After submission all articles are evaluated by the editorial office. In an effort to streamline the reviewing process, some articles may be immediately desk rejected, if they are considered to be out of the journal’s scope or otherwise unfit for consideration. Articles which pass the initial evaluation will be sent out for external review. In 2-3 days, the authors will receive an acknowledgement of status of their article (if the article was sent for review or was desk rejected).

Following the brief editorial review to determinate the manuscript’s appropriateness for ARAS, each manuscript will be blind reviewed by two reviewers. The review process will take approximately 3 months. The reviewers will evaluate the submitted papers against the following checkpoints:

• Relevance to ARAS
• Originality
• Significance, usefulness
• Reference to the related literature
• Presentation
• Linguistic quality.

Attached is the structure of the review form.

At the end of the review process authors will be notified on the status of their manuscripts (accepted, minor/major revisions, or rejected) and will receive the feedback from the reviewers. Revised articles will be sent out for review again, depending on the level of revision requested. The article will be screened for plagiarism after the reviewers acceptance.

Originality and plagiarism policy

By submitting your manuscript to the journal it is understood that this it is an original manuscript and is unpublished work and is not under consideration elsewhere. Plagiarism, including attempts to pass off someone else’s work as your own, duplicate publication of the author’s own work, in whole or in part without proper citation, is not tolerated by the journal.
Plagiarism can be said to have clearly occurred when large chunks of text have been cut-and-pasted. Such manuscripts would not be considered for publication in ARAS. Depending on the severity of plagiarism, authors can be banned to submit other manuscripts for publication for a period ranging from 1 to 5 years. Minor similarity (under 15%), without dishonest intent, is rather frequent and is handled by the editors on a case by case basis. In most cases authors will be required to correct the text and to use proper citation.
Manuscripts submitted to the journal may be checked for originality using anti-plagiarism software. The similarity analysis can be conducted at any stage of the review or publication process.

All papers will be published open access under a Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 licence. This ensures that they receive the maximum dissemination because there are no barriers to access. This licence allows readers to disseminate and reuse the paper, but always requires them to grant the authors and the first publication full credit.

“By ‘open access’ to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers.”
— Budapest Open Access Initiative, 2002

There is no fee for publication.

The corresponding author, at no cost, will receive a PDF file of the article via e-mail.