Human Systems Management

Author Guidelines

SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPT

By submitting an article to this journal, every author agrees to the Author Copyright Agreement, the IOS Press Privacy Policy and the IOS Press Ethics Policy.

HSM seeks high-quality contributions in terms of originality, readability and relevance to both research and practice. In judging the manuscripts fit for publication, the journal Editors adhere to the highest standards of intellectual and personal integrity and follow COPE’s Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing.  HSM publishes the following article types:

• Original Research Article: article reporting on empirical research (up to 8000 words including references). This type of article should contain structured abstract and an author contributions statement.
• Original Review Article: review or state-of-the-art summary article (up to 8000 words including references). This type of article should contain an author contributions statement.
• Case Report: case study, case report, or other description of a case (up to 4500 words including references). This type of article should contain structured abstract and an author contributions statement.
• Book Review: review or analysis of one or more new printed or online books relevant to the HSM community (up to 2000 words).
• Article Commentary: a work commenting on an already published article in HSM (up to 2000 words). This type of publication should add to the previously published article by either complementing its findings or offering an opposing opinion on a controversial article.
• Short Communication: concise articles aiming to rapidly report new findings or ideas (up to 2000 words).

The journal also welcomes and mostly accepts academic advertisements and employment opportunity announcements (please contact editorial@iospress.nl for such requests).

All submitted manuscripts are subjected to initial appraisal by the Editor in Chief or the assigned Associated Editor and, if found suitable for further consideration, to rigorous peer review. Mathematical formalism and proofs, quantifications and tables of empirical data are admitted only if they add to or are part of the main contribution of the submitted manuscript. Raw data should be available to the editor upon submission as supplementary material to the manuscript.

Authors are requested to submit their manuscript electronically to the journal’s Editorial Management System (www.editorialmanager.com/hsm). The manuscript should be uploaded as one file with tables and figures included. The submitted files must be editable (e.g. MS word). Please use the journal’s manuscript template.

Revised submissions should include a point-by-point response to reviewers' comments, and have revisions highlighted.

Important notes:

• The journal does not accept submissions from authors using nondescript, anonymous, email addresses (yahoo.com, gmail.com, 163.com, rediffmail.com, etc.). Institutional email addresses are highly preferred
• All authors must be included in the title page AND in the submission

Please be sure to read carefully the section “Preparation of Manuscripts” below, and to include the following files:

1. Title page including author details
2. Authors’ bionotes (maximum 100 words per author)
3. Manuscript

Publication fee
HSM does not charge a publication fee.

PREPARATION OF MANUSCRIPTS 

Organization of the paper and style of presentation
Manuscripts must be written in English. Authors whose native language is not English are advised to consult a professional English language editing service or a native English speaker prior to submission.

Manuscripts should be prepared with wide margins and double spacing throughout, including the abstract, footnotes and references. Every page of the manuscript, including the title page, references, tables, etc., should be numbered. However, in the text no reference should be made to page numbers; if necessary, one may refer to sections. SI units should be used, i.e., the units based on the metre, kilogramme, second, etc.Try to avoid the excessive use of italics and bold face.

Title page
The title page should provide the following information:

• Title (should be clear, descriptive, and have up to 150 characters including spaces)
• Name(s) of author(s) without abbreviation; please indicate who is the corresponding author. Note that no authors will be added or removed post submission, unless the journal editor and all co-authors are informed and are in agreement to this change
• Full affiliation(s): institution, city, country, link to the official website 
• Present address of author(s), if different from affiliation
• Complete address of the corresponding author, including tel. no., fax no., professional e-mail address and ORCID ID
• Acknowledgements
• Author contributions

Acknowledgments
This section should contain all acknowledgments, including any funding source to the research.

If there are no acknowledgments or funding, then please state "The authors have no acknowledgments". 

Author contributions
For every author, his or her contribution to the manuscript needs to be provided using the following categories:
CONCEPTION:
METHODOLOGY:
DATA COLLECTION:
INTERPRETATION OR ANALYSIS OF DATA:
PREPARATION OF THE MANUSCRIPT:
REVISION FOR IMPORTANT INTELLECTUAL CONTENT:
SUPERVISION:

Please read the IOS Press authorship policy for further information.

Authors’ bionotes

Please provide a short biography (maximum of 100 words per author), as well as a passport-type photograph for each author in a single file.

Manuscript

Manuscripts should be organized in the following order:

• Abstract
• Keywords
• Body of text (divided by subheadings)
• References
• Tables
• Figure captions
• Figures

Headings and subheadings should be numbered and typed on a separate line, without indentation.

Abstract
The abstract should be clear, descriptive, self-explanatory and not longer than 200 words, it should also be suitable for publication in abstracting services. The abstract for research papers should follow the "structured abstract" format. Section labels should be in bold uppercase letters followed by a colon, and each section will begin on a new line.

BACKGROUND:
OBJECTIVE:
METHODS:
RESULTS:
CONCLUSIONS: 

Supplementary data
If there is an online dataset associated with the paper, you are welcome to provide information about where the data supporting the results or analyses presented in the paper can be found. Where applicable, this should include the hyperlink, DOI, or other identifier associated with the dataset(s).

