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Author Guidelines

Author Guidelines

At Futures Reframed, we want authors to spend less time dealing with bureaucracy and formatting, allowing you to focus on what you do best: thinking, writing, and sharing knowledge. That's why we've made the process as simple as possible for you. We do not adhere to unnecessarily complicated author guidelines but instead provide a pre-designed template that you can fill in with your text, plus a few general style-rules, which we briefly outline below: please read carefully.

1. If you are still in doubt about whether or not your article will suit the aim and scope of Futures Reframed, feel free to send us an extended abstract first (futuresreframed@proton.me). The editorial team will do their best to offer you honest and helpful advice on how to proceed. Please be patient, though: we are a small number of people, and prioritize quality and humane contact over efficiency and production. This means we may not be able to reply quickly to you but know that we will read your message, and reply to it, with sincere interest. This, of course, does not count for automated Emails or AI-generated abstracts that we receive, nor for messages from authors that clearly have not taken the effort to inform themselves about the aims and scope of this journal. 

2. Once you are ready with writing the full draft of your article, copy and paste your text into the template. Texts are less than 7000 words including everything: references, abstract, title, keywords, bodytext. Remove anything from the template that doesn't apply to you; for example, if you don't need a table, simply delete it. We appreciate your efforts to keep the article aligned with the template as much as possible. Please do not use your own fonts; instead, stick to the font and style provided in the template. We value the responsibility taken by our authors to review the document both textually and visually. You can find the template here.

 

2. We don't have a strict reference style (since, really, what's the point?), but it is important that your citations are accurate and that your sources are easily traceable for readers. Therefore, we ask that you be consistent and precise in both your bibliography and your in-text citations. If your source was published by a university press, feel free to save space and omit the city in which the press is located; we all understand that Oxford University Press is in Oxford and Amsterdam University Press is in Amsterdam. For inspiration, once again, we refer you to the template.

 

3. Futures Reframed is intended for a broad audience, and articles are aimed at both researchers and practitioners. Keep in mind that your manuscript should be understandable to both types of audiences. Additionally, please ensure that your text looks polished and has been proofread by an editor or a native English speaker. If you're unable to organize this, please send us an email (futuresreframed@proton.me), and we'll help you find a solution.

 

4. Please keep in mind that your submitted article may not simultaneously be submitted to another journal, nor can it be accepted for publication by another journal. This policy is in place because the editorial board and selected reviewers invest significant time in the review process, and it would be unfair to let that effort go to waste. 

 

5. Please note that submitted manuscripts should preferably be based on unpublished data. If the manuscript is based on a text you have published elsewhere, you must ensure that you hold the copyrights and have the right to republish, and you should clearly indicate in the article that you are referring to previous work. At Futures Reframed, you, as the author, maintain the copyrights of your own article – unfortunately this is not the case with most other publishers yet, hence our warning.

 

6. We work with an open author, open reviewer system. This means that you don’t have to blind your manuscript and that all reviewers will see whose work they may help improve. Vice versa, you can see who has done their best to give you an honest, constructive evaluation of your writing. 

Here’s why, in short: 

A) we believe in open, constructive dialogue in which scholars and authors help each other think. As reviews in this journal are published online for everyone to see, we encourage a thoughtful, generous and kind debate between reviewers and authors  - this lessens the chance of the harsh, discouraging reviews many scholars have received in other publication trajectories; it also makes it virtually impossible to reject on the basis of authors’ hierarchical status or title, 

B) the field of futures-thinking is relatively small, and it has always been rather easy to guesstimate who wrote which paper, anyhow; in that sense, the standards double blind review process never existed, and served only to match the norm, while adding bureaucracy for all actors involved; 

C) we work with a team of regular, trusted reviewers and advisors, who were selected not just because of their expertise in their field, but also because of their willingness to mentor and encourage fellow authors. They are here to help, not to burn down, whomever writes. For each article, we ask several of these reviewers to read and comment upon your text. If the scope of your article falls outside of the expertise of all our reviewers, we will search for an external reviewer. If, for whatever reason, you do not wish to be reviewed by one of our reviewers or by a specific external reviewer, you can let us know by stating this in a very brief message to the editors-in-chief during your submission. There is no need to explain why; we will not share this with the reviewing team but make sure your work gets reviewed by other reviewers. If you have a good reason why you cannot share your name in the reviewed article (for example, because you write about something very sensitive) you may submit anonymously and we will consider together with you what to do, but we want to point out that after publication, names get known anyhow, and hence, anonymous reviews may not be an actual solution. In all other cases, please submit your article with your name on it, as per the template. We know this is new, and we acknowledge it might feel uncomfortable as we are not used to it, but if we want to change academia for the better, we need to be brave and set the right example together. If you have any questions or concerns about this, you can share them with the editorial team in a letter that is submitted together with your article submission, or via an Email: futuresreframed@proton.me 

