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Author Guidelines

We recommend that authors review the About the Journal page for the journal's section policies first.

1. Registration:

Authors need to register with the journal prior to submitting, or if already registered can simply log in and begin the 5 step process.
During registration authors will be asked to fill out a form giving details on their name, affiliation, address, email, phone, discipline and a short bio statement. This data is used for internal communication and enables authors to foster their personal presence on the web (e.g. the bio statement and affiliation will be available with every article they will publish with tripleC). Authors can administrate or update their profile at any time.

2. Submission:

2.1 Authors start with choosing the section (articles or book reviews) they want to submit their paper to; check the submissions checklist and agree to the terms of the Copyright notice.

2.2 The authors data is automatically imported from the registration database. If a paper is a joint work additional authors data should be entered now. The author has to add title, metadata for indexing (Academic discipline and sub-disciplines; keywords; type, method or approach; and language), and if appropriate supporting agencies. Authors can administrate or update the metadata (which is most important for visibility on the web!) during the review process until the article is publicly published.

2.3 Authors upload the first draft of their paper. They must use our Word-template, Open Office template, or LaTeX template for formating their contribution according to our formal guidelines. PLEASE BE AWARE THAT WE CAN ONLY ACCEPT PAPERS FOR REVIEWING AND CONSIDERATION THAT THOROUGHLY STICK TO OUR LAYOUT, REFERENCING, AND STYLE GUIDELINES AND MAKE USE OF OUR TEMPLATE. PAPERS THAT DO NOT ADHERE TO THE GUIDELINES WILL BE RETURNED TO THE AUTHORS. Templates can be downloaded here: Microsoft Word (tripleC_template.dot 72 KB), Microsoft Word 2008 (tripleC_template.dotx) or Open Office (template-openoffice_new.ott 32 KB). Here is also an example layout file in doc and docx-format for download: example.doc or example.docx. Please consult this example file or copy your file directly into this file in order to use our layout guides for standard text, quotations, title, headlines, header, footer, footnotes, endnotes, title, abstract, keywords, references, figure captions, listings, etc. LaTeX template files can be downloaded here: LaTeX source template. See also the compiled LaTeX template (dvi) (for display or print), and the pdf template (generated from the dvi). Authors preparing their LaTeX manuscript must include the Journal logo (in eps format) in their manuscript. Authors willing to check if the original LaTeX template is correctly compiled on their local station need the sample figure (in eps format). Please do not use a download application but choose “Save target as …” with a right click on the download link. If authors want to choose a blind review they should have a close look at Ensuring a Blind Peer Review before submitting their draft papers. If the authors of the document have deleted their names from the text we assume they wish to choose a blind review.

3. Types of reviewing:

tripleC offers two types of reviewing: Blind and open refereeing, in the latter case author names will be told to the reviewers and the reviewers will decide whether they will reveal their identity to the authors or not. We encourage authors and reviewers to choose open reviewing due to democratic reasons and in order to achieve transparency.

Reflections (comments, reviews, discussions, interviews, etc) are also welcome, they are not peer-reviewed. 

4. Title page:

Title
Author's Name
Author's Contact, Affiliation and Mailing Address (Department, Institution, City, State, E-Mail, Phone)
Abstract: 100-150 words
min. 5 Keywords

5. Sections and subsections:

If authors use sections and subsections to structure their article, sections must be numbered with Arabic numerals (such as e.g.: 1. Introduction), and must be identified with section and sub-section numbers (e.g. 1.1. Subsection). Our template gives clear directions how to format these sections.

6. Exact layout details:

Authors have to use our Word-template for formatting their contribution. The template defines format details such as style of continuous text, headings, subsection headings, footnotes, header, footer, etc.

7. Mathematical notation:

should be typewritten. Authors should use the Word formula-editor and try to limit the use of mathematical formulas and notations. tripleC favors excellent qualitative analysis over excessive quantitative data.

8. Illustrations (tables, images, diagrams, charts etc.):

are to be numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals (such as Table 1: Description of Table 1, or: Figure 2: Description of Figure 2). All illustrations must be complete and final. Illustrations should be inserted wherever they should appear in the text. Illustrations should not be inserted on separate pages, files or documents, or at the end of the document.

9. References:

should be listed alphabetically at the end of the paper in a section titled References and referred to in the text by name and year in parentheses (e.g. Author surname, year). Where there are six or more authors, only the first author's name is given in the text followed by et al. The list of references should include (in this order): last names and first name of all authors, year published, title of article, name of publication, volume number, and inclusive pages. The style and punctuation of the references should conform to that used in the journals template illustrated by the following examples:

Books:

Giddens, A. (1984). The Constitution of Society. Outline of the Theory of Structuration. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Eigen, M. & Schuster, P. (1979). The Hypercycle. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer.

François, C. (Ed.). (1997). International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics. Munich: Saur.

Journal Article:

Mingers, J. (1996). A Comparison of Maturana's Autopoietic Social Theory and Giddens' Theory of Structuration. Systems Research, 13(4), 469-482.

Contribution to a Book:

Luhmann, N. (1988). The Autopoiesis of Social Systems. In F. Geyer & J. van der Zouwen (Eds.), Sociocybernetic Paradoxes. Observation, Control and Evolution of Self-steering Systems (pp. 172-192). London: Sage.

Internet Articles:

Heylighen, F. (1996). What is Complexity?. Retrieved October 27, 2008, from http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/COMPLEXI.html

Reference to Literature:

As Niklas Luhmann (1988) has shown....

“Allocative resources refer to capabilities - or, more accurately, to forms of transformative capacity - generating command over objects, goods or material phenomena. Authorative resources refer to types of transformative capacity generating command over persons or actors” (Giddens, 1984, p. 33).

For More Reference List Examples usind APA style please visit:

SFU Library Citation - Guide: APA

APA Formatting and Style Guide -The OWL at Purdue

Citeprecise Online Citation Reference

CiteFast automatically formats references MLA and APA

10. Footnotes:

if necessary and used, footnotes should be numbered consecutively using Arabic numerals and should be typed at the bottom of the page to which they refer. Authors should place a line above the footnote, so that it is set off from the text. Authors should not use endnotes.

11. Word count limits:

There are no word count limits for articles, all drafts have to be typed double-spaced, the format has to be Word because it's easiest to process for us.

12. Page charges:

The journal makes no page charges. tripleC is a freely available online-journal. This ensures a large readership and a high degree of reception in the scientific community.

13. Publication frequency:

Although tripleC is published twice a year, we don't agglomerate articles and publish them all at once. Individual items will be published immediately after acceptance as soon as they are ready. By adding them to the current issue's Table of Contents we make use of the advantages of online publishing. Instant publishing allows reducing publication time and publishing up-to-date articles.

 

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.

  1. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  2. The submission file is in English and uses Microsoft Word, Open Office, or LaTex document file format.
  3. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal. Authors have to format their article accordingly by using the tripleC template.
  4. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  5. The text employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  6. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, we encourage authors to choose open reviewing, a process in which the names of authors and reviewers are known to each other. However, also conventional double-blind reviewing is available as an option. If you want to choose this option please take care that the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
 

Copyright Notice

tripleC is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal (ISSN: 1726-670X). All journal content, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Austria License.

 

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Creative Commons License tripleC is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal (ISSN: 1726-670X). All journal content, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Austria License.