Submission Guidlines
Before understanding article submission guidelines let us notify you regarding our Review Policy-
Type- Double-Blind Peer Review
Acceptance/Rejection- up to 45 days
Rejection rates: (2016/ 39%); (2017/ 44%); (2018/40%); (2019/49%); (2020/46%); (2021/41%); (2022/45%); (2023/50%); (2024/42%)
Review Period- up to 40 days
The average period of publication- 60 days
We accept original theoretical/ research articles as electronic submissions via e-mail as attached documents (Microsoft Word only) or journal submission portal. All manuscripts should strictly follow the MLA 8th or 9th Edition. The documents must include name and affiliation details in the body of your submission. Submissions must be in a single attachment. Submission e-mail must include the statement claiming that you have read the submission guidelines, you agree to the policy of the journal and that the submission is original and does not contain plagiarized material.
Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
- The article has not been previously published or sent to another journal.
- The file has been formatted with the template provided in Microsoft Word.
- Web pages or DOIs have been added in references where possible.
- Authors have included their ORCID and have validated after receiving an e-mail.
- Authors have followed the template format and all illustrations, figures and tables are in the correct place in the text and not at the end of the document.
- The text meets the bibliographic requirements indicated.
- The text does not contain personal information or any other information that will make the blind peer review process difficult.
Author Guidelines
Manuscript submissions
All the manuscripts should be sent through Email on thecreativelauncher@gmail.com or through the electronic platform where the journal is based (OJS).
Manuscripts not fulfilling the author guidelines will be rejected.
Authors responsibilities:
- Authors are expected to act according to the publication ethics international standards for authors developed by COPE during the 2nd World Conference on Research Integrity in Singapore in 2010. These are:
- The research being reported should have been conducted in an ethical and responsible manner and should comply with all relevant legislation.
- Researchers should present their results clearly, honestly, and without fabrication, falsification or inappropriate data manipulation.
- Researchers should strive to describe their methods clearly and unambiguously so that their findings can be confirmed by others.
- Researchers should adhere to publication requirements that submitted work is original, is not plagiarized, and has not been published elsewhere.
- Authors should take collective responsibility for submitted and published work.
- The authorship of research publications should accurately reflect individuals’ contributions to the work and its reporting.
- Funding sources and relevant conflicts of interest should be disclosed.
- Authors are obliged to participate in the peer review process;
- All authors have to contribute significantly to the research addressing a relevant topic in the area of the humanities and social sciences;
- All authors are obliged to provide retractions or corrections of mistakes;
- Authors are obliged to provide a list of references including the most relevant and current literature;
- Submitted manuscripts should not be under consideration for publication in other journals.
Changes to authorship:
Authors are strongly advised to ensure the correct author group, and the order of authors at submission. Changes of authorship by adding or deleting authors, and/or changes in Corresponding Author, and/or changes in the sequence of authors are not accepted after acceptance of a manuscript.
Evaluation procedure:
When a manuscript is submitted, the editors screen the manuscripts to make sure that all the files have no identifying information on the authors and that the article has not been published elsewhere. Then, in a time period of 10 days maximum from the date of reception of the article, the journal editor will assign it to two external evaluators that will carry out a blind review of the article (double blind peer review). Over the review period of the article, both the names of the authors as well as the evaluators’ will be anonymous.
Peer reviewers are identified by editors of the journal, who are experienced researchers in their fields. The most suitable reviewers are selected according to the submission received and the reviewer’s expertise; also, authors are welcome to suggest suitable reviewers and/or request the exclusion of certain individuals when they submit their manuscripts. When suggesting reviewers, authors should make sure they are totally independent and not connected to the work in any way. It is strongly recommended to suggest a mix of reviewers from different countries and different institutions. When suggesting reviewers, the authors must provide an institutional email address for each suggested reviewer. Please note that the editors may not use the suggestions, but suggestions are appreciated and may help facilitate the peer review process.
The editors are in charge of exploring the reviewer’s reports and exchange opinions with some members of the editorial board in order to make a proper decision whether an article could be publishable or not. The decision is reached through the reviewers’ reports.
Editors check all the reviews done and contrast the reviewers’ notes with the content of the article before sending decisions and reviewers comment to authors. If reviewers do not carry out their duty correctly, editors will delete them from the list and send the article to another reviewer or to a member of the editorial board to carry out a fast-track review of the manuscript.
In cases where editors have doubts after the process of review, they double-check the evaluation with some members of the editorial board, according to their field of specialization, in order to reach an agreement and a decision on the manuscript.
The result of the evaluation will be sent to the authors in a maximum period of 45 days from the date of reception.
Guidelines for submission of articles
In order to ensure originality of the received manuscripts, we recommend the authors to use programs of plagiarism detection. You can visit the following information on iThenticate: http://www.ithenticate.com/
The authors that send a manuscript to The Creative Launcher shall include their professional data and add their ORCID ID (If they have one) in the title page (see below). Those authors who do not have an ORCID ID, shall complete the ORCID registration process: http://orcid.org
Structure of the manuscripts
- Title of the article in English (see template) 16 words maximum.
