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Information For Authors

Interested in submitting your work to a Femington journal?

Authors are encouraged to review the About the Journal page for journal-specific aims, scope, and section policies, along with the detailed Author Guidelines, before preparing a submission. Authors must register with the journal prior to submission or, if already registered, may log in and proceed through the standard five-step online submission process.

Femington journals are published using Open Journal Systems (OJS), developed by the Public Knowledge Project (PKP). Articles are indexed and made discoverable through widely used academic search platforms such as Google Scholar. 

Preparation of Your Manuscript

Authors must ensure that manuscripts meet the following requirements prior to submission:

  • Full names, institutional affiliations (including country), and contact details of all contributing authors must be provided

  • One author must be designated as the corresponding author

  • Manuscripts must include:

    • An abstract of no more than 200 words

    • Up to eight keywords

  • Submissions must be spell-checked and grammar-checked before submission

  • All references cited in the text must appear in the reference list, and vice versa

  • Bibliographic information (reference lists) must be presented.

  • Authors must obtain appropriate permissions for all third-party images, figures, or tables.

  • The language used in the title, abstract, and manuscript body must be clear and comprehensible to a global academic audience.

  • Manuscripts must align with the scope of the journal to which they are submitted.

Manuscript Template

Authors are strongly encouraged to download and use the official Femington manuscript template and article structure guidelines, available on the journal website. Use of the template helps ensure consistency and facilitates efficient editorial and peer-review processes.

Content Expectations

Manuscripts, particularly empirical and applied studies, should clearly address:

  • A concise statement of principal findings

  • The strengths and limitations of the study, including methodological considerations

  • The implications of the findings for practice, policy, or other stakeholders (where applicable)

  • A discussion of unanswered questions and directions for future research

Author Rights and Licensing

Femington journals operate under an open-access publishing model. Authors retain copyright and scholarly usage rights to their work. By publishing with a Femington journal, authors grant the journal a license to publish and identify itself as the original publisher, in accordance with the journal’s licensing agreement.

Fee Structure

Femington journals operate under a Platinum Open Access model. There are:

  • No Article Processing Charges (APCs) for authors

  • No subscription or access fees for readers

All accepted articles are made immediately and permanently available online without cost.

Code of Ethical Conduct

Authors submitting to Femington journals are required to adhere to the principles of ethical research conduct, fostering an environment of intellectual honesty, integrity, and responsible scholarship. Femington’s ethical framework is grounded in internationally recognised principles of responsible research.

Principles of Responsible Research Conduct

  • Honesty: Present research findings truthfully and accurately

  • Methodological Soundness: Employ appropriate and defensible research methods

  • Transparency: Clearly disclose methods, data sources, and interests

  • Fairness: Properly acknowledge contributors and prior work

  • Accountability: Comply with ethical, legal, and institutional requirements

  • Respect: Ensure ethical treatment of participants, communities, animals, and the environment

  • Engagement with Indigenous Communities: Respect and appropriately engage Indigenous knowledge and communities where relevant

  • Correction of Errors: Address errors in published work promptly and transparently

Criteria for Authorship

Authorship is reserved for individuals who have made substantial intellectual contributions to the research and who agree to be accountable for the published work. Significant contributions may include:

  • Conceptualisation and study design

  • Data acquisition involving intellectual judgment

  • Data analysis and interpretation

  • Drafting or critically revising the manuscript

  • Inclusion of domain-specific or Indigenous knowledge where appropriate

All contributors meeting these criteria must be appropriately credited, and all listed authors must approve the final manuscript.

Plagiarism and Research Misconduct Policy

Femington takes research integrity seriously.

  • All submissions are screened using plagiarism detection tools

  • The publisher actively identifies and prevents:

    • Plagiarism

    • Citation manipulation

    • Data fabrication or falsification

If misconduct is identified at any stage, the manuscript may be rejected, corrected, or retracted, and further investigation may be undertaken in line with publishing ethics standards.

Acknowledgements and Funding

Contributions that do not meet authorship criteria should be acknowledged. All sources of funding and the role of funding bodies must be clearly disclosed.

Declaration of Interest

All authors must disclose any financial or personal relationships that could be perceived as influencing their work.

Research Data

Femington encourages authors to share data, code, and supporting materials where appropriate, to promote transparency and reproducibility.

Ethics Approval and Consent

Manuscripts reporting studies involving human participants or animals must include:

  • A statement of ethics approval

  • The name of the approving ethics committee

  • Reference numbers where applicable

Essential Submission Checks

Before submission, authors must ensure that:

  • The manuscript is the final version

  • The work is not under review or published elsewhere

  • Permissions have been obtained for reused material

  • The manuscript is submitted in the required file format

  • No abbreviations or citations appear in the abstract

  • Non-standard abbreviations are defined on first use

  • All supplementary files are included

Following review, authors may be requested to provide editable files, higher-resolution figures, or revisions to align with the journal style.

General Guidelines for Writing an Academic Paper

Authors should structure manuscripts logically, typically including:

  • Title

  • Abstract

  • Introduction

  • Methodology

  • Results

  • Discussion

  • Conclusion

  • References

  • Ethical Statements (where applicable)

  • Appendices (if required)

References must follow the citation style specified by the journal, and submissions must comply with all journal-specific formatting and submission instructions.