Submissions
Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
- I do realize that by checking off the box next to each statement I certify that it is true and I am signing an author agreement.
- The submission has not been previously published in any languages and is not under consideration in another journal.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which can be found in the "About" section of the journal.
- The authors either have no commercial associations or sources of support that might pose a conflict of interest, or the conflict of interest is declared in the declaration section at the end of the manuscript text.
- All those designated as authors meet all four criteria for authorship, and all those who meet the four criteria are identified as authors. Those who do not meet all four criteria are acknowledged.
- Author contribution has been stated in the declaration section. All authors are accountable for all sections of the manuscript and declare that it is written originally and there is no data fabrication; data falsification including deceptive manipulation of images and plagiarism.
- The authors confirm that they have mentioned all the organizations that funded their research in the declaration section of the submitted manuscript, including grant numbers where appropriate.
- Author(s) guarantee that data of the study are available for at least 10 years and will be provided if anyone needs them.
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as an ethical requirement, author(s) certify that the present research study:
1. Is in agreement with the regulations of their institution(s) and generally accepted guidelines governing such work
2. Contains no violation of any existing copyright or other third party right
3. Is free of any obscene, indecent, libelous, or otherwise unlawful material - The authors confirm that they have agreed to pay an Article Processing Charge (APC) after acceptance of the article. The APC would be 3500 AFN for Original Articles, Reviews, and Brief Reports and 2,500 AFN. for other types of article. Iranian Journal of Emergency medicine offers a waiver of APC to authors on a case to case basis. If you want to ask for a waiver, please send an email to jupa@journal.af at the time of submitting your article and explain your reasons. Requests sent after the processing of the article will not be accepted.
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Fast track evaluation:
who should meet a deadline and wish to have their manuscript published more rapidly may ask for fast track evaluation. In this model, an editorial decision will be made within a maximum of 2 weeks. The cost of fast track evaluation is 1000 AFN, which should be paid upon submission and before the initiation of the peer review process. This fee should only be paid by those who opt to ask for fast track evaluation and is independent of the publication fee received upon publication. It should also be noted that paying this fee only accelerates the peer review process and does not guarantee acceptance of the manuscript for publication. Those who wish to ask for fast track evaluation should send their requests directly to our journal manager Mr. Sayed Aliakbar Sajjadi via the email jupa@journal.af upon submission of their manuscript.
- Articles can only be withdrawn before their acceptance, except in cases that contain errors or have been accidentally submitted twice.
Author Guidelines
Contents
Video Summary Guideline (not part of submission process)
How to share the video with JUPA
Journal of urban Planning and Architecture is an international, peer-reviewed journal publishing high-quality, original research. Please see the journal's Aims & Scope for information about its focus and peer-review policy.
Please note that this journal publishes manuscripts in Persian
Journal of Urban Planning and Architecture accepts the following types of article: Articles, Book Reviews, Critical Reviews and Special Issues.
Articles
The mainstay of what is published in Journal of Urban Planning and Architecture is its traditional articles. Most of these combine conceptual, empirical and methodological elements to make an original and critical contribution to the field. The journal accepts papers from across the conceptual and methodological spectrum. JUPA positively welcomes papers on global south cities.
Book Reviews
Jupa publishes reviews of recent books and monographs which contribute to the advancement of knowledge in urban planning, architecture, urban geography and cognate disciplines such as urban anthropology, urban politics, urban sociology and urban studies.
A book review for JUPA should accomplish three things:
- 1. Describe the nature, content, scope, and purpose of the book and its place in the literature of the subject field.
- 2. Analyze the contents and indicate the functions and use of the Shortcomings may be noted as appropriate.
- 3. Evaluate in a thoughtful and objective manner the success of the book in achieving its stated goal(s). Indicate its contribution to the field.
It is recommended that reviewers will:
- 1. Advise the book review editor if the book should not be reviewed or if the reviewer does not feel qualified to undertake the review. In both cases the book should be returned to the book review editor immediately.
- 2. Where two or more books may be reviewed jointly, employ a comparative approach in evaluating their contents and contributions.
- 3. Avoid digressive essays; confine comments to the book under evaluation.
