Information For Authors

Interested in submitting to the IJSW? We recommend that you review the About the Journal page, as well as our Submission Guidelines. Authors must register with the journal prior to submitting or, if already registered, can simply log in and begin the five-step process.

Works published in the IJSW will be distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial License (CC BY-NC) unless otherwise noted on individual manuscript pages. By granting a CC BY-NC license in their work, authors retain copyright ownership of the work, but they give explicit permission for others to download, reuse, reprint, modify, distribute, and/or copy the work, as long as they do not profit from these uses and the original source and author(s) are properly cited (i.e. a complete bibliographic citation and link to the IJSW website). No permission is required from the author(s) or the publishers for such use. According to the terms of the CC BY-NC license, any reuse or redistribution must indicate the original CC BY-NC license terms of the work. Exceptions to the application of the CC BY-NC license may be granted at the editors' and/or authors' discretion. Such exceptions should be granted in writing. 

For further resources on Creative Commons licensing and/or CC BY-NC licenses, specifically, please reference: https://libraries.ou.edu/content/understand-open-licenses and https://creativecommons.org/licenses/