“We practice blind selection and blind review. So authors are required to submit their work in the following format: The author's name and institutional affiliation are not to appear in the manuscript. References to the author's own work must be cast in such a way that they do not reveal the author's identity. Acknowledgements that could allow a reader to deduce the author's identity must be removed for the initial review. In a separated file there must be the author’s name, the article’s title, keywords, the author’s e-mail address and the author’s institutional affiliation.”

“Papers about which there is some question regarding either quality or appropriateness are presented for blind review to members of our editorial board.”

“In order to accommodate anonymous refereeing, the author’s name and address should appear on a separate sheet and should not be repeated in the text.

“Blind title page A page giving only the title without the authors' names should be provided for use in the review process. Do not include author(s) name(s) in the text or page header.”

“ABHPS is a double blind peer-reviewed research journal.”

No mention of blind review.

“The works received will be submitted by the Editorial Board to the judgment of blind referees.

“Article submissions should include a brief curriculum of the author and should be addressed to the Editorial Office of «Acta Philosophica»…. Ordinarily it is sufficient to email the collaborative file in Word or RTF format. The Editorial Secretary will then submit these files to the blind referees and inform the author within three months, in writing, if the article has been accepted for publication.”

No mention of blind review.

No mention of blind review.

“Peer Review Process

“1. Upon a text's submission the secretary to the editor checks to see whether the text complies with the style-sheet. The secretary's criteria: correct English, relevant subject matter, intelligible argument, ready for anonymous refereeing.

“Submission Preparation Checklist

”7. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring Anonymous Review have been followed.” The link to this page does not work.

In Philos-L announcement:

“It is Open Access and anonymously reviewed.

“Our website facilitates that articles be submitted in anonymised form, for the sake of blind reviewing, and that biographical details and a 150 words abstract are provided in a separate file.”

“For purposes of quality assurance all manuscripts received are subjected to a double blind peer review process.”

“At least two anonymous referees will evaluate the unsigned manuscripts submitted for publication to The AHR Journal.”

“Double-blind peer review

“This journal follows a double-blind reviewing procedure. Authors are therefore requested to submit:

   A blinded manuscript without any author names and affiliations in the text or on the title page. Self-identifying citations and references in the article text should be avoided.

    A separate title page, containing title, all author names, affiliations, and the contact information of the corresponding author. Any acknowledgements, disclosures, or funding information should also be included on this page.”

No mention of blind review.

No fully accessible English language website. From the Philos-L announcement: “Aisthema (from the Greek  αἴσθημα, "perception") is a new open access electronic Journal, based on a blind peer-reviewed process, etc.”

No mention of blind review.

No mention of blind review.

“Editors and the Editorial Staff shall take all reasonable measures to ensure that the reviewers remain anonymous to the authors before, during and after the evaluation process and the authors remain anonymous to reviewers until the end of the review procedure.
“Peer Review
“Authors are obliged to participate in our double-blind peer review process.
“In the main review phase, the Editor sends submitted papers to two experts in the field. …In the final section of the evaluation form, the reviewers must include observations and suggestions …; these are sent to authors, without the names of the reviewers. All of the reviewers of a paper act independently and they are not aware of each other’s identities.
“During the review process Editors may require authors to provide additional information ... These materials shall be kept confidential and must not be used for personal gain.”

“Manuscripts are blind reviewed. Those that pass an initial review by the Editor or an Associate Editor will be sent to one or more external referees.”

“Manuscripts should be prepared for blind review, and should include a brief abstract on the title page along with your name, contact information, and institutional affiliation.

No mention of blind review.

No mention of blind review.

“The Journal follows a policy of blind and anonymous reviewing. Authors are asked to prepare their manuscripts so that their own identities are not revealed to editorial readers. The first two pages should be unnumbered: (1) a cover page with the title of the manuscript, the author’s name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address; and (2) an abstract of 100 or fewer words (repeat the title of the article on the abstract page to identify it).”

No mention of blind review.

No mention of blind review.

No mention of blind review.

“In both cases [Articles and Discussions], there will be double-blind refereeing, as described in the Editorial Procedures.

“In order to ensure anonymity of submissions, authors using Word are advised to go to "File...Properties..." and delete all author-identifying information, under all tabs.

“Submissions should be sent to the editor as an email attachment, with the prefix APQ in the subject line of the message.”

No mention of blind review.

No mention of blind review.

“The journal is committed to a double-blind reviewing policy according to which the identity of both the reviewer and author is always unknown for both parties.”

No mention of blind review.

“We practise triple anonymity: the Editor receives the submissions in anonymous form, as do referees, and authors are not informed of the identity of referees.

“Manuscripts should be sent in anonymous form, and include an abstract of no more than 100 words and a list of keywords, which will be published only in the online version. A separate file/sheet should give the author’s details, including the email address.”

“Anonymity

We do not release reviewers’ identities to authors or to other reviewers, except when reviewers specifically ask to be identified. Unless they feel strongly, however, we prefer that reviewers should remain anonymous throughout the review process and beyond. Before revealing their identities, reviewers should consider the possibility that they may be asked to comment on the criticisms of other reviewers and on further revisions of the manuscript; identified reviewers may find it more difficult to be objective in such circumstances. We ask reviewers not to identify themselves to authors without the editor's knowledge. If they wish to reveal their identities while the manuscript is under consideration, this should be done via the editor, or if this is not practicable, we ask authors to inform the editor as soon as possible after the reviewer has revealed his or her identity to the author. We deplore any attempt by authors to confront reviewers or determine their identities. Our own policy is to neither confirm nor deny any speculation about reviewers' identities, and we encourage reviewers to adopt a similar policy.

“Double blind peer review

All papers in this journal have undergone editorial screening and anonymous double-blind peer review. All material submitted to our journal will be reviewed by the Editorial team. Papers may be rejected without full peer review, remaining papers will be sent for external peer review. Our journal operates a double-blind peer review process and aims to provide rapid peer review with papers receiving a first decision within an average of 30 days.”

“Submissions should be prepared for blind review.”

“Articles should be approximately 4000-8000 words, e-mailed as a word document or RTF, and prepared for ‘blind-review’ (with author’s name and institutional affiliation appearing on a separate page).”

“All unsolicited submissions will be refereed anonymously.

“- please make sure that all identifying information has been omitted.”

“Since Ancient Philosophy has adopted the policy of ' blind review ', information identifying the author should only appear on a separate page.”

“Peer Review Policy:

All research articles published in General Issues of the journal have undergone peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing by at least two anonymous referees. Articles published in Special Issues of the journal are normally on invitation.”

“Contributions to Annales Philosophici will be subjected to review by referees at the discretion of the Editorial Office.

“Neither the name(s) of the author(s) nor any institutional affiliation may be shown in the paper itself, and all references to an author’s own work(s) must be disguised (e.g. by being made in an impersonal and neutral form) or omitted. Extravagant acknowledgments of gratitude must likewise be omitted. Self-identifying references may be restored after the evaluation process is complete.”

No mention of blind review.

No mention of blind review.

“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."

“6. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.” [Website supplies no link to these instructions. The link to the MHRA Style Guide: A Handbook for Authors PDF does not work. The guide can be ordered through the MHRA website; but that link also does not work.]

No mention of blind review.

No mention of blind review.

Website inaccessible. “For inquiries regarding submissions please contact Luis Salas at apeiron@austin.utexas.edu .”

No mention of blind review,

“All articles will be subject to blind review.”

No mention of blind review.

No mention of blind review.

“Architecture Philosophy conducts double-blind reviews of all papers submitted. Each paper is reviewed by one philosopher and one architect. Reviewers are members of the editorial board and are asked to evaluate submissions according to the following criteria ….”
[access to anonymizing submission instructions requires login]

No mention of blind review.

No mention of blind review.

No mention of blind review.

“The submitted articles should include a brief curriculum of the author and should be addressed to the Editorial Office of Aretè in Word or PDF Format. The Editorial Staff will submit these files to the blind referees and inform the author within a month, in writing, whether the article has been accepted for publication.
“… The author’s name should immediately follow the title, along with a note containing the author’s email, full address, and academic institution.”

“All articles in the journal are double blind-refereed.”

No mention of blind review.

“All the contributions will undergo a standard double blind refereeing procedure.

“Journal Policy

“Upon submission, all manuscripts are checked by the journal office staff to confirm that they conform to the submission requirements, especially those pertaining to author anonymity. At this point, manuscripts may be returned to the author for the required changes. Properly anonymized initial submissions are then passed on to the Editor, who carries out a first screening…

“Original Articles: Manuscripts that pass the Editor’s initial screening are sent for a second screening, this time by an Associate Editor who handles the subject area of the manuscript. … Manuscripts that pass the second internal screening are sent for double-blind review to two outside reviewers.

“Anonymization: Please anonymize your submission for blind review. In particular, remove your name from the title page, headers and footers; remove any acknowledgments or references to personal communication; remove any references to your own published or unpublished manuscripts; remove references to other authors’ unpublished manuscripts, as references to such manuscripts can potentially reveal your identity or can suggest that you have personal contact with those authors (even if that is not the case).”

No mention of blind review.

“The journal follows a policy of blind peer review. Manuscripts for regular issues ordinarily will be read by two or three reviewers selected from among the Editorial Board and invited referees; manuscripts for special issues will be read by a guest Editor and invited referees.
“Step 1) Create Paper: … To ensure blind review, any material that would identify the author should be stripped from the text of the paper. Also, please remove personal information from the “properties” box for the document ….
“Step 2) Submit Author Information: Click the “submit author info” button, and then provide the following information: the author’s name, current academic title and affiliation, post-secondary institutions attended and degrees earned, mailing address, telephone number, e-mail address, a history of the manuscript (whether it is derived from a graduate thesis and, if so, identify the advisor), any previous public presentation or publication of any portion, and/or other relevant information.”

“To ensure anonymity in the review process, the author’s name should appear only on the cover page, and nowhere else in the body of the article or the footnotes (self-references should be camouflaged).”

“The Society is unusual in that most of the papers it publishes are the result of direct invitations to particular individuals. However, the Society is also willing to consider replies and discussion notes, which will undergo a process of refereeing.

”Papers submitted for blind review should include a cover sheet with the title, author's name, institution, post, e-mail and phone contact details. Wherever possible, there should be no self-identifying references in the text.”

“Blind review procedures

“To guarantee the quality of published material, all papers will be subjected to blind review.

“All contributions should be submitted as attachments to email-messages addressed to arsdisputandi@uu.nl.”

No mention of blind review.

“Double-blind peer review

This journal follows a double-blind reviewing procedure. Authors are therefore requested to submit:

    A blinded manuscript without any author names and affiliations in the text or on the title page. Self-identifying citations and references in the article text should be avoided.

    A separate title page, containing title, all author names, affiliations, and the contact information of the corresponding author. Any acknowledgements, disclosures, or funding information should also be included on this page.”

“Double-blind peer review

This journal follows a double-blind reviewing procedure. Authors are therefore requested to submit:

    A blinded manuscript without any author names and affiliations in the text or on the title page. Self-identifying citations and references in the article text should be avoided.

    A separate title page, containing title, all author names, affiliations, and the contact information of the corresponding author. Any acknowledgements, disclosures, or funding information should also be included on this page.”

“Peer Review Policy:

All research articles published in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing by at least two anonymous referees.

“Submissions will be seen anonymously by two referees.”

No mention of blind review.

No mention of blind review.

No mention of blind review.

“Auslegung opposes all forms of discrimination on the basis of race, gender, creed, and national origin.  So the journal subscribes to a blind review policy; the author’s name and academic institution should appear only on a separate cover sheet.”

“The blind refereeing process requires that the editor send the referees an anonymous manuscript. We use PDF (Portable Document Format) files in the refereeing process. To submit an article for publication to the journal, therefore, we must receive an electronic copy of your manuscript.

“Please ensure that your document is thoroughly anonymous, so that the refereeing process can be truly blind. (In particular, check the ‘Document Properties’ of any PDF file you produce. These may reveal the name of the author.)

“The author who submits the paper to the journal will be treated as the corresponding author of the manuscript, and, in the case of a multiply authored article, this author will be responsible for communicating with the other authors.”

