Author Guidelines
Current Research in Interdisciplinary Studies (ISSN: 2583-5181) is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access multidisciplinary journal published by Jagua Publication. The journal welcomes original scholarly contributions that address significant questions, methods, findings, theories, applications, or emerging developments across disciplines and interdisciplinary fields.
Article Types
The journal considers Original Research Articles, Review Articles, Brief Reports or Short Communications, Technical or Methodological Articles, Case Studies, Letters to the Editor, Editorials, Commentaries, and Perspectives, where appropriate to the journal's aims and scope.
Free-Format Initial Submission
Current Research in Interdisciplinary Studies follows a free-format initial submission policy. Authors are not required to use a specific journal template, journal-specific typesetting format, or journal-specific reference style at the initial submission stage.
Authors may submit manuscripts in a clear and consistent Word or LaTeX format. The manuscript should be sufficiently organized and complete to allow editorial assessment and peer review.
Recommended Manuscript Structure
The structure should reflect the subject and article type. Where applicable, manuscripts should include:
- Title and Author Information
- Abstract
- Keywords
- Introduction
- Literature Review or Background
- Materials and Methods / Methodology
- Results / Findings
- Discussion
- Conclusions
- Funding Information
- Author Contributions
- Conflict of Interest Statement
- Ethical Statement, where applicable
- Data Availability Statement, where applicable
- Acknowledgements, where applicable
Interdisciplinary Research
Because the journal publishes research across multiple disciplines, authors should clearly explain the disciplinary context, research question, methodology, and contribution of the work.
For interdisciplinary studies, authors should clearly identify how the different disciplinary perspectives, methods, datasets, theories, or approaches contribute to the research and its conclusions.
Manuscripts should be written so that qualified researchers outside the immediate specialty can understand the purpose, methodology, principal findings, and significance of the work.
Research Methods and Transparency
Authors should provide sufficient methodological information to allow readers and reviewers to understand and evaluate the research.
Depending on the discipline, this may include research design, sampling, data collection, analytical methods, theoretical framework, experimental procedures, computational methods, statistical analysis, field methods, instruments, datasets, or other relevant procedures.
Data Availability
Authors should provide a Data Availability Statement where applicable.
Where reasonably possible, supporting data should be made available through an appropriate repository or other suitable mechanism. Where data cannot be shared because of privacy, confidentiality, legal, ethical, security, licensing, intellectual-property, or other legitimate restrictions, authors should provide an appropriate explanation.
Software, Code, and Research Materials
Where software, source code, computational tools, datasets, instruments, protocols, or other research materials materially contribute to the work, authors should provide sufficient information for appropriate evaluation and, where reasonably possible, reproducibility.
Authors must comply with applicable licenses and permissions when using third-party software, datasets, code, images, or other protected materials.
Human Participants
Research involving human participants, personal information, interviews, surveys, social research, medical information, or other ethically regulated activities must comply with applicable ethical, institutional, legal, and professional requirements.
Where applicable, authors should provide the name of the ethics committee or institutional review board, approval or reference number, informed-consent information, and relevant ethical standards.
If formal ethical approval was not required, authors should provide an appropriate explanation where relevant.
Informed Consent and Privacy
Where required, authors must obtain appropriate informed consent from participants.
Manuscripts containing identifiable personal information, photographs, interviews, case details, or other potentially identifying information must comply with applicable privacy and consent requirements.
Animal Research
Research involving animals must comply with applicable institutional, national, and international animal-welfare and ethical requirements.
Where applicable, authors should report the relevant ethics approval or institutional authorization. Authors reporting animal research should consult the ARRIVE guidelines.
Health and Biomedical Research
Where a manuscript involves medical or biomedical research, authors should follow applicable research-ethics and reporting standards.
Human health research should follow applicable ethical requirements, including the principles of the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki where applicable.
Reporting Guidelines
Authors should use recognized reporting guidelines appropriate to the study design and discipline.
