Submissions
Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.- The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
- All authors have given approval for the submission of this manuscript.
- Contact information for all authors is included in the manuscript and provided during the submission process. (Author information includes full name, email address, affiliation and address.)
- The submission file is in a common word processing file format (e.g., .doc) and includes the use of line numbering.
- The manuscript has been reviewed closely for spelling, grammar, and readability.
- The manuscript has been reviewed closely for plagiarism
- The manuscript follows the guidelines outlined here: American Psychological Association Website.
- The citations follow the referencing style used by the American Psychological Association, and my references list is in alphabetical order. Examples can be found here .
- Suggestions (name, title, email) for three potential suitable reviewers who are well versed in the field of the manuscript are included.
- All authors have declared all conflict of interest in the manuscript.
- Failure to complete these steps may result in publication delays or rejection of the paper for resubmission.
Scientific Articles
Original research to advance the science of creating tools, standards, and practices to improve the protection and compliance of regulated products. Content is of a strong interdisciplinary interest, or unusual interest to the specialist.
(length up to 10,000 words)
Review Articles
Description or evaluation of a book or other materials of interest to the general audience in regulatory science. Should be broad in scope and be of interest to the general audience in regulatory science.
(length subject to Editor discretion)
Rapid Communication
Presents a singular point of immediate interest to the regulatory community in response to a current or pending incident that may include an inspection technique, analytical procedure, or implications of a policy decision. May contribute to one sub-discipline of regulatory science.
(length up to 4,000 words)
Policy Commentaries
Presents an evaluation of a regulatory standard, impact analysis of a regulatory standard, or related investigations.
(length up to 8,000 words)
Letter to the Editor
Comments on a recently published article in order to offer alternate theories, add relevant information, make corrections, or request clarification. The author of the original article will be given the opportunity to write and publish a response. Letters to the editor may be subject to peer review at the discretion of the Editor-in-Chief. If you are interested in submitting a letter, we encourage you to email our editorial team at JRSorg@otsc.tamu.edu prior to submitting.
(length subject to Editor discretion)
Copyright Notice
By submitting content to the Journal of Regulatory Science (JRS), authors agree to the following terms:
- Authors retain copyright and grant the JRS the right of first publication. Authors retain patent, trademark, and other intellectual property rights (including research data) and grant third parties the right to use, reproduce, and share the article according to the Creative Commons — Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International — CC BY-NC 4.0 license agreement. The JRS is an open access journal and, as a result, articles are free to use with proper acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process.
- If excerpts from other copyrighted works are included, the author(s) must obtain written permission from the copyright owners and credit the source(s) in the article.
- The publication of the submission has been approved by all co-authors and responsible authorities at the institute or organization where the work has been carried out.
- Copyright has not been breached in seeking publication of the submission.
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