Manuscript preparation

Follow the instructions on the conference website.
Use our templates to submit your extended abstract and/or full conference paper. Download them from the conference website.
Authorship: All co-authors must agree to submit the work to the journal. The corresponding author shall primarily discuss the involvement of fellow authors.
Open Peer Review: The reviews of your submissions will be publicly viewable alongside the submission.
Research Data: Authors are strongly encouraged to register their datasets in a recognized research data repository.
Open Access Policy: The Evolving Scholar publications are licensed under the following Creative Commons license:
- CC BY 4.0 license. The license makes it so that anyone is free to share (to copy, distribute, and transmit the work), to remix (to adapt the work), however, under the conditions of giving appropriate credit, providing a link to the license, and indicating if changes were made.
Copyright Policy
- Authors and reviewers retain the copyright to their submissions and license their submission for publication under the CC BY 4.0 license.
- If you are using published images, text or other materials, please be aware of copyright regulations. The TU Delft Copyright helpdesk can provide further information and answer your copyright questions.
- In case of (alleged or proven) copyright breaches or scientific misconduct (e.g. fabricating data), The Evolving Scholar will follow the guide developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics COPE.
Plagiarism
- All submissions will undergo a similarity check, the results of which will be shared with the scientific community. In case of suspected plagiarism, the authors will have two weeks to provide an explanation.
- Reproducing a part of a published content or images is allowed if the original source and authors are respectively referred to and are given proper credit.

Publication Ethics

Editors, authors, and the publisher adhere to the TU Delft Code of Conduct, its Integrity Policy, the publication procedure of TU Delft OPEN Publishing, the Core Practices of COPE, and the principles of transparency as described here.
Complaints. Complaints such as misconduct, authorship disputes, or suspected conflicts of interest can be addressed to the publisher (publishing-lib@tudelft.nl) or the editorial board.
Author appeal. Appeals to an editorial decision can be brought by a corresponding author to the editorial board by contacting the handling editor. The editorial board of the conference will decide on the appeal by majority vote (without the editor who made the decision). Their appeal decisions are final.
Conflict of interest (COI). The conference organisers will handle all COIs in the first instance, followed by the publisher.
Use of AI: The use of AI technologies in writing/summarising is gaining popularity and is expanding. When used responsibly and appropriately in research, it can facilitate innovation. However, authors/editors remain fully responsible and accountable for the quality and content of their manuscripts. With this in mind and with reference to the COPE Position Statement of 13 February 2023, authors are required not to list AI tools as a co-author because these tools cannot take responsibility for the submitted work, and they need to be transparent in disclosing in the materials and methods of the manuscript how the AI tool was used and which tool was used (such as ChatGPT and other generative (language-based) AI tools for generation of images, etc.) in the writing of their manuscripts. If applicable, disclosure needs to take place at the bottom of the References section, in the Acknowledgements section, and separately in the cover letter submitted before the review process. This policy is subject to review based on new developments, including the COPE position statement.

Disclaimer

The opinions expressed in our published content are those of the author(s) and do not reflect the views or opinions of TU Delft OPEN Publishing.
The responsibility for the content provided is exclusively of the author(s) concerned. TU Delft OPEN Publishing, the journal, the editors and reviewers are not responsible for errors in the contents or any consequences arising from the use of the information contained in it.
We follow an open-access publishing principle, in which author(s) are the sole owners of the copyright of the content published, and for any omissions or copyright violation, the author(s) of the concerned article are only responsible. Our responsibility is limited to removing the concerned article from the journal once the query is raised.