Identifying the formatting requirements for SSCI and A&HCI journals

Early-career Researchers in humanity and social sciences often need to spend a significant amount of time and energy in identifying the `right' journals for their publications. Whilst it fundamentally requires the scholarly knowledge of a discipline/filed to determine the most appropriate journal for a research work, a computing project has the potential to offer much assistance in identifying the formatting requirements (e.g. the types of article that is allowed in a journal, the word limits, the referencing style, etc.) for all SSCI and A&HCI journals.

In theory, formatting requirements for every SSCI and A&HCI journal should be openly available on the websites of the journals/publishers. In addition, I can provide a master list for all SSCI and A&HCI journals with their ISSN number (a unique identifier for each journal). But different publishers may use different approaches to display their formatting requirements for their journals, and hopefully by using your software we will be able to produce a spreadsheet/database that allows scholars to find out the formatting requirements for all SSCI and A&HCI journals on the one go.

The list of SSCI and A&HCI journals change every year, with new journals being added and some low quality journals removed. So, ideally, your software should be able to help produce a new spreadsheet/database after each update of the journal list. Ideally, this new software should be user-friendly to scholars in humanity and social sciences, most of who should be considered as `laypersons' to computer science.

Client

Contact Person: Dr Yu Tao
Telephone: 64883959
Email: [email protected]
Preferred method of contact: Email and Telephone
Location: G01, SSCI

Client Unavailability

None

IP Exploitation Model

The client wishes to use a Creative Commons CC BY-NC model to deal with IP embodied in the project.