Submissions
Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.-
The manuscript is the author’s own original work, and does not duplicate any other previously published work, including your own previously published work.
The manuscript has been submitted only to Transition Academia Press and has not been published in any form and is not be under consideration or peer review or accepted for publication or published elsewhere.
The manuscript contains nothing that is abusive, defamatory, libellous, obscene, fraudulent, or illegal.
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Manuscripts must be written in acceptable, scholarly English (US or English spelling is permissible, but not a combination of both). Before submission, manuscripts should be checked by a native English speaker. (Neither the Editorial Board nor the Publisher are responsible for correcting errors of spelling, grammar and punctuation.)
The manuscript must be submitted in Word or Open Office, or other editable document.
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The length of manuscripts is limited to:
- 15 pages for Papers (therefore not more than 45.000 typing characters 12 pt. Times New Roman), including no more than 2-3 pages of tables, figures and graphs.
- 7 pages for Working Papers (23.000 typing characters plus 2-3 pages for tables, figures and graphs)
- 5 pages for Articles and Book Reviews (15.000 typing characters)
Manuscripts should be compiled in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; JEL classification, main text; acknowledgements; references.
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All authors of a manuscript should include their full names, affiliations, postal addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses on the cover page of the manuscript. One author should be identified as the corresponding author. Please give the affiliation where the research was conducted. If any of the named co-authors moves affiliation during the peer review process, the new affiliation can be given as a footnote.
Please note that no changes to affiliation can be made after the manuscript is accepted. Please note that the email address of the corresponding author will normally be displayed in the article PDF (depending on the journal style) and the online article.
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Please provide an abstract of 200-250 words
Each manuscript should have 4 to 6 keywords, which can be used for indexing purposes, following the Thomson Reuters as well the JEL classification.
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The file should include the complete text, references, tables and figures.
Prepare your figures at publication quality resolution, using applications capable of generating high-resolution files (1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for greyscale and 300 dpi for colour). The printing process requires your figures to be in this format if your paper is accepted and printed.
All the characters in the text, tables, figure legends, footnotes and references are in a single typeface and point size – as 12 pt Times New Roman.
Tables and equations should be in an editable rather than image version. Tables must be edited with Word or compatible writing programs. Equations must be edited with Equation Editor.
Once a manuscript is accepted, a copy Editor will decide the typeface and size of the different elements of the article.
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Reference list entries should be alphabetized by the last names of the first author of each
work.
· Journal article
Gamelin FX, Baquet G, Berthoin S, Thevenet D, Nourry C, Nottin S, Bosquet L (2009) Effect
of high intensity intermittent training on heart rate variability in prepubescent children. Eur
J Appl Physiol 105:731-738. doi: 10.1007/s00421-008-0955-8
Ideally, the names of all authors should be provided, but the usage of “et al” in long author
lists will also be accepted:
Smith J, Jones M Jr, Houghton L et al (1999) Future of health insurance. N Engl J Med
965:325–329
· Article by DOI
Slifka MK, Whitton JL (2000) Clinical implications of dysregulated cytokine production. J
Mol Med. doi:10.1007/s001090000086
· Book
South J, Blass B (2001) The future of modern genomics. Blackwell, London
· Book chapter
Brown B, Aaron M (2001) The politics of nature. In: Smith J (ed) The rise of modern
genomics, 3rd edn. Wiley, New York, pp 230-257
· Online document
Cartwright J (2007) Big stars have weather too. IOP Publishing PhysicsWeb.
http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/11/6/16/1. Accessed 26 June 2007
· Dissertation
Trent JW (1975) Experimental acute renal failure. Dissertation, University of California
Always use the standard abbreviation of a journal’s name according to the ISSN List of Title Word
Abbreviations, see
· www.issn.org/2-22661-LTWA-online.php
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Publication Fee
All the authors submitting to Transition Academia Press Journals once their papers will be accepted for publication will be asked to pay a symbolic annual subscription fee of 40 euro that will give them as benefit full access to the Online version of the Journals published by Transition Academia Press. This access will expire after a year from the date of payment. For a yearly extension at the same price, it will be simply necessary to write to [email protected]
Copyright Notice
The authors when submitting their papers endorse and give permission as well to the Publisher Transition Academia Press to publish the article/paper in print and/or electronic format. Article/paper is defined as the final, definitive, and citable Version of Record, and includes the accepted manuscript in its final form, including the abstract, text, bibliography, and all accompanying tables, illustrations, data.
If/when an article is accepted for publication, the Author will transfer copyright of the article to Transition Academia Press. Transition Academia Press will retain the copyright of all published material and reserves the right to re-use any such material in any print and/or electronic format. The author willing to retain their copyright from the Editors might request a fair condition, on the base of a bilateral agreement.