Author Guideline

Manuscript Selection and Publication Process

Step 1: Submission Acknowledgement

If you submit your manuscript online, you will receive a “Submission Acknowledgement” email sent automatically by the online submission system. If you fail to receive this confirmation, your submission may be missed. Please contact the editorial assistants in time.

Step 2: Basic Review

The editor or editorial assistant determines whether a manuscript fits the journal’s aim and scope. Then, the manuscript is checked for its similarity index by CrossCheck, powered by iThenticate.

Step 3: Peer review

We use double-blind system for peer-review. Both reviewers and authors’ identities remain anonymous. A manuscript will be peer-reviewed by at least three experts: one editorial staff and two external reviewers.

Step 4: Acceptance/Rejection Decision

The decision to accept or reject a manuscript is based on suggestions of reviewers. If differences of opinion occur between reviewers, the editor-in-chief will weigh all comments and arrive at a balanced decision based on all comments, or a second round of peer review may be initiated.

Step 5: Notification of the result of review to the corresponding authors by E-mail.

Step 6: Payment of publication fee

All articles published by Aurora Publishing House are published in full open access. In order to provide free access to readers, and to cover the costs of peer review, copyediting, typesetting, long-term archiving, and journal management, an article processing charge (APC) of 300 USD applies to papers accepted after peer review.

Step 7: E-version Publication

Manuscripts will be shortly published online upon completion of revision and payment of publication fee.

Step 8: Post-publication

Online PDF version of a manuscript is free to access and download.