Submissions

Author Guidelines

Authors are invited to submit their work to this journal. An editor will initially assess all submissions to determine whether they meet the journal's aims and scope. Those considered a good fit will be sent to the technical check after the TPC is paid (please read our Submission Guidelines if you have not done so already).

The authors will be informed of the technical check results (language, presence of all structure elements, formatting, and other issues). After the improvements (if any are needed), the APC invoices will be sent to the author.

Please refer to the relevant section on the website for the TPC/APC and waiver policy. Note that a 100% TPC/APC waiver is active during the establishment period for the first 10 articles submitted. 

As for the first 10 articles published, we do not charge the TPC/APC - we ask each of the authors of the submitted article to make a peer review of at least two other articles in the journal. To do so, in your Dashboard, select, in addition to the role "Author", the role "Reviewer". By doing so, you will appear in the internal list of reviewers and will be visible to the editorial team.

After the APC transfer (or waiver), the article will be sent to the journal's Open Peer Review section and made available in Open Access, with the DOI assigned and ready to be cited.  

However, before the Open Peer Review process is complete, the article's citation will include reference {under peer-review}. After the Open Peer Review process, the reference {under peer-review} will be changed to the {peer-reviewed}. The article's DOI will remain the same; all the versions of the article will be preserved and present on the article's page. 

The Open Peer Review process is completed if at least 2 (two) peer reviewers approve the article / approve with reservations. If 2 (two) peer reviewers decline the article, the article will remain at the website in the Declined page, and with the citation that includes reference {peer-review: declined}; otherwise, it can be unpublished, if the author is willing to do so, and resubmitted after all the imrovemenents recommended by the reviewers and editor.

Before making a submission, authors are responsible for obtaining permission to publish any material included with the submission, such as photos, documents, and datasets. All authors identified on the submission must consent to being identified as authors. Where appropriate, research should be approved by an appropriate ethics committee in accordance with the legal requirements of the study's country.

An editor may desk reject a submission if it does not meet minimum standards of quality. Before submitting, please ensure the study design and research argument are appropriately structured and articulated. The title should be concise, and the abstract should be able to stand on its own. This will increase the likelihood of reviewers agreeing to review the paper. When you're satisfied that your submission meets this standard, please follow the checklist below to prepare your submission.

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

• This submission meets the requirements outlined in the Submission Guidelines.
• This submission has not been previously published, nor has it been published before in another journal for consideration.
• All references have been checked for accuracy and completeness.
• All tables and figures have been numbered and labelled.
• Permission has been obtained to publish all photos, datasets and other material provided with this submission.
• All data are available on Open Access (see Open Data Policy); if not, a robust justification is provided.

Copyright Notice

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work’s authorship and initial publication in this journal.

Provided they are the owners of the copyright to their work, authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal’s published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository, in a journal or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.

Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories, disciplinary repositories, or on their website) prior to and during the submission process.

Privacy Statement

GlobalInMind (Institut Global pour les Innovations, le Réseau et le Développement en Santé Mentale Association sans but lucratif), which operates this website, takes the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially in accordance with statutory data protection regulations and this Data Privacy Statement.

​This Data Privacy Statement will explain how GlobalInMind uses the personal data we collect from you when you use our website and what rights you have in relation to  your personal data. Your personal data are processed in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 2016/679 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data.

It also specifies the contact details of the responsible Data Controller with whom you may exercise your rights, the Data Protection Officer and the Data Protection Supervisory Authority of Luxembourg.

​It is possible to use our website without explicitly providing any personal data. If personal data (for example, name, address or email address) is collected on our website, it is collected on a voluntary basis. This data will not be disclosed to any third party without your express consent.

​Please note that data transmission via the internet (e.g., in the case of communication by email) may be subject to security gaps. It is not possible to protect such data completely against access by third parties.

Data Controller and Data Protection Officer

​Data Controller: Institut Global pour les Innovations, le Réseau et le Développement en Santé Mentale Association sans but lucratif; 31 rue Aloyse Kayser, 3501 Dudelange | Luxembourg, Phone: +352 621 706 289, e-mail: institute@globalinmind.eu;  www.globalinmind.eu 

​Data Protection Office: If you have specific questions about the protection of your personal data, you may contact the data protection office: dataprotection@globalinmind.eu. With regard to the data processing by GlobalinMind, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority, The National Data Protection Commission (CNPD) of Luxembourg, https://cnpd.public.lu/en.html 

​Data Processing when you visit this website. ​Every time you access this website, the data collected during your usage process will only be processed for the period of your use of our offer. The legal basis for this processing is Article 6 paragraph 1 letter f GDPR. Data about this process will be temporarily stored and processed in a log file. Prior to the storage, each dataset is anonymised by modifying the IP-Address. The provider of this website automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. This information includes: Browser type/ browser version; Operating system being used; Referrer URL; The host name of the accessing computer; Time of server request; Volume of transferred data; Notification whether the access/retrieval was successful. 

The data thus collected cannot be connected to a specific person. The data is not merged or compared with data from other sources. We reserve the right to subsequently examine this data if concrete evidence of unlawful use is made known to us. This is ensured by our data processor, who is responsible for technical support, maintenance and arranging the hosting of our website (https://pkp.sfu.ca/).

​When calling up individual pages, so-called cookies are used.  Cookies will not harm your computer and do not contain any virus. Cookies are used to make our offer more user-friendly, effective, and safe. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser. ​Most of the cookies we use are "session cookies". Session cookies are automatically deleted at the end of your visit. Other cookies are stored on your computer until you delete them. These cookies make it possible for us to recognize your browser the next time you visit our website.

​The data is processed according to Art. 6 paragraph 1 letter f of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) with the legitimate interest of analysing usage to improve the company’s website.

Data Privacy regarding the use of Google Analytics. ​This website uses functions of the web analysis service, Google Analytics. The provider of that service is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Google Analytics uses so-called cookies. Cookies are text files that are stored on your computer and make it possible to analyse the use of the website. Information concerning your use of the website generated by the cookie is sent to a Google server in the U.S.A. and stored there. 

​By activating IP anonymisation on this website, your IP address will be truncated within Member States of the European Union or other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. The full IP address will be sent to a Google server and truncated there only in exceptional cases. Google will use this information on behalf of the operator of this website to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports about web activity, and to provide the operator of this website with services associated with the use of this website and the Internet. The IP address transmitted within the context of Google Analytics by your browser will not be merged with other data from Google.

​You may refuse the use of cookies by adjusting your browser software. Please note that you may not be able to make full use of all the functions on this website after the browser adjustment. You can also prevent the data generated by the cookie from being recorded by Google (including your IP address) and prevent the data from being processed by Google by downloading and installing this browser plugin: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

​Your rights

​You may at any time request information about the use of your personal data (according to § 15 GDPR) or request the verification, correction or deletion of your personal data (§§ 16 and 17 GDPR). You may also at any time request the restriction of the use or processing of your personal data (§§ 18 and 19 GDPR), request the transmission of your personal data to third parties (§ 20 GDPR), or object to the use of your personal data (§ 21 GDPR). ​If you want to exercise any of the above-mentioned rights, please send an email to: dataprotection@globalinmind.eu. We will endeavour to take the necessary measures as soon as possible. To that purpose, you will receive an access form to be completed, allowing you to indicate which rights you wish to exercise with regard to your personal data.

​You also have the right to file a complaint against the use of your personal data. The competent complaints board is the National Data Protection Commission (CNPD) of Luxembourg https://cnpd.public.lu/en.html 

Sections