Manuscript

The submission file should consist of the complete manuscript, with all tables, figures, captions and supplementary material (if any) placed at the end of the manuscript, following the references. Please number pages and lines to facilitate the review process. The Editors reserve the right to return a manuscript to the author for revision prior to peer review if it does not conform to the manuscript preparation guidelines. 

Journal policies

Please familiarise yourself with NJG's journal policies before submitting your manuscript.

Special collections

To submit a paper to a special collection, select it under [Categories].

Submission letter

The submission letter should include the following:

• A statement confirming compliance with the COPE guidelines on research and publication ethics.
• Disclosure of any prior submissions or the existence of any exempted prior publications (see below).
• The names and contact details of two suggested reviewers, noting that the final selection of reviewers is at the editor’s discretion.

Multiple or concurrent submissions

Submission of a manuscript to NJG implies that:

• The work has not been published previously, except in the form of an abstract, a published lecture, an academic thesis, a technical or consultancy report, or an electronic preprint.
• The article is not under consideration for publication in another journal.
• The work will not be published elsewhere after acceptance by NJG, including in translated form.

If the manuscript has previously been rejected by another journal, it is expected that it has been revised and improved before submission to NJG.

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, the submitting author, warrant that I have the permission of any and all co-authors to submit this manuscript, that any co-authors can be considered as such according to the journal's authorship criteria and that I have permission to be their spokesperson during the review process and beyond. I also approve distribution with the CC license the journal uses, and this too has been approved by co-authors.
• I have provided a complete manuscript PDF-file, with all tables, figures, legends and supplementary material (if any) placed at the end of the manuscript, following the references.
• The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in submission letter).
• All material presented in the manuscript where copyright is held by third parties has been properly produced and necessary permissions have been obtained from the submitting author.
• The submitting author commits to reformat promptly the paper to comply with the stylistic and bibliographic requirements specified in the author instructions if accepted for publication.
• I am aware of the journal's publication fee policy.