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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format. It must be editable therefor PDF files will not be accepted.
  • Author(s) are advised that ISSS proceedings are published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License. We do not request copyright from author(s) but ask that you properly attribute this work in any future publications.
  • Abstracts and papers must adhere to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements in the templates provided on the ISSS Conference website, under the sections on Submitting a Contribution to the conference. Only conference submissions are submitted to this Journal.
  • The decision of the Editor(s) will be final. Registration at the conference does not guarantee acceptance of a submission to this Journal.
  • The author(s) acknowledge that their submission has not been developed, written or substantially edited using Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools or applications. ISSS Journals may check all submissions using Turnitin or other plagiarism or AI Check tools, and where flagged, submissions will be returned to the author(s).

Author Guidelines

Formatting standards are contained in the template provided on the ISSS.org website.

Please visit this link to review the ISSS Special Integration Group list and description. In the Keyword section of this submission, we encourage you to indicate which SIGs align with your work. 

Workshop

Please submit an abstract to this section if you have been invited to do so by Jennifer Makar, VP Admin. 

2025 Systems Thinking

Systems Thinking 
We welcome submissions that explore the research, principles, practices, and diverse applications of systems thinking. It will present work that contributes meaningfully to advancing the development and use of systems approaches, as ell as underpinning ideas from systems science, complexity and cybernetics.  We invite theoretical reflections, practical case studies, transdisciplinary methods, and other ideas that deepen our collective understanding of systems thinking and its relevance in today’s complex world. If participants don’t find a connection with the other themes, we invite them to submit their work here. 

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