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- All submissions to JIMS must address a musically
relevant issue, have at least two authors, and report the results of a
collaboration between humanities and sciences. Submissions may be purely
empirical, purely theoretical, or a mixture of the two.
In a broad definition, both humanities and sciences may include applications
of research in musical practice. "Musical practice" may in turn be broadly
defined to include not only performance, composition and improvisation, but
also education, therapy and medicine. Thus, the humanities aspect may
involve musical practice (e.g., the history of performance practice,
compositionally oriented music theory, or the teaching of ethnomusicology),
and the science aspect may involve scientifically oriented musical practice
(e.g. the psychology of music performance, music medicine, or musically
relevant engineering applications).
The main academic backgrounds of the first two authors should correspond to
humanities and sciences. JIMS assumes that no individual author can
represent both.
JIMS welcomes contributions from researchers at all stages in their careers.
The peer review procedure focuses on the content of the submission, not the
qualification of the authors. JIMS determines the main academic background
of each author on the basis of the disciplinary infrastructures in which
s/he is qualified and/or has published, and whether these disciplines or
infrastructures are normally considered to belong to humanities and sciences
- without considering the quantity or quality of those qualifications and
publications.
The first author is responsible for all communication with the editors and
for informing the other author(s) about all such communications.
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 the JIMS template document (you can
download it here either as
word or
pdf) and
either the Chicago Manual of Style (http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html)
or the American Psychological Association Manual (http://www.apastyle.org/).
Figures must be black and white unless their content makes color unavoidable
and the authors meet any additional printing costs. Each new submission should
be accompanied by a statement of Authorship,
Conflict of Interest, and Copyright
All submissions are reviewed by experts in the submission's two main
disciplines (review
form). 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).
The revised manuscript should be accompanied by a cover letter that responds
to every comment by every reviewer in the following format:
· The
reviewer's comment, copied verbatim from the text of the review.
· A linking
sentence, e.g. "This comment has been addressed in the revised manuscript as
follows" or “From the revised manuscript:”
· 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).
- 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.
The cover letter should also document any further substantive changes that
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:
· The
reason for the change
· (Extract
from) The corresponding new text
- Responsibility for accepting or rejecting such
additional changes lies with the action editor.
The final manuscript should be submitted in both text processor format (e.g.
Microsoft Word) and pdf. No paper copy is required.
JIMS welcomes submissions that have been rejected by one or more journals on
the provision that the first author discloses all relevant correspondence
(e.g. letters from action editors) and all relevant anonymous reviews at the
time of submission.
- Common problems and suggestions
- Submissions whose first authors are scientists are often
considered to be weak by the humanities reviewers, and vice-versa. Such
submissions can often be improved as follows. Make sure that every point
made in the two background sections is carefully elaborated in the main
text, focusing especially on the section corresponding to the second
author's expertise. As the main text proceeds, it should become increasingly
clear that a balanced synergy is emerging between the material in the
abstract's two backgrond sections. Towards the end of the paper, consider
the implications of the main conclusions for both sciences and humanities.
If the central part of the paper is biased toward sciences, pay particular
attention in the final part of the paper to implications for humanities, or
to placing the findings in a humanities context; and vice versa.
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Reviews
JIMS also publishes reviews of books and conferences that fulfil the
following conditions:
· The book
or conference promotes synergetic interactions among humanities, sciences
and practically oriented disciplines in the area of music.
· The book
or conference has a strongly international flavour and is internationally
clearly visible.
· The
academic contents of the book or conference have been accepted or selected
and (if deemed necessary) revised in the context of a rigorous peer-review
procedure.
· The text
of the review does not exceed 2000 words.
- All submitted reviews may be subject to a separate peer-review
procedure. Authors of relevant books, organizers of relevant conferences,
and potential reviewers are invited to contact to the
review
editor.
Note:
These guidelines were current
on 1 July 2009
and
may be
revised at any time without notice.
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