“ScholarOneManuscripts* offers authors the option of supplying a 'cover letter'. The AJP requires authors to include such a letter, which must contain all useful contact information — email address, fax and phone numbers, postal address, etc., plus notification of any expected changes in these details.

“In order to facilitate dispassionate refereeing, neither the name(s) of the author(s) nor any institutional affiliation may be shown in the paper itself, and all references to an author's own work(s) must be disguised (e.g. by being made in an impersonal and neutral form), with journal and book titles/publishers suppressed, or omitted altogether. Acknowledgments of gratitude must likewise be omitted. (Self-identifying references may be restored after the evaluation process is complete.)”

No mention of peer review.

“Papers submitted for publication in the journal will be blind refereed. In order to facilitate double-blind refereeing, the author(s)'s name(s) should not be shown on the manuscript, and all identifying references to the author(s)'s own work(s) should be masked or omitted.”

From Philos-L announcement: “Each issue of the *Australasian Philosophical Review* will have a different curator, and a different editorial team assembled by the given curator. The editorial team will appoint the author of the target article and the authors of the invited commentaries.
“The open commentaries will be written by people who have registered with the journal to be sent alerts when target articles (and invited commentaries) are released to the commentary community. An invitation for submission of proposals for open commentaries will be made when invited material for a forthcoming issue is released. The editorial team will select, from among the submitted proposals, those that will lead to invitations to submit completed commentaries. All of this process will be managed through an online platform that enables double-blind refereeing.”

“III. The peer reviewing process:

1. The manuscript is sent out to two external peer reviewers before the possible publication. For this purpose secretariat makes copies of text without author’s personal data and sends them for two reviewers. The peer reviewing process is double-blind.

2. The peer review process in Avant is done by strict specialists in the disciplines. They are outside of the Editorial Board, Advisory Board, publisher and place of affiliation of the author. We have the international Peer Review Board, but in many cases we ask external specialists.

3. The anonymous peer review includes an evaluation of the manuscript and eventual suggestions of amendments.”

No website. From Philos-L announcement: “Email your papers and monograph chapter proposals to avellopublishing@yahoo.co.uk now for anonymous peer review and manuscript tracking.”

“Reviewing Procedure

Axiomathes follows a double-blind reviewing procedure. Authors are therefore requested to place their name and affiliation on a separate page. Self-identifying citations and references in the article text should either be avoided or left blank when manuscripts are first submitted. Authors are responsible for reinserting self-identifying citations and references when manuscripts are prepared for final submission.”

“All essays are received by direct invitation of the Editorial board and are all double blind-peer reviewed.”

“To accommodate anonymous refereeing, the author's name and address should appear on a separate sheet and should not be repeated in the text.

“The Balkan Journal of Philosophy follows a double-blind reviewing procedure. Authors are therefore required to submit both a complete title page AND a blind title page with their manuscripts.

“The complete title page should include:

    The name(s) of the author(s)

    A concise and informative title

    The institutional affiliation(s) and address(es) of the author(s)

    The e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers of the corresponding author

“The blind title page should ONLY give the title of the manuscript. Do NOT include author(s) name(s) in the manuscript text or page header.

“Self-identifying citations and references in the article text should either be avoided or left blank when manuscripts are first submitted.”

“Submissions to the Yearbook by contributors to the parallel sessions, authors of disputations, commentaries and critical notes are blind-reviewed.

   “Layout of the Opening Chapter Page

   “The opening page should consist of: the contributor’s name in capital letters, centered, on the first text line.”

“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.

“If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

“Ensuring a Blind Peer Review

“To ensure the integrity of the blind peer-review for submission to this journal, every effort should be made to prevent the identities of the authors and reviewers from being known to each other. This involves the authors, editors, and reviewers (who upload documents as part of their review) checking to see if the following steps have been taken with regard to the text and the file properties:

“The authors of the document have deleted their names from the text, with "Author" and year used in the references and footnotes, instead of the authors' name, article title, etc.

“With Microsoft Office documents, author identification should also be removed from the properties for the file (see under File in Word), by clicking on the following, beginning with File on the main menu of the Microsoft application: File > Save As > Tools (or Options with a Mac) > Security > Remove personal information from file properties on save > Save.

“With PDFs, the authors' names should also be removed from Document Properties found under File on Adobe Acrobat's main menu.”

No mention of blind review.

No mention of blind review.

No mention of blind review.

“Submitted articles must be suitable for blind review and should be submitted to the Senior or Coordinating Editor.”

“An open-access, peer-reviewed journal that innovates in adhering strictly to simultaneous policies of blind submission, double-blind review, and anti-plagiarism.”

“Remove any references that identify the author(s) to prepare your article for blind review.”

No mention of blind review.

“Please ensure that the manuscript is ANONYMOUS by putting your name, contact details (including email address), and any self-identifying references in a separate file.”

No mention of blind review.

No mention of blind review.

No mention of blind review.

“Reviewing Procedure

Brain and Mind follows a double−blind reviewing procedure. Authors are therefore requested to place their name and affiliation on a separate page.”

No mention of blind review.

“All research articles and discussions published in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and double-blind refereeing.”

“The BJPS selects papers for publication through a double blind peer review process.
“Submissions:
• should be prepared for blind refereeing, with identifying references removed;
• must be prefaced by an abstract of about 100 words;
• need not be in any particular style on initial submission, but if they are accepted for publication we will require a version in the Journal's style;
• should be accompanied by the telephone number, fax number, and e-mail address of the corresponding author.”

“Articles submitted in appropriate form will be refereed blind.”

No website. From Philos-L posting: “Manuscripts should be prepared for blind review. The article itself should contain no reference to the author’s identity. In a separate file, please submit an author sheet with the following information: title of submission, name of author, affiliation, contact information, e-mail address, abstract (no longer than 200 words), and five key words.”

No mention of blind review.

“All submissions are subject to double-blind peer review prior to publication.”

No mention of blind review.

“COVER LETTER

“The cover email letter should include:

Author(s) names and institutional affiliations

Contact information for one author, including at least email address and telephone number.

“Since a blind review process is used, no authors’ name should appear anywhere on the manuscript. In addition, because we share files electronically, it is the authors’ responsibility to strip the file of any other identifying notations, including references in the document’s properties, title, or first-person language in text of references.”

No mention of blind review.

“The goal of BEJR is to provide a forum for commentary on articles published in peer-reviewed business ethics journals.

“Commentaries are subject to a double-blind peer review process.”

[No Instruction to Authors for preserving authorial anonymity.]

No mention of blind review.

“If necessary to preserve anonymity in the review process, authors' names may be replaced with placeholders (e.g., replace "Smith, 2003" with "Author, 2003") and removed from the list of references.  However, the author should, in such cases, provide the editor with an additional document listing these anonymized sources.

In order to avoid compromising the anonymous review process, it is advisable for authors to refrain from presenting their work at conferences while it is under review at BEQ, and to remove any online postings of the manuscript.”

No mention of blind review.

“All papers are blindly reviewed and are selected on the basis of whether they make significant, original contributions to the philosophical debates they address.

“All submissions are given blind editorial review. As many submissions as possible are sent to external referees, with a response to authors within six months of submission. When submissions are not sent for external refereeing, CJP endeavours to respond to authors within three months.”

No mention of blind review.

No mention of blind review.

“All submissions will be anonymously reviewed by at least two members of our board of editorial consultants.”

No mention of blind review.

“The journal strongly prefers to receive submissions that are prepared for “blind review :” authors should not be identified in the attachment itself, but only in the body of the e-mail to which the document is attached.”

“Please include your name, contact information, and the title of your paper in your message. All submissions will be acknowledged by email, and all subsequent correspondence regarding the manuscript will be sent via email rather than post.
“Further, manuscripts must be prepared for double-blind refereeing, with any and all revealing references to the author removed, including personal acknowledgments. Any submission that does not adequately conceal the identity of its author will not be read.”

“Ensuring a Blind Peer Review

“To ensure the integrity of the blind peer-review for submission to this journal, every effort should be made to prevent the identities of the authors and reviewers from being known to each other. This involves the authors, editors, and reviewers (who upload documents as part of their review) checking to see if the following steps have been taken with regard to the text and the file properties:

“1) The authors of the document have deleted their names from the text, with "Author" and year used in the references and footnotes, instead of the authors' name, article title, etc.

“2) With Microsoft Office documents, author identification should also be removed from the properties for the file (see under File in Word), by clicking on the following, beginning with File on the main menu of the Microsoft application: File > Save As > Tools (or Options with a Mac) > Security > Remove personal information from file properties on save > Save.

“3) With PDFs, the authors' names should also be removed from Document Properties found under File on Adobe Acrobat's main menu.”

“Submissions are refereed anonymously. Contributors should omit their names and other identifying references from the manuscript, and include a cover letter with name, address, and title of article. Previous publications by the contributor should be referred to in the third person.”

No mention of blind review.

No mention of blind review.

No mention of blind review.

“Because the identity of authors is concealed from reviewers (because the process of reviewing is a blind peer review), each manuscript should contain a separate title page containing:

(1) Title

(2) Author name(s),

(3) The author’s full address, including telephone number and e-mail.

The author’s identity should not otherwise be revealed in the manuscript.”

No mention of blind review.

No paper submission policy statement, no mention of blind review.

No mention of blind review.

“Reviewing Procedure

Comparative Philosophy follows a blind peer reviewing procedure. Authors are therefore requested not to include their name or affiliation in their submitted papers. Self-identifying citations and references in the article text should be avoided (with ‘Author’ and year used in the references and footnotes, instead of the author’ name, article title, etc.).”

No mention of blind review.

“We adopt a double blind reviewing policy, thus ensuring that the identities of both the author and the referees are not revealed during the process. When submitting your article, please ensure that your full name and address (including e-mail address), your institutional affiliation, five to ten keywords, and an abstract appear on a separate page. Your name should not appear on any page; references to your own work should not reveal your identity.”

No mention of blind review.

“Before submitting your conceptual, research, synthetic or review paper, make sure that it contains the following parts.

“List of at least 5 potential reviewers who are not in a direct working relation with you and who are qualified for double-blind peer-reviewing your paper”

“All articles will be blind-refereed except when invited.

“Do not include the author’s name or any other identifying information. Any identifying reference in the endnotes should be left blank.

“An e-mail message with the article as an attachment to Contemporary Aesthetics should be sent to [email address]. Use "Submission" as the subject in the email address block. The message should include (1) the author’s name, (2) the title of the article, (3) an abstract of no more than 150 words, and (4) any relevant information about the author, including institutional affiliation, mailing and e-mail addresses.”

“Submission of Manuscripts

Note that these instructions are for previously accepted papers only. Unsolicited

manuscripts are seldom used.”

“REVIEW POLICIES

“As clearly expressed in the journal’s ‘Aims and Scope’ the goal of the editorial team is to maintain the highest professional standards, to ensure that the practice of double-blind review is both rigorous and fair, and at the same time to keep the submissions process efficient and to expedite it whenever possible. In our efforts to maintain these standards and achieve these goals, we do the following: insist on completely anonymous submissions from authors ensure that all materials sent to reviewers are anonymous in turn, ensure that reviews passed on to authors are also anonymous attempt to complete any internal review (see below) of a submission within two weeks.”

...

“Overall, then, our goal, once a manuscript is submitted in appropriate form, is to complete a full double-blind review within three months.”

“We will not pre-screen manuscripts for area, field, or content. However submissions that are clearly below the standard of quality peer-reviewed work or that are otherwise clearly unsuitable for the journal will be rejected internally, and the editors will explain this decision in their response to the author.”

“Manuscript Preparation
1) Anonymity, Abstract, and Title Page

“Given the journal’s use of the double-blind review process, authors must prepare their manuscript anonymously. Aside from the title page (see below) please remove all identifying references: this includes both direct references to yourself and indirect references to colleagues, co-authors, and collaborators that would make it easy for a reader to deduce your identity. If the argument of the manuscript depends upon the citation of your own previous work, then please voice those citations in the third person and include the works in the reference list as you would for any other author.

“The manuscript should be one single document, beginning with a title page that contains the following: the names, full addresses, and institutional affiliation of all authors

...

“Please make certain to repeat the title of your essay on the first page of the text (after the title page) so that reviewers reading the anonymous version of the text will know its title.

