Submissions

Submission Preparation Checklist

• The submission has not been previously published, nor under evaluation at another journal. The journal asks for the article exclusivity: the same article cannot be submitted simultaneously to different journals. When authors submit a paper to SIM, they must disclose in their cover letter all closely related papers that they have written in journals, as book chapters, or as papers in conference proceedings. Similarly, if authors submit a paper on a closely related topic to another journal subsequent to their submission to SIM, they must immediately notify the editor responsible for their SIM submission. Failure to abide by these guidelines can result in paper being withdrawn.
• All authors of the article submitted have significantly contributed to the research. Authorship requires taking accountability for content, consenting to publication, giving contractual assurances about the integrity of the work. These are uniquely human responsibilities that cannot be undertaken by Large Language Models (LLMs), Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI), such as ChatGPT. Therefore, LLM and Gen AI tools must not be listed as an author.
• Where authors use Large Language Models (LLMs), Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) or other AI tools as a tool in their research design and research execution (Conceptualization, Synthesis, Theorization, Definitions, Structuring, Literature review, Data collection, Data Processing, Data analysis and interpretation, ...) their use must be acknowledged and documented appropriately in the Methodological section of the article. Where authors use Large Language Models (LLMs), Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) or other AI tools in the article writing process, these tools should only be used to improve readability and language of the work, and their use must be acknowledged and documented appropriately in the Declaration of Generative Artificial Intelligence technologies, placed between the Conclusions section and the reference list. This "Declaration of Generative Artificial Intelligence technologies" in the writing process should state: "During the preparation of this work, the author(s) used [TOOL NAME / SERVICE] in order to [RATIONALE]. After using this tool/service, the author(s) have revised and edited the content as necessary and assume(s) full responsibility for the content of the publication.". Where authors do not use at all Large Language Models (LLMs), Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) or other AI tools in the article, the authors should state in the "Declaration of Generative Artificial Intelligence technologies": "During the preparation of this work the author(s) did not use any Large Language Model (LLM), Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) or other AI tools".
• All authors of the article submitted commit themselves to participating in the peer review process of at least three other works submitted by other authors.
• The article respects the copyrights of the sources used and cited (e.g. figures, tables, photographs, illustrations, trade literature and data). Authors are required to certify that they have the right to use the data and publish the research results contained in the manuscript. This includes data that may be collected from public sources (such as open web sites). When data are collected from public sources, they should not violate the fair use policy of the data owner such as the web site. In the cases where corporate or other legal permissions are required to use the data or the results derived from the data, these must be obtained before submitting the manuscript for review. Any violation of the data provenance will result in withdrawal of the manuscript from SIM (even after acceptance, retroactively).
• All authors commit themselves to provide retractions or correction of mistakes.
• The article and the cover letter are written in French or English. Title, keywords and abstract should be written in French and in English. The evaluation process will take place in the language of the article, and the article will be published in its original language. If the article is accepted by the editorial board, a translated version in the other language can be published alongside the original version. The authors must signal their willingness to publish a translated version when they receive the notification of the acceptance of their article. The authors are in charge of the costs and the quality check of this translation. Any submission in English by non-native English speakers will have to be professionally copy-edited at authors’ cost before final acceptance. No other fee or charge will be required from authors for manuscript processing and/or publishing.
• Any financial support will have to be notified.
• The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements of the Journal, detailed in the template file to be used as stylesheet.
• All submitted files are in Microsoft Word or LibreOffice Writer document file formats (.doc, .docx, .odt).
• All submitted files (excepted the cover letter) are anonymous (no name of the authors in the article nor in the file properties).
• Authors must submit their complete list of references cited in their article in the form of a bibliographic file (.ris or bibtex formats), separate from and complementary to the list of references included in the article. A free and open solution to create this file is with the Zotero application (https://www.zotero.org/) or its online service dedicated to creating bibliographies (https://zbib.org/).
• The mini-biography of each author can be written in French or English. It has to be uploaded in the dedicated text box “Bio Statement” of the contributor profile of each author when clicking on “Add Contributor” during submission.
• Authors must fully subscribe and respect the ethical guidelines of this journal. Submissions that do not comply to any of these guidelines will be rejected and returned to their authors. Serious breaches of the ethical principles and of the scientific integrity can result in authors’ ban from further submissions to SIM, publication of a retraction notice for previous publications in SIM, expulsion from the AIM academic association, legal action against authors, and hence potentially fatal damage to authors academic reputation.