Blind Peer Review

Request from authors

At the explicit request from authors, a blind review process can be executed. In this case, authors are asked to follow the instructions available ont this page.

Ensuring a Blind Peer Review

To ensure the integrity of the blind peer-review for submission to this journal, every effort should be made to prevent the identities of the authors and reviewers from being known to each other. This involves the authors, editors, and reviewers (who upload documents as part of their review) checking to see if the following steps have been taken with regard to the text and the file properties:

1. The authors of the document have deleted their names from the text, with "Author" and year used in the references and footnotes, instead of the authors' name, article title, etc.
2. With PDFs, the authors' names should also be removed from Document Properties found under File on Adobe Acrobat's main menu.