References

The journal follows the Vancouver style for citations and references. Place citations as numbers in square brackets in the text. All publications cited in the text must be presented in a list of references in order of appearance in the text. Only articles published or accepted for publication should be listed in the reference list. Submitted articles can be listed in the text as (author(s), unpublished data). All authors should be listed in the reference list. Please include DOI numbers when known. Examples of references in the Vancouver style:

[1] Rose ME, Huerbin MB, Melick J, Marion DW, Palmer AM, Schiding JK, Kochanek PM, Graham SH. Regulation of interstitial excitatory amino acid concentrations after cortical contusion injury. Brain Res. 2002; 935(12): 406-416. DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(02)02471-X
[2] Murray PR, Rosenthal KS, Kobayashi GS, Pfaller MA. Medical microbiology. 4th ed. St. Louis: Mosby; 2002.
[3] Berkow R, Fletcher AJ, editors. The Merck manual of diagnosis and therapy. 16th ed. Rahway (NJ): Merck Research Laboratories; 1992.
[4] Meltzer PS, Kallioniemi A, Trent JM. Chromosome alterations in human solid tumors. In: Vogelstein B, Kinzler KW, editors. The genetic basis of human cancer. New York: McGrawHill; 2002. p. 93113.
[5] Canadian Cancer Society. Canadian Cancer Society [Internet]. Available from: http://www.cancer.ca/. [Accessed 5 August 2021]. 

Footnotes
Footnotes should only be used if absolutely essential. In most cases it is possible to incorporate the information in the text.
If used, they should be numbered in the text, indicated by superscript numbers and kept as short as possible. 

Tables
Number as Table 1, Table 2 etc., and refer to all of them in the text. Each table should be provided on a separate page of the manuscript. Tables should not be included in the text. Each table should have a brief and self-explanatory title.
Column headings should be brief, but sufficiently explanatory. Standard abbreviations of units of measurement should be added between parentheses.
Vertical lines should not be used to separate columns. Leave some extra space between the columns instead.
Any explanations essential to the understanding of the table should be given in footnotes at the bottom of the table. 

Figures

Number figures as Fig. 1, Fig. 2, etc., and refer to all of them in the text. Each figure should be provided on a separate sheet. Figures should not be included in the text.
Color figures can be included in the print version, provided the cost of their reproduction is paid for by the author. The online version has no extra charges for color figures.
For the file formats of the figures please take the following into account:

• Line art should be have a minimum resolution of 600 dpi, save as EPS or TIFF
• Grayscales (including photos) should have a minimum resolution of 300 dpi (no lettering), or 500 dpi (when there is lettering); save as tiff
• Do not save figures as JPEG, this format may lose information in the process
• Do not use figures taken from the Internet, the resolution will be too low for printing
• Do not use color in your figures if they are to be printed in black & white, as this will reduce the print quality (note that in software often the default is color, you should change the settings)
• For figures that should be printed in color, please send a CMYK encoded EPS or TIFF

Figures should be designed with the format of the page of the journal in mind. They should be of such a size as to allow a reduction of 50%.
On maps and other figures where a scale is needed, use bar scales rather than numerical ones, i.e., do not use scales of the type 1:10,000. This avoids problems if the figures need to be reduced.
Each figure should have a self-explanatory caption. The captions to all figures should be typed on a separate sheet of the manuscript.
Photographs are only acceptable if they have good contrast and intensity. 

COPYRIGHT 

Copyright of your article
Authors submitting a manuscript do so on the understanding that they have read and agreed to the terms of the IOS Press Author Copyright Agreement.

Article sharing
Authors of journal articles are permitted to self-archive and share their work through institutional repositories, personal websites, and preprint servers. Authors have the right to use excerpts of their article in other works written by the authors themselves, provided that the original work is properly cited. The consent for sharing an article, in whole or in part, depends on the version of the article that is shared, where it is shared, and the copyright license under which the article is published. Please refer to the IOS Press Article Sharing Policy for further information.

Quoting from other publications
Authors, when quoting from someone else's work or when considering reproducing figures or tables from a book or journal article, should make sure that they are not infringing a copyright. Although in general authors may quote from other published works, permission should be obtained from the holder of the copyright if there will be substantial extracts or reproduction of tables, plates, or other figures. If the copyright holder is not the author of the quoted or reproduced material, it is recommended that the permission of the author should also be sought. Material in unpublished letters and manuscripts is also protected and must not be published unless permission has been obtained. Submission of a paper will be interpreted as a statement that the author has obtained all the necessary permission. A suitable acknowledgement of any borrowed material must always be made.

PROOFS

After the article is accepted, the corresponding author will receive a PDF proof and is asked to check this proof carefully (the publisher will execute a cursory check only). Corrections other than printer's errors, however, should be avoided. Costs arising from such corrections will be charged to the authors.

PURCHASES

How to order reprints, a PDF file, journals, or IOS Press books
The corresponding author of a contribution to the journal will receive a complimentary PDF Author’s Copy of the article, unless otherwise stated. This PDF copy is watermarked and for personal use only. A free PDF copy will not be provided for conference proceedings and abstract issues. An order form for a PDF file without watermark, reprints or additional journal copies will be provided along with the PDF proof.

If you wish to order reprints of an earlier published article, please contact the publisher for a quotation using the contact form.

An author is entitled to 25% discount on IOS Press books. See Author's discount (25%) on all IOS Press book publications.

KUDOS
Authors of published articles (non-prepress, final articles) will be contacted by Kudos. Kudos is a service that helps researchers maximize the impact and visibility of their research. It allows authors to enrich their articles with lay metadata, add links to related materials and promote their articles through the Kudos system to a wider public. Authors will receive no more than three emails: one invitation and a maximum of two reminders to register for the service and link the published article to their profile. Using and registering for Kudos remains entirely optional. For more information, please have a look at our authors section.

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