Examples for health and biomedical research include:
- CONSORT – randomized controlled trials
- STROBE – observational studies
- PRISMA – systematic reviews and meta-analyses
- CARE – case reports
- STARD – diagnostic accuracy studies
- ARRIVE – animal research
Authors may consult the EQUATOR Network Reporting Guidelines for additional health and biomedical reporting standards.
For other disciplines, authors should follow recognized methodological, professional, or reporting standards applicable to the research field.
Authorship and Contributions
Authorship should reflect substantial contributions to the conception, design, conduct, analysis, interpretation, or other substantive aspects of the work.
All listed authors should approve the submitted manuscript and accept responsibility for their contributions and the integrity of the work.
For biomedical and health-related research, authors should follow the relevant ICMJE Recommendations where applicable.
Changes to Authorship
Requests to add, remove, or change the order of authors after submission must include an explanation and appropriate confirmation from the affected authors.
The journal may suspend editorial processing until an authorship matter has been resolved.
ORCID
An ORCID iD for the corresponding author is required at submission. ORCID iDs for co-authors are strongly recommended.
Originality and Exclusive Submission
Manuscripts must be original and must not be simultaneously under consideration by another journal.
Authors should disclose relevant preprints, conference papers, theses, datasets, reports, or related publications where these may affect the originality or interpretation of the submitted work.
Funding
All sources of financial support for the research or preparation of the manuscript must be disclosed.
Where applicable, authors should describe the role of the funding organization in the research and publication process.
Conflict of Interest
Authors must disclose actual, potential, or perceived conflicts of interest that could influence, or reasonably appear to influence, the research or its interpretation.
Where no relevant conflict exists, an appropriate declaration should be provided.
Artificial Intelligence
Authors must disclose material use of generative AI or AI-assisted technologies in manuscript preparation, data analysis, coding, image generation, interpretation, or other aspects of the research where such disclosure is relevant.
AI tools cannot be listed as authors. Authors remain responsible for the accuracy, originality, integrity, citations, data, analysis, interpretation, and conclusions of their work.
AI tools must not be used to fabricate data, results, references, citations, images, or other scholarly information.
For biomedical or health-related manuscripts, authors should consult the ICMJE guidance on Artificial Intelligence in Publishing where applicable.
References
References must be accurate, complete, relevant, and consistently presented.
A specific journal-formatted reference style is not required at initial submission. Authors may use a consistent scholarly reference format appropriate to their discipline.
Authors should verify bibliographic information, including author names, titles, publication details, DOI, and other persistent identifiers where applicable.
Peer Review
Current Research in Interdisciplinary Studies uses a single-blind peer-review process. Reviewers remain anonymous to authors, while reviewers are aware of the authors' identities.
Authors may suggest three to five potential reviewers. Suggested reviewers must have appropriate expertise and must be independent of the submitted work.
The editorial team is not required to select reviewers suggested by authors.
Plagiarism and Similarity
The journal does not tolerate plagiarism, inappropriate text reuse, fabrication, falsification, duplicate publication, or other forms of research and publication misconduct.
Submitted manuscripts may be screened using plagiarism and similarity-detection tools.
Similarity reports are editorial screening tools and do not by themselves establish plagiarism. The journal does not apply an automatic fixed similarity-percentage threshold.
Optional Production and Technical Support
After acceptance, authors who require assistance with final manuscript preparation, production-related technical checks, or file preparation may request optional Production and Technical Support from Jagua Publication at a charge of USD 50 per manuscript.
This service is entirely optional and is not a condition of acceptance or publication. Authors who prepare and submit their final files themselves do not need to pay this charge.
The optional service does not influence peer review, editorial assessment, acceptance, or publication.
Publication Ethics
Authors must comply with the journal's Ethical Principles and Publication Policy and recognized publication-ethics principles, including the COPE Core Practices.