Submissions
Submission Preparation Checklist
All submissions must meet the following requirements.
- The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
- The submission file is in Microsoft Word or RTF document file format.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
- AI tools cannot be listed as authors but any use of AI tools has been disclosed either in the description of methodology or in a statement placed at the end of the submission.
- All URL addresses in the text (for example, http://pkp.sfu.ca) are activated and ready to click.
- The text, if submitted to the peer-reviewed section (Research articles), has had the authors' names removed. If an author is cited, 'Author' and year only are used in the bibliography, instead of author's name, year, 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.
- The submission includes an abstract of up to 300 words.
- Six key words have been provided in the submission.
- Where possible, the text provides all available DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers) to each source used as a reference.
- Consideration is given to serving as a reviewer on a future issue of Gateways. The Editorial Committee appreciates the important role played by reviewers in helping to maintain the quality of our journal.
Statement on AI use for authors in Gateways
AI tools cannot be considered authors. Use of AI tools must be disclosed.
The use of AI tools is an aspect of everyday life that is evolving rapidly. Research and scholarship are not immune from the introduction, proliferation and effects of these technologies. Thus, there is often confusion over what is acceptable use of these tools in scholarly work and what is not. To guide appropriate and transparent use by authors, reviewers and editors, Gateways has developed the following guidelines. They are underpinned by the principles that are core to all of its publishing: the trustworthiness and integrity of the published items, that is, of the documentary record of scholarship.
Authors whose work is published through Gateways are acknowledged as experts in their field and they are accountable for the argument they make, defending it in robust scholarly discussion in their field. Artificial Intelligence cannot be considered an author. It cannot be held accountable for the content produced as it has no capacity to justify the material it produces, and no sense of right and wrong. AI, in its various manifestations, is a tool.
AI tools may be useful to authors in their scholarly work. While some of these uses are acceptable, others must be disclosed. Nevertheless, there are some uses of AI which are not acceptable. Starting with uses of AI tools that are not acceptable, each of those three categories is set out below.
AI tools must not be used for the following aspects of developing content and presenting a submission:
- drafting, writing or revising your submission.
- reviewing, analysing or evaluating the literature, including identifying a research gap or question.
- generating case studies or other examples of data,
- analysing or interpreting your data.
- generating the references used in text or list at the end of the submission.
Some uses of AI are acceptable but must be disclosed. You must disclose the following use of AI tools:
- brainstorming ideas for your research project
- translating your work into English
- creating illustrations, or visual representations of data, such as diagrams or charts
- generating or modifying photographs
- generating or modifying computer code.
- clarifying background or introductory information.
Many uses of AI tools do not need to be disclosed, although you may wish to do so. These include the following:
- checking grammar, spelling and punctuation
- polishing language, including the use of a thesaurus
- formatting headings at a basic level
- conducting literature searches, including searches of databases
- managing references
- formatting references
- basic modifications to images, including resizing and cropping images, and adjusting contrast.
For those uses of AI which need to be disclosed, the following are provided as examples of disclosure statements that should be inserted after the Acknowledgements and before References:
- ChatGPT was used to brainstorm key concepts in resilience in educators in situations of stress; all concepts suggested were checked in the literature.
- DeepL was used to translate the paper into English, and the paper was then reviewed by a scholar with a knowledge of English for accuracy and appropriateness.
- I used Stable Diffusion, stability.ai, to generate images for this paper.
- CoPilot, integrated with Excel, was used to clean data. (This statement may be better placed in the presentation of Methodology.)
If AI was not used, the following statement can be used:
- No AI tools were used in the development or presentation of this submission.
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