Guidelines for Journal Referees

This is to help guests to act as referees for article submitted to the Journal of WCP

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We are grateful to you for agreeing to referee the enclosed/attached article.
The following questions may help you in providing feedback to the Author.
You may answer them one by one or as a single text to be communicated to the author:

• Do the title and the abstract reflect the content of the article adequately?
• Is the purpose of the research stated well?
• Is the significance of this research explained relative to the existing literature?
• Are there adequate references to other research?
• Is the article clearly written and well organized?
• Is there any typographical or syntactic confusion?
• Has the author explained well what was done?
• Has the author explained well why it was done?
• Does the paper show appropriate ingenuity in the methods used?
• Has the author indicated how trustworthy her, or his findings might be?
• Does the paper offer new insights and contribute to the development of the subject?
• Has the author explained well the implications of the results?
• Considering its content is the length of the article appropriate?

Your Decision

After due consideration, please recommend one of the following to the Editors.

a) - Accept with minor changes for publication as an article
b) - Request minor changes for publication as a short note or feature.
c) - Request a major revision for the article to be re-submitted for a new round of review.
d) - Suggest a more suitable publication to which the author may like to submit.
e) - Regard the article as not publishable.

Offering Feedback

• Please also provide comments that may be used as useful feedback to authors.
• It is useful to detail perceived faults with suggestions for improvement.
• Even when articles are rejected your comments may result in greatly improved resubmissions
• It may eventually result in new submissions, to this and other journals, at a later date.

Thank You

• The referring system is vital to the quality of academic journals.
• The anonymity of the referee may makes it look like a thankless job.
  However, referees are also authors on other occasions and may therefore
  appreciate the comments they get in turn from you.
• Thank you in advance for your assistance.