I have prepared a review article that contains more than 5000 words and 300 citations. Can anyone suggest to me several journals that will be APC-free and no word and citation limitation?
Thank you.
I think you are approaching this the wrong way around. Find a journal first and then adjust your article to the journal requirements. Your article must fit in content and style into the journal that you choose, word number etc can be adjusted according to the journal. But you will not succeed in submitting an article just because it is the right length.
I agree with Antje. Since it is a review article more than 5000 is fine, but the references is too much. Some journals can accept if the scope is broad. But the citation you must cut down.
Dear Md.Jahirul Islam thank you for asking this interesting technical question. I'm sure that this question is of broad interest to many other RG members. In general I agree with Antje Cockrill in that you should normally contact the editor of the envisaged journal beforehand and clarify the details of the proposed review article. In any case you should carefully read the "Author Guidelines" of the journal and find out if they publish review articles at all. There are journals that publish only communications and full papers. Preparing a review article in advance is also risky because you don't know the formatting rules of the respective journal. There are often significant differences e.g. in the formatting of the references. There are no general rules about the length (word count) and the number of references of a review article. In this context please note that there are many different types of review articles, e.g. mini reviews, tutorial reviews, annual reviews, critical reviews, comprehensive reviews etc. For a comprehensive review covering a large field of research 300 references can be perfectly okay. Without knowing the field of research and the topic of your review it is, however, impossible to suggest to you a specific journal.
Good luck and best wishes, Frank Edelmann
Dear Md.Jahirul Islam just one more remark form your own experiences. Over the past ca. 30 years I wrote more that 70 review articles. The type of such reviews can be quite different. For example, I wrote some short so-called "Tutorial Reviews" for the journal Chemical Society Reviews. Here the length of the review is restricted to 12 printed pages and the number of references is strictly limited to 50 references. As I mentioned earlier, it just depends on the rules imposed by the individual journal. As far as I remember, one of my longest review articles is the one cited below. I just checked the word count and found out that it comprises 36,439 words. The number of references is 369. However, this article covers 10 years of advances in a very popular area of inorganic chemistry which justifies for its length. These examples show you that there are no general rules concerning the length and the list of references in review articles.
Chapter 3 Advances in the Coordination Chemistry of Amidinate and Guanidinate Ligands
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When you are invited to write a review the editor usually tells you how many signs + spaces, or words you can write, however they do not mention the number of references. Before writing a review without being invited you should first contact the editor of a given journal and ask him about the possibility to write a review (send him at the same time a summary about the subject you are going to write). However, If you want to have no limitation in the number of words and citations then just write a book. In this last case it is not easy to find an editor who is going to accept it and you may have to knock at many doors.
In order to write a review you are supposed to be more or less recognized expert and to be the co-author in one of the key paper in the area. The review must be analytical but not just describing other works. You MUST read all cited papers. Now, I see a flood of reviews, while the most of them absolutely useless. I would think very well before to start such time consuming work.
Dear Jahirul,
if you give a the tentative title and the topic of your paper, we can all think about a suitable journal. And then you can start to trimm the manuscript.
The word limitation and citation and all mainly depends on the content of your article as well as the nature of the journal and its terms and conditions.
Cannot find a journal that will accept 300 references, although there is a fee to pay
Try to limit your references and only take the most interesting.
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