Question 2: What is Continuous Mode of publication?
In CP, articles are reviewed, modified by author/s, copy-edited and published immediately on individual basis under a period of time and the articles published under such period are grouped as an issue.
Question 2: Why we are moving to Continuous Publication?
We have found that traditional issue based publication model imposes time constraint on the individual articles which need to wait for the other articles to be finalized. This makes publication of research delayed. Then, we publish only online and we don’t publish in hard print format, we are free to get out of the constraints of traditional print publication which arise mainly because of the physical aspects of the press.
We believe now focus should be more on a single paper than on the collective issue. Every individual scholarly paper can be complete in itself and may not have to depend on an issue for any other values than the metadata. In online format metadata can be arranged and maintained from the beginning and papers to be published can be assigned the metadata for a specific period of time.
So we will create a new issue from July and articles will be published in progressive manner after peer review, proper modification and copy editing. After three months we will close the issue and archive it and start a new issue from October.
So submission to the general areas will always remain open.
As for the special issues, we will go for making a collection throughout the year and close it.
Question 3: What is the difference between continuous publication and the posting of accepted manuscripts?
Some journals allow authors publish their accepted manuscripts on their personal websites or directories with necessary acknowledgement. But accepted manuscripts are the versions prepared by the authors and may contain errors and do not contain publisher’s metadata. When an article is published under continuous model, it is fully complete and citable with all values and metadata added by the publisher.
Question 4: How to cite an article under CP?
Every article is assigned unique DOI and page numbers are assigned individually. So while citing a paper, one should include the DOI which also contains volume and issue numbers.
Following is an example:
Sarker, Archishman (2018). Reflections on Modernism in Bangladesh and the abstract artist Kazi Ghiyasuddin. Chitrolekha Journal. DOI: 10.21659/cjad.23.v2n304