“In addition to the considerations noted above under manuscript preparation, please make certain that the digital file you send is anonymous. Anonymizing the digital file may require removing author information from the ‘properties’ field in MS Word and from the properties or ‘get info’ field of the file itself.”

No mention of blind review.

Links provided at Information For Authors page connect to DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology.

No mention of blind review.

No mention of blind review.

“All manuscripts undergo a blind peer review process.”

No mention of blind review.

“Apart from book notes all submissions are double-blind reviewed in accordance with our policy.” [One must log in in order to find out what the policy is]

No mention of blind review.

“Double-blind peer review

“This journal follows a double-blind reviewing procedure. Authors are therefore requested to submit:

    A blinded manuscript without any author names and affiliations in the text or on the title page. Self-identifying citations and references in the article text should be avoided.

    A separate title page, containing title, all author names, affiliations, and the contact information of the corresponding author. Any acknowledgements, disclosures, or funding information should also be included on this page.”

No mention of blind review.

“Authors must send two electronic versions of their manuscripts. One should include the author’s name, title of contribution, e-mail address, postal address (including phone and fax numbers); and a second version should be prepared for blind refereeing, where all references to the author including acknowledgements and bibliographical details are omitted.”

“Refereeing is anonymous unless a referee chooses otherwise. Papers are reviewed blind and it is the author’s responsibility to disguise authorship by appropriate means. When preparing your article for submission please take the following steps:

    “Remove your name entirely from the text. If you cite your own publications be sure to substitute the word ‘author’ for your own personal details and for the actual title of the work cited.

    “With Microsoft Office documents, author identification should also be removed from the properties for the file (see under File in Word), by clicking on the following, beginning with File on the main menu of the Microsoft application: File>Save As>Tools (or Options with a Mac)>Security>Remove personal information from the file properties on save>Save.

    “On any PDF uploaded, remove the author names from Document Properties found under File on Adobe.”

No mention of blind review.

“The journal uses a double-blind review process; please remove all references to or clues about your identity as author(s) from the main text and footnotes.”

“All authors of a manuscript should include their full names, affiliations, postal addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses on the cover page of the manuscript. One author should be identified as the corresponding author. Please give the affiliation where the research was conducted. If any of the named co-authors moves affiliation during the peer review process, the new affiliation can be given as a footnote. … Please note that the email address of the corresponding author will normally be displayed in the article PDF (depending on the journal style) and the online article.

“All published research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening, anonymous refereeing by independent expert referees, and consequent revision by article authors when required.”

No author guidelines.

“Together with the manuscript, the authors must send their actual professional address and the e-mail address.

“All texts are reviewed by two experts. The double-blind peer review process is expected to take 2-3 months or more in some cases.”

“The affiliation address of the contributor should be given at the end of the article or review as well as an e-mail contact. If necessary, another contact address may be provided.
“Academic Integrity
Editors and reviewers must treat all submissions under review as confidential.
Editors must protect the identity of reviewers and the identity of authors if a double-blind review process is used.”

No mention of blind review.

“Title Page

• The title page should include:

• The name(s) of the author(s)

• A concise and informative title

• The affiliation(s) and address(es) of the author(s)

• The e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers of the corresponding author

“Blind title page: A page giving only the title without the authors' names should be

provided for use in the review process. Do not include author(s) name(s) in the text or page header.”

“The manuscript must be prepared for blind review. This includes making sure that references to the author(s) are removed from the file properties.
“De Ethica is committed to a double-blind review process. The submitted manuscript will first be screened by De Ethica's Assistant Editor in order to ensure complete anonymity of the text. The anonymized text will then be sent to the Editors and, if approved by the Editors after a charitable reading, to two independent reviewers.”

“To ensure the integrity of the blind peer-review for submission to this journal, every effort should be made to prevent the identities of the authors and reviewers from being known to each other. This involves the authors, editors, and reviewers (who upload documents as part of their review) checking to see if the following steps have been taken with regard to the text and the file properties:

    “The authors of the document have deleted their names from the text, with “Author” and year used in the references and footnotes, instead of the authors’ name, article title, etc.
    “With Microsoft Office documents, author identification should also be removed from the properties for the file (see under File in Word), by clicking on the following, beginning with File on the main menu of the Microsoft application: File > Save As > Tools (or Options with a Mac) > Security > Remove personal information from file properties on save > Save.
    “With PDFs, the authors’ names should also be removed from Document Properties found under File on Adobe Acrobat’s main menu.”

No mention of blind review.

No mention of blind review.

“The articles should be anonymous and follow the template’s instructions. A short abstract must be included as showed on the template. Authors need to ensure that their manuscript does not give away in any way their identity (Please don’t use formulas as ‘I’ve already said this in….’, ‘As I already wrote in my book…’).
“This journal with a double-blind peer review policy. Once received, the anonymous contributions will be sent to at least two anonymous referees for the review.”

“Review process

All articles are peer-reviewed through a blind reviewing process. All identifying marks should be removed from your submission. Do not include your name anywhere in your article (in running headers and footers, for example), and try as far as possible to remove it from your file Properties.”

“Dialectica practices double blind refereeing, as well as blind editing, and follows the "Guidelines for the Handling of Manuscripts by the Editors of Philosophy Journals" of the Association of Philosophy Journal Editors.

“The paper must be suitable for blind refereeing. The author's name and institutional affiliation should not appear in the manuscript. References to the author's own work must be cast in such a way that they do not reveal the identity of the manuscript's author. We recommend simply replacing the entire reference, including title and facts of publication, with an expression such as 'author's article', 'author's book', 'author's book 2', etc. Acknowledgements must be removed for the initial review.”

No mention of blind review.

“Submissions are sent to two referees for blind peer review. To facilitate blind refereeing, the author’s name and address should appear on a detachable title page, but nowhere else in the article. The list of the current referees is available on our website.”

“Manuscripts submitted using the ScholarOne system must be prepared for blind refereeing. No identifying references to the author in footnotes, headers, etc. should appear in the manuscript.”

“All submitted manuscripts will be firstly evaluated by the editorial staff on thematic suitability. In this first phase only the suitability of the topics (not the quality of the manuscript) will be considered.

“Those manuscripts having passed the thematic suitability screening will be sent to three external and independent anonymous referees (double blind peer review).”

“Submissions should include:

   1) the actual text, which we expect to be in good draft form; it should not include the name of the author,

   2) a separate note about the author (or the authors), giving their names, institutional affiliations, full address information for every author, their e-mail addresses and, should the authors wish, their academic titles, as well as a selection of their publications.

“The review process will respect the following anonymity guidelines:

   (1) All articles submitted to our journal will be reviewed on an anonymous basis. The Editorial Board, however, does not intend to verify that a particular text contains no references to other works of the author which might make it possible to identify him. We therefore ask authors whose texts contain such references to remove them from the initial version of their submission. They can be incorporated later in the final version that will be sent after their text has been accepted for publication.

   (2) We will also respect anonymity in the other direction. The identity of the referee will be unknown to the author, unless the former expressly wishes his name to be disclosed (i.e. not removed from the part of the review form that is destined to be sent to the author). We would prefer, however, that this latter case be the exception rather than the rule. (It might be admissible only in situations where an interesting discussion might result between the referee and the author.)”

“Authors should make sure that their names are not included in the text, in order to ensure a blind peer-review process.

”Ensuring a Blind Peer Review

“To ensure the integrity of the blind peer-review for submission to this journal, every effort should be made to prevent the identities of the authors and reviewers from being known to each other. This involves the authors, editors, and reviewers (who upload documents as part of their review) checking to see if the following steps have been taken with regard to the text and the file properties:

    “The authors of the document have deleted their names from the text, with "Author" and year used in the references and footnotes, instead of the authors' name, article title, etc.

    “With Microsoft Office documents, author identification should also be removed from the properties for the file (see under File in Word), by clicking on the following, beginning with File on the main menu of the Microsoft application: File > Save As > Tools (or Options with a Mac) > Security > Remove personal information from file properties on save > Save.

    “With PDFs, the authors' names should also be removed from Document Properties found under File on Adobe Acrobat's main menu.”

“Diogenes is a 100% double-blind peer-reviewed journal. Typically, a single manuscript is submitted to two reviewers. In case of substantial disagreement between the reviews, or for any other relevant reasons, a third or more double-blind reviews are requested.”

No mention of blind review.

“All papers, whether solicited by the editors or submitted in response to a call for papers, undergo a double-bind peer review process.

“Manuscripts … should be prepared for anonymous refereeing and sent by email attachment…

“Peer-review

“Articles will be submitted anonymously, omitting any personal information (including those contained in the document properties, etc.). Acknowledgements will be temporarily excluded, but can be reinstated in case of acceptance. Every article will be accompanied by a separate file containing title, author(s) name, institutional affiliation, e-mail and address, an English abstract of about 150 words, and a short biographical note. … Every submission will be first examined by the Journal’s Editor and/or Guest Editors as to their relevance to the general topic of the issue. Articles judged to be relevant will undergo a double-blind peer-review process.”

No mention of blind review.

“All Unsolicited Contributions to Disputatio are triple-blind refereed: the names and institutional affiliations of authors are not revealed to the Editors, the editorial committee and editorial board, or to the referees. Without the prior permission of the Editors, referees and Board members will not show to other people material supplied to them for evaluation. All published submissions have been anonymously reviewed by at least two referees.

“The evaluation process has up to five sequential stages, as follows:

    Preliminary vetting by a member of the Editorial committee.

    Refereeing, 1

    Refereeing, 2 (referees may be members of the Editorial Board, or indicated by members of the Editorial Board or the Advisory Board).

    Scrutiny of submission and referees’ reports by the Editors.

    Scrutiny of submission, referee’s reports and Editors’ opinion by members of the Editorial committee.

    Final decision by the Editors.

“Submissions are made by email attachment to disputatio@campus.ul.pt. Manuscripts prepared for blind review may be submitted in .doc, .docx, .rtf, PostScript and .pdf.”

No mention of blind review.

“The articles must be prepared for anonymous refereeing: that is, a referee should not be able to see or directly infer from the paper who the author is. For instance, instead of writing ‘as I have argued previously in Meier (2003)’, please write ‘as has been argued in Meier (2003)’; instead of putting ‘Name Suppressed, “Free-Will in Economics”, Economics and Philosophy 20: 123-145’, write, for instance, ‘Meier, P. (2003): “Free Will in Economics” Economics and Philosophy 20: 123-145.’”

“All published research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening, anonymous refereeing by independent expert referees, and consequent revision by article authors when required.”

“Manuscripts are sent out for anonymous review (i.e., reviewers do not know the identity of authors, and authors do not know the identity of reviewers). To preserve the advantages of anonymous reviewing, authors should avoid self-identification in the text as well as in the footnotes of the manuscript.”

“Submission requirements include one paper copy along with an electronic version. Text should be double-spaced. Include a cover letter and abstract with the manuscript.

“The author’s name should not appear in the manuscript.”

“In preparing an article or discussion paper for submission, please:

    Include an article abstract of 100 words maximum

    Include author's name and institutional affiliation with the title on a separate cover page to facilitate blind review.”

“Peer Review Process

“Journal operates with a Certified Double Blind Peer Review. All papers considered appropriate for the journal are reviewed anonymously by one or two (sometimes three) reviewers.”

“All self-identifying marks should be removed from the article itself to facilitate blind review. In addition to the article itself, an abstract should be submitted as a separate file (also devoid of author-identifying information).”

No mention of blind review.

Website server inaccessible. Philos-L announcement contains no mention of blind review.

“Submissions may be sent electronically or by regular mail. A 100 word abstract should be included with each article.  The manuscript should be prepared for blind review with the author's name and affiliation appearing only on the first, detachable page.”

“On receiving a submission, the EJPE editors assess its interest for the journal and whether it should be passed on for peer-review. All retained article submissions are anonymously reviewed by 2 to 3 external referees with relevant expertise. Where reviewers disagree substantially, the editors may request further referee reports or arbitrate using their own judgement. The editors may also commission further review of a revised paper by the original referees if they consider it necessary.”

