Submissions

Author Guidelines

For Book Reviewing Guidelines, visit https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/ijidi/bookreviews.

 Submission basics

Authors must submit all new and revised manuscripts through the International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion (IJIDI) online submission and review website (https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/ijidi/).

The following files are mandatory:

a) File #1 - The cover letter introducing your manuscript (please include title) and stating that the manuscript, or parts of it, have not been and will not be submitted elsewhere for publication (uploaded as Supplementary File when prompted by the system). The cover letter should be in formal, block-style format, dated and signed by the author.

b) File #2 - The IJIDI SubmissionTitlePage with all fields completed. Please download the IJIDI Submission Title Page and submit it with your manuscript (uploaded as Supplementary File when prompted by the system).
    -- Please indicate the category that best represents your work: Editorial, Research article, Conceptual article, Case study, Review article, Viewpoint article, Special section publication, or Book review

c) File #3 - The main text of your manuscript minus any author identifiers to enable double-blind peer review (uploaded as Submission File when prompted by the system). Acceptable formats for the manuscript text: Microsoft Word, .rtf, or .pdf (excluding scanned .pdf files)

d) File #4, etc. - Any supplementary files you wish to attach (uploaded as Supplementary File when prompted by the system). Acceptable formats for images uploaded separately: .JPEG, .JPG, .PNG. See the "Electronic Artwork" section below.

e) Revised manuscripts should also be accompanied by a separate file with responses to reviewer comments or an explanation of why the author(s) these comments could not be addressed.

Manuscript formatting requirements

1. Research articles are typically 10K - 15K words. Feature articles or reports from the field (usually research-oriented essays) are generally 2.5K - 5K words. Page and word length can be flexible, depending on the topic and depth of research.
2. The text should be double-spaced; use 12-point font Times New Roman with 1-inch margins around; and employ italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses).
3. All illustrations, figures, and tables should be placed within the text at the appropriate points rather than at the end. Image/illustration files should also be submitted as separate files. Please do not submit tables and figures as individual/additional files.
4. Links in the manuscript should be provided as end notes. The journal does not accept embedded links in-text.
5. For information about permissions for using third-party materials, please consult our Ethics & Publication Malpractice Statement: IJIDI Publication Ethics & Standards.

Language

The IJIDI is an English-language publication. Your manuscript should be written in grammatically and stylistically correct English. American, British, or Canadian English is acceptable; authors should be consistent in their usage. Authors are strongly encouraged to have their papers professionally edited and proofread before submission. Numerous stylistic and grammatical errors and awkward language may ruin an impression of an otherwise worthwhile paper. Grammar checker applications such as Grammarly or Writer may prove to be helpful to ensure that your paper is highly legible for a scholarly, English-language reading audience.

Article structure

Abstract

A concise and factual abstract is required (no more than 250 words). The abstract should briefly state the purpose of the research, the principal results, and significant conclusions. An abstract is often presented separately from the article, so it should stand on its own. For this reason, references in the abstract should be avoided, particularly non-standard or uncommon abbreviations. However, if abbreviations or acronyms are essential, they must be defined at their first mention in the abstract itself.

Subdivision

Divide your article into clearly defined sections. Section headers should conform to the APA hierarchy of headings. Each heading should appear on its separate line.

Appendices

If there is more than one appendix, they should be identified as A, B, etc. Formulae and equations in appendices should be given separate numbering: Eq. (A.1), Eq. (A.2), etc.; in a subsequent appendix, Eq. (B.1), and so on. Similarly for tables and figures: Table A.1; Fig. A.1, etc.

Abbreviations

Define abbreviations at their first mention in the text. Ensure consistency of abbreviations throughout the article.

Acknowledgements

Collate acknowledgements in a separate section at the end of the article before the references and do not, therefore, include them on the title page, as a footnote to the title or otherwise. List those individuals who provided help during the research (e.g., providing language help, writing assistance or proofreading the article, etc.).

Footnotes

Footnotes should be used sparingly. Number them consecutively throughout the article. Many word processors can build footnotes into the text, and this feature may be used. Otherwise, indicate the position of footnotes in the text and list the footnotes separately at the end of the article. Do not include footnotes in the Reference list.

Electronic Artwork

• Make sure you use uniform lettering and sizing of your original artwork.
• Embed the used fonts if the application provides that option.
• Aim to use the following fonts in your illustrations: Arial, Courier, Times New Roman, Symbol, or use fonts that look similar.
• Number the illustrations according to their sequence in the text.
• Use a logical naming convention for your artwork files.
• Provide captions to illustrations separately.
• Size the illustrations close to the desired dimensions of the published version.
• Submit each illustration as a separate file.
• Formats
  • If your electronic artwork is created in a Microsoft Office application (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), please supply 'as is' in the native document format.
  • Regardless of the application used other than Microsoft Office, when your electronic artwork is finalized, please 'Save as' or convert the images to one of the following formats (note the resolution requirements for line drawings, halftones, and line/halftone combinations given below):
    • EPS (or PDF):  Vector drawings, embed all used fonts.
    • TIFF (or JPEG): Color or grayscale photographs (halftones), keep to a minimum of 300 dpi.
    • TIFF (or JPEG): Bitmapped (pure black & white pixels) line drawings, keep to a minimum of 1000 dpi.
    • TIFF (or JPEG): Combinations bitmapped line/halftone (color or grayscale), keep to a minimum of 500 dpi.

