Information For Authors

Authors wishing to submit manuscripts to CogNexus should carefully follow the guidelines below. Manuscripts that do not comply with the journal's requirements may be returned for correction before editorial consideration.

1. Scope and Originality

CogNexus welcomes original scholarly research relevant to the journal's aims and scope.

Submitted manuscripts must be original, must not have been previously published, and must not be simultaneously under consideration by another journal.

2. Language

Manuscripts may be submitted in:

  • English

  • French

  • Spanish

Authors are responsible for ensuring that manuscripts are written clearly, accurately, and in an appropriate academic style.

3. Manuscript Length and Formatting

Research articles should generally be 5,000–8,000 words, including references and appendices.

Manuscripts should follow these formatting requirements:

  • File format: Microsoft Word (.docx) or LaTeX (.tex)

  • Font: Arial, Calibri, or Times New Roman

  • Font size: 12 pt

  • Line spacing: Single

  • Margins: 1 inch (2.54 cm) on all sides

  • Citation style: APA

Tables, figures, and illustrations should be placed at appropriate locations within the manuscript and clearly numbered and captioned.

4. Manuscript Structure

Original research articles should generally include the following:

Title: A clear, concise, and informative title.

Abstract: A 150–250 word summary of the purpose, methodology, major findings, and conclusions.

Keywords: Provide 3–5 relevant keywords.

Introduction: Present the research background, problem, objectives, research questions or hypotheses, and significance of the study.

Literature Review: Discuss relevant scholarly literature and establish the theoretical or conceptual context of the research where appropriate.

Methodology: Clearly describe the research design, data collection, methods, procedures, and analytical techniques.

Results: Present the principal findings clearly using text, tables, or figures where appropriate.

Discussion: Interpret the findings in relation to previous research and discuss their theoretical, practical, or scholarly implications.

Conclusion: Summarize the major findings, significance, limitations, and recommendations or future research directions where appropriate.

References: Include complete details of all sources cited in the manuscript.

Appendices: Supplementary information may be included where necessary.

5. Citation and Referencing Style

CogNexus follows the APA (American Psychological Association) citation style.

Authors should ensure consistency and accuracy in both in-text citations and the reference list. All works cited in the manuscript must appear in the reference list, and all listed references should be cited in the manuscript.

DOIs or URLs should be provided where appropriate and available.

6. Double-Blind Peer Review

CogNexus follows a double-blind peer review process, in which the identities of authors and reviewers are concealed from each other.

Authors should therefore prepare:

Blinded Manuscript: The manuscript should not contain author names, affiliations, email addresses, acknowledgements, or other information that could reveal author identity.

Title Page: A separate title page should include the manuscript title, names of all authors, institutional affiliations, email addresses, ORCID iDs where available, and corresponding author details.

7. Authorship

All listed authors must have made meaningful scholarly contributions to the research or preparation of the manuscript and must approve the final version submitted for publication.

Guest, gift, and ghost authorship are not acceptable.

Any authorship disagreements should be resolved before submission.

8. Research and Publication Ethics

Authors must comply with recognized principles of research and publication ethics.

Plagiarism, data fabrication or falsification, duplicate publication, inappropriate manipulation of research materials, and other forms of research misconduct are prohibited.

Where research involves human participants, personal data, or activities requiring ethical oversight, authors should provide relevant ethical approval and informed consent information where applicable.

9. Conflicts of Interest and Funding

Authors must disclose any financial, professional, institutional, personal, or other conflicts of interest that could reasonably be perceived as influencing the research.

Sources of financial support or research funding should also be disclosed.

10. Use of Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence tools may be used to support activities such as language improvement, translation, organization, or other appropriate aspects of manuscript preparation.

AI tools cannot be listed as authors and must not be used to fabricate data, references, citations, results, or other scholarly content.

Authors remain fully responsible for the originality, accuracy, integrity, citations, analysis, and conclusions of their manuscripts.

Substantive use of generative AI tools should be transparently disclosed in the manuscript, identifying the tool and explaining how it was used.

11. Tables, Figures, and Copyrighted Material

Tables and figures should be clearly numbered, appropriately titled or captioned, and cited within the manuscript.

Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyrighted images, figures, tables, or other third-party material where permission is required.

12. Submission Process

Manuscripts must be submitted electronically through the CogNexus online submission system.

Authors should:

  • complete all required submission metadata;

  • upload the manuscript and required supplementary files;

  • provide a cover letter containing the manuscript title and a brief description of the research; and

  • confirm compliance with the journal's originality, authorship, ethical, and submission requirements.

13. Revision

Authors may be requested to revise their manuscripts in response to comments from reviewers and editors.

When submitting a revised manuscript, authors should provide a clear response explaining how each reviewer or editorial comment has been addressed.

14. Author Responsibility

Authors are responsible for the originality, accuracy, ethical integrity, references, data, and overall content of their manuscripts.

Submission to CogNexus indicates that all authors have approved the manuscript and agree to comply with the journal's editorial, peer review, ethical, copyright, and publication policies.