The Journal strongly prefers to receive submissions online via the journal's website. Direct email submissions, however, will also be accepted at cipit@strathmore.edu. The Journal typically will not consider hard copy submissions.
The Journal prefers to publish full-length articles (i.e., 7,000 to 30,000 words, footnotes included), but will consider shorter essays or comments at its discretion. Books reviews, case commentaries, legislative commentaries are also welcome (up to 5000 words). The Journal will consider submissions from law professors, practitioners, clerks, etc.
To publish in Journal of Intellectual Property and Information Technology (JIPIT), authors should accept and fulfil the following requirements:
Stylistic and bibliographic requirements.
The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format. Its content should be organised as follows:(Page 1)
- Title and authors.
- Author(s) name and last name; academic filiation (with its city and country) and his/her relationship to the institution (professor, researcher, etc.); email address and ORCID number.
- Research scholarships or funds received for the paper (if pertinent).
(Page 2)
- Title.
- Abstract (in original language and English). We recommend using 150-250 words, with the following content: scope, method, paper’s structure and conclusion.
- Five keywords in alphabetical order. We recommend that the authors rely on the Unesco Thesaurus.
(Next pages)
- Title.
- The text of the contribution. Reference to the authors should be avoided, in order to allow anonymous evaluation.
- Footnotes: Footnotes (NOT end notes) should be used ONLY to provide supplementary information, NOT to provide full citations for sources.
- Citations for sources: Citations of primary and secondary sources referred to in the article should be provided in APA citation style, i.e., via, in-text bracketed (author, year) citations, with page numbers for direct quotations, and with this same style used to cite sources mentioned in footnotes; and a concluding References section containing full citations for ONLY the sources cited in the text and footnotes, arranged in alphabetical order and following APA full-citation style conventions for punctuation, italicisation, upper-casing, etc. Where available, URLs and DOI numbers for the references may be provided.
The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
Books Reviews
Books reviews, case commentaries, and legislative commentaries should follow the aforementioned rules. However, abstracts are not required in a short book review.
Copyright Notice
Authors publishing in our Journal comply with the following terms:
1. Authors keep their work’s copyrights, but they guarantee JIPIT to be the first publisher of their papers. They grant the Journal a Creative Commons Attribution License, under which their work can be shared with the condition that it is appropriately cited.
2. Authors are aware and accept that the JIPIT staff will try to give the greatest diffusion to the Journal, which means, among other things, that its printed and electronic editions will be distributed among different databases and scientific indexes.
3. Authors can establish further clauses for non-exclusive distribution, such as publication on a separate book or placing in an institutional database. Nevertheless, a note should be always added to explain that the paper was originally published in JIPIT.
Legal and ethical standards
All articles must comply with our ethical standards (based on COPE standards) and, at the end of the review process, authors must sign a Statement of Originality and Authorization for Publication.
Submissions should pass the electronic plagiarism control (i.e., Viper, Plagium, Quetext, Grammarly, Plagiarisma, iThenticate or Copyleaks). To avoid ghostwriting practices (a failure to declare as authors who have written, spoken or contributed substantially to research), the Editor reserves the right to ask for some clarification about the individual contribution of each author in the research, in the acquisition of data, in analysis and interpretation, in drafting the article or in revising it critically, as well as information about sources of research funding.
Copyright Notice
Authors publishing in our Journal comply with the following terms:
1. Authors keep their work’s copyrights, but they guarantee JIPIT to be the first publisher of their papers. They grant the Journal a Creative Commons Attribution License, under which their work can be shared with the condition that it is appropriately cited.
2. Authors are aware and accept that the JIPIT staff will try to give the greatest diffusion to the Journal, which means, among other things, that its printed and electronic editions will be distributed among different databases and scientific indexes.
3. Authors can establish further clauses for non-exclusive distribution, such as publication on a separate book or placing in an institutional database. Nevertheless, a note should be always added to explain that the paper was originally published in JIPIT.
