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 submission is the work of the named authors who have all agreed to submit (all authors have been included in 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).
The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
Where available, URLs and DOIs for the references have been provided.
The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines below.
If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in ensuring a blind review have been followed.
An abstract of about 200 to 300 words is included at the beginning of your submission. Book reviews need abstracts too (of about 100 words).
In the comments for the editor, 5 suggested reviewers have been identified and their emails have been provided. These suggested reviewers are experts in the field and there this no conflict of interest with any of them (i.e., these individuals are not familiar with the project submitted for review, are not from the same institution as any of the authors, and are not present or past advisors, advisees, or collaborators of any of the authors.) Please note many leaders of various feilds do not have capacity to review many journal articles (i.e., less likely to agree), we also suggest focusing on individuals who have published in the same area within the last 5 years.

Author Guidelines

There are no fees for authors or readers.

All articles will preferably be up to 8,000 words (not including references and tables), but longer articles will be considered if written concisely. The text should be double-spaced; use an easy-reading 12-point font (such as Times New Roman); sparingly employ italics, rather than underlining for emphasis (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables should be placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.

Please note the policy in 'About the Journal' about the types of articles that the IJW is looking to publish.

We also expect that authors that publish in the IJW will in future be open to reviewing appropriate articles submitted to the IJW and contributing to the scholarly community in that role also.

The use of AI tools to generate ideas is not permitted. The use of AI to improve grammar and readability of authors' own work is permitted. Please declare and fully describe any use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in any aspects of your research in your submission to the IJW. Please note this before the reference section.

All articles should use internally consistent spelling, grammar, and language (American and British English will both be accepted). Please also restrict the use of Latin phrases, long sentences, and overly-technical writing as much as possible.

Referencing should follow any one of the major referencing formats (APA, Chicago author-date or footnote, etc.). Please see existing articles for examples. If using APA, please refer to the latest Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. Basic and comprehensive guides to APA style and referencing are available here.

To ensure a blind review, identifying information such as author names should be removed from the manuscript. Self-citations should be in third person.

Authors of accepted articles are encouraged to create a Video Abstract (see guidelines here) to accompany their article. The video abstract will be posted on the article page as well as on the International Journal of Wellbeing YouTube channel.

The journal will consider for peer-review articles previously available as preprints. Authors may deposit any version of the paper in a preprint server, repository, or archive (e.g., PsyArXiv, OSF). A note on the title page must explicitly state the date and version of the draft deposited (e.g., version submitted for peer review, version accepted for publication). Authors may post a link to the published articles on a personal or institutional or scientific network website (e.g., ResearchGate). Once the paper is published, authors are requested to update any pre-publication versions with a link to the final published article.

If you are having trouble with the submission process or have any questions, please email the editor at intnljournalofwellbeing@gmail.com and let us know the precise issue.

Editorial

Only the editors or invited special guests will write the editorials.

Articles

Please submit all articles to this section. The editors will consider submissions of wellbeing research from any discipline. We will most readily accept interdisciplinary articles, but we may also accept exceptional articles that draw on only one discipline.

Critical Notices

Critical Notices are direct responses to articles published in the International Journal of Wellbeing. Critical Notices must be less than 2,000 words including references and footnotes.

Book Reviews

Book reviews are by invitation from the editors only. Book reviews should be less than 1,500 words for regular books and less than 2,000 words for reviews of edited collections of papers.

Invited Articles

Occasionally the editors will specifically invite an individual to submit an article to this section. Invited articles will sometimes be reviewed by the editors, instead of the normal blind review process.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal. The license prevents others from using the work for profit without the express consent of the author(s). The license also prevents the creation of derivative works without the express consent of the author(s). Note that derivative works are very similar in nature to the original. Merely quoting (and appropriately referencing) a passage of a work is not making a derivative of it.
Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

Privacy Statement

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