Information for contributors

Preparing a manuscript 

CJILS does not have strict formatting requirements for the first submission. It is the author's responsibility to ensure that their manuscript is clear and complete and that figures are legible. A few minimal requirements still should be followed: 

• All supporting files must be submitted within the main file, including figures and illustrations, tables, and images. Once the article is accepted for publication, you may be required to resubmit supporting images as high-resolution files (300 dpi or more).  
• The manuscript should include a concise title, an abstract of up to 250 words and a list of up to 6 keywords. 
• References should be complete and consistent. 
• All identifying information should be removed, including references to authors, specific research facilities, acknowledgements, names of ethics review boards, references to previous work, or any other information that could potentially identify the authors. References to authors’ past work should appear as “(Author XXXX)” in the text. They should be listed at the beginning of the references list as Author (XXXX) and not include the article's title, the journal, or other identifying information. 

Initial manuscript submission 

Manuscripts should be submitted to the submissions portal on the journal website.  

All submitted manuscripts must be the author’s original work, previously unpublished, and not being reviewed for publication in another journal.  

Submission checklist 

The submission should include the following documents: 

• The anonymized manuscript. 
• A cover letter describing how your work fits into the journal's scope and how it contributes to the field. Please consider suggesting potential reviewers for the manuscript and provide their e-mail addresses. Potential reviewers should have published in the area of research and must not be from the same institutions as the authors or have collaborated with them in the past. 
• A contact information sheet containing the names, email addresses, affiliations, and ORCID ID (if available) of all authors of the manuscripts.   

Revised or final manuscript submission 

Revised and final manuscript submissions must meet the following requirements:    

• The manuscript files must be submitted in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF format.
• Equations should be in MathType (not images). 
• Figures may appear inline, but must also be supplied as separate high-resolution (at least 300 dpi) EPS, JPG, or TIFF files.
• Figure labels and lettering should be legible once figures are reproduced at their publication sizes. 
• Tables should appear inline and be formatted as tables. No colors should be used in tables.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish in this journal agree to the following terms: 

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). This license allows authors and readers to share and adapt content for non-commercial purposes, provided that they abide by the following terms: 

• Give credit to the original author(s)/creator(s) and attribution parties (i.e., Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science).
• Provide a link to the source to the extent practicable.
• Include the copyright notice and/or indicate the corresponding Creative Commons license (and provide a link to the license).