Submissions

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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).
  • 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.

Author Guidelines

Guidelines for authors

Publishing Agreement

Submission

The articles can be sent by e-mail to subbto[at]gmail.com.

Title Page

Texts should be prepared for blind reviewing. Authors should write their name, position, affiliation, and contact information on a separate page.

Abstract

All submissions must be accompanied by an abstract in English (max. 200 words).

Keywords

5-10 keywords in English.

Language

Starting with 2016 all submissions must be in English.

Information about Authors

Authors should also submit a photo and a short description of their research interests and recent publications. This description should not exceed 5 lines and should be sent separately.

Citations and List of References

All sources are cited in footnotes and should respect the Chicago Manual of Style (footnotes with ibid. and bibliography) (see the Quick Guide).

A list of references should be provided at the end of the article.

The editors' committee would reject those papers which do not reach the quality level required for an academic journal or do not respect the Chicago Manual of Style.

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments of grants, funds, etc. should be placed before the reference list. The names of funding organizations should be written in full.

Peer Review Process

The contents are reviewed by two experts in the field, who have to fill up a review standard form. Their suggestions are sent to the author, for further changes. The reviewers are not aware of the authors' names, as well as the authors don't have the information regarding reviewers' names (double-blind review system).

Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement

Authors' Rights & Responsibilities

What rights do I retain as a journal author?

  • the right to make copies (print or electronic) of the journal article for your own personal use, including for your own classroom teaching use;
  • the right to make copies and distribute copies of the journal article (including via e-mail) to research colleagues, for personal use by such colleagues for scholarly purposes;
  • the right to post a pre-print version of the journal article on Internet websites including electronic pre-print servers, and to retain indefinitely such version on such servers or sites for scholarly purposes;
  • the right to post a revised personal version of the text of the final journal article (to reflect changes made in the peer review process) on your personal or institutional website or server for scholarly purposes;
  • the right to present the journal article at a meeting or conference and to distribute copies of such paper or article to the delegates attending the meeting;
  • patent and trademark rights and rights to any process or procedure described in the journal article;
  • the right to include the journal article, in full or in part, in a thesis or dissertation;
  • the right to use the journal article or any part thereof in a printed compilation of your works, such as collected writings or lecture notes (subsequent to publication of the article in the journal); and
  • the right to prepare other derivative works, to extend the journal article into book-length form, or to otherwise re-use portions or excerpts in other works, with full acknowledgment of its original publication in the journal.

Introductions & Arguments

Introductions & Arguments present the main topics of the volume. They are not peer-reviewed, and do not receive doi numbers. They should not exceed 10 pages (in SUBBTO format).

Articles

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Book Reviews

Book reviews are presentations of original books. They are not peer-reviewed, and do not receive doi numbers. They should not exceed 10 pages (in SUBBTO format).

Privacy Statement

The data collected from registered and non-registered users of this journal falls within the scope of the standard functioning of peer-reviewed journals. It includes information that makes communication possible for the editorial process; it is used to informs readers about the authorship and editing of content; it enables collecting aggregated data on readership behaviors, as well as tracking geopolitical and social elements of scholarly communication.

This journal’s editorial team uses this data to guide its work in publishing and improving this journal. Data that will assist in developing this publishing platform may be shared with its developer Public Knowledge Project in an anonymized and aggregated form, with appropriate exceptions such as article metrics. The data will not be sold by this journal or PKP nor will it be used for purposes other than those stated here. The authors published in this journal are responsible for the human subject data that figures in the research reported here.

Those involved in editing this journal seek to be compliant with industry standards for data privacy, including the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) provision for “data subject rights” that include (a) breach notification; (b) right of access; (c) the right to be forgotten; (d) data portability; and (e) privacy by design. The GDPR also allows for the recognition of “the public interest in the availability of the data,” which has a particular saliency for those involved in maintaining, with the greatest integrity possible, the public record of scholarly publishing.