highly competitive, so our members who are successful in the process are clearly noteworthy.

As for formatting, there are no formatting requirements for journal/award submissions. We do request that each submission contain a cover page with the paper title, author names, affiliations, and at least one email address. This cover page will be removed before the file is sent out for review. We also ask that the paper be single spaced.  Any manuscript accepted for publication in a journal must be formatted in accordance with our publication guidelines and must fall within our other guidelines with respect to language, grammar and length.  All authors of manuscripts which are accepted for publication must become members of the appropriate Academy prior to publication of the manuscript. Membership fees are currently $75 per year.

As is the case with other journals, we do require the work to be original and unpublished. We also expect that manuscripts submitted for accelerated consideration will not be under review at any other journal.  As the manuscript under review has been accepted for presentation at a forthcoming Conference, we also expect that the work will not have been presented at any prior conference and will not have appeared in a proceedings. (See Submission Instructions for more information)

Our journals are published in various cycles, from annually, to quarterly, each is published in both hard copies and in electronic form.  These two publications carry different ISSN designations, as is required by the International Serials bureau, although they are identical in content.  Our journals are indexed by various organizations, and we submit the content of our publications to Google Scholar, as well, as we strive to gain the widest possible audience for our members’ work.

Whether you decide to submit a manuscript through the Direct Submission Process or the Accelerated Submission Process, we welcome your work.  If you have any questions, please feel free to call us, fax us, or e-mail us, or contact any of our Editors at any time. We look forward to serving you and we greatly appreciate your sharing your work with us and giving us the opportunity to support your research.