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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, RTF, or WordPerfect 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 Citation Style.

Author Guidelines

In order to check our submission and review process, please read our Guidelines for Authors.

The formatting guidelines are available on the Citation Style page.

The journal adopts a double-blind peer-review process. Manuscripts submitted by authors are received by the editorial management and editorial board, who decide whether to desk-reject the proposal or initiate the review process. Reasons for a desk rejection may include cases of evident misconduct, a focus incompatible with the scientific goals of the journal, or significant shortcomings in the manuscript's technical-scientific apparatus or formal structure.

If the review process is initiated, the editorial management and board, with the support of the executive committee, oversee and manage the anonymous review process. This includes identifying the two (sometimes three) reviewers, mediating all communication between reviewers and authors while safeguarding their identities, and reaching a final decision regarding the publication of the manuscript. A single negative review is sufficient for a proposal to be rejected. In cases of significant divergence between the two reviewers' opinions, the editorial management and board may reserve the right to request an additional review.

At the end of the review process, the members of the editorial board decide whether to accept the proposal, reject it, accept it conditionally pending minor revisions, or request that the manuscript undergo major revisions and be resubmitted for a new round of review. The editorial board members take the reviewers' opinions into account when making their decision, though they are not obligated to follow the opinions or recommendations contained in the reviewers' reports.

The entire review process is conducted via the Open Journal System platform, which ensures the anonymity of both authors and reviewers and allows for the archiving of all documents related to the peer-review process. Upon request, members of the editorial board may disclose the identities of reviewers and authors only at the end of the review process and exclusively for the purpose of putting them in direct contact.

  Submissions must be prepared for blind review. They should not include any information that reveals the authors’ identity. This includes removing names, affiliations, acknowledgments, or any self-referencing text that could identify the authors. Citations to the authors' previous work should be suppressed or written in the third person to avoid direct attribution.

 

Essays

The section “Essays” gathers contributions that have previously been subjected to a double blind peer review process, unless the paper is invited (when this will so, it will be well notified to the readership). Papers cover a variety of philosophical fields.

Focus

The section “Focus” will be prepared by a Guest Editor on topics that the Editorial Board selects as being of interest. The Guest Editor will be in charge of inviting contributors and of screening the papers that reach us via a dedicated call for papers.

Past Present

The section “Past Present” intends to contribute to current philosophical debates with the publication of outstanding papers that either have never been published in English or are now difficult to find in libraries or on line. In which case, an expert in the field will introduce the papers and will explain their theoretical and historical significance.

Copyright Notice

Issue files are only available for download by subscription for 18  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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