Submission Guidelines
Aims and Scope:
Knowledge is a peer-reviewed research journal of philosophy issued by Letters and Humanities Faculty of Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran-Iran. This journal publishes original (not previously published) works of interest in the various disciplines of philosophy, especially epistemology and theory of knowledge.
General Requirements:
The papers should have a problem-oriented structure and clear research questions; it should have some contribution in its field of research, it should adhere to methodological principles and the general structure of research papers, its sources and references should be sufficiently of good standing, its quality of writing style and adherence to editing rules must be sufficient. The title must reflect the main theme and content of the paper. It is obligatory to use standard terms and their prevailing non-Persian equivalents. The sources must be recent as much as possible, and according to principles of research ethics the used sources must be mentioned explicitly the way explained below.
Manuscript Submission:
Contributors are invited to send their submissions, written in Persian, of no more than 8000 words in length. Two versions of the paper must be submitted: in the first, the name of the author(s) should appear on the first page, with the present position and current email address (in this version, the corresponding author must be specified); the second version must be without any explicit or implicit mention of the name or position of the author(s).
The articles should be typed, without using any complicated styling on A4 size Word document. Papers should be structured into headed sections, for example as follows: Title page, Abstract (in Persian about 25 words, in English about 250 words), Keywords (3-7), Main Sections, Results, References. Each section should be identified by the main heading. Other sub-headings within the main headings should be limited. Please use footnotes for both commentaries, extra explanations, non-Persian equivalents of terms and giving references.
Submit manuscripts to: http://kj.sbu.ac.ir
Extended Abstract in Farsi and English
All articles are published with extended Persian and English abstracts, and the authors must prepare and submit the abstracts as follows after judging and accepting the article. The extended abstract is a summary of the article, in at least 600 words, including the introduction, problem statement, method, and research results, and at the end of it, 4 to 6 key words in alphabetical order and preferably other than the words mentioned in the title of the article.
Citations:
Method of giving references in the footnotes:
Author’s last name, the year of publication, colon, page number (e.g. Husserl 1920: 22).
Non-Persian equivalents of the Persian terms should be non-capital (e.g. epoche). Proper names (names of persons, placed etc.) should be first letter capitalized (e.g. Husserl, Berlin). The name of the works must be in italic format (Logical Investigations).
All the footnotes in Persian and non-Persian must be made right aligned and left aligned respectively.
References List:
The references should be listed in full at the end of the paper in the following standard forms (without numbering. First, Persian and Arabic sources and then the sources form other languages. They must be sorted alphabetically based on the name of the author):
References to books: author’s or editor’s name, year of publication, title, place of publication: publisher.
References to articles in an edited collection: author’s name, year of publication, “article title,” title of collection, editor’s name, place of publication: publisher, first and last page numbers.
References to articles in periodicals: author’s name, year of publication, “article title,” full title of periodical volume, issue number (year of publication): first and last page numbers.
References to Web Pages: institution that owns the page, year of publication, “web page title,” publisher, access date .
Tables and Figures: Tables should be typed with the approximate position in the text indicated.
Manuscript Review:
After manuscripts are submitted, they are first screened for basic format and completeness, to ensure that the manuscript guidelines have been adequately followed. Following this, the manuscripts are evaluated by the Editor-in-Chief to confirm that the paper fits the scope of the journal and adequately addresses questions and literature relevant to the fields of philosophy, epistemology and theory of knowledge. Furthermore, the manuscript’s subject should be presented properly and be of sufficient quality to be further considered for evaluation. Three referees will evaluate each paper. The Editor-in-Chief, at his discretion, will convey the referees’ comments. The recommendation may be for i) minor revision, ii) major revision, or iii) rejection.
Copyright and Offprint:
Articles submitted for publication should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. Papers accepted become the copyright of the Journal.
Proofs:
One set of page proofs in MS Word format will be sent to the corresponding author, to be checked for typesetting/editing and should be returned to the editorial office by the deadline indicated. Where major developments have taken place to incorporate postscripts, authors should discuss this with the Editor at the time.
Authority and Responsibilities:
The Journal reserves the right to edit the accepted articles. The Editor and the Publisher accept no responsibility for the opinions and statements of authors.
Publication Fee: The authors of accepted articles are required to pay 600000 Toomans as article processing charge.