Submissions

Author Guidelines

Publication process

If you would like to publish a paper in the International Journal of Coaching and Organizational Development, you can easily submit it via our system. Publishing your article requires just six steps:

1. Write your paper and format it according to our Wohllebe & Ross template. Make sure to format your references according to APA7 standards (>> Download Template <<).
2. Click on “Make a new submission” at the top to submit your article. If you are not yet registered, please create an account with Wohllebe & Ross via the system. Our system will guide you through the entire submission process. Please ensure that you fill in all fields carefully and completely.
3. After submission, we will search for suitable reviewers for your paper. After about 4 weeks, you will receive detailed feedback from the double-blind peer-review process.
4. If necessary, revise your paper and submit the revised version.
5. Receive notification if your paper is accepted for publication and send us your billing information so that we can invoice you for the article processing charge. After receipt of payment, your paper will be published in the current issue within a few days.

Article processing charge

The International Journal of Coaching and Organizational Development does not charge any fees. Publication in the journal is free of charge.

Publication formats

The International Journal of Coaching and Organizational Development supports different publication formats:

• Original Research Article (presents new findings, follows structured format, reports experiments, observations, or studies)
• Literature Review (summarizes existing research, identifies trends and gaps, no new experiments)
• Case Study (in-depth analysis, focuses on real-world situations, illustrates specific phenomena)
• Opinion Papers / Commentaries (concise and evidence-based argument on a scientific issue)

After publication

All articles in journals of WR Publishing are published under CC BY 4.0 license. Authors can therefore simply download their articles from our website and upload them freely on the Internet after publication.

As automatic indexing, for example in Google Scholar or on ResearchGate, can sometimes take up to a few weeks, we encourage our authors to download their paper after publication and manually add it to the most important scientific databases.