JIP accepts both original articles submitted by their authors and previously printed/posted material submitted WITH THE PERMISSION of the copyright owner.

NOTE: Materials submitted to JIP will be posted on the JIP Web site and distributed by email to JIP subscribers. Copyright remains with the original author(s) who retain control over any subsequent use of the material. Anyone seeking permission to reproduce material that appears in JIP will be referred to the original author(s) or the copyright owner. JIP and ARRAY Development neither endorse nor necessarily agree with views expressed by contributors.

We prefer articles that focus on issues, trends, initiatives and case studies rather than on technical details. We are particularly interested in hearing from contributors with a clear focus on Internet purchasing issues.

Articles should be a maximum of 1,500 words, but 500 to 600 is far better. A good way to keep your article short is to focus on one issue at a time. Save your other ideas for subsequent or separate articles. Extensive background material, large graphs and detailed tables should be posted on author's own Web site and cited in the text.

BEFORE submitting your article (or the item you have permission from the copyright owner to submit), contact Editor Fred Sollish at sollish@worldnet.att.net. Authors familiar with HTML should use the Submission Template below. Include your name, title, biographical details, email and Web addresses in the format presented in the Template. For all articles submitted as an email message or a TEXT (.txt) attachment, we request that all text paragraphs be preceeded by < p> to facilitate easy conversion to HTML.

You must also provide a 150 to 200 word abstract of your article for distribution to JIP email subscribers. You may also submit your abstract to the Social Science Resource Network which distributes abstracts of journal articles to over 14,000 subscribers around the world. See http://www.ARRAYdev.com/commerce/jip/guid-abs.htm for submission instructions.

Your article will be posted on the Web site as soon as we receive it and the text has been reviewed and approved by the JIP editorial board. The email edition is distributed approximately every two to three months.

JIP reserves the right to reject any article without explanation.

If author(s) fail to provide a synopsis of their article, JIP reserves the right to select an excerpt for the email edition. We ask that authors check their article on the Web site to ensure no text has been lost in the posting process. JIP reserves the right to edit letters to the editor.

Articles that promote a particular product or service rather than providing analysis or evaluation will be referred to the JIP advertising department. One of our goals is to identify knowledgeable individuals in each key subject area and geographic region willing to serve as Contributing Editors. Click Here to find out more.