- Abstract. It should be between 200 and 300 words in English. It should present the scientific background for the research, the objective of the study, the methodology used and the main results and conclusions.
- 8-12 keywords that define the article and serve to identify the content of the article.
- Text of the article. Include all sections of the manuscript in the same document to the extent possible.
- Acknowledgements and/ or Source of Funding.
- Notes. Avoid when possible. These should be placed after the acknowledgements and before the references, following the endnote format.
- Works Cited/References. Follow MLA 9th edition/ APA 7th Edition
Title Page
A separate document will be added with the name of the authors (in order of signature), their affiliation, ORCID ID and email address. Please indicate who is the corresponding author. When this information is not complete or a Title page is not submitted, the article will be desk-rejected.
Citation Style
Manuscripts should follow the MLA (9th edition). In case of articles related to social sciences APA (7th edition) can be used with declaration for the same. Please remove all automatic referencing features from the document and ensure that in text citations and references are text. Furthermore, do not copy the text in the source format and adapt it to the template format.
The following are some citation examples:
MLA
Works Cited
[Book] Bhagdikar, Vandana. Fiction of Namita Gokhale: A Critical Study. Prestige Books International, 2015.
[Book chapter] Sasikala, A. “Emancipation of New Women in Namita Gokhale’s Paro: Dreams of Passion.” The Art and Mind of Namita Gokhle, (Name 0f Publisher), (year of publication).
[Book translated available online] Beauvoir, Simone de. The Second Sex. Tr. Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier, Vintage Books, 2011.https://uberty.org/wpcontent/uploads/2015/09/1949_simone-de-beauvoir-the-second-sex.pdf
[Journal article print] Chandra, Subhash. Female Subjectivity and Female Empowerment in the Fiction of Namita Gokhale. The Literary Voice, 1996.
[Journal article with DOI] Roychoudhary, Mausumi. “Marriage: Freedom or Subjugation: A Case Study of Paro’s Dreams by Namita Gokhale”. Smart Moves Journal IJELLH, Vol. XX. No. X. Year. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v8i5.10589)
Zagade, Sanjay Haribhau. Identity Issues in Namita Gokhale’s Paro: Dreams of Passion. LangLit: An International Peer-Reviewed Open Access Journal, 2021. (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/374807992)
APA
References
[Book] Lalite, A. (Year of publication). Unequal Freedom: Class, Race, and family life. Berkeley, CA: University of California.
[Book chapter] Naimark, N. M. (2012). The Russians and Germans: Rape during the War and Post-Soviet Memories. In R. Branche, & F. Virgili (Eds.), Rape in Wartime (pp. 201-219). Palgrave Macmillan. http://10.1057/9781137283399
[Journal article] Lareau, A., & Lopes Muñoz, V. (2012)."You're Not Going to Call the Shots": Structural Conflicts between the Principal and the PTO at a Suburban Public Elementary School. Sociology of Education, 85, 201-208. http://doi.org/10.1177/0038040711435855
Note: Do not decorate your submission with lines, borders, special characters etc., which may lead to rejection.
Important note about inclusion and Exclusion of the submission
Inclusion Criteria
- Research reported in the English language only
- Poems/ Short stories/interviews in the English language
- Studies using qualitative methods of analysis
- Original and Unpublished first-hand qualitative studies
- Studies involving secondary qualitative analysis of qualitative data
- Research formatted in MLA (8th Edition) Style sheet
- Research within the scope of the journal only
- Articles that contribute significant findings in the field of research
Exclusion Criteria
- Non-English language
- Already published papers, abstracts, Poems, interviews
- Lexical studies that analyse natural language data presented as quantitative results
- Article without a research method & methodologies
- Qualitative studies using questionnaires or other methods that do not involve direct contact or observation of participants
- Any study where text/data is not analysed i.e. uninterpreted data
- Any review (systematic, narrative, qualitative)
- Commentary articles, written to convey an opinion or stimulate research /discussion, with no research component.
- Plagiarised content partial or complete.
Call for Submission
Dear academicians/research scholars
We welcome academicians, research scholars and independent writers to contribute their original research paper(s)/ article(s) to our international journal. We value your universal ideas, creative and innovative thinking, fresh perspectives and critical rigour on literary works. We are dedicated to publishing original, unpublished research endeavours.
Last date for article submissions--
For February Issue (Vol. 10 & Issue 1) : Till 2nd January 2025
For April Issue (Vol. 10 & No. 2): Till 3rd March 2025
For June Issue (Vol. 10 & No. 3): Till 4th May 2025
For August Issue (Vol. 10 & No. 4): Till 4th July 2025
For October Issue (Vol. 10 & No. 5): Till 4th September 2025
For December Issue (Vol. 10 & No. 6): Till 4th November 2025