Information For Authors

Interested in submitting to this journal? We recommend that you review the About the Journal page for the journal's section policies, as well as the Author Guidelines. Authors need to register with the journal prior to submitting or, if already registered, can simply log in and begin the five-step process.

Authors' Responsibilities

  • An author should ensure that the manuscripts have not been published elsewhere or submitted to any other journal(s). An author must not in general publish paper parallel submission of the same manuscript in more than one journal or primary publication.
  • All the work reported in the submitted manuscripts should be original and free from any research misconduct when submitting to SELDE.
  • It should be clearly stated by all authors that there is no conflict of interest (employment, consultancy, service fee, share ownership, paid expertise, patent application/registration, grant, other financing, etc.).
  • It is expected and welcomed to send SELDE the papers of caliber quality by the authors.
  • SELDE requires that those who have made significant contributions to the conception, design, execution or interpretation of the submitted papers should be listed as "authors", and all those have made substantial contributions should be mentioned as "co-authors".
  • SELDE expects that appropriate acknowledgment should be given to the cited/cited work (of any person, institution or organization) by the authors.
  • All authors are required to conduct prompt corrections, clarifications and retractions of their published papers when any error or academic misconduct is confirmed at any time.