“Ergo uses a triple-anonymous peer review process. The author submits an anonymized manuscript which is reviewed by a section editor (authors have the option to choose which section their submission is sent to: Ancient Philosophy, Feminist Theory, etc.). The section editor issues a decision, advised by external reviewers when appropriate. The managing editors approve this decision except in extraordinary cases, such as negligence or bias on the part of a section editor or reviewer.

“Section editors and reviewers do not know authors' identities, nor are they identified to authors. The managing editors know the identities of all parties.”

“Double-blind peer review

“This journal follows a double-blind reviewing procedure. Authors are therefore requested to submit:

    A blinded manuscript without any author names and affiliations in the text or on the title page. Self-identifying citations and references in the article text should be avoided.

    A separate title page, containing title, all author names, affiliations, and the contact information of the corresponding author. Any acknowledgements, disclosures, or funding information should also be included on this page.”

“Papers should be submitted to the following email address: in two files as attachments. The first file (Title Page) should only contain the author’s (or authors’) complete information (including full name, email address and postal address). The second file should contain an abstract (200 words or less) and the body of the paper (and nothing else). Any information (including what may be found in the footnotes or in the bibliography) that may, directly or indirectly, lead to the identification of the author(s) should be eliminated from the second file.
“Referee process:
“Eshare will follow a triple-blind refereeing procedure. After the editor’s initial approval and the positive feedback of one of the advisory board members, the paper will be sent to the first referee. If the paper passes this stage, it will be sent out for the second round of reviewing. The editor will make the final decision to accept a paper based on a through assessment of the referee reports. The assistant editor of the journal will inform the author(s) of the final decision.”

“Once the deadline for submissions has passed, all received papers are sent out for review. We assign two reviewers to each paper, making sure that those reviewers have a degree of expertise in the subject matter dealt with in the article. The whole process is anonymous (or 'double blind') so reviewers will not know whose article they are reading, nor will authors know who reviewed their work.
“The reviewers will analyse the paper using the Peer Review Pack developed by eSharp. It is advised that submitters familiarise themselves with this document before sending in their work. Following our guidelines, each reviewer will annotate the article using the 'comment' function of Word then prepare a feedback report for the author, and a decision report for the eSharp board. The decision they make will be figured by a grade of 1-4 whereby:
Accept without revision
Accept subject to minor revisions
Accept subject to substantial revision
Reject
“Each article is also read by at least one member of the eSharp board to ensure consistency in standards of writing and reviewing.”

“The Issue Editor has the sole privilege and responsibility on the question of the acceptability of papers. In the case where a reviewer fails to respond in a timely manner, the editor will render a decision without external advice. The Issue Editor has the discretion to use outside reviewers or not, as he/she sees fit.

“All papers will be blind reviewed by the issue editor and reviewers. Only the General Editor will know the identity of the individual submitting a paper.

“Since all reviewing is blind, please do not send your submission to the Issue Editor.

“Papers should be prepared with ‘blind reviewing’ in mind. Specifically, no reference should be made to the author(s) in the essay (including notes).”

No mention of blind review.

“Please include a short biographical note about the author and an English abstract of a maximum of 150 words (900 characters with spaces).

   “All articles are anonymously reviewed. Authors’ names should therefore not appear on manuscripts and any reference to the authors’ previous works should be in the third person.”

“All manuscripts submitted to the Estudios de Filosofía are peer-reviewed according to the following procedure:

Initial review: The Editor-in-Chief evaluates each manuscript to determine if its topic and content is suitable for consideration by the Estudios de Filosofía. Manuscripts that do not meet minimum criteria are returned to the authors within one week of receipt. This is in the best interest of the authors who could then decide to either correct the problems or to submit the manuscript to a more appropriate venue, avoiding delays from a lengthy review process that would nonetheless lead to rejection.

Peer review: Manuscripts that pass the initial review are assigned to an Associate Editor, who selects several referees based on their expertise in that particular field. Each manuscript is reviewed by at least two referees under a double-blind peer review process, where both the referees and the authors are kept anonymous. Members of the Editorial Board and Reviewers are required to manifest in writing to the Editor any impediment or conflict that could affect the impartial evaluation of the manuscript. Referees are asked to evaluate the manuscript based on its approach, quality of the argument, intrinsic value and importance of the central thesis, rigor, sharpness and accuracy of the analysis, as well as the use of original sources and updated literature on the topic. To facilitate timely publication, referees are asked to complete their reviews within one month. After collecting the referees' reports, the Associate Editor makes a recommendation on the acceptability of the manuscript to the Editor-in-Chief.

Recommendation: Based on the referees' comments and the Associate Editor's recommendation, the Editor-in-Chief makes a final decision on the acceptability of the manuscript and communicates to the authors the decision, along with referees' reports. The final decision can be "Accepted", "Accepted, subject to minor revisions", "Accepted, subject to major revisions", "A substantially different version is suggested", "Declined" A revised manuscript should be re-submitted within six months of the decision. It will usually be returned to the original referees for evaluation.”

“Manuscripts should be submitted to [email address] and prepared for double blind peer review, i.e. anonymized and including an abstract, keywords and a full bibliography (in CMS).”

No mention of blind review.

“In addition, please ensure that the manuscript is anonymous by deleting all self-identifying references and any thanks to specific people from the text and notes and putting them in a separate file.”

“Double-blind peer review

This journal follows a double-blind reviewing procedure. Authors are therefore requested to submit:

    A blinded manuscript without any author names and affiliations in the text or on the title page. Self-identifying citations and references in the article text should be avoided.

    A separate title page, containing title, all author names, affiliations, and the contact information of the corresponding author. Any acknowledgements, disclosures, or funding information should also be included on this page.”

“To facilitate anonymous review, only the article title should appear on the first page of the manuscript. An attached cover page must contain title, authorship, and an introductory footnote with professional titles and mailing addresses of the authors and any statements of credit or research support. Every effort should be made by the authors to see that the manuscript itself contains no clues to their identities.”

No mention of blind review.

“Peer Review Policy:

All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing by at least two anonymous referees.”

“Title page Organize the title page in the following way: 1) title of manuscript, 2) name of author(s), 3) name of department(s) and institution(s), and 4) name and full postal and email address of the corresponding author who also acts as 'Guarantor' for all parts of the paper. Please observe that the journal adheres to a 'double blind' review process and thus the title page revealing the identity of the authors should be uploaded separately.

“Ensuring a Blind Peer Review

“To ensure the integrity of the blind peer-review for submission to this journal, every effort should be made to prevent the identities of the authors and reviewers from being known to each other. This involves the authors, editors, and reviewers (who upload documents as part of their review) checking to see if the following steps have been taken with regard to the text and the file properties:

    The authors of the document have deleted their names from the text, with "Author" and year used in the references and footnotes, instead of the authors' name, article title, etc.

    With Microsoft Office documents, author identification should also be removed from the properties for the file (see under File in Word), by clicking on the following, beginning with File on the main menu of the Microsoft application: File > Save As > Tools (or Options with a Mac) > Security > Remove personal information from file properties on save > Save.

    With PDFs, the authors' names should also be removed from Document Properties found under File on Adobe Acrobat's main menu.”

“Double-blind peer review

This journal follows a double-blind reviewing procedure. Authors are therefore requested to submit:

    A blinded manuscript without any author names and affiliations in the text or on the title page. Self-identifying citations and references in the article text should be avoided.

    A separate title page, containing title, all author names, affiliations, and the contact information of the corresponding author. Any acknowledgements, disclosures, or funding information should also be included on this page.”

No mention of blind review.

“This journal uses ScholarOne Manuscripts* (previously Manuscript Central) to peer review manuscript submissions. Please read the guide for ScholarOne authors before making a submission. Complete guidelines for preparing and submitting your manuscript to this journal are provided below.

“All submissions will be subject to anonymous peer review, normally by two referees, and the Editors' decision is final.

“Contributors who wish to reference their own previous publications in their paper are requested to anonymise their work by inserting 'Author' both in the body of the text where their name would normally appear, and also in the bibliography.

“Authors should prepare and upload two versions of their manuscript. One should be a complete text and when uploading this file, authors will then be able to define the non-anonymous version as  ‘File not for review.’

“The second version of the manuscript should have all information identifying the author removed from the file, to allow it to be sent anonymously to referees. This file should be defined as the ‘Main Document.’

“Corresponding authors should provide a full postal address and contact email address. Contributors should also include brief biographical details (not more than three lines) for each author, which may include their institutional affiliation, membership of an organisation and aspects of their biography, including experiences of social difference that they think are important and relevant to their contribution to the journal. These details should be saved as a separate file and defined as ‘Author Bio.’”

“Notes should be on a separate sheet at the end of the manuscript. Authors should submit two copies of a manuscript, one completely blinded and one including all author contact information as well as an author bio of approximately 75 words.”

“Published texts will be selected among the best through double-blind refereeing.”

“Be sure to submit an anonymous file, i.e. one that does not include your name or the names of co-authors, institutional affiliation or explicit references to your identity or previous work in the text or endnotes. You will have the change restore these references and information later on in the process. You should also remove your identity from the file properties by clicking on the following commands:

Windows: File > Save as … > Tools > Security > Remove personal information from this file on save > Save.

Mac: File > Save as … > Options … > (show all) Security > Remove personal information from this file on save > OK.”

“Manuscripts should be stripped of any reference to the author(s).  Please send a separate document containing your title page.”

“EiP is double-blind peer reviewed and is published open access two times per year in May and November.
“Peer Review Process
Articles that are found promising will be subjected to review by independent expert peers (double-blind refereeing).”

No website. From the Philos-L announcement: “Submissions should be original, not submitted elsewhere, and prepared for blind review.”

“Articles submitted for publication in Etyka undergo an initial qualification procedure by the Editorial Board. After being qualified by the Editorial Board, the article is reviewed by outside reviewers.
“When submitting the article, please enclose an abstract in English (maximum 800 characters), and a short note about the author (200 characters maximum).”
From the Philos-L announcement: “The articles are reviewed anonymously by prominent specialists in the field of philosophical ethics.”

No mention of blind review.

“Double-blind peer review

This journal follows a double-blind reviewing procedure. Authors are therefore requested to submit:

    A blinded manuscript without any author names and affiliations in the text or on the title page. Self-identifying citations and references in the article text should be avoided.

    A separate title page, containing title, all author names, affiliations, and the contact information of the corresponding author. Any acknowledgements, disclosures, or funding information should also be included on this page.”

“All submitted articles will undergo double-blind review by at least two external referees.”
“Submitted manuscripts ought to be:
”• prepared for blind refereeing: authors` names and their institutional affiliations should not appear on the manuscript. Moreover, "identifiers" in MS Word Properties should be removed
”• accompanied by a separate file containing the title of the manuscript, a short abstract (not exceeding 250 words), keywords, academic affiliation and full address for correspondence including e-mail address”

No mention of blind review in downloadable Call for Papers PDF or at Authors page.

“Format:

Text should be double spaced, and papers should accommodate anonymous refereeing (authors provide their details separately in the submission process).

“Refereeing:

It is the policy of the Journal that all published papers will have undergone a process of anonymous refereeing (i.e will have been anonymously refereed at least once), assuming that they were submitted in suitable format … .”

“The European Journal of Political Theory operates a strictly anonymous peer review process in which the reviewer’s name is withheld from the author and, the author’s name from the reviewer. The reviewer may at their own discretion opt to reveal their name to the author in their review but our standard policy practice is for both identities to remain concealed.”

“Papers must be prepared for blind review, omitting self-identifying information (name and address should be placed on a separate word file, and not repeated in the text). All papers are peer reviewed.”

“All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is double blind and submission is online via Scholar One Manuscripts .”

“Manuscripts are reviewed by the Editor(s) of the issue and blind-reviewed by two anonymous referees.

“Submitted papers will be reviewed by the Editors and blind-reviewed by two anonymous referees. For the purpose of blind refereeing, authors are requested not to include their name or affiliation in the manuscript, but in a separate file. Each submission should consist of two distinct files:

    “A frontpage containing the title of the paper, the name and affiliation of the author(s), as well as any acknowledgment.

    “The manuscript of the paper (containing only the title, the abstract and the body of the article).”

“Our contributions are selected by our Editorial Board via a rigorous process of anonymous peer-review.

