Journal of Work Ecosystems — Work ecosystems.
Download Word templates
Download and complete these two editable Word files: first the Title Page including Author Contributions, then the anonymous manuscript. Replace the bracketed prompts and remove instructions before upload. Enter every author separately in OJS; uploading these files does not create contributor records.
- Download Title Page including Author Contributions (Word .docx) — identified file for editorial use.
- Download Anonymous Main Manuscript (Word .docx) — anonymous file for peer review.
Scope and contribution
Explain the contribution to employment relationships, human resource management, employee experience, leadership or the organisation of work. Describe the workforce and employment context, sampling, measurement quality and analytical design. Distinguish employee outcomes from organisational performance and address limits to generalisation.
Read the journal’s Aims and Scope before submission. Original research, conceptual/theoretical studies and rigorous reviews are considered when their principal contribution fits the journal.
Language, length and preparation
Submit in English. Research articles should normally contain 6,000–9,000 words and reviews 8,000–12,000 words, excluding references and supplementary files. Explain justified departures to the editor. Provide a 200–250 word abstract and 4–6 keywords. Use APA 7 references. Consistent, readable formatting is sufficient at first submission; final house formatting is required after acceptance. Use headings appropriate to the research design and provide editable tables and legible figures.
All authors must be entered in OJS
Uploading a Title Page does not add co-authors to OJS. Before completing submission, add every author individually in the Contributors step, including the submitting author if they are an author. A person named only in an uploaded file is not a complete OJS author record.
- Enter each author’s full given and family names, email, institutional affiliation and country; use the same spelling and author order in OJS and all identified documents. For a genuinely single-part name, use the supported OJS fields without inventing a surname and explain the convention to the editorial office.
- Identify the corresponding author explicitly. The submitting account and corresponding author need not be the same person. Do not enter only the corresponding author for a multi-author paper.
- Add each author’s ORCID iD if available, using their own identifier; Use the Connect ORCID option where available to authenticate your own iD, or provide your own ORCID iD in the contributor details. Do not invent identifiers or reuse another author’s iD.
- Confirm that every named author qualifies for authorship, has reviewed the final submission, agrees to the author order and has approved submission to this journal. Do not add a non-author merely to grant access.
- Before clicking Submit, compare the author count, names, order, affiliations and corresponding author across the OJS contributor list, Title Page, including its Author Contributions section. Check the manuscript title and abstract in OJS as well.
Incomplete or inconsistent metadata will be returned for correction before external review. The editorial office must reconcile discrepancies with the submitting author; it must not silently infer, add, delete or reorder authors from a PDF or an automated extraction. After submission, authorship changes require a reason, written agreement from all affected authors and editorial approval.
Upload two documents in order
- 1. Title Page including Author Contributions — editorial use only. Include the manuscript title, target journal or book, all authors in agreed order, affiliations, countries, email addresses, ORCID iDs if available and the corresponding author. Include funding, competing interests, ethics and consent, acknowledgements and other identified declarations. Within this same file, complete the Author Contributions section for every author using agreed CRediT roles and specific contributions, with final approval and accountability. Contributions must be agreed by all authors; a role label alone does not establish authorship.
- 2. Anonymous Manuscript — for peer review. After the Title Page is uploaded, upload the manuscript with its title, abstract, keywords, main text, references, tables and figures. Remove author names, affiliations, emails, ORCID iDs, identifying acknowledgements, comments, tracked changes and identifying document properties. Cite your own work in the third person without suppressing necessary references. Provide anonymous declarations where needed and full identified details in the Title Page.
Both documents are required. Do not upload a separate Author Contributions file. You can save a draft and return later, or replace an uploaded document. Initial uploads accept PDF, DOCX or ODT, up to 2 MB per file; convert legacy DOC files to DOCX. Include tables and figures in the manuscript. Contact the editor to arrange any additional supporting material. Editors must exclude the identified Title Page from reviewer access and select only anonymous review files; filenames alone do not ensure confidentiality. Restore named contributions and other masked details before publication.
Research declarations
Protect employee anonymity and account for employer–employee power relationships. Participation must not be linked to appraisal, employment benefits or adverse consequences.
Include a data availability statement even when data cannot be openly shared; explain restrictions and any controlled-access route. State funding and the funder’s role, competing interests or their absence, and relevant ethics approval/exemption and consent. Disclose substantive generative AI use, including the tool and purpose; authors remain responsible for accuracy and citations.
Revision and proofs
Provide a point-by-point response to every editorial and reviewer comment, an anonymised clean revision and a version showing changes. Explain disagreements respectfully with evidence. Keep the OJS metadata aligned with approved changes. At proof stage, all authors must verify their names, affiliations, order, contribution statements and corresponding-author designation before publication.
Submission checklist
- I have entered EVERY author individually in OJS, not only on the Title Page, and verified author count, spelling, order, affiliations, emails and the corresponding author against the Title Page, including its Author Contributions section.
- All authors have approved this submission and their contributions. Authorship changes after submission will be requested transparently with all affected authors’ agreement.
- I have uploaded two separate files in order: Title Page including Author Contributions, then anonymised Main Manuscript; reviewer-facing files and document properties do not reveal author identities.
- The work is original, is not simultaneously under consideration elsewhere, and any preprint, related publication or overlapping material is disclosed.
- I have supplied funding, competing interests, ethical approval/consent where applicable, data availability and substantive AI-use declarations, and have permissions for reused material.
- I have read the journal’s scope, double-anonymous review policy, current zero-fee policy and CC BY 4.0 terms. All authors retain copyright and grant non-exclusive publication rights.