Information For Authors
FPQ Review Process information for authors:
FPQ’s editorial process is entirely electronic, and editorial assistants anonymize articles before submissions are reviewed by editors; articles found by editors to be appropriate to the journal and referee-ready are then sent to referees. This process should promote a faster response-time for rejected submissions. All unsolicited submissions are assumed to be intended for anonymous peer-review; FPQ editors or guest-editors may occasionally invite non-refereed work (for example, for special issues on a theme), but does not accept these via our anonymized submission platform.
Submission Guidelines
- Submitted manuscripts should be prepared for anonymous review, containing no identifying information.
- Submissions need not conform to the journal style unless and until accepted for publication, but note that accepted papers must be in Chicago Author-Date style.
- The word limit is 9,000 inclusive of notes (but excluding references).
- Please include a brief description of any figures or images included in the paper.
Refereeing Reviewers of a new submission are advised that editors would benefit from one of the following recommendations for an editorial decision: accept, minor revisions, resubmit for review (major revisions), or decline. On this first round of review, we also request that the referee tell us if the paper under review
1. makes a novel and significant scholarly contribution to philosophy,
2. is engaged with relevant literature(s),
3. and is written understandably, accessibly, and clearly.
Whatever decision is recommended, referees are encouraged to give the author substantive feedback that explains the recommendation and, where appropriate, offer constructive suggestions for improving the manuscript.
We are committed to providing authors reasonably prompt response on their submissions, so we ask referees to complete reviews in four to six weeks.
Reviewers of a revised resubmission are asked only for recommendations to accept, require minor revisions, or decline.
Accepted Papers Accepted papers must conform to the Author:Date style exactly as described in the Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition. The final document should be in PDF or in a RTF/Word file (.doc) that can be easily converted to PDF. The text should be structured consistently. The name and affiliation of the contributor(s) should appear at the top, along with an abstract of 100 to 200 words. This is an Anglophone journal. American English should be followed consistently throughout the article and spelling should conform to American English as exemplified in Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (2005) or Webster’s Third New International Dictionary (2002).
Copyright Our published articles are always free to readers, and always free for authors, who retain copyright to their works and who are published under the Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 License. The authors of work published in FPQ retain copyright to their work without restrictions and retain publishing rights without restrictions. However, we request that authors include some sort of acknowledgement that the work was previously published in FPQ if part or all of a paper published in FPQ is used elsewhere.
