Submissions must be original, written in English, and not under consideration elsewhere. Authors should clearly describe their contribution, methods, results, limitations, and relevant comparisons.

Submit an anonymised manuscript for double-blind review, with author details provided separately. Include funding, conflicts of interest, data availability, relevant ethical approvals, and substantive AI-use disclosures.

Manuscript templates

Prepare your manuscript with the IJIC template in Word or LaTeX. Both set out the required sections and declarations, and the reference style used by the journal. The manuscript template is anonymised for double-blind review; give author names, affiliations and acknowledgements on the separate title page.

• Manuscript templateAnonymised manuscript with line numbers, headings, table, figure and reference styles.↓Download Word (.docx)
• Title pageAuthor details, ORCID iDs, acknowledgements, funding and author contributions.↓Download Word (.docx)
• LaTeX templateClass file, sample references and a compiled example. Upload the zip to Overleaf as a new project, or compile with pdfLaTeX and BibTeX. Includes the title page.↓Download LaTeX (.zip)