”As Evental Aesthetics is a peer-reviewed journal, the Editors reserve the right to remove the author’s name and affiliation from any piece before it is sent out for review.  Likewise, reviewers’ names and affiliations will remain anonymous.

“All submissions will be peer-reviewed anonymously.”

“Ensuring a Blind Peer Review

“To ensure the integrity of the blind peer-review for submission to this journal, every effort should be made to prevent the identities of the authors and reviewers from being known to each other. This involves the authors, editors, and reviewers (who upload documents as part of their review) checking to see if the following steps have been taken with regard to the text and the file properties:

    “The authors of the document have deleted their names from the text, with ‘Author’ and year used in the references and footnotes, instead of the authors' name, article title, etc.

    “With Microsoft Office documents, author identification should also be removed from the properties for the file (see under File in Word), by clicking on the following, beginning with File on the main menu of the Microsoft application: File > Save As > Tools (or Options with a Mac) > Security > Remove personal information from file properties on save > Save.

    “With PDFs, the authors' names should also be removed from Document Properties found under File on Adobe Acrobat's main menu.”

No mention of blind review.

“Submissions must be sent as e-mail attachments (preferably as MS Word documents, although WordPerfect documents are also acceptable).

“The journal strongly prefers to receive submissions that are prepared for ‘blind review’; i.e., authors should not be identified in the attachment itself, but only in the body of the e-mail to which the document is attached.”

No mention of blind review.

“If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, please ensure that it is ready for blind peer-review by removing your name from your document.

“Peer Review Process

“We operate a system of double-blind peer review. Every article submission accepted for consideration will be considered by two reviewers.”

“The publication of the article is subjected to the previous approval of the journal's Editorial Board, as well as to peer review made by, at least, two ad hoc reviewers using the double blind review process.”

No English-language website. From Philos-L call for papers: “Submissions should be sent by e-mail attachment to the following electronic addresses: … prepared for blind reviewing. The authors should remove from the body of the paper, the notes and the references all self-identifying references. The name, affiliation and contact information of the authors should be provided

on a separate page.”

No mention of blind review.

“All submissions will be subjected to anonymous review and should be prepared accordingly “Manuscripts will be subject to a blind review process, and the Editors will try to provide some comments to the authors based on the reviewers' reports, although this may not always be possible.”

“Anonymous papers are required with no mention of the author's name or affiliation appearing. Acknowledgements and references to the author's own work should be removed for the duration of the review process. … Please include your full academic or other affiliation, a brief biographical note and your postal address with your submission, but not in the article intended for review.”

No mention of blind review.

No mention of blind review.

“All submissions are peer reviewed by two or more members of the distinguished, multi-disciplinary editorial board. … Manuscripts will be sent out anonymously for editorial evaluation.
”An abstract of no more than 150 words, 4-5 keywords, and a brief biographical statement for each author must accompany each submission. The abstract and keywords should be placed on a separate page immediately after the title page.”

No mention of blind review.

“Anonymization: Please anonymize your submission for blind review. In particular, the name of all authors should be removed from the title page or any other page of the manuscript; any acknowledgements or references to personal communication should also be removed; finally, remove all references to any of the authors’ unpublished manuscripts.”

No mention of blind review.

“SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

“The journal accepts electronic submissions by e-mail to gfpj@newschool.edu. Manuscripts should be submitted in Word (.doc) or RTF (.rtf) format.

“Print manuscripts may also be submitted. These must be double-spaced, prepared for blind review, and submitted in triplicate with cover letter, to:

Submissions, Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal

Department of Philosophy

New School for Social Research

65 5th Avenue, Room 250

New York, New York 10003 USA

“Authors should include a short biography giving academic affiliation, recent publications and areas of interest, and an abstract (up to 150 words).”

“Except for invited submission for guest-edited special issues, GPS has a strict triple blind review policy, meaning that authors' identities are not revealed to referees or editors during review. Editors only become aware of the identity of an author if and when a paper is accepted for publication.”

“The journal is peer-reviewed, which means that all manuscripts will be refereed by the Editors with the help of external experts.”

“Submissions will go through independent and professional ‘Blind Peer Review’ process.”

The paper template includes no anonymizing instructions.

“Publication Process:
“Once the deadline has passed the editorial board reviews all submissions for eligibility and potential for publication.
“All articles accepted at this first stage will be peer-reviewed at the second stage. Peer-review is undertaken anonymously by an external academic who specialises in all or most of the aspects of the paper.”

“All articles are reviewed blindly, so we ask that the author’s name appear only on the first page of the manuscript and not in the body of the work.”

“All manuscripts will be subject to the standard peer review process by the Hastings Center Report editor and peer reviewers.

“Name(s) and contact information for the author(s) should appear only on an accompanying cover sheet. Include a mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, and an email address.”

No mention of blind review at website.

From Philos-L notice: “Manuscripts … should be prepared for blinded peer review with the authors’ names and other identifying information appearing only on a cover sheet.”

“All papers are double-blind refereed.

”The article file should be ready for blind review and must bear no trace of the author’s identity. The author's details (name, affiliation, email address and postal address) should be supplied either in the email or in a separate file.”

No mention of blind review.

No mention of blind review. Obtaining submission guidelines requires log-in.

No mention of blind review.

No mention of blind review.

“All the authors of a paper should include their full names, affiliations, postal addresses, telephone and fax numbers and email addresses on the cover page of the manuscript. One author should be identified as the Corresponding Author.  An anonymised version of a paper is also required.

“Authors should prepare two versions of their manuscript.  One should be a complete text, while in the second document information identifying the author should be removed from files to allow them to be sent anonymously to referees.  Please send both versions to the Editor upon submission.”.

No mention of blind review.

No mention of blind review.

“History of European Ideas is an international, peer-reviewed journal publishing high-quality, original research. All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is double blind and submission is via email”

“HoH follows a double-blind article review procedure in which the identities of the author and the evaluators remain confidential. Furthermore, we ask that all features that may identify the author be removed from the body of the text. Submissions should instead include a cover page indicating author’s name, affiliation, and contact information. Acknowledgments can be provided on a separate sheet.”

“Submissions should be prepared for blind review in WORD or rft (not PDF) and sent by email attachment to Richard C. Taylor at [email address].”

“Copy should be submitted as an email attachment to the relevant editor (see below). … Copies should not contain any information that identifies the author.”

“1. Peer review policy

History of the Human Sciences operates a double-blind peer review policy.

“8.4.2 Corresponding Author Contact details

Provide full contact details for the corresponding author including email, mailing address and telephone numbers. Academic affiliations are required for all co-authors. These details should be presented separately to the main text of the article to facilitate anonymous peer review.”

No mention of blind review.

“Papers submitted to HOPOS cannot be reviewed unless they are properly blinded. To blind your paper, do not include a title page. The first page of the paper should contain the title, immediately followed by the abstract, immediately followed by the text of the paper. The author’s name should not appear on this page, nor should the author’s name appear in the manuscript, in references in the body of the text, or in the footnotes in such a way that might identify the author to the reviewer. Papers that do not conform to these specifications will be returned to the authors.”

No mention of blind review.

“Double-blind peer review

This journal follows a double-blind reviewing procedure. Authors are therefore requested to submit:

    A blinded manuscript without any author names and affiliations in the text or on the title page. Self-identifying citations and references in the article text should be avoided.

    A separate title page, containing title, all author names, affiliations, and the contact information of the corresponding author. Any acknowledgements, disclosures, or funding information should also be included on this page.”

“Double-blind peer review

This journal follows a double-blind reviewing procedure. Authors are therefore requested to submit:

    A blinded manuscript without any author names and affiliations in the text or on the title page. Self-identifying citations and references in the article text should be avoided.

    A separate title page, containing title, all author names, affiliations, and the contact information of the corresponding author. Any acknowledgements, disclosures, or funding information should also be included on this page.”

“Papers should be submitted in blind review format. Please omit any self-identifying information within the abstract and body of the paper.”

No mention of blind review.

“The submitting author, who is generally the corresponding author, is responsible for the manuscript during the submission and peer-review process. The submitting author must ensure that all eligible co-authors have been included in the author list (read the criteria to qualify for authorship) and that they all have read and approved the submitted version of the manuscript.
“A cover letter must be included with each manuscript submission. It should contain the full author names and affiliations, and further details about identifying text removed from the manuscript; you may append the complete version of your manuscript to the cover letter.
”The names of proposed and excluded reviewers should be provided in the submission system, not in the cover letter.
“Editorial Procedures and Peer-Review
“Initial Checks
“All submitted manuscripts received by the Editorial Office will be checked by a professional in-house Managing Editor to determine whether it is properly prepared and whether the manuscript follows the ethical policies of the journal. Manuscripts that do not fit the journals ethical policy will be rejected before peer-review. Manuscripts that are not properly prepared will be returned to the authors for revision and resubmission. After these checks, the Managing Editor will consult the journals’ Editor-in-Chief or the Guest Editor (or an Editorial Board member in case of a conflict of interest) to determine whether the manuscript fits the scope of the journal and whether it is scientifically sound. No judgment on the significance or potential impact of the work will be made at this stage. Reject decisions at this stage will be verified by the Editor-in-Chief.
“Peer-Review
“Once a manuscript passes the initial checks, it will be assigned to at least two independent experts for peer-review. A double blind peer-review process is applied, where authors' identities are not known to reviewers.
“In the case of regular submissions, in-house assistant editors will invite experts, including recommendations by an academic editor. These experts may also include Editorial Board members and Guest Editors of the journal. In the case of a special issue, the Guest Editor will advise on the selection of reviewers. Potential reviewers suggested by the authors may also be considered. Reviewers should not have published with any of the co-authors during the past five years and should not currently work or collaborate with one of the institutes of the co-authors of the submitted manuscript.
“Editorial Decision and Revision
“Based on the comments and advice of the peer-reviewers, an external editor – usually the Editor-in-Chief or a Guest Editor – will make a decision to accept, reject, or to ask authors to revise the manuscript.”

“All submissions should be word-processed or typed, double spaced, and prepared for anonymous review by referees.”

No mention of blind review.

“Anonymity

“To facilitate our anonymous review process, the author should not be identified in the manuscript or the abstract.”

“The double-blind review process is adopted for the journal. The reviewer/s and the author/s do not know each other’s identity.”

No mention of blind review.

No mention of blind review.

No editorial policy on paper submissions at website or in referenced Guide for Authors. Philos-L announcement: “Papers, suitable for blind reviewing, must be up to twenty pages.”

No mention of blind review.

“Papers submitted for publication in Informal Logic must be prepared by the author(s) for blind reviewing: there must be no identifying references in the body of the paper, the notes, or the references. Papers are initially screened blind by the four editors. Those deemed to qualify for consideration for publication are then sent to two external referees who are scholars carefully selected by the editors for their knowledge of the subject-matter of the paper and the field, their record for thoroughness and fairness, and their expressed willingness to review in a timely manner. … The editors normally do not know the identity of the author until after they have made their decision about the disposition of the paper.

“The text, if submitted to a peer-reviewed section (e.g., Articles), has had the authors' names removed. If an author is cited, "Author" and year are used in the bibliography and footnotes, instead of author's name, paper title, etc. The author's name has also been removed from the document's Properties, which in Microsoft Word is found in the File menu.”

“This journal uses ScholarOne Manuscripts* (previously Manuscript Central) to peer review manuscript submissions.

“Manuscript Style

“Submitted manuscripts must be uploaded in an editable Word format, with the title page as a separate file to facilitate blinded peer-review.

“Title page. The title should be uploaded as a separate file, with the name(s) and institutional affiliation(s) of the author(s), and the full postal and email address of the author to whom proofs, offprints, and other correspondence should be sent.”

No mention of blind review.

“Peer Review Policy:

All research articles published in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing by at least two anonymous referees.

“All authors of a manuscript should include their full names, affiliations, postal addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses on the cover page of the manuscript. One author should be identified as the corresponding author. Please give the affiliation where the research was conducted. If any of the named co-authors moves affiliation during the peer review process, the new affiliation can be given as a footnote. Please note that no changes to affiliation can be made after the manuscript is accepted. Please note that the email address of the corresponding author will normally be displayed in the article PDF (depending on the journal style) and the online article.

