Author Guidelines
Please Note: The editors of interface conduct all communication with authors via email. As such, it is important that you keep your email address as entered in the system accurate. If you change institutions mid-submission, please update your email on your profile page. We can not be responsible for missed deadlines or communications that result from inaccurate author email addresses.
Submission Guidlines
We start the reviewing process as soon as we receive a paper and we guarantee that we will complete it within three months. Provided authors make any suggested revisions in a timely manner and no issue on a special topic has been scheduled, papers can be published within six months of being submitted.
We will publish a general issue in the Spring, Summer, and Fall of each year. So, as a general guideline, authors should expect the procedure to keep the following timeline:
- Aug. 15, Dec. 15, Apr. 15 -- All manuscripts for consideration for general issues due.
- Nov. 15, Mar. 15, Jul. 15 -- Notification of the results of the review process
- Dec. 15, Apr. 15, Aug. 15 -- All author revisions and resubmissions due
- Jan. 15, May 15, Sep. 15 -- We complete the typesetting of the articles
- Jan. 29, May 29, Sep. 29 -- Final author revisions of the proofs due
Manuscripts should be submitted solely to this journal and should not have been published before, not be in-press, and not simultaneously submitted elsewhere. All research needs to meet the ethical guidelines of its discipline, be original work and submission must be prepared for blind review (e.g., the complete text minus the title page, acknowledgements, and any running headers of author names, to allow blinded review). Authors are completely responsible for securing any and all copyrights for third-party contents as necessary.
Length limits per type of submission
- Articles: .doc or .docx files, not exceeding 12.000 words including references
- Book and Multimedia reviews: .doc or .docx, not exceeding 8.000 words
- Multimedia: .mov files, .mp4 files
- Graphics: .jpeg or .png, 300 dpi or higher
All submissions must include an abstract of 300-500 words and 3-6 keywords.
Style
- For citations and references, please follow the latest edition of APA.
- Documents must be in .doc or .docx format only.
- Please do not upload PDF files.
- A manual for the APA guidelines may be found at www.apastyle.org/manual/.
For some guiding examples, see referencing guidelines below:
Citations
(Hisakata, Nishida, & Johnston, 2016; Hogue, 2001; Musk, 2006; Sambrook & Russell, 2001)
(Hisakata, 2016, p. 1913)
As mentioned by Hisakata (2016, p. 1913) ...
Bibliography
Hisakata, R., Nishida, S. ’ya, & Johnston, A. (2016). An adaptable metric shapes perceptual space. Current Biology, 26(14), 1911–1915. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2016.05.047
Hogue, C. W. V. (2001). Structure databases. In A. D. Baxevanis & B. F. F. Ouellette (Eds.), Bioinformatics (2nd ed., pp. 83–109). New York, NY: Wiley-Interscience.
Musk, E. (2006, August 2). The secret Tesla Motors master plan (just between you and me). Retrieved September 29, 2016, from https://www.tesla.com/blog/secret-tesla-motors-master-plan-just-between-you-and-me
Sambrook, J., & Russell, D. W. (2001). Molecular cloning: a laboratory manual (3rd ed.). Cold Spring Harbor, NY: CSHL Press.
