For Authors

Author Guidelines

Registration and English-language submissions are open. JKD is multidisciplinary and publishes one issue per month. Submission, peer review, and publication currently carry no fee.

1. Select an article type

Choose Research Articles, Review Articles, Short Communications and Perspectives, or Book Reviews and Correspondence. Research Articles include theoretical, methodological, case, policy, replication, negative-result, and data/resource studies. Use a structure appropriate to the discipline.

2. Prepare an anonymous manuscript

Use clear English and editable DOC/DOCX where possible. Research abstracts should contain 200–300 words with 4–6 keywords. Provide title, abstract, main text, references, tables and figure captions. Book reviews and correspondence may omit an abstract. Remove author names, identifying acknowledgements, tracked-change identities, and identifying file metadata from the review manuscript.

3. Prepare separate files

Supply a separate Title Page and Declarations with all author names, affiliations, corresponding-author email, contributions, funding, competing interests, ethics/consent, data availability, and AI-use statements. Add a concise cover letter. For LaTeX, supply a compiled PDF for review and editable sources when requested. Label supplementary materials clearly.

4. Check integrity and permissions

All authors must approve submission. Do not submit simultaneously to another journal. Disclose preprints and related work. Verify citations and obtain third-party permissions and required ethics approval/consent. Disclose substantive generative AI assistance: tool/version, purpose, and affected parts. AI cannot be an author; human authors must verify all outputs.

5. Submit online

Register or log in, start a new submission, choose the section, upload each component, enter every author and complete English title, abstract, keywords, and declarations. Check the final summary and click Submit. Saving a draft does not complete submission. The interface may be switched between English and Chinese; manuscript text and files are not translated by that switch.

6. Review, revision, and proofs

Scholarly articles normally receive double-anonymous external review; book reviews and correspondence may receive editorial assessment. Submit revisions in the existing record with a point-by-point response. After acceptance, provide final sources and approve proofs. No particular acceptance or publication date is guaranteed.

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