Submissions

Login or Register to make a submission.

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 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 for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

RUFSO operates a rigorous double-blind peer-review process. This is an assessment with at least two independent reviewers, followed by a final acceptance/rejection decision by the Action Editor. A summary of the editorial process is given in the flowchart below. The following provides notes on each step.

Main steps involved:

► Pre-check

► Peer-review

► Editor Decision

► Revision

► Publication online

Pre-check

Immediately after submission, this check is initially carried out by the executive editor to assess:

  • Suitability of the manuscript to the journal/special issue;
  • Qualification and background of authors;
  • Authenticate plagiarism check: We will generate a report showing text duplication and potential plagiarism, along with advice on where to modify text and add further citations.

Once this is done, the manuscript is sent to an action Editor based on the subject of the manuscript and the availability of the Editors. All manuscripts shall be handled by an action Editor who does not have any potential conflict of interest with any of the manuscript’s authors.

If the action editor finds that the manuscript is not of sufficient quality to go through the normal peer review process, or that the subject of the manuscript is not within the journal’s scope, the manuscript shall be rejected with no further processing.

Peer-review

At least two review reports are collected for each submitted article. Suggestions of reviewers can be made by action editor during pre-check.

The following checks are applied to all reviewers:

  • That they hold no conflicts of interest with the authors;
  • That they hold a PhD;
  • They must have recent publications in the field of the submitted paper;

The reviewers will submit their reports on the manuscripts along with their recommendation of one of the following actions to Action Editor:

  • Accept without revision
  • Consider after minor revision
  • Consider after major revision
  • Reject: Manuscript is flawed or not sufficiently novel

Editor Decision

When all reviewers have submitted their reports, the Action Editor can make one of the following editorial recommendations:

  • Accept
  • Reject
  • Ask author for revision

Reviewers make recommendations, and the Action Editor are free to disagree with their views. If they do so, they should justify their decision, for the benefit of the authors.

If the Action Editor recommends “Accept without revision”, the manuscript will be double-checked by editorial office. Once this is done, the authors will be notified of the manuscript’s acceptance.

If the Action Editor recommends rejecting the manuscript, the rejection is immediate.

If the Action Editor recommends “ask author for revision, it will enter into “Revision” process.

Revision

In cases revisions are recommended, the authors are notified to prepare and submit a revised version of their manuscript with the required changes suggested by the reviewers. The former reviewers will review the revised manuscript and provide suggestion as to whether the authors had addressed all their concerns. The Action Editor will check the revised version, author response, and second round comments, and then make final decision. Once the Action Editor is satisfied with the final manuscript, the manuscript can be accepted.

Publication online

Once a paper is accepted for publication, it will be sent to authors for final proofreading, and then be arranged for publication.

Articles

Section default policy

Conference paper

Publication presented in scientific conferences 

thesis

Recognized thesis reading to a university degree

manuscript

When the manuscript is accepted it becomes a preprint, and when it gets published it becomes a paper, which is synonymous to article.

Copyright Notice

RUFSO Operate an Open access policy:

Funded Research subject to the Open Access Policy should contain the following elements:

Publication Will Be On “Open Access” Terms. All papers including articles accepted for publication shall be published RUFSO editorial team approval. This will permit all users to copy, redistribute, transform, and build on the material in any medium or format for any purpose without further permission or fees being required.

RUFSO Will Retain Copyright. RUFSO shall retain sufficient copyright in papers to ensure that articles accepted for publication are deposited into an open-access repository and published under RUFSO editorial team approval.

Publications and Underlying Data Will Be Accessible and Open Immediately. All papers including articles accepted for publication shall be available immediately at publication, without any period.

Email questions to [email protected].

Privacy Statement

The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.