Terms & Conditions

Submission of a manuscript to SSSF implies commitment to publish in the journal, and acceptance of terms and conditions stated below.

Submission should be original manuscripts, previously unpublished in substantially similar form or with substantially similar content. Manuscripts should not be under consideration for any other journal at the same time.

Copyright to articles published in SSSF remains with the author and is transferred to SSSF for exclusive online publication. Authors wishing to publish the article in other media subsequent to the original publication are free to do so, but are expected to inform SSSF and to acknowledge SSSF as the original source of publication.

Before full review, submissions are examined by the Academic Editor and Editorial Committee. The paper will be sent out for full blind review if the editor and committee believe it warrants full review. If the submission is believed to have extensive flaws or to be inconsistent with the mission and focus of the journal, the submission will suffer a desk reject.

Manuscripts are anonymously and independently reviewed by two peer reviewers, an external expert selected by the Committee members and one internal, selected from the Committee. The editors use the recommendations by the reviewers to decide whether the manuscript should be accepted for publication as it is, or be revised, or be rejected. The review process, including review, revision, resubmission and re-newed review, may take up to between six and twelve months.