Guidelines

Peer Review Policy

All submitted papers undergo a double-blind peer review process by two anonymous reviewers. The review period typically lasts six months. Authors will be notified via email whether their manuscript is accepted for publication, recommended for revision, or rejected. To ensure a fair blind review, authors must prepare their submissions by removing any information that could reveal their identity and include their name and contact details on a separate cover page.

Interviews, book reviews, and invited contributions (whether research articles or other types of texts) may be accepted or rejected at the discretion of the editors without undergoing the peer review process.

Author Guidelines

Please follow these rules while formatting your manuscript:

Headings:

  • Manuscripts should have no more than three levels of headings.
  • Headings may or may not have a title but should always have a number.
  • The first introductory paragraphs of the manuscripts may be left without heading.

Italics:

  • Italics should be used for emphasis and for words in foreign languages.

Abbreviations:

  • Abbreviations should be defined at their first mentions and used consistently thereafter.
  • Abbreviations should be defined in footnotes.
  • You can use abbreviations both in footnotes and in the main text.

Footnotes:

  • Use footnotes, not endnotes.
  • References to works quoted or mentioned in the main text should be always put in footnotes.
  • In book-reviews, authors can quote directly in the main text the book reviewed by indicating in brackets the number of the page(s) quoted.

Acknowledgments:

  • Acknowledgments of people, grants, funds, etc. should be placed on the first footnote.

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.

  1. 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).
  2. The submission file is in .doc, .odt, .docx, or .rtf
  3. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  4. 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.
  5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  6. The text should be prepared for anonymous refereeing, with revealing acknowledgements and self-identifying references removed. Please see the Peer Review Guidelines.