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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).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF document or Latex file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

General Guidelines

  • References should be in the text and of the form “Author (Year: Title, url, Journal or Publisher, DOI, Pages)”; subsequent references to the same work should be of the form “Author (Year: Pages)”. 
  • Features should not have a separate Reference section. This is to discourage unnecessary citations
  • Footnotes should not be used.
  • All publication decisions will be taken by the editorial team. The editorial team reserves the right to edit submissions before publication.
  • The editorial team reserves the right to "desk-reject" submissions which are considered to be out-of-scope or methodologically inappropriate.
  • The copyright of each submission belongs to its authors.

Features

Submitted Features should concern some exciting new reasoning-related research or argument, or a new perspective on a topic or historical figure connected with reasoning. Features should be 1000-2000 words, original, and self-contained. We primarily publish Features that are comprehensible and of interest to a broad audience, preferably multidisciplinary.   More specialised pieces are also welcome, but their relevance to the broader field should be stated in the introductory paragraph.

Features are peer reviewed through a double-blind process.

The Reasoner Speculates

This is section is inspired by  I.J. Good's  anthology of partly-baked ideas which he collected in a 1962 volume titled “The Scientist Speculates” . Good’s explanation of the key idea behind the project is simple: “It is often better to be stimulating and wrong than boring and right“.   Features in this track are therefore intended to be thought-provoking, and need not be fully worked out. They can be openly written to solicit multidisciplinary collaboration on particularly challenging problems.

Submissions in this track are peer reviewed through a double-blind process.

Reviews

The Reasoner Reviews introduce a research topic from the point of view of the reasoner who reviews it. It is less comprehensive, more personal, and less history-oriented than an encyclopaedia entry. It is future-oriented to the extent it puts open problems under the spotlight, especially those which will benefit from a multi-disciplinary take. It should be no longer than 2000 words. Multiple Reviews are encouraged for the very same topic. Ideally, but not necessarily,

Reviews provide the background for regular columns on What’s hot in … the topic. Reviews from recent PhD graduates are particularly welcome, and will be labelled as such. Do not hesitate to present your view of the field, because that’s what we are interested in, along with your results (of course!).

Submissions in this track are peer reviewed through a double-blind process.

What’s Hot in …

We are soliciting regular columns of 100-1000 words for a section “What’s hot in …” which alerts readers to interesting discussion in blogs, workshops etc. on reasoning-related topics. 

Submissions in this track are not peer reviewed, but they are checked for editorial guidelines compliance. The deadline for submitting in this track is the 15th of the month before the publication of the issue you intend it to appear in.

Dissemination Corner 

This Section allows holders of individual and collaborative research project to disseminate their results.  By doing this you will help creating awareness of what’s currently going on (and what’s been funded) in the wider field of reasoning.  Submissions to this track should not exceed 1000 words, and can be as frequent as you see fit.  Features in this section are not peer reviewed, but they are checked for editorial guidelines compliance. The deadline for submitting in this track is the 15th of the month before the publication of the issue you intend it to appear in.

Post-publication reviews and comments

In the interest of fostering scientific debate we solicit post-publication open reviews and comments to previously published feature.  Features on this track  have no word limits, but we recommend brevity. Submissions in this track are not peer reviewed, but they are checked for editorial guidelines compliance and  they will be moderated by the editorial team. The deadline for submitting in this track is the 15th of the month before the publication of the issue you intend it to appear in. Please make sure you provide the DOI of the feature you intend to comment on.

News

Submitted items of News can be of any length, though shorter pieces are more likely to be published. 

  • Conference announcements should be kept brief, and should include a title, dates, location and url. 
  • Job announcements should be brief, including a job title, the name of the hiring institution or company, and url.

The deadline for submitting in this track is the 15th of the month before the publication of the issue you intend it to appear in.

Copyright Notice

The Author allows The Reasoner  the right to publish for the first time  the work within 1 (one) year from the submission, and the perpetual right to distribute the work free of charge by any means and in any parts of the world, including the communication to the public through the journal website.

The Author retains the right to create derivative works and to reproduce, distribute, execute or publicly display their work at conferences and presentations, lectures, and in case of any other professional activity.

The Author retains the right to disseminate their work, through their website or through an institutional or disciplinary, since its publication on The Reasoner

The Author, agrees with the Publisher to grant for free photocopying rights and library loan in accordance to the National law in force, provided they are for non-profit use.

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