- 4. Avoid detailed descriptions of content and lengthy quotations from the book. Where an extended quote is necessary, it should be indented, and a page reference cited in parentheses following the quote.
- 5. Limit the length of the book review to approximately 1000 words.
Reviews should be completed within four months. Publishing deadlines do not permit return to reviewers of galleys or page proofs. Reviews normally will be edited only for style. Reviewers have freedom of expression in the substance of their reviews. All correspondence concerning book reviews should be addressed to: Aliakbar Sajjadi, University of Tehran, IRAN, SaSajjadi@ut.ac.ir
Critical Reviews
Reflecting the vibrant nature of scholarly debate in urban planning, architecture (and in urban and regional studies more broadly), the Critical review section of Journal of Urban Planning and Architecture consists of papers that provide state of the art introductions, discussions and critiques in areas of urban planning research – conceptual, methodological or philosophical. Their point is to take stock of what we already know and to outline ways forward based on existing academic literature in and beyond urban planning. Critical reviews should be submitted directly to JUPA through its online submission system and adhere to the journal’s guidelines for standard papers. Please indicate “Critical Reviews” as the series under which you are submitting your work.
Special Issues
Journal of Urban Planning and Architecture welcomes proposals for Special Issues, which provide a critical forum for sets of complementary or contrasting articles addressing emergent and topical issues or questions. Special Issues normally consist of an introduction from the Guest Editor(s) and three to six related papers.
The standard journal word lengths generally apply (papers of about 10 000 words), but there is no set template for the number of papers or the length of each submission. Shorter collective contributions may be considered for inclusion as a Special Feature and related content may be spread across more than one issue. If you are interested in sending a proposal for a Special Issue or Special Feature, please provide an outline of the topic (approx. 1 page) to be considered and the rationale for its development and inclusion as a Special Issue in Journal of Urban Planning and Architecture.
The proposal should also include a brief (250-word) abstract for each of the constituent papers within the proposed Special Issue, providing the author(s) name(s), affiliation(s) and contact details. Interested contributors are encouraged to contact the Special Issues Editor: Aliakbar Sajjadi, Tehran University, Iran, SaSajjadi@ut.ac.ir
Journal of Urban Planning and Architecture is committed to peer-review integrity and upholding the highest standards of review. Once your paper has been assessed for suitability by the editor, it will then be double blind peer reviewed by independent, anonymous expert referees. Find out more about what to expect during peer review and read our guidance on publishing ethics.
Your paper should be compiled in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text introduction, literature review, materials and methods, results, discussion; acknowledgments; declaration of interest statement; references; appendices (as appropriate); table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figures; figure captions (as a list).
- Title page: in the identification page, title of the article, name and surname of the author(s), scientific rank, full address (postal code, telephone and fax numbers and email address), location of the research, person in charge for the article and date of sending the article should be mentioned. Corresponding author’s name should be specified with a star mark.
- Running title: A maximum of 40 characters with spaces should be provided.
- Abstract: includes both Persian and English abstracts of the article and keywords (3 to 6 words). The Persian abstract should not exceed 200 words and should describe the purpose of the study, the methods, the results, and the conclusion should precede the main text. Also, authors should send 250 words English abstracts for their manuscripts, too. Meanwhile, for indexing and abstracting JUPA articles in international information database, authors should send an English extended abstract, including 750 to 1000 words, for their manuscripts. It should include introduction, methodology, results, discussion, conclusion and references in a way that could be published individually.
- Keywords: A maximum of 6 keywords or phrases should be provided; preferably, these should be selected from the body of the text.
- Main text introduction: includes background information, necessity of doing the research, unanswered questions about topics of the manuscript and purpose of the research and the method of manuscript for answering them.
- Literature Review: includes scientific descriptions, latest theories and scientific discussions related to the manuscript’s topic, viewpoints of the connoisseurs and finally a conceptive model for the research.
- Materials and methods: includes designing the research, time and place of running the research, the study samples, sampling method, and process of gathering data, measurement tools and methods of quantity and quality analysis.
- Results: presenting precise results of important findings according to scientific principles and using the required tables and charts.
