Call for papers for a CIJ Special Issue on ‘Innovations in Career and Life Design’
Submission deadline: 26 August 2024
IdeaSquare CERN Innovation Social Innovation Business Experimentation Experimental Innovation
The manuscript has to prepared in accordance with the double-blind review process i.e.:
Author names, institutions, and acknowledgments should appear only in the separately submitted title page of the submission. So the submission contains two (2) separate files: the title page and the blinded-manuscript. Both files should be submitted as Word and pdf files in a zipped folder.
Please use the following Word templates for your submission:
CIJ_article_template_blinded
CIJ_titlepage_template
CIJ_data_template_blinded
CIJ_methodological_note_template_blinded
All submitted papers must adhere to the following formatting guidelines throughout the manuscript (main body, references, appendices, and footnotes):
A word limit is imposed because the intention of the CIJ is to provide fast and reliable communication tool for researchers communicating the most recent results of their empirical experimentations. Therefore, the shortness of the contributions facilitate that
The prospective authors may wish to follow below guidelines:
Abstract: a brief less than 150 words abstract is required
Introduction: brief, one paragraph establishing the importance and relevance of the research topic and second paragraph establishing the existing research gap and research question(s). Limit the number of research questions to the most important ones;
Theoretical background: brief, to-the-point theoretical discussion only on the most important relevant literature establishing concepts of the study necessary for establishing the current level of knowledge and the research gap
Methods and data: shortly describe the core elements of your method, so that it facilitates replication logic but does not go into the details of the method
Results: concentrate on the most important, core results of your study, do not discuss results in detail, and also limit the number of results (and answer to the limited number of research questions)
Discussion and conclusions: only conclude what can be said based on the results and core limitations of the research, not repetition of results, research question(s), future research directions, etc.;
References: Do not use linked fields (produced by referencing software) but rather, remove field codes produced by referencing software before saving the final version of your manuscript that you are going to submit. Please follow the APA 7 referencing style.
Supplementary materials
Supplementary materials (like video material stating the core results, supplementary data files, additional robustness checks etc.) should be provided as additional files for the manuscript submission. These files are not counted toward the word limit of the submission. The contents of supplementary material should not be critical for the proper evaluation of the paper and delivering the core results of the paper (otherwise include these in the main text).
Submission instructions
All manuscripts must be submitted electronically via https://e-publishing.cern.ch/index.php/CIJ/about/submissions. Authors are advised to follow the detailed instructions in the system. Authors should contact the Editor-in-Chief if they have any questions or encounter any problems in the system.
During the submission process authors may upload additional materials (data, questionnaires, videos, additional analyses, etc.) that they feel will support the review process. Authors submitting a revised version of their manuscript must submit a document that summarizes the changes that they have made containing a detailed response to each of the reviewers’ comments from the previous review.
Data Disclosure
CIJ encourages (but does not require) the disclosure of data associated with the manuscripts to support and facilitate scientific work to continue based on the published works. All the data submitted will be open-source licensed.
Use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in CIJ articles
CERN IdeaSquare Journal of Experimental Innovation sees the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) as a fruitful aid to proofreading, formatting, summarising, and other text processing tasks. While generative AI can even aid with ideation, it is also emphasised that generative AI has acknowledged issues around bias, representativeness, context awareness, and accuracy. Hence, authors of papers are to be transparent about how they used AI in papers, which AI was used. This is to be explained in either acknowledgements or methodology – which is more appropriate. However, AI should not be listed as an author and authors remain fully responsible for the content of their submissions.
Data publications
CIJ encourages authors to publish datasets on the IdeaSquare Zenodo community (https://zenodo.org/communities/ideasquare). Zenodo is a free open repository hosted by CERN for researchers to deposit datasets, software and other digital artefacts.
CIJ also publishes descriptions of such datasets that are already available at an open repository (e.g., Zenodo) and cover the data’s relevance to the field, necessary theoretical bases to understanding it, and in detail how the data was obtained. The template for data publications is made available similarly to templates of other types of publications.
In addition to its main purpose of publishing experimental innovation research related results, CIJ also publishes more light, inspirational food-for-thought intended "IdeaSquare Coffee Papers". These pieces are collaborative efforts prepared by visiting researchers from various walks of life visiting or staying at CERN IdeaSquare premises. The identity of the contributing authors is kept anonymous (although known) but helpful hints can be found in the literature references.
Make a new submission to the IdeaSquare Coffee papers section.
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
Submission deadline: 26 August 2024
We are pleased to announce that Matteo Vignoli, currently co-editor of the CERN IdeaSquare
Journal of Experimental Innovation (CIJ), has accepted to take up the role of Editor in Chief of the
Journal as of June 1 st , 2023.