All persons who have a reasonable claim to authorship must be named in the manuscript as co-authors; the corresponding author must be authorized by all co-authors to act as an agent on their behalf in all matters pertaining to publication of the manuscript, and the order of names should be agreed by all authors.”

“10. Only your submission email should contain the following information:

Name of author
Title of paper
Academic affiliation, if any, what capacity (e.g., B.A., M.A., Ph.D. student; Assistant, Associate or full Professor; independent scholar)
Author’s email address (if multiple authors, please provide this information for all of them)

11. Your manuscript should contain the following:

Title of text (anonymous)
100-word abstract
6-10 keywords
Main body of text
Bibliography of texts used (alphabetically arranged by (first) author’s or editor’s surname, without further sub-divisions)”

“Agreements

“2. Preliminarily all submissions will be reviewed double-blind.”

“Text Formatting Details

“1. Please place in front a covering page with the following information:

Title of the Paper

Name of the author

Affiliation

Email address of the author

“2. The next sheet should be the anonymous manuscript with the following structure:

Title of the text (without the author’s name)

Abstract (ca. 100 words)

Actual text

Bibliography”

“All submissions are peer-reviewed in the usual double-blind manner.”

No mention of blind review.

“Peer Review Process

The journal is administered by the editors who handle the daily operation and management and the oversight of reviewing. Submissions are first screened by the editors, who evaluate their pertinence and quality. They are then sent to one or two referees who are selected among the members of the Editorial Board or among other recognized specialists. The peer review process is double-blind. On the basis of the evaluation of the referee(s), the editors make a final decision.”

No mention of blind review.

No mention of blind review.

“IJBS adheres to a policy of blind, peer-review. In order to ensure appropriate review, author name(s) should appear only on the title page, references to any author's prior work should be masked, and internal identifications in the text should be avoided.

“Ensuring a Blind Peer Review

“To ensure the integrity of the blind peer-review for submission to this journal, every effort should be made to prevent the identities of the authors and reviewers from being known to each other. This involves the authors, editors, and reviewers (who upload documents as part of their review) checking to see if the following steps have been taken with regard to the text and the file properties:

“The authors of the document have deleted their names from the text, with "Author" and year used in the references and footnotes, instead of the authors' name, article title, etc.

“With Microsoft Office documents, author identification should also be removed from the properties for the file (see under File in Word), by clicking on the following, beginning with File on the main menu of the Microsoft application: File > Save As > Tools (or Options with a Mac) > Security > Remove personal information from file properties on save > Save.

“With PDFs, the authors' names should also be removed from Document Properties found under File on Adobe Acrobat's main menu.”

“All our articles are refereed through a double-blind process.”

“Title page

“The title page should:

    provide the title of the article

    list the full names, institutional addresses and email addresses for all authors

    indicate the corresponding author

“Please note: as this journal operates double-blind peer review, the title page should be uploaded as part of the covering letter, and not included in the main manuscript file.”

No mention of blind review.

“All submissions are subject to triple anonymous peer review.
“To facilitate our anonymous review process, the author should not be identified in the text of the submission or the title page. Please take particular care with instances of self-citation. Neither should he or she be identifiable from any acknowledgements. Should your paper be accepted, these can be added later in the editing process.”

“All papers are subject to anonymous peer review.

“To facilitate our anonymous review process, the author should not be identified in the text of the submission or the title page. Neither should he or she be identifiable from any acknowledgements included at the end of the paper or in the footnotes. These can be added later in the editing process, should your paper be accepted.”

“Title Page

The title page should include:

    The name(s) of the author(s)

    A concise and informative title

    The affiliation(s) and address(es) of the author(s)

    The e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers of the corresponding author.”

No mention of blind review.

“All primary research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and evaluation by at least one anonymous referee.

“All the authors of a paper should include their full names, affiliations, postal addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses on the cover page of the manuscript. One author should be identified as the corresponding author.”

“CSC peer review process is based upon single blind review where reviewer’s name is concealed from the author(s). In order to ensure that only non plagiarized, original and high quality research publications each manuscript is assigned to at least three editors and each editor is assigned not more than two manuscripts. … Each editor further assigns manuscript to multiple reviewers.” Manuscript Preparation Guidelines for Computer Science Journals is a six-page document divided into three sections. The first two consist in consecutive repeats of the following four sentences: “This guideline is used for all journals. These are the manuscript preparation guidelines used as a standard template for all journal submissions. Author must follow these instructions while preparing/modifying these guidelines. This guideline is used for all journals.”

“Authors may suggest the appropriate persons to referee their paper. However, the Editors need not necessarily take up the suggestion. Authors may request that their identity be kept unknown to the referee.”

“Refereeing is 'double-blind' for all submissions, so authors should prepare and upload two versions of their manuscript. One should be a complete text, while in the second all document information identifying the author should be removed from files to allow them to be sent anonymously to referees. When uploading files authors will then be able to define the non-anonymous version as ‘File not for review’. Furthermore, the manuscript should not bear any marks that could lead to the identification of the author; i.e. all forms of self-reference should be omitted in the submitted manuscript.”

“Peer review policy
“Articles in this journal are subject to double blind peer review by at least two referees.”

“Double-blinded Peer Review

“JPT uses a double-blind peer review system, which means that manuscript author(s) do not know who the reviewers are, and that reviewers do not know the names of the author(s). When you submit your article, you must also submit a separate title page which includes the full title of the manuscript plus the names and complete contact details of all authors. This page will not be accessible to the referees. All other files (manuscript, figures, tables, etc.) should not contain any information concerning author names, institutions, etc. The names of these files and the document properties should also be anonymized.”

“Manuscripts should be submitted as an email attachment in .doc or .docx format to the Editor-in-Chief of the particular journal to which you are submitting. The main body of the e-mail message should contain the title of the paper and the names and addresses of all authors. Manuscripts must be in English.

“All manuscripts undergo a double-blind peer-review process. Manuscripts should be stripped of identifying information of the author and co-authors.

“A cover page should accompany the manuscript and include all contact information for all manuscript authors (affiliation, postal address, email address, and phone number).”

“Manuscripts should be submitted as an email attachment in .doc or .docx format to the Editor-in-Chief of the particular journal to which you are submitting. The main body of the e-mail message should contain the title of the paper and the names and addresses of all authors. Manuscripts must be in English.

“All manuscripts undergo a double-blind peer-review process. Manuscripts should be stripped of identifying information of the author and co-authors.

“A cover page should accompany the manuscript and include all contact information for all manuscript authors (affiliation, postal address, email address, and phone number).”

No mention of blind review.

“Articles - Prospective articles should be in the range of 6,000-8,000 words, prepared for blind review, and accompanied by an abstract of not more than 250 words.

“To ensure the integrity of the blind peer-review for submission to this journal, every effort should be made to prevent the identities of the authors and reviewers from being known to each other. This involves the authors, editors, and reviewers (who upload documents as part of their review) checking to see if the following steps have been taken with regard to the text and the file properties:

    The authors of the document have deleted their names from the text, with "Author" and year used in the references and footnotes, instead of the authors' name, article title, etc.

    With Microsoft Office documents, author identification should also be removed from the properties for the file (see under File in Word), by clicking on the following, beginning with File on the main menu of the Microsoft application: File > Save As > Tools (or Options with a Mac) > Security > Remove personal information from file properties on save > Save.

    With PDFs, the authors' names should also be removed from Document Properties found under File on Adobe Acrobat's main menu.”

“All the manuscripts submitted for publication to the Editorial team undergo an anonymous peer review procedure, necessary for assessing the quality of scientific information, the relevance to the field, the appropriateness of scientific writing style, the compliance with the style and technical requirements of our journal, etc.”

“Electronic submissions are preferred. Submissions should not exceed 10,000 words (including notes) and should be prepared for blind review. Information about the author should be provided in an accompanying note that should also indicate that the paper is not being simultaneously considered elsewhere.”

No mention of blind review.

No mention of blind review.

“Manuscripts, which have been suitably prepared for blind refereeing, should be sent to the Editor ….

“They should be typed on one side of the paper, double spaced, with ample margins, and bear the title of the contribution and name(s) of the author(s).”

No mention of blind review.

“Manuscripts are blind reviewed. Author identification should be removed from the text and references. This can be accomplished by referring to your work in the third person, and citing the references in the usual manner (do not delete your name from the references).”

No mention of blind review.

No mention of blind review.

“Manuscripts (one original) should be submitted to the Editor of Isis, …. An electronic copy must also be submitted, as a Word document or equivalent (no PDFs please), either as an email attachment sent to isis@yorku.ca or on a CD included with the hard copy.

“Isis normally uses double-blind refereeing; authors should therefore identify themselves only on a detachable cover sheet.”

“All submissions are peer reviewed, following editorial screening, by anonymous referees.”

No English language website.

From Philos-L announcement: “Articles will be subject to double-blind peer review. Personal information should only appear on the cover page of the manuscript in order to ensure anonymity. Prior to submitting a manuscript and before the date of October 1st, 2016, authors are invited to send in a working title and rough sketch of their proposed contribution. Subsequently, authors will receive preliminary feedback from the editors, together with further information regarding formatting.”

“Janus Head uses a peer-review process. Typically, these reviews are "blind," which means the reviewers are not aware of the identity of the authors. However, in the case of special issues, guest editors (who are aware of the identities of the authors) do make final decisions about the acceptance of papers. In the first stage of the review process, the author is notified of the receipt of his or her submission. … Once you receive notice, the work is submitted to two or more reviewers for blind review.”

No mention of blind review.

“Title, author’s name, and full address (including an email-address) are to be supplied on a separate page, so that authors are not identified to reviewers. Each page of the manuscript should be consecutively numbered, including pages of references and captions.“

“Manuscript submissions should be accompanied by a cover letter containing all contact information and title of the essay. No identifying information may be in the submission itself.

“All manuscripts submitted for publication must be prepared for blind review.”

“Ensuring a Blind Peer Review

“To ensure the integrity of the blind peer-review for submission to this journal, every effort should be made to prevent the identities of the authors and reviewers from being known to each other. This involves the authors, editors, and reviewers (who upload documents as part of their review) checking to see if the following steps have been taken with regard to the text and the file properties:

“The authors of the document have deleted their names from the text, with "Author" and year used in the references and footnotes, instead of the authors' name, article title, etc.

“With Microsoft Office documents, author identification should also be removed from the properties for the file (see under File in Word), by clicking on the following, beginning with File on the main menu of the Microsoft application: File > Save As > Tools (or Options with a Mac) > Security > Remove personal information from file properties on save > Save.

“With PDFs, the authors' names should also be removed from Document Properties found under File on Adobe Acrobat's main menu.”

“Double-blind peer review

This journal follows a double-blind reviewing procedure. Authors are therefore requested to submit:

    A blinded manuscript without any author names and affiliations in the text or on the title page. Self-identifying citations and references in the article text should be avoided.

    A separate title page, containing title, all author names, affiliations, and the contact information of the corresponding author. Any acknowledgements, disclosures, or funding information should also be included on this page.”

No mention of blind review.

No mention of blind review.

No mention of blind review.

No mention of blind review.

No mention of blind review.

No mention of blind review.

No mention of blind review.

No mention of blind review.

“In order to facilitate blind refereeing, the author(s)'s name(s) should not be shown on the manuscript, and all identifying references to the author(s)'s own work(s) or affiliations should, if this is feasible, be masked or omitted. The name(s) of the author(s) with the title of the contribution should be included on a separate page, with the full postal address of the author who will check the proofs and receive correspondence and offprints.”

“Due to a constructive double-blind review process, contributors are advised to be patient as they work toward acceptance and publication of their essays.

“Only contributions not under consideration elsewhere will be accepted, and these will be subject to double-blind peer review.  Replies and rejoinders are not usually subject to such review, but they will be evaluated by the editorial board for appropriateness.”

“Authors should prepare manuscripts for double-blind peer review: please redact or remove any content (e.g., self-references) and document meta-data which may identify the author.”