- Conclusion and Discussion: includes the effects and the importance of the research findings and its relations with similar researches emphasizing on the differences, explains the manuscript’s potential to be universal and the scientific usage of the findings and presents necessary guidelines for continuing relative researches, conclusion, possible suggestions and recommendations.
- Illustrations: Illustrations will appear either across a single column (8 cm) or a whole page (15 cm). The illustrations should be numbered in Arabic numerals according to the sequence of appearance in the text, where they are referred to as Fig. 1, Fig. 2, etc. Figure legends should be concise and clear and should not duplicate the body of the text. Each illustration must have a title and an explanatory legend. The title should be part of the legend and not be reproduced on the figure itself. The legends should be placed on a separate page at the end of the manuscript and begin with the number of the illustration they refer to. All symbols and abbreviations used in the figure must be explained. Also, please indicate their appropriate locations in the manuscript.
- Tables: Tables should be so constructed that they, together with their captions and legends, will be intelligible with minimal reference to the text. Tables of numerical data should each be typed (with double-spacing) on a separate page, numbered in sequence in Arabic numerals (Table 1, 2, etc.) and referred to in the text as Table 1, Table 2, etc. The title of the table should appear above it. A detailed description of its contents and footnotes should be given below the body of the table. Also, please indicate their appropriate locations in the manuscript.
- Quotations: quoting from the content of the sources should be specified with narrow characters and common punctuations and the names of the owners of the works, date and page numbers of the sources should be given immediately after in parenthesis.
Please include a word count for your paper.
A typical paper for this journal should be no more than 10000 words, inclusive of the abstract, tables, references, figure captions, footnotes, endnotes.
Please refer to these quick style guidelines when preparing your paper, rather than any published articles or a sample copy.
Persian manuscript should be typed in narrow B NAZANIN font size 12 and English manuscript should be typed in narrow TIMES NEW ROMAN size 12 in Microsoft Word format (doc, docx).
Please use double quotation marks, except where “a quotation is ‘within’ a quotation”. Please note that long quotations should be indented without quotation marks.
The size of the manuscript should not exceed approximately 7000 words or at most 15 printed pages of the size of the publication and at least 10 pages (including tables, figures, abstract and sources list).
For Persian manuscript, the title including word spacing shouldn't exceed 20 words.
For English manuscript, the author’s name and affiliation of the corresponding author and all other authors should be typed below the title of the article.
Figures in the article must be original and have a high quality. The original file of the figures should be sent in Excel, Word or PDF format with a resolution of 600 dpi. The font size, especially for curves (legend), should be big enough to be legible after the sizes are decreased for printing.
In order to submit a manuscript, the corresponding author should visit the journal website, https://jupa.journal.af/ and send their articles after registration following the instructions given.
Papers may be submitted in Word or LaTeX formats. Figures should be saved separately from the text. To assist you in preparing your paper, we provide formatting template(s).
Word templates are available for this journal. Please save the template to your hard drive, ready for use.
If you are not able to use the template via the links (or if you have any other template queries) please contact us here.
Form of conflict of interest and authenticity of the work
All manuscripts submitted for publication must bear the form of non-conflict of interest and originality of the work. The form must be downloaded, completed in print, signed by the responsible author on behalf of all authors, and uploaded with the original version of the article.
The references relied on should be mentioned both in the text and in the end of the manuscript. The authors are responsible for the accuracy of bibliographic information. Citations in the text should conform to the referencing style used by the last version of American Psychological Association (APA) style, http://www.apastyle.org.. Reference to published works should be mentioned in English, for example: (Woods, 2005, 27-8).
Authors will receive proofs by email. Only printer's errors may be corrected; no change in, or additions to, the edited manuscript will be allowed at this stage. The corrected proofs must be returned within 72 hours after receipt by email. If the Publisher receives no reply, the assumption will be made that there are no errors to correct and the article will be published.
Journal of Urban Planning and Architecture (JUPA) is committed to apply ethics of publication, based on the COPE’s Code of Conduct and Best Practices. Also, in social and economic studies, JUPA has engaged to apply ethics of research, based on Respect Code of Practice for Socio-Economic Research. So, the research’s ethical considerations must be addressed in the Materials and Methods section.
Journal of Urban Planning and Architecture (JUPA) detect and prevent plagiarism in the journal articles, all submissions will be checked with Smaim Noor and iThenticate software, in both stages of submission and acceptance.
