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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 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 OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been 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.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
  • If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
  • Upon acceptance of a submitted (and revised) article, it fall upon the author to provide professional copy-editing and proofreading services.

Author Guidelines

The submissions should be no longer than 7000 words and adhere to the Chicago Manual of Style (Author-Name Style), Sixteenth Edition. Footnotes should be used rather than endnotes.

When you are resubmitting the manuscript in response to reviewer comments, do not submit it as a new submission. Upload the new version under "Upload Author Version" in the "Review" tab for your existing entry in the journal system. Please notify the editor you have been communicating with that a new version has been submitted. If you have responses to the recommended changes, send these directly to the editor, which will include them in the correspondence with the reviewers. The abstract cannot be updated in the journal system, so if you perfer to revise it, please add a new version at the beginning of the resubmitted manuscript.

Book Reviews

Reviews of recent relevant books.

Special Issue on Meaning and Computer Games

Peer reviewed articles for Special Issue on "Meaning and Computer Games". Guest editor Sebastian Möring.

Discussion Notes

This section is dedicated to short discussion articles with a focus on a single article or argument. The entries in this section are not peer reviewed.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

  1. Authors retain copyright in their articles and grant the Journal of the Philosophy of Games (JPG) right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under the following licence: Creative Commons Licence : CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. The licence allows others to share the work for non-commercial purposes with an acknowledgement of the work’s authorship and initial publication in this journal, but does not allow others to create derivative works based on the work without the author’s permission.
  2. Authors are allowed 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), provided that such distribution includes an acknowledgement of the article’s initial publication in JPG.
  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 (See The Effect of Open Access). Authors who distribute their work after its acceptance by JPG but prior to its publication agree to indicate on the manuscript that it will be published in JPG. Authors agree that they will not publish their work in any other journals, anthologies, or monographs before the date on which their work is published by JPG.
  4. Authors grant JPG a royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual, worldwide license to create derivative works based on their articles and to publish their articles or any part of their articles in compilations and anthologies.

In special cases, it may be possible for the author to negotiate an open licence other than the CC BY-NC-ND.

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