Submission Guidelines for the Asian Journal for Public Opinion Research
The Asian Journal for Public Opinion Research (AJPOR) is published by CAPORCI on behalf of the Asian Network for Public Opinion Research (ANPOR) and the Korean Association for Survey Research (KASR). AJPOR is published quarterly online. It has been accepted for inclusion in Scopus and is indexed in the Korean Citation Index. We invite submissions of articles related to public opinion in Asia. Original research on methodology or public opinion polls as well as research notes, book reviews, poll reviews, and extended abstracts of papers previously published in another Asian language will all be considered.
Research papers, review papers, research notes, and poll reviews should be submitted via Scholastica for peer review. Authors interested in writing a book review, suggestions for books to review, and suggestions of papers previously published in an Asian language for our extended abstract section should be emailed to AJPORSubmissions@gmail.com. If you have any problems using the submission system or any questions, please email AJPORSubmissions@gmail.com.
Style
Use in-text citations. Follow the APA style manual guidelines for in-text citations and bibliographic information. See https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references for more information about the reference list. If the title of a work uses a non-Roman alphabet (e.g., Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Hindi, Thai, Hebrew, Arabic, etc.), transliterate the title and then provide the translation in brackets. For more information and examples, see https://apastyle.apa.org/blog/transliterated-titles-references. Use American spelling.
Format
Include the title at the top of the first page
Include an abstract of no more than 250 words on the first page.
Include key words on the first page.
Begin the paper on the second page.
Number pages in the upper right hand corner.
Paper should be size 12 font, Times New Roman, double spaced.
Images may be included in the text or as separate files. If another format is needed before publication, the author will be contacted.
All papers must be written in English using American spelling (choose the first entry in the Merriam-Webster dictionary if there is any question).
Papers, including poll reviews, should generally be shorter than 5,000 words. Research notes, poll trends, and book reviews of fewer than 4,000 words will also be considered.
Do not include your name, affiliation, funding acknowledgments, or other identifying information on the paper itself. In places where reference is made within the manuscript to the author’s own published work, the author should replace this reference with the statement “deleted for anonymity” and omit details of the publication from the reference list. This will allow us to review your manuscript anonymously.
Other guidelines
Survey
If you write about a survey you conducted, please include:
- population of survey
- response rate
- survey dates
- survey methodology, including sampling method and survey mode
Tables and Figures
If you include a table, chart, or graph about a survey question, include:
- exact question and answer wording
- number of respondents for each answer
- percent of respondents for each answer
- all relevant information for statistical texts
It may be helpful to check the APA guidelines on numbers and statistics: https://apastyle.apa.org/instructional-aids/numbers-statistics-guide.pdf
These APA sample tables may also be helpful: https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/tables-figures/sample-tables
Submission Checklist
It may be helpful for authors to know some of the items on reviewers’ and editors’ checklists. Please ensure that your submission meets the following criteria before submitting your paper:
- The theoretical implications and/or the importance of this research are clearly stated.
- The literature review summarizes relevant research in aid of building hypotheses and/or research questions.
- Hypotheses and/or research questions are clearly stated and addressed.
- The sampling methodology is stated clearly and justified/limitations are explained where appropriate.
- The analysis methods are appropriate and applied correctly.
- All relevant statistics are reported in the proper format.
- All tables and figures provide necessary information and support statements provided in the analysis. In addition, the information in the tables and figures can be understood without reference to the text.
- The discussion and conclusion sections adequately address the research questions and hypotheses, explaining any limitations of the research and highlighting the theoretical implications of the work.
- The paper is professionally written, easy to read and free from grammatical or spelling errors.
Publication Fee
Beginning with the February 2021 issue, a publication fee of $200US per research note up to 4000 words (including abstract, reference list, and tables) will be charged. The publication fee for research and review papers is $250US for papers up to 5000 words (including abstract, reference list, and tables). If a paper is longer than 5000 words, an additional $25US will be charged for each additional 500 words (i.e., 5001-5500 words = $275US; 5501-6000 words = $300US, etc.).
Authors who need a full or partial fee waiver should write to AJPORSubmissions@gmail.com to discuss their circumstances prior to submitting their paper for review.
