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    JTCM Double-Blind Peer Review Guidelines

  • Starting in November 2022, JTCM will use double-blind review, which means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process.

    To facilitate this, authors need to ensure that their manuscripts are prepared in a way that does not give away their identity. To help with this preparation, please ensure the following when submitting to Measurement:

    Submit Blinded Manuscript with no author details and full version with Title Page containing the Author’s details as two separate files.

    Please upload Blinded Manuscript with no author details in the first box and full version with Title Page containing the Author’s details in the fifth box as shown in the figure blow.


    How to prepare the Title Page

    This should include the title, authors' names and affiliations, and a complete address for the corresponding author, including telephone and e-mail address.

    How to prepare the Blinded Manuscript

    Besides the obvious need to remove names and affiliations under the title within the manuscript, there are other steps that need to be taken to ensure the manuscript is correctly prepared for double-blind peer review. To assist with this process the key items that need to be observed are as follows:

    Use the third person to refer to work the Authors have previously undertaken, e.g. replace any phrases like “as we have shown before” with “… has been shown before [Anonymous, 2022]”.

    Make sure figures do not contain any affiliation-related identifier.

    Do not eliminate essential self-references or other references, but limit self-references only to papers that are relevant for those reviewing the submitted paper.

    Cite papers published by the Author in the text as follows: ‘[Anonymous, 2022]’.

    For blinding in the reference list: ‘[Anonymous, 2022] Details omitted for double-blind reviewing.’

    Remove references to funding sources.

    Do not include acknowledgments.

    Remove any identifying information, including author names, from file names and ensure document properties are also anonymized.
    • Pubdate： 2022-11-04    Viewed： 346