When is a key word not a key word? When it is a Keyword. Fun with Author Guidelines.
May 14th, 2024, by Guy Harris
Time and again we experience discrepancies, contradictions and a simple lack of clarity in the Instructions to Authors published by journals.
Here, from a journal published by Wiley, are the requirements for a paper's title:
![](https://dmed.co.jp/images/blog/BLOG2205003-httpsonlinelibrary.wiley.compagejournal15281167homepageforauthors.htmlTitlePage.png)
The obvious question: what should an author do if the key words are also Keywords? For this journal, you are out of luck.