Submissions

Login or Register to make a submission.

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.

  • The paper covers the latest thinking in some of the areas: Quality 4.0, Quality by Design, Quality by Innovation, Quality by Sustainability, Quality Engineering, Quality Management, Quality of Life, Strategic Quality Management, Management of Technology, and Innovation.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in Microsoft Word QIP template.
  • Where available, URLs and DOI for the references have been provided.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Submitting and Copyright section of About/Submission.
  • A Cover letter is prepared with information: names of authors, their affiliations, and the ORCID number for the corresponding author.
  • The ORCID record has publicly visible affiliation (Employment) and linked work (Work). Please see how to add affiliations and links works ...

Author Guidelines

Manuscript requirement

Please prepare your manuscript before submission using the QIP template (ver. 2023) with the following paper classification:

  • Research paper
  • Viewpoint
  • Technical paper
  • Conceptual paper
  • Case study
  • Literature review
  • General review

The paper should be written in British English, a maximum of 15 pages. The first page must contain structured abstracts, paper categories, a maximum of 5 keywords separated by a semicolon, and research areas. The research methodology should be clearly described under a separate heading. The information about the author, 50 words maximum and ORCID iD should be given at the end of the article, and the author’s photograph can be enclosed too.

 

References

References to other publications must be in Harvard style and carefully checked for completeness, accuracy and consistency. It is recommended to use http://libweb.anglia.ac.uk/referencing/harvard.htm. They should contain full bibliographical details. The relevant works that are referred to in the text must be consistently quoted and included in the bibliography using Endnote or MS Word-based common citation formats. With all figures borrowed from other authors, the author’s names should be listed in figure legends.

Submitting

Only the originals that have not been submitted for publication can be accepted. The author guarantees the originality of the paper. Authors submitting papers for publication warrant that the work is not an infringement of any existing copyright and will indemnify the publisher against any breach of such warranty by the statement.

Review process

In the double-blind review process information which identifies the authors is removed from the paper, and it is sent to at least two reviewers and one member of editorial board.

Criteria for reviewing

Problematic recency from theoretic and practice view. Solution originality and addition to theory and praxis. Knot to contemporary world literature. Reasoning competence and accuracy with its evidence support. Paper structure in terms of chapter segmentation and reference between them. Summary clarity and convincingness.

Final submission

The manuscript will be considered to be the definitive version of the paper. The author must ensure that it is complete, grammatically correct and without spelling or typographical errors. Before submitting, authors should check their submission completeness using the available Article Submission Checklist.

Copyright Notice

This is an open-access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access. This journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0.

Creative Commons License 

Authors who publish with the Quality Innovation Prosperity agree to the following terms:

  1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
  2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
  3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.