For electronic artwork files, please do not:

• Supply files that are optimized for screen use (e.g., GIF, PNG, BMP, PICT, WPG); these typically have a low number of pixels and a limited set of colors;
• Supply files that are too low in resolution;
• Submit graphics that are disproportionately large for the content.

References and in-text citations 

Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list (and vice versa). Unpublished results and personal communications are not recommended in the reference list but may be mentioned in the text.  If these references are included in the reference list, they should follow the standard reference style of the journal and should have a substitution of the publication date with either 'Unpublished results' or 'Personal communication.' The citation of a reference as 'in press' implies that the item has been accepted for publication.

Reference style

1. Text: Citations in the text should follow the referencing style used by the American Psychological Association. You are referred to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Seventh Edition, ISBN 978-1433832161 (paperback) / 978-1433832154 (hardcover) / 978-1433832178 (spiral-bound), copies of which may be ordered from https://apastyle.apa.org/products/publication-manual-7th-edition or APA Order  Dept., P.O.B. 2710, Hyattsville, MD 20784, USA or APA, 3 Henrietta Street, London, WC3E 8LU, UK.
2. List: References should be arranged first alphabetically and then further sorted chronologically if necessary. More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year must be identified by the letters 'a', 'b', 'c', etc., placed after the year of publication. Include the full title of the journal cited.
3. Examples:

• Reference to a journal publication:

Sanchez, D., & King-Toler, E. (2007). Addressing disparities consultation and outreach strategies for university settings. Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research, 59(4), 286-295. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/1065-9293.59.4.286

• Reference to an Internet-only journal:

Hirtle, P. B. (2008, July- August). Copyright renewal, copyright restoration, and the difficulty of determining copyright status. D-Lib Magazine, 14(7/8). https://doi.org/10.1045/july2008-hirtle

• Reference to a book:

Strunk, W., Jr., & White, E. B. (2000). The elements of style. (4th ed.). Longman.

• Reference to an edited book:

Gibbs, J. T., & Huang, L. N. (Eds.). (2001). Children of color: Psychological interventions with culturally diverse youth. Jossey-Bass.

Supplementary material

IJIDI accepts supplementary electronic material to support and enhance your research. Supplementary files offer the author additional possibilities to publish supporting applications, high-resolution images, background datasets, sound clips, and more. Supplementary files supplied will be published online alongside the electronic version of your article. Please provide the data in one of our recommended file formats to ensure that your submitted material is directly usable. Authors should submit the material in electronic format together with their article and supply a concise and descriptive caption for each file. For more detailed instructions, please see the submission checklist.

Ensuring a Blind Peer Review

• To ensure the integrity of the double-blind peer-review process of this journal, every effort should be made to prevent the identities of the authors and reviewers from being known to each other. This anonymity involves the authors, editors, and reviewers (who upload documents as part of their review) checking to see if the following steps have been taken with regard to the text and the file properties.
• The authors of the document have deleted their names from the text, with "Author" and year used in the references and footnotes, instead of the authors' name, article title, etc.
• With Microsoft Office documents, author identification should also be removed from the properties for the file by clicking on the following prompts starting from the main menu of the Microsoft application: File > Save As > Tools > Security > Remove personal information from file properties.
• With PDFs, the authors' names should also be removed from Document Properties found under File on Adobe Acrobat's main menu.

Conflict of interest

All authors should declare any potential conflict of interest that may be involved in the preparation and publication of the manuscript in question.

Submission declaration and verification

IJIDI publishes original content. Submission of an article implies that the submitted work has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract, as part of a published lecture or academic thesis, or as an electronic preprint). Previously published conference papers will be considered only if the paper is substantially revised. In addition, submission to IJIDI indicates that the manuscript is not under consideration for publication elsewhere and that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out.

Changes to authorship

Prior to publication: Requests to add or remove an author, or to rearrange the author names, must be sent to the journal editor from the corresponding author of the accepted manuscript and should include: (1) the reason the name should be added or removed, or the author names rearranged, and (2) written confirmation (e-mail, fax, letter) from all authors that they agree with the addition, removal or rearrangement. In the case of addition or removal of authors, this includes confirmation from the author being added or removed. Requests that are not sent by the corresponding author will be forwarded to the corresponding author to comply with the above process, who must follow the procedure described above. The IJIDI will suspend publication of the accepted manuscript until authorship has not been agreed upon. If the manuscript has already been published, any requests to add, delete, or rearrange author names in an article published in an online issue will follow the same policies/procedures noted above and result in a corrigendum.

Role of the funding source

If applicable, authors should identify who provided financial support for the research and preparation of the article. Authors should briefly describe the role of the sponsor(s) as appropriate in study design; the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; the writing of the report; and the decision to submit the article for publication. If the funding source(s) had no such involvement, then this should be stated.

Author affiliation

For publication purposes, authors need to use affiliations they had at the time of research completion and/or article submission.

Contact details for submission

Contact the journal editor with any questions you may have regarding your submission.

Errata Policy
The corresponding author may submit an inquiry for errata, per the IJIDI Errata Policy, within two weeks of publication.