Manuscript requirement

Please prepare your manuscript before submission, using the QIP template (ver. 2024) with following paper classification:

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

Paper should be written in English, maximum 15 pages. It must contains abstract not longer than 500 words. After the abstract, maximum 5 key words should be presented separated by semicolon. The research methodology should be clearly described under a separate heading. The information about the author, 50 words maximum, might 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 authors’ 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 statement.

 

Desktop rejection

Publications not focused on studies related to strategic quality management, quality innovation, quality of life or quality engineering or do not meet the formal requirements (according to the template) or the Grammarly plagiarism checker detects an inappropriate match are rejected under the desktop rejection.

The paper can also be desk-rejected if the journal does not have enough space for it, e.g., there may be an overriding need to maintain a balance of papers in the journal.

 

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.