Publication frequency

The TSR journal has a regular submission track organized in annual volumes as well as special volumes.

Regular submission track

Regular submission is open at any time for manuscripts addressing the topics within the journal's focus and scope and belonging to one of the accepted publication types.

The manuscripts that passed through the open peer-review, and got accepted for publication by the handling editor, are published on a rolling basis. This means an article becomes accessible as soon as the copyediting process is completed. For convenience reasons, the regular submission track publications are organized in annual volumes. A newly published article is added to the open (ongoing) volume of the current year.

Special volumes

Special volumes are based on extraordinary submission calls related to a specific topic or an event (e.g. a conference). Such calls are always initiated by a decision of the editorial team, though inspiration for it might come from elsewhere (to suggest a special volume, get in contact with the TSR editor-in-chief). Generally, the TSR aims to limit simultaneously opened special volumes to one (or two) at a time.

Manuscripts submitted to a special volume are evaluated by the same quality standards as the regular track submissions. Submission to a special volume should not be seen as a shortcut to a publication.

An external guest editor(s) may be called to handle a particular special volume. Read more about guest editors here.