About the Journal

JOURNAL AIME AND SCOPE

The Frontiers international Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies (FIJIS) is a Bi-annual publication of the Frontiers Research Group, an interdisciplinary research group for scholars in the social sciences and the humanities. Scientific contributions which cover subjects in the domains of social sciences and humanities are accepted. papers submitted have not been published before and are not under consideration for publication elsewhere.

PEER REVIEW PROCESS   

All submissions shall undergo a double-blind peer review process. Any paper submitted shall be sent for assessment by independent experts in that field. The experts will judge the validity, significance and originality of the work.

ARTICLE PROCESSING CHARGES 

This journal does not request authors to make any initial payment while they submit their papers for consideration. The authors receive feedback on their papers to improve upon their manuscripts even if they decide to publish it elsewhere. Our reviews, who are driven solely by the academic quality of the manuscript, are free from any form of influence in their decision as to the rejection or acceptance of any manuscript. The following teams are put in place in ensure quality and the originality of the manuscript:

  • The editorial Screening team- in charge of technical and ethical checks
  • The executive editorial team- coordinates the review process by getting experts, both internal and external on board
  • Quality assurance team- ensures that the manuscript and the review process adhere to the journal’s principles and guidelines
  • The Production team- converts the manuscript into the journal style typeset format
  •  Proofreading team- managing the Proofreading Process

All these teams work in synergy to ensure papers received are given the best and professional attention. When a paper has gone through all the required processes and is accepted for publication, the author(s) or institutions are required to pay an article processing Charge. The processing fee is structured as follows:

  • Frontiers Research Group up-to-date members – 30.000frs
  • Non- Frontiers Group Members – 50.000frs
  • Upon publication, authors will have free access to e-copies of their articles.
  • FIJIS is an online journal, however, if authors request for hard copies, they will handle addition charges for printing and expedition for international authors.

Publication Fee Refund Policies: FIJIS has no publication fee refund policies, so once you pay the publication fee, no refund will be possible in any case. If you decide not to publish when payment has been done, you forfeit the payment. It should be noted that a payment is done for a specific session and such payment cannot not be transferred to the next.

PUBLISHING SCHEDULE

FIJI publishes twice a year- Febuary and July

COPYRIGHT

Submission of an article to FIJIS implies that it has not been published previously, is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, including electronically without the written consent of FIJIS. Further policies:

·       Once the article is submitted, the author(s) owns the copyright of their articles, but the copyright of the journal goes to FIJIS

·       The content of the articles is the sole responsibility of the authors; however, the publishers reserve the right to make textual adjustments and adapt texts to meet with publication standards

Ø  Once the paper is published by FIJIS, authors can publish and distribute their work online in institutional repositories or on a personal web page for visibility.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Generally, papers submitted to FIJIS apply the current edition of APA style sheet. 

AUTHOR INSTRUCTIONS AND INFORMATION  

Papers should range between 5.000 and 7.000 words in length (This length includes text, reference lists and pages containing diagrams, figures and tables) Longer or shorter articles are accepted, depending on merit.

· Times New Roman font, size 12, one and a half spacing throughout (including
bibliography, any notes, citations, figures, and tables).
· Indent paragraphs; no indentation for abstract or beginning of manuscript body

Endnotes and footnotes should be used sparingly

All submissions should follow the following format:

  • Title 
  • Abstract
  • Keywords
  • Manuscript Body
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes (if any)
  • References
  • Appendices

BLINDING

All manuscripts are subject to double-blind peer review and are expected to meet standards of academic excellence. Each submission will be considered by an editor and—if not rejected outright—by at least 2 peer-reviewers, whose identities will remain anonymous to the authors. Author identities will also remain anonymous to FIJIS reviewers.

Do the following to enable effective blind review:

  • Refer to your own previous publications in the third person: not 'as I said in . . .',
    but 'as Toh (2014) noted . . .';
  • Refer to an institution where research was conducted or where the author teaches
    as 'institution X'.
  • Do not include your name anywhere on the manuscript that can reveal your identity.
  • Authors are requested to place their name, affiliation and contact details on a separate page (first page). That page should not be numbered as part of the work, but should equally carry the title of the article.

These procedures are required in order to ensure that the manuscript is blinded for the peer-review process. 

  • The title of the paper should again appear on the page of the abstract.