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4、期刊刊期：季刊，逢季末月出版。
2020年10月19日星期一
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Instructions for Authors
Types of papers
Foundations of Science publishes ‘standard articles’, ‘target articles’, ‘commentaries’ and ‘review articles’.
Standard articles present new ideas, which can be of an advanced or complex nature, and use fully the technical jargon from a specific scientific discipline. However, in order to maintain cross-disciplinary accessibility, they should we written in such a way that the material is also made understandable for a broader audience than just specialists in a narrow niche field. For this reason Foundations of Science does not introduce an a priori page limit for submitted articles, however the extra length of an article should be motivated by interdisciplinary readability. The following guidelines may be of help in this respect. A possible way to go about is to have papers divided in two complementary parts.
The first part, addressed to a multidisciplinary audience, contains the following material:
1. Situation of the problem within the context of the problem domain. Ample space may be used for the description of the context.
2. Extensive reference to the classical and accepted views.
3. A clear, critical statement of how the (new) approach or result confirms or questions the existing results.
4. A summary in non-technical language of the results described in the second part of the paper.
Often, the whole can be made understandable by discussing the matter on a meta-level, explaining explicitly what is understood, why and how it is understood, what is not understood, and, if possible why and how it is not understood. This means that papers containing completely new and ‘not-yet-understood’ matter are also welcome. But in that case, the first part should make it clear that the problem's present status is 'not-understood', and explain why it is nevertheless of scientific importance.
The second part of the paper addressed to a specialized audience contains a detailed, formal exposition of the matter, using the technical tools and jargon of the discipline. This exposition should be as self-contained as possible. This means that technical jargon and techniques may also be included (if they have not yet been included in the first part). A high degree of self-containment can be achieved by including references to good quality expository papers within the field.
Target articles and commentaries are articles meant to take part in a specific dynamics of scientific interaction that Foundations of Science wants to stimulate. Some standard articles published in Foundations of Science will be considered as ‘target articles’ for which commentaries can be written, and these commentaries (eventually plus additional discussions), will be published in later issues of Foundations of Science.
Next to being an already published standard article, a target article can also be upon invitation, and authors can also propose a subject for a potential target paper to the Editorin-
Chief. In case an author wants to propose a subject for a potential target paper, he or she needs to write a short note and send it to the Editor-in-Chief, explaining the subject of the target paper.
A commentary is a short paper, between one and three pages (or eventually shorter or longer, some flexibility in length is possible), which has the following format:
A. Title.
B. Author(s).
C. Affiliation(s).
D. Article text (1-3 pages).
E. References.
The aim of the ‘target article - commentary dynamics’ is to stimulate scientific discussion in an open and dynamic way. Some flexibility is tolerated with respect to the form this discussion will take. This means that the commentary can also been focused on the general topic introduced by the subject of the target paper. To put it shortly, a good commentary should contain the type of remarks and observations that stimulate discussion of the subject matter of the target paper.
The standard format (following the commentary) will be that the author(s) of the target article respond very shortly to the different commentaries. However, deviation of this standard format is possible depending on the custom situation, and hence, once specific reactions with respect to invitations for commentaries have been received, further contact specifies the dynamics (it may for example be also interesting that a commentary writer can react on another commentary writer). Commentaries will be published, together with short reactions, in a later issue of Foundations of Science.
Commentaries, in a format as described above, can also spontaneously be submitted by authors, referring to an article published in Foundations of Science, or referring to an important ongoing subject of debate within the community of scientists engaged in the foundations of the different scientific disciplines or research fields of interdisciplinary nature.
Review articles, covering an important subject in the foundations of a discipline or interdisciplinary domain, should be written in a spirit of cross-disciplinary accessibility.
Such papers may discuss results that have already been published in journals specialized in a specific discipline.
Special Issues
Foundations of Science publishes special issues consisting of papers solicited by the guest editor(s). Scientists who are interested in guest editing a topic issue of Foundations of Science are kindly requested to submit a proposal to the Editor-in-Chief. The proposal should present the main ideas and problems to be discussed in the proposed issue.
Manuscript Submission
Submission of a manuscript implies: that the work described has not been published before; that it is not under consideration for publication anywhere else; that its publication has been approved by all co-authors, if any, as well as by the responsible authorities – tacitly or explicitly – at the institute where the work has been carried out. The publisher will not be held legally responsible should there be any claims for compensation.
Permissions
Authors wishing to include figures, tables, or text passages that have already been published elsewhere are required to obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) for both the print and online format and to include evidence that such permission has been granted when submitting their papers. Any material received without such evidence will be assumed to originate from the authors.
Online Submission
Please follow the hyperlink “Submit online” on the right and upload all of your manuscript files following the instructions given on the screen.
Please ensure you provide all relevant editable source files. Failing to submit these source files might cause unnecessary delays in the review and production process.
Title Page
Please use this template title page for providing the following information.
The title page should include:
The name(s) of the author(s)
A concise and informative title
The affiliation(s) of the author(s), i.e. institution, (department), city, (state), country
A clear indication and an active e-mail address of the corresponding author
If available, the 16-digit ORCID of the author(s)
If address information is provided with the affiliation(s) it will also be published.
For authors that are (temporarily) unaffiliated we will only capture their city and country of residence, not their e-mail address unless specifically requested.
Abstract
Please provide an abstract of 150 to 250 words. The abstract should not contain any undefined abbreviations or unspecified references.
For life science journals only (when applicable)
Trial registration number and date of registration
Trial registration number, date of registration followed by “retrospectively registered”
Keywords
Please provide 4 to 6 keywords which can be used for indexing purposes.
Declarations
All manuscripts must contain the following sections under the heading 'Declarations'.
If any of the sections are not relevant to your manuscript, please include the heading and write 'Not applicable' for that section.
To be used for non-life science journals
Funding (information that explains whether and by whom the research was supported)
Conflicts of interest/Competing interests (include appropriate disclosures)
Availability of data and material (data transparency)
Code availability (software application or custom code)
Authors' contributions (optional: please review the submission guidelines from the journal whether statements are mandatory)
To be used for life science journals + articles with biological applications
Funding (information that explains whether and by whom the research was supported)
Conflicts of interest/Competing interests (include appropriate disclosures)
Ethics approval (include appropriate approvals or waivers)
Consent to participate (include appropriate statements)
Consent for publication (include appropriate statements)
Availability of data and material (data transparency)
Code availability (software application or custom code)
Authors' contributions (optional: please review the submission guidelines from the journal whether statements are mandatory)
Please see the relevant sections in the submission guidelines for further information as well as various examples of wording. Please revise/customize the sample statements according to your own needs.
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