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Author Guidelines

Editorial and peer-review process

Contributions submitted to the Ostraka magazine for publication will be evaluated through a peer-review process with double anonymity. The acceptance procedure involves a first stage of examination by the management, which will assess compliance with the editorial line of the journal and the principles of the adopted code of ethics. The decision to proceed with publication will be communicated within three weeks. In a second phase, the paper will be sent for peer review to two experts on the topic who have the necessary expertise to assess the methodological correctness and contents of the submitted article. Their names will be kept in a special list by the journal management, which will take care to archive them, ensuring anonymity. The reviewers will express positive (A), negative (B) or reservations (C) within the two-week deadline. The journal guarantees mutual anonymity between reviewers and author/author according to the double-masked (double-anonymized) method. In the event of a strong disagreement between the two reviewers, the Management and the Editorial Board reserve the right to request an additional opinion and initiate a second review cycle. Contacts between management, reviewers, and authors/authors will be made via e-mail. Upon request, the Management may disclose the identity of reviewers and authors/authors only at the end of the review process and solely to allow direct contact. Authors/reviewers are invited to contact the Directorate in case of any dispute or report. Once the publication process has started, the Directorate will interface with the Editorial Board to manage this process. Even after the start of this process, the Management reserves the right to interrupt the procedure by not continuing with the publication of the article if the author refuses to accept the suggestions made by the publisher or fails to comply with the reviewers' recommendations. In case of a favourable opinion, or if modifications are necessary, the author must make the interventions requested to the contribution and send it again to the Editorial Board within two weeks from the last communication.

You can submit a proposal by emailing it to lucio.fiorini@unipg.it. The file must be anonymous and ready for the review process. The A.'s personal data (email contact, affiliation, etc.) must be in a separate file. If the management finds irregularities in the anonymisation of the contribution, it may reject the contribution ex officio (desk rejection).

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • 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).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Copyright Notice

Copyrights are transferred for two years starting publication date from the author(s) to the Publisher. After this period, the content is released under a Creative Commons licence (Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International).

Issue files are only available for download by subscription for 24  months from the date of publication. After the embargo period, the content becomes open access and is subject to the Creative Commons Generic Licence version 4.0 (cc. By 4.0). Copyright in individual articles passes to the publisher on the date of publication of the article and reverts to the authors at the end of the embargo period.

The journal does not charge authors for the publication of their articles. 

If the author wishes to request immediate Open Access publication of his/her contribution, without waiting for the end of the embargo period, a fee of EUR 500.00 will be charged. To make this type of request, please contact our administrative office (amministrazione@edizioniets.com) and the journal manager (journals@edizioniets.com), indicating: the title of the article, the details of the file to which it belongs, the details of the person to whom the invoice should be addressed, the existence of any research funding.

 

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