PREPARING A PAPER FOR JITTA: NEW INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

Authors should carefully review these instructions and the Call for Papers. They should also feel free to contact the Editor-in-chief, Ken Peffers to discuss questions or problems they may have with a submission. Submission and review process objectives * To select papers for publication that are novel, state-of-the-art, and exciting, that IS researchers and professionals will want to read, and that will have an impact on research and/or professional practice in IS. * To publish papers very quickly with an engineered review and publication process designed to provide moderate development assistance to authors who have submitted papers that are ready to be peer reviewed. * To help authors finish very high potential papers as concisely written articles of the highest quality by providing precise editorial direction. JITTA's goal is that review and publication of successful papers should average 16 weeks from the date of submission. Of course, individual times vary, however, JITTA expects that most successful papers will be published within six months, including author revision time. This compares with an average of 2-5 years for traditional academic IS journals. Submission system JITTA has implemented a new paper submission and review system. It is perhaps the best and easiest to use of those in use among IS journals. It is found at http://jitta.org. This system helps us to achieve our goal of a short and dependable review and publication cycle. All papers submitted to the journal for publication should be submitted through the new system. To submit a paper to the system, go to the paper submission and review system at http://jitta.org, register in the system, and follow the link for your activities as an author. Each author on a paper must register as an author in the system. Alternately, the corresponding author can create each of the author accounts. Submission form The submission consists of three parts, (1) the paper itself, (2) the note to the editors, and (3) the author identities in order of authorship. The paper format All of the materials for a submission, including figures and tables, must be in one MS Word (any version) document file. Please do not send compressed formats, PDF documents, or send a submission as multiple files. If you have difficulty complying with these requirements or have questions about any aspect of submitting papers to JITTA, please contact us at editor@jitta.org. Note that for security reasons very large files, e.g., of about 5 MB or more, are automatically rejected by the system. Format the document as plainly as is practical. Format it as double-spaced and single-sided. Do not imitate the style of the published journal. Strip the author names and affiliations from the paper; they are entered separately into the system. The initial submission should include: 1. An abstract that independently summarizes the paper, i.e., is not part of the paper. 2. A contribution section. See below. 3. A complete and appropriately formatted reference list See recent issues of the journal for reference list examples. There must be a one-to-one relationship between citations in text and reference list items. 4. Figures and tables should be captioned with sufficient clarity so that a reader, opening the paper to a figure or table can understand its meaning. Table captions go above the table, figure captions below. Captions should not be imbedded in graphics, i.e., they should be in text. Axes, other dimensions, and shapes in figures should be labeled. Tables and figures must be discussed in text and should be pasted into the document near the location where they are first discussed. The note to the editor Include in an accompanying note to the editor, also entered into the system as an MS Word document, include: 1. Identification of the type of paper being submitted (see call for papers). …