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All submissions
must address
a
musically
relevant issue and achieve a synergy between epistemologically distant
disciplines.
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Submissions may be purely empirical,
purely
theoretical,
or a mixture of the two.
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All submissions must
have at least two authors that represent at least two of the following three
groups (see
interdisciplinarity):
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humanities
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sciences
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practically oriented disciplines
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The text should be accessible to a multidisciplinary
audience, and specialist jargon should be either defined or avoided.
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Authors
are asked to
choose whether to reveal
or conceal their identity.
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In
open submissions, the reviewers have full access to the identity and
affiliation of the authors.
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In
anonymous submissions, the authors’ identities are concealed from the
reviewers and the authors are responsible for
ensuring that their submissions
do not reveal their identity.
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- Manuscripts should be submitted as a single pdf file
that includes all text, figures, tables and other information and is
numbered from start to finish. The format should conform
to our template document (
word or
pdf ). Each new submission should be
accompanied by a statement of Authorship,
Conflict of Interest, and Copyright.
When a manuscript is accepted for publication, acceptance is
generally conditional on adequate revision in accordance with reviewers'
comments. All subsequent communication between the first author and
action editor should be electronic (email with attachments).
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- All submissions
are reviewed by experts in the submission's two main disciplines (review
form).
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- The revised manuscript should be accompanied by a cover letter that
responds to every comment by every reviewer in the following format:
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The reviewer's comment, copied verbatim from the text of the review.
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A linking sentence, e.g. "This comment has been addressed in the revised
manuscript as follows."
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One or more extracts from the revised text of the article that make it
clear that the authors have responded constructively to the reviewer's comment
(again, copied verbatim).
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- When this guideline is followed, it is unnecessary to refer to page and
line numbers in the old or new texts or in the reviews. A reviewer's comment may be ignored only if the authors
can convince the reviewers and action editor that the comment was erroneous,
inappropriate, or irrelevant.
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may have been made to the text since the original submission (i.e., changes
that do not follow from the reviews) in the following format:
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The reason for the change
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The corresponding new text
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- Responsibility for accepting or rejecting such additional changes lies
with the action editor.
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- The final manuscript should be submitted in both text processor format
(e.g. Microsoft Word) and pdf. No paper copy is required.
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- Book reviews
- JIMS publishes reviews of
books that address some aspect of music and involve an interaction between
humanities and sciences or between research and
musical practice. Authors of such books are invited to contact to book review
editor.
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