JOH submission requirements

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See full list of requirements here: https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/openhardware/about/submissions
See style guide here: https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/openhardware/style-guide

Reviews can cover topics such as current controversies or the historical development of studies, issues of regional or temporal focus, summaries of the technological state of the art of an instrumentation type. Papers should critically engage with the relevant body of literature. Word limit: 5,000 words (All word limits include referencing and citations.)

Structure

• Title page
  • The title page must include all of the below information, in the same order. No further information should be included:
    • Title
    • Full author name(s) Author names must include a forename and a surname. Forenames should preferably not include only initials.
    • Affiliation(s) The affiliation should ideally include Department, Institution, City and Country, however only the Institution (if applicable) and Country are mandatory.
    • Corresponding author’s email address (other author email addresses are optional)
• Abstract
  • Research articles must have the main text prefaced by an abstract of no more than 250 words summarising the main arguments and conclusions of the article. This must have the heading ‘Abstract’ and be easily identified from the start of the main text.
  • A list of up to six key words may be placed below the abstract (optional).
  • The Abstract and Keywords should also be added to the metadata when making the initial online submission.
• Main text
  • The body of the submission should be structured in a logical and easy to follow manner. A clear introduction section should be given that allows non-specialists in the subject an understanding of the publication and a background of the issue(s) involved. Methods, results, discussion and conclusion sections may then follow to clearly detail the information and research being presented.
  • Up to three level headings may be present and must be clearly identifiable using different font sizes, bold or italics. We suggest using Headings 1, 2 and 3 in your word processor's ‘Style’ section.
• Acknowledgements (optional)
• Competing interests
  • If any of the authors have any competing interests then these must be declared. A short paragraph should be placed before the references. Guidelines for competing interests can be found here.
• Ethics and consent (if applicable)
  • Research involving human subjects, human material, or human data, must have been performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. Where applicable, the studies must have been approved by an appropriate ethics committee and the authors should include a statement within the article text detailing this approval, including the name of the ethics committee and reference number of the approval. The identity of the research subject should be anonymised whenever possible. For research involving human subjects, informed consent to participate in the study must be obtained from participants (or their legal guardian).
• References
  • All references cited within the submission must be listed at the end of the main text file.

Other requirements

• The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
• Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
• Submissions also have to comply with the OSHWA definition for open source hardware:
  • Source files must be under an open hardware compatible license that permits others to study, modify, distribute, make, and sell your hardware.
  • You may require anyone building on your work to release their designs under the same conditions to increase a common pool of contributed hardware design files (referred more generally as reciprocal licensing).
  • You should apply either a reciprocal or a permissive license to meet the OSHWA definition to your project documentation. Reciprocal licenses include hardware-specific ones from CERN and TAPR. Permissive licenses include Solderpad license. More information on hardware licensing is available from OSHWA.

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I previously contacted the editor to ask about the guidelines we should follow:

We are interested in submitting a review article to the Journal of Open Source Hardware ) https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/openhardware/about/submissions) – There is a template provided for hardware submissions, but there is not a template provided for Issues, Reviews, or Commentaries – Should we prepare our submission using the hardware template (adjusting sections where necessary)?
Thanks in advance for your assistance,

and the reply

yes, we don’t have yet a template for that, so please use the standard template in terms of fonts and sizes. Then we will do the rest during the copyediting, which is now on the authors as well. Looking forward to see your review