“Following a preliminary triage to eliminate submissions unsuitable for Journal of Biomimetics in Engineering, all papers are sent out for review. The covering letter is important. To help the Editor in his preliminary evaluation, please indicate why you think the paper suitable for publication. If your paper should be considered for fast-track publication, please explain why.
“The journal’s policy is to have manuscripts reviewed by two expert reviewers. Journal of Biomimetics in Engineering utilizes a single-blind peer review process in which the reviewer’s name and information is withheld from the author. All manuscripts are reviewed as rapidly as possible, while maintaining rigor. Reviewers make comments to the author and recommendations to the Editor-in-Chief who then makes the final decision.
“As part of the submission process you will be asked to provide the names of 4 peers who could be called upon to review your manuscript. Recommended reviewers should be experts in their fields and should be able to provide an objective assessment of the manuscript. Please be aware of any conflicts of interest when recommending reviewers. Examples of conflicts of interest include (but are not limited to) the below:
    The reviewer should have no prior knowledge of your submission
    The reviewer should not have recently collaborated with any of the authors
    Reviewer nominees from the same institution as any of the authors are not permitted
“You will also be asked to nominate peers who you do not wish to review your manuscript (opposed reviewers).
“Please note that the Editors are not obliged to invite any recommended/opposed reviewers to assess your manuscript.
“The Editor or members of the Editorial Board may occasionally submit their own manuscripts for possible publication in the journal. In these cases, the peer review process will be managed by alternative members of the Board and the submitting Editor/Board member will have no involvement in the decision-making process.”

“Research articles will be subject to blind peer review by appropriate members of the Editorial Board or external evaluators selected at the editor’s discretion.

“All submissions should be preceded by a header containing the title of the manuscript, the name(s) of the author(s), any affiliations, mail and e-mail addresses, and telephone numbers.”

“The Journal of Business Ethics follows a double-blind reviewing procedure. Authors are therefore requested not to put their name(s) in the manuscript. Self identifying citations and references in the article text should either be avoided or left blank when manuscripts are first submitted.”

“The title page should contain the name, institutional affiliation, postal address, telephone number, fax number, country code, and electronic mailing address of each author. The second page should include the manuscripts title and an abstract that is 150 words or fewer. The manuscript should begin on the third page. All submissions will be double blind reviewed. Apart from the first page, the identity of the author(s) should be completely removed from the abstract and manuscript, and appear only on the title page.”

“The Journal of Camus Studies follows a policy of double-blind peer review; please ensure that all author information appears only in the cover sheet document and that the main text of the manuscript contains no identifying marks. … Upon receipt of submission, the Editor may conduct an initial review to determine that the manuscript is suitable for publication in the Journal. The Editor may then decline to pass the manuscript on for review or may pass the submission on to at least two editorial reviewers. At least two reviewers will provide evaluative comments and recommendations for each submission they receive.”

“Unsolicited manuscripts may be submitted to the Journal of Catholic Social Thought, and they are subject to blind review by the Editorial Board.”

No mention of blind review.

“The Journal of Chinese Philosophy is a blind peer-reviewed philosophical journal devoted to the study of Chinese Philosophy and Chinese thought in all their phases and stages of development and articulation.”

“PEER REVIEW

“The majority of articles published in The Journal of Clinical Ethics are subject to double-blinded peer review. The manuscripts are reviewed by experts who do not receive remuneration. Some of the reviewers serve as Associate Editors for the journal. The Associate Editors receive a complimentary subscription to the journal, but receive no other compensation.

“Some manuscripts are invited by members of the editorial staff, and, as a result, are not subject to outside blinded peer-review. They are subject to review by an internal editorial board.”

No mention of blind review.

“The JCN is a double-anonymous peer-reviewed journal. In order for a manuscript to be considered for publication, the JCN requires the following:

“An electronic copy of the manuscript with the author's name on the title page only and no identifying information of authorship within the manuscript …”

“Referees
Please submit the names and institutional e-mail addresses of several potential referees. For more details, visit our Support site. Note that the editor retains the sole right to decide whether or not the suggested reviewers are used.”

No mention of blind review.

No mention of blind review.

“JOCI operates a blind peer review process during which the identities of the author and the reviewers are concealed. Please be sure to remove your name (and the names of any co-authors) from your manuscript text and your file properties.”

“All submissions are double-blind peer-reviewed. Manuscripts are initially reviewed by the editorial team. Papers which meet our editorial criteria are sent for formal review. The editors will make a decision based on reviewers' assessments according to the following options:
“Accept: the manuscript is published unchanged.
“Minor revisions: the manuscript requires minor changes, and will be published once those have been completed satisfactorily.
“Major revisions: the manuscript needs substantial reworking and will thereafter require another round of review.
“Reject: the manuscript is not suitable for publication.
“JCMS is committed to a fast review process. We intend to provide authors with feedback in less than three months from submission, and to publish manuscripts within six months of final acceptance.”

No mention of blind review.

No mention of blind review, bad link to information page.

“A. Research Articles
“3. Please prepare your article for blind review; do not include any reference to the author.
“Review Process
“1. First Stage: All submitted articles will be considered for publication. The articles are first screened by the editors. Those papers judged by the editors as a) not the meet the standards of scientific method, b) not to link to any topic related to philosophy and its didactics, c) to be of insufficient general interest or d) to be otherwise inappropriate are rejected directly. To save time for authors and peer-reviewers, only those papers that seem most likely to meet our editorial criteria are sent to the stage of formal peer review.
“2. Second Stage: The article is sent for double-blind review to two reviewers. The reviewers are typically members of the Editorial Board but may be external.
“3. Third Stage: The editors make a decision based on the reviewers' advice.”

No website. Philos-L announcement: No mention of blind review.

No mention of blind review.

“The journal is peer-reviewed, which means that all manuscripts will undergo rigorous peer review, based on initial screening by the editors and anonymized refereeing by at least two anonymous referees.”

No mention of blind review.

“Please remove your name and other identifying information from the file before you submit. We recommend that before you upload your paper, go to "file" >> "properties" and erase all personal information listed in that window, particularly the author's name.”

“All manuscripts submitted to the Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice will be reviewed by two experts in the field. The Journal uses single blinded review. The names of the reviewers will thus not be disclosed to the author submitting a paper.”

“The Journal of French and Francophone Philsophy adheres to a policy of double-blind peer review. … In order to ensure appropriate review, the author name(s) should appear only on the title page, references to any author's prior work should be masked, and internal identifications in the text should be removed.”

No mention of blind review.

No mention of blind review.

“At first submission, typescripts

must not contain any indication of the author’s identity; authors should, wherever possible, refer to their own work in the third person. More extensive and personalized reference to an author’s previous work may be made in the final version”

No mention of blind review.

No mention of blind review.

No mention of blind review.

Website contains no author instructions or submission guidelines, no mention of blind review.

No submission information supplied at website.

“All contributions will be blind-refereed.”

“Journal of International Political Theory operates a strictly anonymous double-blind peer review process in which the reviewer’s name is withheld from the author and, the author’s name from the reviewer. The reviewer may at their own discretion opt to reveal their name to the author in their review but our standard policy practice is for both identities to remain concealed. Each manuscript submitted to the Journal of International Political Theory first undergoes an internal review by the Editor to determine whether it should be sent out for further external peer review. This step of the review process is designed, in part, to ensure that submissions are an appropriate fit with the journal's particular remit, as well as to ensure that manuscripts meet adequate standards to be sent for external peer review. Each manuscript sent for external peer review is reviewed by at least two referees.”

No mention of blind review.

“All submissions will be double-blind reviewed.”

No mention of blind review.

“Double-blinded Peer Review

JJTP uses a double-blind peer review system, which means that manuscript author(s) do not know who the reviewers are, and that reviewers do not know the names of the author(s). When you submit your article via Editorial Manager, you will be asked to submit a separate title page which includes the full title of the manuscript plus the names and complete contact details of all authors. This page will not be accessible to the referees. All other files (manuscript, figures, tables, etc.) should not contain any information concerning author names, institutions, etc. The names of these files and the document properties should also be anonymized.”

“On the cover page, you must state:

1. your address;

2. your telephone number (including work, home, and cellphone numbers), fax number, and email address and your preference for communication;

3. a two-to-three (complete) sentence bio of each author, including the author's present title and institutional/corporate affiliation and any academic degrees and from what institutions they were received (please include full name, city, and state); and

…

“Any acknowledgments must be stated on the cover page only. If you send the file as an attachment, be sure your email includes contact information in the event we can't open the attachment.

“Peer review: Decisions to accept or reject papers are based on the recommendations received during blind peer review.”

“The author’s name should not appear anywhere on the manuscript, nor in the file name. If the content refers to the author, it should do so covertly. The author should provide her or his name and biographical note in the email to which the manuscript is attached. The full title of the article should be stated in the email and included in the manuscript.

“Each article is subject to editorial screening and at least two anonymous reviews.”

No mention of blind review.

No mention of blind review.

No mention of blind review.

No mention of blind review.

“Manuscripts submitted are first screened by the editors; only those on subject matters within the scope of the Journal are sent to expert referees for evaluation. This two-tier screening process helps to ensure an appropriate focus as well as high scientific quality of the Journal.

“(Optional)

Authors are invited to submit the names, addresses and e-mail addresses of up to five potential reviewers. Decision on whether or not the suggested referees are used lies solely with the editors.”

No mention of blind review.

“All submissions are double-blind refereed.

“All full articles considered for the main issues of the journal, as well as any special issues, will be sent for double blind peer review by experts in their relevant field.

“Submissions should be attached as a Word document with a separate title page which includes the title of the paper, author’s name(s), institutional affiliation(s) and email address(es).”

“JME operates double-blind peer review which requires authors to submit an anonymous version of their manuscript file: To be uploaded as the Manuscript File including abstract)

This file should be anonymous and should NOT include:

Any author names (including file path in document footer)

Author institution details

Author contact details

Acknowledgements

Competing interests (if declared)

Ethics approval statements that refer to your institution

Please ensure tracked changes are switched off if previously used.

“In order that the review process can be as efficient as possible for both authors and reviewers, all manuscripts are initially reviewed by the editors and a decision is made about whether to send the paper for review. Only a proportion of papers (about half) are sent for review.”

No mention of blind review.

“Authors are strongly encouraged to submit manuscripts via email. The manuscript should be prepared using MS Word or as an already blinded PDF and should be clearly labeled with the authors’ names.”

“Peer Review Policy

All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing by at least two anonymous referees.”

“Authors requesting blind review must specify and prepare their manuscripts accordingly.”

No mention of blind review.

No mention of blind review.

“Double-blinded Peer Review

“JMP uses a double-blinded peer review system, which means that manuscript author(s) do not know who the reviewers are, and that reviewers do not know the names of the author(s). When you submit your article via Editorial Manager, you will be asked to submit a separate title page which includes the full title of the manuscript plus the names and complete contact details of all authors. This page will not be accessible to the referees. All other files (manuscript, figures, tables, etc.) should not contain any information concerning author names, institutions, etc. The names of these files and the document properties should also be anonymized.”

No mention of blind review.

No mention of blind review.

“All manuscripts should be prepared for blind review with all identifying references and notes deleted in their entirety.

“On submission, authors are required to provide an abstract of no more than 150 words, current institutional affiliation, and preferred current email address.”

“The Editorial Board first evaluates submissions in-house, deciding whether to send them for blind peer review. If inappropriate, will be rejected at this stage.

If a manuscript passes this first stage, it is sent to peer reviewers, who are selected for a manuscript based on their corresponding area of expertise according to the Editorial Policy.”

“Manuscripts should be prepared for blind reviewing: neither the author's name nor the author's affiliation should be included in the manuscript, and references to the author's own work should be phrased in such a way that they do not reveal the identity of the author. Any other identifying information, including acknowledgments, should likewise be removed.”

“All submissions should be prepared for blind review. This means that the author's name and other identifying information should be removed from the text. Please also remove identifying information from other locations, such as under ‘Properties’ section in a Word file.”

“All submissions must also be formatted for double-blind review.

“We now require that all submissions be made by sending an email to submissions@journalofphilosophy.org with the manuscript file attached in PDF or Word format. Please include your name, contact information, and the title of your paper in your message. All submissions will be acknowledged by email, and all subsequent correspondence regarding the manuscript will be sent via email rather than post.

“Further, manuscripts must be prepared for double-blind refereeing, with any and all revealing references to the author removed, including personal acknowledgments. Any submission that does not adequately conceal the identity of its author will not be read.”