This journal uses Editorial Manager to manage the peer-review process. If you haven't submitted a paper to this journal before, you will need to create an account in Editorial Manager. Please read the guidelines above and then submit your paper in the relevant Author Centre, where you will find user guides and a helpdesk.
If you are submitting in LaTeX, please convert the files to PDF beforehand (you will also need to upload your LaTeX source files with the PDF).
Please note that Journal of Urban planning and Architecture uses Crossref™ to screen papers for unoriginal material. By submitting your paper to JUPA you are agreeing to originality checks during the peer-review and production processes.
On acceptance, we recommend that you keep a copy of your Accepted Manuscript. Find out more about sharing your work.
The procedure of submitting and reviewing articles for publication in the Journal of Urban Planning and Architecture is free, but the authors must pay for publishing if their work is accepted. The cost for publishing an article in this journal will be informed to the appropriate author once the work has been accepted for publication. Aside from the cost of printing the article, there are no shipping costs, page charges, or color printing costs in the Journal of Urban Planning and Architecture.
The cost of publishing an article by an Afghan author is 3500 AFN for research articles and 2500 AFN for other types of articles such as book reviews, critical reviews, and brief reports. Furthermore, the cost of publishing an article by Iranian authors is 500000 rials for research articles and 2500000 rials for other articles, After the article is accepted, the fee will be received. If the authors need a speedy assessment of their work, they can contact the Journal of Urban Planning and Architecture's editorial office at jupa@journal.af.
The Journal of Urban Planning and Architecture also waives printing fees for authors. If a valuable article is submitted, the journal will not refuse to publish it because the printing costs have not been paid; Therefore, writers who are unable to pay are urged to contact the editorial office at jupa@journal.af with a brief explanation of their financial status.
Copyright allows you to protect your original material, and stop others from using your work without your permission. Journal of Urban Planning an Architecture offers a number of different license and reuse options, including Creative Commons licenses when publishing open access. Read more on publishing agreements.
Video Summary Guideline (not part of submission process)
As another JUPA knowledge translation activity, we invite authors of selected publications to prepare a video summary of their articles to be published on the JUPA YouTube Channel.
Note: Video summary is not part of submission process. Only after publication, editors select some articles and invite authors for a video summary, which is optional and authors can decline the invitation.
Our video summaries present the summary of our recently published articles, filmed by articles’ authors. By video summaries we aim to help both academics and non-academics to scan the literature promptly and understand quickly the key themes of an article without going through pages of an article. We hope that our video summaries will help our articles to be more visible, reachable, and discoverable. We also hope to provide a personalized forum for our authors to simply convey their article messages to the JUPA global readership.
To prepare video please kindly consider the following points:
The length of video should be maximum 4 minutes.
The video should present the summery of article.
The authors are encouraged to use images, animations, and slides to increase visibility of their videos.
The speaker should seat at the center of the frame.
The camera or the smart phone must be at the same level as the speaker, not higher or lower.
The space at both top and bottom of the screen should be 20 cm.
The speaker should leave enough pauses (5-6 seconds) before starting and after finishing the talk.
To avoid camera shake, we recommend using a tripod.
The speaker should not seat in a place with a window at the background; we recommended seating in a place with a wall at the background.
The speaker should keep the noise down at the time of recording.
We recommend using the MP4 format.
We recommend a landscape mode with the frame size of 1280*720 pixels
JUPA Copyright Statement is applied for the use and distribution of video summaries.
How to share the video with JUPA:
Authors can upload the video in Dropbox and share the link with us via pubjupa@gmail.com
Once we receive your video, it will be checked and if there is no technical problem, we will edit and then publish it on the JUPA YouTube channel and also our videocast page.
You can watch our published videos by visiting JUPA YouTube Channel and also by clicking here.
Queries
Should you have any queries, please contact us here.
Updated 16-03-2022
Sayed Aliakbar Sajjadi
Copyright Notice
Copyright allows you to protect your original material, and stop others from using your work without your permission. Journal of Urban Planning an Architecture offers a number of different license and reuse options, including Creative Commons licenses when publishing open access. Read more on publishing agreements.