Copyright
AJPOR retains the copyright of the articles. The articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Data Archiving
Data archiving is encouraged, but not required, by AJPOR. Data archiving allows other scholars to more fully understand and to check your work; they may also conduct their own analysis, including meta-analyses of multiple studies. The location where data is permanently archived should be indicated in a note in the published version of a paper. If the data will be archived later (e.g., it is under an embargo or the authors are writing additional papers using their data do not want to make the data available until after publication of all relevant articles), a note indicating your intentions to archive and the location of the archive can be added to the published paper. AJPOR can provide space on its website for archiving data for papers we publish. Contact the managing editor for information about how to archive on the AJPOR website with a supplementary .zip file that readers can download from our website.
Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement
For Writers:
I. Previous Publication
Original papers, poll reviews, research notes, and book reviews may not have been previously published in any language either in print or online. By submitting any of these items, authors are affirming that this is their original, previously unpublished work.
There is a section introducing work previously published in other languages. Information about the previous publication shall be included.
II. Plagiarism
Plagiarism is defined as copying the work of another, in part or in whole, and claiming it is one’s own. Plagiarism will not be tolerated. All quotations or references to another’s ideas must be properly cited.
While chatbots (AI) can be useful in many ways (for example, in creating a rough translation of a sentence that the author then refines), the ideas expressed in the paper should belong to the author(s), not a chatbot. If a substantial part of a paper was written by a chatbot (i.e., an amount that would normally need to be cited if it were being quoted from another paper), it should be acknowledged.
Plagiarism checking software may be used as part of our review process.
If a paper is found to be plagiarized, it will be rejected. If the discovery is not made until after publication, the paper will be retracted.
III. Data Fabrication
Data fabrication is defined as any falsification of results. This includes, but is not limited to, reporting results different from the ones actually collected; giving inaccurate or deliberately misleading information about the data collection process; and reporting results of a study not actually conducted.
It has come to our attention that AI chatbots can also fabricate data and information. Authors are cautioned about using any information generated by a chatbot, (for example, carefully check any list of sources generated by a chatbot and make sure you have actually read the original source before citing it, not just a chatbot’s summary). Sources, data, or incorrect information generated by a chatbot shall also be considered data fabrication for our purposes.
Data fabrication of any kind will not be tolerated. If data fabrication is discovered in a submitted paper, the paper shall be rejected. If data fabrication is discovered after publication, the paper shall be retracted.
For Editors:
I. Equal Opportunity
Papers shall be evaluated on their own merit without regard to race, gender identity and sexual orientation, color, religion, nationality, or political affiliation.
II. Confidentiality
Editors must do their best to protect the identity of unpublished authors and of reviewers.
The contents of submitted papers should be regarded as confidential. Editors may not quote or otherwise use the contents of any paper pre-publication without the author’s written consent.
For Reviewers:
I. Qualifications
If a reviewer believes they are unqualified to review a certain paper, they should refuse the assignment.
If a reviewer has any kind of conflict of interest or knows the author’s identity, they should refuse the assignment.
II. Punctuality
If a reviewer will not be able to complete a review on time, they should let the editor know as soon as possible so that an extension can be given or a replacement reviewer found.
III. Confidentiality
A reviewer should never disclose the contents of an unpublished paper, including discussing the work with colleagues or using any information in their own work.
Policy of a Violation of Ethics Code
If an editor, editorial board member, reviewer, or, in the case of a published paper, reader, feels that an author has violated the ethics guidelines, a special ethics committee of at least three editors and/or editorial board members shall discuss what should be done. The author shall be consulted and given a chance to defend themselves. The committee will then make a final decision to reject/retract a paper or to dismiss the accusations as untrue. Meetings of the special ethics committee may take place by e-mail, phone, or any other method.
If an author feels that an editor or reviewer has violated the ethical guidelines, they should report it to another of the editors. A special ethics committee of at least three editors and/or editorial board members shall discuss the situation. The author will be asked to explain why they feel that ethical guidelines have been violated. The accused editor or reviewer will be given an opportunity to defend themselves. The committee will then make a final decision to dismiss the editor/reviewer, send them a letter of censure, or dismiss the accusations as untrue. Meetings of the special ethics committee may take place by e-mail, phone, or any other method.
The Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statements take effect as from April 21, 2016, when it was first established.
These guidelines were compiled after consulting the COPE Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.