No mention of blind review.

“Following initial screening by the journal's Editors, articles will be subject to the normal processes of peer-review for scholarly refereed journals, including blind reviewing by at least two referees drawn from the Editorial Committee (or from other international scholars with special expertise as necessary).

“To ensure the integrity of the blind peer-review for submission to this journal, every effort should be made to prevent the identities of the authors and reviewers from being known to each other. This involves the authors, editors, and reviewers (who upload documents as part of their review) checking to see if the following steps have been taken with regard to the text and the file properties:

    “The authors of the document have deleted their names from the text, with "Author" and year used in the references and footnotes, instead of the authors' name, article title, etc.

    “With Microsoft Office documents, author identification should also be removed from the properties for the file.

    “For Microsoft 2003 and previous versions, and Macintosh versions of Word:

       Under the File menu select: Save As > Tools (or Options with a Mac) > Security > Remove personal information from file properties on save > Save.

    “For MacIntosh Word 2008 (and future versions)

        Under the File menu select "Properties."

        Under the Summary tab remove all of the identifying information from all of the fields.

        Save the File.

    “For Microsoft 2007 (Windows):

        Click on the office button in the upper-left hand corner of the office application

        Select "Prepare" from the menu options.

        Select "Properties" for the "Prepare" menu options.

        Delete all of the information in the document property fields that appear under the main menu options.

        Save the document and close the document property field section.

    “For Microsoft 2010 (Windows):

        Under the File menu select "Prepare for sharing."

        Click on the "Check for issues" icon.

        click on "inspect document" icon.

        Uncheck all of the checkboxes except "Document Properties and Personal information".

        Run the document inspector, which will then do a search of the document properties and indicated if any document property fields contain any information.

        If the document inspector finds that some of the document properties contain information it will notify you and give you the option to "Remove all," which you will click to remove the document properties and personal information from the document.

    “For PDF files:

        With PDFs, the authors' names should also be removed from Document Properties found under File on Adobe Acrobat's main menu.”

No mention of blind review.

“Manuscripts of papers will be examined by two anonymous referees. Manuscripts for essays and book reviews will be reviewed by the editor(s).”

“REVIEW PROCESS

“Submitted manuscripts will undergo double blind peer review in order to determine whether the subject matter fits within the scope of the journal and to assess the quality of the manuscript. The Editor will remove all identifying information from a submitted manuscript before it undergoes review. Some categories of manuscripts, such as solicited book reviews and letters to the editors, may be exempt from the peer review process.”

No mention of blind review.

No mention of blind review.

“Details of the author's institutional affiliation, full address and other contact information should be included on a separate cover sheet along with a note on the exact length of the article.

Two copies of each manuscript should be submitted electronically. One with the authors details attached and one anonymous for peer review.”

“The Journal of Practical Ethics is an invitation only, blind-peer-reviewed journal.”

No mention of blind review.

“Because the JRE review process is blind — referees are not supposed to know the identity of the author — authors must avoid writing their submissions (including notes) in a way that discloses their identity.”

No mention of blind review.

No mention of blind review.

“Anonymisation: When submitting her/his paper for the first time the author should delete her/his name as well as other indications of her/his identity from the manuscript. This way the anonymity of the review process is guaranteed.

“Contact information: The author needs to provide her/his complete contact information.”

“The Journal's new editorial process is web-based, with blind review of articles not only by referees but also by the editor, and it will enable a faster response-time for submissions.

“Papers should be submitted electronically by email attachment to [email address].  Please submit an abstract along with the paper, both blinded for peer review. Please include full identifying information within the text of the email.”

No mention of blind review.

“Because unsolicited manuscripts submitted for publication undergo a blind review process, the author's name should appear only on the cover page of the manuscript.”

“Manuscripts must be prepared for blind review. The author should submit two versions of the papers, with and without author's information respectively. In the blind version, the author's name and affiliation should not appear on the first page as the author. The acknowledgement or references to author's own work should not lead the reader to infer the author's identity.”

No mention of blind review.

“One editor (or possibly two co-editors) will work with a team of associate editors, a small group of advisory editors, and a large and highly diverse group of consulting editors. The journal will operate under a governing board including members of the editorial team and of the APA’s board of directors.

“J-APA will use triple-blind review. Reviewers will be assigned by an editor or associate editor with appropriate knowledge of the subfield.”

[From the Interfolio.com announcement:] “Associate editors will be responsible for selecting referees and, in the light of referees’ reports, for evaluating submissions with a view to determining their suitability for the journal. This work will require communication with the editor(s) and others. It is expected that a subset of the associate editors will be represented on the governing board.”

“All submissions are sent to two referees for blind peer-reviewing.

“As all essays are subject to blind peer review, please delete all personal information from the file (including the properties page) and send these on a separate file and/or cover letter.”

“Please eliminate all identifying information from your manuscript, in order to facilitate blind peer review. If you must include references to your own work, avoid using the first person in connection with it.”

“MANUSCRIPTS should be sent as e-mail attachments in Rich Text Format (RTF) or as MS Word documents to  (until June 30, 2010) jhpeditor@duke.edu or (after July 1, 2010) jhp@mailplus.wisc.edu.

“All direct and indirect references to the author in the manuscript should be removed. (This includes identifying references which appear unbeknownst to many authors in the document’s “Properties” section, which is found under “File” in MS Word.) Submissions not prepared for blind review will be returned for correction.”

“After an initial vetting process, all manuscripts will be reviewed in accordance with the JPE's innovative fully transparent, cooperative, open review (FTCOR) process, by members of a diverse, international editorial advisory board, constituted by experts in a variety of disciplines and areas of philosophy, and is associated with the Society for Philosophy of Emotion (SPE).”

“Peer Review Process

“Each submission will be subject to double blind peer review, and for relevant articles we aim to have both traditionally trained philosophers and  games scholars as reviewers.

“Submission Preparation Checklist

”6. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

“Ensuring a Blind Peer Review

“To ensure the integrity of the blind peer-review for submission to this journal, every effort should be made to prevent the identities of the authors and reviewers from being known to each other. This involves the authors, editors, and reviewers (who upload documents as part of their review) checking to see if the following steps have been taken with regard to the text and the file properties:

   The authors of the document have deleted their names from the text, with "Author" and year used in the references and footnotes, instead of the authors' name, article title, etc.

   With Microsoft Office documents, author identification should also be removed from the properties for the file.

   For Microsoft 2003 and previous versions, and Macintosh versions of Word:

      Under the File menu select: Save As > Tools (or Options with a Mac) > Security > Remove personal information from file properties on save > Save.

   For MacIntosh Word 2008 (and future versions)

      Under the File menu select "Properties."

      Under the Summary tab remove all of the identifying information from all of the fields.

      Save the File.

   For Microsoft 2007 (Windows):

      Click on the office button in the upper-left hand corner of the office application

  Select "Prepare" from the menu options.

      Select "Properties" for the "Prepare" menu options.

      Delete all of the information in the document property fields that appear under the main menu options.

      Save the document and close the document property field section.

   For Microsoft 2010 (Windows):

      Under the File menu select "Prepare for sharing."

      Click on the "Check for issues" icon.

      click on "inspect document" icon.

      Uncheck all of the checkboxes except "Document Properties and Personal information".

      Run the document inspector, which will then do a search of the document properties and indicated if any document property fields contain any information.

      If the document inspector finds that some of the document properties contain information it will notify you and give you the option to "Remove all," which you will click to remove the document properties and personal information from the document.

   For PDF files:

      With PDFs, the authors' names should also be removed from Document Properties found under File on Adobe Acrobat's main menu.”

No mention of blind review.

“JPS uses a double-blind peer review process. Therefore, the author's name and institutional affiliation should not appear on the manuscript, nor should references in the manuscript be presented in a manner that would allow the reader to identify the author.”

“Peer Review Process
“All articles submitted to the Journal of Science Fiction and Philosophy are peer-reviewed according to the following procedure: the Editor evaluates them for suitability of content and topic; if acceptable, the article is examined by at least two reviewers in a double-blind process; reviewers send their recommendation to the Editor, who makes all final decisions regarding publication.
“No author information should be included in the manuscript itself. Do not include your name in the title, and if you are referencing your own work, substitute your name with ‘Author’.”

“Articles should be submitted by e-mail attachment, preferably in rich text file (.rtf) format. Authors who are not able to submit email attachments should enclose a floppy disc or CD-ROM with their submission.

“To facilitate anonymous refereeing, the author's name and institution should not appear at the head or foot of the article.”

“If your manuscript was mask reviewed, please ensure that the final version for production includes a byline and full author note for typesetting.”

No mention of blind review.

“We adopt a double-blind reviewing policy for articles and survey articles, thereby ensuring the anonymity of the identities of both authors and referees. When submitting an article, please ensure that your full name and address (including e-mail address), institutional affiliation, five to ten keywords, and abstract appear on a separate page. Your name should not appear on any page; references to your own work should not reveal your identity.”

“The journal editor(s) make an initial appraisal of each submission. If the topic and treatment seem potentially appropriate for the journal, the manuscript is sent out to 2 reviewers.

“ARC Journals has a ‘double blind’ peer review process. Authors are not told who reviewed their paper and reviewers are not told who wrote the paper. Peer reviewers become aware of the identity of the authors after the article is published.”

“To ensure the integrity of the blind peer-review for submission to this journal, every effort should be made to prevent the identities of the authors and reviewers from being known to each other. This involves the authors, editors, and reviewers (who upload documents as part of their review) checking to see if the following steps have been taken with regard to the text and the file properties: etc.”

“1. The submitted texts will be refereed by at least two referees. The Editorial Board will communicate the referee's evaluation as soon as possible. The referees and authors identities shall remain anonymous (double blind process).”

“If at all possible, please provide an e-mail address for ease in correspondence.

“Contributions, essays, and articles will be considered without knowledge of the author’s name. They will be anonymously evaluated out of house or by the editors, who will then decide whether the submission is suitable for possible publication. Reviews will be evaluated by the editorial office. This includes requested reviews as well. “

“The manuscript file should not bear your name because all articles submitted will be double blind peer-reviewed.”

“The Editorial Board of the Kant Yearbook is composed of renowned international experts, and selects papers for publication through a double blind peer review process.”

No website available.

From back cover:

“The article file should be ready for blind review and must bear no trace of the author’s identity. The author’s details (name, affiliation, email address and postal address) should be supplied either in the email or in a separate file.

“A biographical note of around 75 words giving the author’s name, affiliation, principal publications, etc. should also be supplied, on a separate cover sheet.”

“Anonymity

We do not release reviewers’ identities to authors or to other reviewers, except when reviewers specifically ask to be identified. Unless they feel strongly, however, we prefer that reviewers should remain anonymous throughout the review process and beyond. Before revealing their identities, reviewers should consider the possibility that they may be asked to comment on the criticisms of other reviewers and on further revisions of the manuscript; identified reviewers may find it more difficult to be objective in such circumstances. We ask reviewers not to identify themselves to authors without the editor's knowledge. If they wish to reveal their identities while the manuscript is under consideration, this should be done via the editor, or if this is not practicable, we ask authors to inform the editor as soon as possible after the reviewer has revealed his or her identity to the author. We deplore any attempt by authors to confront reviewers or determine their identities. Our own policy is to neither confirm nor deny any speculation about reviewers' identities, and we encourage reviewers to adopt a similar policy.

“Double blind peer review

All papers in this journal have undergone editorial screening and anonymous double-blind peer review. All material submitted to our journal will be reviewed by the Editorial team. Papers may be rejected without full peer review, remaining papers will be sent for external peer review. Our journal operates a double-blind peer review process and aims to provide rapid peer review with papers receiving a first decision within an average of 30 days.”

“Articles that are considered suitable for the journal by the editorial board are double-blind peer reviewed. Other contributions submitted for publication are reviewed by the editors.”

“All submitted articles are peer reviewed, refereed by anonymous expert readers, including a fluent speaker of the language of the article.
Submission Preparation Checklist
”5. Authorship identification was removed from the text, as well at the text file properties options, ensuring the confidentiality through disidentification, at submissions that will be peer reviewed (eg articles).”