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission procedure, we ask our authors to declare that their contribution meets the following guidelines:

  1. Your submission has not been published elsewhere and is not under consideration by another journal. We ask this because, even though at this journal, you as the author hold the copyrights, this is not standard for most other journals. Most often, there, the publisher - rather than the author - holds the rights over texts. So, please do check: if the submission is an adaptation or translation of a previously published article, this must be mentioned on the title page and the author is responsible for making sure they have the copyrights or rights to republish from the publishing party.
  2. The text complies with the stylistic requirements as outlined in the author guidelines and according to our template. As you might have read in the author guidelines, we have no strict bibliographical requirements, but we do ask you to offer a list of consistent, neat and complete references, to help the readers of your article find inspiring sources that you mention. Where available, we appreciate it if you could provide all DOIs for online references - in today's digital age, this saves everyone a lot of online searching (which saves your colleagues not just time; it also saves humanity from unnecessary environmental damage).
  3. Through submission, you as the author automatically declare the absence of any conflicts of interest and guarantee that the work does not infringe on any copyright, property right, or personal right of a third party. We don't take this declaration lightly, so please reflect on it before you submit and contact us in case of doubt through a letter for the editorial board, submitted in parallel with your article.
  4. Moreover, we expect that you as the author are aware of and complies with our view on research ethics. We use the word 'view' here, rather than the word 'rules', because what is ethical is always contextual: it may depend on the subject about which you write, the discipline you work in, the interlocutors mentioned in the paper, the co-authors or co-creators of the paper, and, in case you are affiliated to a university or other research institution, their ethical board regulations. Towards the bottom of the paper (in the template), there is a designated space where we ask you to provide relevant information about the ethical guidelines that you adhere to, including ethical approvals from relevant committees, and your own reflections if the paper demands those in your view. Manuscripts may be rejected if the editors believe that the research has not been conducted with ethical reflections in mind, and if we are in serious doubt or have concerns about your work, we will approach you or the institution that provided you with ethical approval with further questions before we can proceed. 
  5. The contribution is submitted in MS Word (.doc or .docx) format and filled in per the template.
  6. The initial submission consists of one file (again, this is the filled in template) which includes your name and contact details. Be reminded that Futures Reframed works through transparent review procedures, so anonymization is not needed here. 
  7. Images and figures must be submitted in their original file formats (JPEG, Excel, PowerPoint) and directly added into the template. If you do not use figures or images, simply remove the examples from the template.
  8. All co-authors are deemed to agree with the submission, review, and publication. This is the ultimate responsibility of the author, so please reflect on this before you submit, and notify us in case of doubt through a letter to the editorial board that you submit in parallel to the article. 
  9. In the initial submission, we only ask you to submit the filled in template with the paper you wrote. Please note that no extra, anonymized versions are needed as we work with a fully transparent review system. You may also add a letter to the editorial board if you wish, for example with brief, relevant information about your paper, or a request about people you do not want to review your paper. We will treat this information confidentially and will make sure to find other, suitable reviewers for you.
  10. If your paper was accepted with revisions (hurray!); the second submission must include A) the revised paper, again formatted into the template, and B) A separate Word document which contains the full letter of the reviewers, plus your replies (the rebuttal) to them. In the same document, below this conversation, you add the initial publication. This allows interested readers to contrast your initial paper, with the final versions; it also helps them to see which suggestions of reviewers you picked up and how, and which you decided to ignore and for which reasons. 

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In Futures Reframed, authors hold the copyright over their own text. Authors publishing in this journal agree to the following terms:

  1. a) The journal will make the content of the published article immediately available as Open Access. Articles will be published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 International License (CC BY NC 4.0). Authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right to publish the work first under a CC BY NC 4.0 license. This license allows others to use and share the content as published in this journal, except for commercial purposes, provided that the original work and this journal are referenced.
  2. b) Authors are permitted to enter into separate, additional contractual agreements for the non-exclusive version as published in this journal (e.g., publication in an institutional repository or in a book), with a reference to the original publication in this journal.
  3. c) Authors are allowed to publish their work online (e.g., in a repository or on their own website) prior to and during the submission process. Authors are encouraged to upload their work to their institutional repository.

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