Submission Terms and Editorial Records Policy
These terms apply to manuscript submissions to the International Journal of Psychology and Strategic Communication.
Submission and Peer Review
IJPSC applies a structured blind peer review process to ensure academic quality, fairness, and integrity. Single-blind peer review is the journal’s standard review model. In selected cases, double-blind peer review may be applied when editorially justified.
All manuscripts must be submitted through the official IJPSC Submission and Peer Review System. The platform provides authors with detailed submission requirements, formatting guidelines, review information, revision procedures, and access to the documented editorial process.
Open the IJPSC Submission and Peer Review System
IJPSC does not charge submission, processing, or publication fees.
1. Submission and editorial assessment
By submitting a manuscript, the corresponding author requests editorial assessment by the International Journal of Psychology and Strategic Communication. Submission does not guarantee external review, acceptance, publication, or publication within a particular issue. The journal may request revisions, reject the manuscript, or discontinue the procedure in accordance with its editorial policies.
2. Author responsibility
The corresponding author confirms that the information submitted is accurate, that all co-authors have approved the submission, and that the manuscript does not infringe copyrights, confidentiality obligations, personality rights, or other third-party rights. The manuscript must not be simultaneously submitted elsewhere unless this has been expressly disclosed and approved.
3. Peer-review model
Single-blind peer review is the IJPSC standard and is sufficient for regular submissions. Reviewer identities remain confidential. Double-blind peer review is intended only for special cases in which additional author anonymity is necessary. When requested, the manuscript and its document metadata must not identify the authors. Double-blind review may extend the process by approximately four weeks.
4. Revisions and editorial decisions
The journal may require minor or major revisions. A revision request is not an acceptance. Authors must respond within the stated period and clearly document material changes. The final editorial decision remains with the journal.
5. Open Access and publication preparation
The author agrees that an accepted article will be published in accordance with the IJPSC Open Access Policy. After acceptance, the manuscript may be copy-edited, linguistically reviewed, technically finalized, and formatted in the journal layout. Material changes affecting the scientific meaning remain subject to author approval.
6. DOI and Rolling Release
After finalization, the journal registers the publication metadata with Crossref and assigns a DOI. Once the DOI and final publication record have been entered into the IJPSC system, the article may be published through Rolling Release before it is allocated to a completed print issue.
7. Print issue
Acceptance and online publication do not establish a binding date for the corresponding print issue. The timing of print compilation cannot be predicted. Authors are requested to refrain from status enquiries concerning the print publication date.
8. Withdrawal
The corresponding author may withdraw the manuscript from the active editorial process at any time by notifying the editorial office. Withdrawal ends further editorial processing but does not automatically erase the documented editorial record.
9. Author-account closure
An author may delete or close the platform account through the account settings. Unsubmitted drafts are permanently deleted and manuscripts still in an active editorial stage are withdrawn. Closing platform access does not erase submission-related identity data or editorial records that remain necessary for research-integrity documentation, legal claims, publication records, or the retention obligations accepted at submission.
10. Editorial-record retention
Submitted manuscript versions, reviewer reports, author responses, editorial decisions, conflict-of-interest declarations, reviewer invitations and assignments, relevant correspondence, timestamps, and status changes are retained securely until the end of the tenth calendar year following publication, final rejection, acceptance without publication, or withdrawal. Records subject to a complaint, research-integrity investigation, or legal proceeding remain protected until the matter has been resolved. After expiry, review records are automatically deleted or reduced to the permanently required bibliographic publication record.
11. Confidentiality and data protection
Access to editorial records is restricted by role. Manuscript files and sensitive editorial content are encrypted at application level. Reviewer identities remain confidential unless disclosure is legally required or expressly authorized. Data-subject rights remain governed by applicable data-protection law. Requests may be sent to the editorial office.