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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 (download the (submission template file).
  • Copyright notice

    The content is published under the CC 4.0 license (Creative commons 4.0, by) as presented at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.it
    Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
    Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
    Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.

Author Guidelines

Download here the submission template (word file). See section descriptions below for details about each section‘s review process.

Language

Articles can be in Italian, English, French or Spanish.

Manuscript length

The manuscript length includes the main body of the text, footnotes, citations, abstract, section titles, figure and table captions, funding statement, acknowledgments, and references in the bibliography.

Research articles: no more than 45.000 characters and spaces.

Explications of theory: no more than 30.000 characters and spaces.

Book reviews: no more than 9.000 characters and spaces.

Preparing your manuscript

Two separate files must be submitted.

The first must contain the following information:

Author(s)

Affiliation

e-Mail address

Title in Italian/French/Spanish and in English.

Abstract in Italian/French/Spanish and in English, no more than 200 words.

Key words: 5, in Italian/French/Spanish and in English.

The second file must contain the text of the article, written anonimously.

Review process

The judgment of the referees is anonymous and unappealable. Articles cannot, for any reason, be submitted by third parties, but must be sent to the editorial office by the author(s). Each author, when submitting a contribution, agrees not to submit it to other journals before knowing the outcome of the review process. The rule also applies to articles not submitted to a double-blind peer-reviewed section (whose acceptance or rejection is decided solely by the editorial board).
The editors may request contributions from reputable experts regarding a specific topic: such contributions are called "invited articles," and this eventuality will be clearly intelligible at the time of publication.
Obvious typos as such and minor nonconformities to editorial standards will be corrected by the editorial staff.
Articles that do not comply with the citation system and bibliographic notes will be rejected.

The journal relies on a double-blind peer review process. Papers proposed by authors are received by the editors, who decide whether to reject the proposal ex officio (in the case of obvious misconduct, or if the proposal’s topic is incompatible with the journal's scientific objectives) or to initiate the review process. In the latter case, the editors are assisted by the members of the editorial board in managing the anonymous review process, which involves the following steps: identifying the two reviewers, mediating between the reviewers and the authors while protecting their identities, and making a final decision on the publication of the proposal. In the event of a strong disagreement between the two reviewers, the editors and the editorial board may reserve the right to request a new opinion and initiate a second round of review.

The Open Journal System platform, which the journal relies on for the editorial production process and the issue’s publication, guarantees the protection of the identities of those involved in the blind review process. Reviewers are required to justify their judgment by completing the review form on the journal's OJS platform.

Upon request, members of the editorial board may disclose the identity of reviewers and authors only at the end of the review process and for the sole purpose of establishing direct contact.

Authors and reviewers should contact the editorial board and editors in case of disputes or reports.

Essays

 

 

 

This is a double-blind peer-reviewed section. The journal Editors-in-chief have a preliminary say on whether to admit or reject the anonymized submission, based on the article's adherence to Graphos’ scientific scopes and aims.

Preliminarily accepted articles undergo a double-blind peer-review process by at least two experts in the field. Only up to one of the experts may be a member of the journal's Scientific committee.

The outcome of the peer-review process is binding. Should the opinions be incompatible, the editors will seek a third review.

Upon receiving reviewer reports, the Editors-in-chief decide whether to further pursue publication of the manuscript (either requesting the author revise and resubmit their manuscript, accepting, or rejecting it). The decision letter sent to the authors will be accompanied by the expert reviewers’ reports within 16 weeks from the submission date.

Proposals should be submitted using this template; in any case, the submitted file must include:

  • Title (both in the submission’s language and in English)
  • Contact person (will be removed by the journal’s editorial team for anonymity purposes)
  • Abstract (ca. 250 words; both in the English language and the language used in the article)
  • Keywords (five are recommended)
  • Article body (max 30.000 characters including footnotes. Longer papers may be considered by prior arrangement with the Editors-in-chief).
  • References

 

Copyright Notice

Copyright notice

The content is published under the Creative Commons 4.0 license (Creative commons 4.0) as presented at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.

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