Writer's Guidelines
PEER REVIEW PROCESS
APT adopts a double blind review process. As soon as the Editor receives a manuscript, he does a preliminary evaluation concerning compliance with the journal’s ‘Notes for Contributors’. The editor presents to the Editorial Board only manuscripts that satisfy APT’s requirement. Thereafter, the manuscripts are sent out to the reviewers, with the journal’s ‘’Criteria for the Review of Articles’ and ‘Notes for Contributors’. The Reviewers are given four weeks to send in their reports.
Once the deadline passes, the editors reconvene to deliberate on the comments of the respective reviewers. If the reviewers are unanimous, the manuscript is accepted for publication, provided members of the editorial board accept the judgment. When there is no unanimity among the reviewers, the editors critically reappraise the manuscript before taking a vote on its publication if a consensus was unreachable. Once accepted for publication, the editor notifies the author within twenty-four hours articulating the reviewers’ observations and the editorial board’s position.
The author is then given between ten and twelve days to attend to the observations and suggestions within the word count in the ‘Notes to Contributors’. When the manuscript is returned with the observations and suggestions sufficiently attended to, in the judgment of the editor, it is definitively accepted for publication. The whole process, from editorial board meeting on the manuscripts to final acceptance for publication, takes six to eight weeks. For Note for Contributors, see NOTE FOR CONTRIBUTORS.