About the Journal

• Aims and Scope
• Procedures for the publication and verifying the quality of the contributions
• Peer Review
• Section Policies
• Publication Frequency
• Open Access
• Publication ethics and publication malpractice
• Plagiarism Policy
• Management of post publication issues
• Statement on the Use of Artificial Intelligence
• Archiving
• Consent and Privacy Policy

Aims and Scope

CESURA - Rivista is an expression of the critical and historiographical positions of CESURA, in its double organization of association and international inter-university center. It reflects the vocation to interdisciplinarity and the integration of different forms of knowledge (in particular literature, philology, linguistics, history, art) that CESURA has demonstrated in the workshops of recent years. In this perspective, literary expression, documentary sources, artistic representation are always integrated, and the artistic-cultural dimension is never separated from the ideological and doctrinal one. The Journal, therefore, synthetically reproduces the intrinsic variety and cohesive interaction of the models and historical-cultural attestations of Humanism and the Renaissance that developed in the Kingdom of southern Italy and in the Crown of Aragon.

CESURA - Rivista is a double-blind peer review Journal: we send anonymous articles to (at least) two anonymous readers, who are selected among high-profile international scientists.

The issues of the journal are organized into various sections: Discussions, gives space to the methodological debate on relevant monographic topics; Studies, hosts contributions related to more specific or sectoral topics; Sources and documents brings together archive or libraries researches, that collect new materials; Readings offers reviews of books and studies, and intends to highlight above all the most methodologically significant works.

The Board of Directors can be renewed every 4 years; the Scientific Committee can be renewed every 2 years.

E-ISSN: 2974-637X

CESURA - Rivista is co-edited by:

European Center for the Study of Aragonese Humanism and Renaissance (Centro Europeo di Studi su Umanesimo e Rinascimento Aragonese) – CESURA

Via Cretaio 19
I - 80074 - Casamicciola Terme (NA)

     and by:

Basilicata University Press - BUP

Università degli Studi della Basilicata
Biblioteca Centrale di Ateneo
Via Nazario Sauro 85
I - 85100 Potenza

with the support of SHARE Press (CESURA - Rivista on SHARE Journals).

Procedures for the publication and verifying the quality of the contributions

The author proposes the article by sending it to info@cesura.info. The article must already be set up in the expected editorial norms and doc template. It must also be accompanied by:

• title of the contribution, in Italian and in English;
• abstract (max 800 characters), in Italian and English;
• brief bio-bibliographic profile (max 500 characters), in Italian and English;
• academic institution, in Italian and English;
• orcid (in the form https://orcid.org/0000-0000-0000-0000).

The Board of Directors evaluates its congruence with the journal’s purposes and performs a first in-depth examination of its scientific value. If it appears to be congruent, the Board of Directors identifies at least two referees, who are selected among high-profile international scientists, from both inside and outside (at least one) the Scientific Committee. The peer review follows the double-blind mode: referees and authors remain anonymous for the duration of the evaluation process. Articles are usually reviewed by the referees within 2 weeks. Based on the reviews submitted by the referees, the Director-in-chief, with the Board of Directors decides whether to publish the manuscript in the form proposed by the author, to ask for changes in some or several of its parts, or to refuse the publication altogether. In the same moment it sends the paper to the Scientific Committee for a reading, and can formulate, for the benefit of the author, proposals aimed at improving the text. The decision is then communicated to the author along with the referee’s readings and the suggestions made by the referees, the Director-in-chief, the Board of Directors or the Scientific committee. The author is required to revise his manuscript, taking into account the suggestions received, and he formats the article following the editorial norms and the template of the Journal.

OJS platform records each step of the process.

Peer Review Process

All published articles are double-blind peer reviewed at least by two referees selected among high-profile scientists, who are chosen from both inside and outside the reading committee: at least one is external. The articles of the members of the Board of Directors and of Scientific Committee board are managed by third parties.

All reviews are archived.

This is the form for the referees: doc and pdf.

Section Policies

Discussions

Critical essays or texts dealing with an historiographical or research problem, or moving from a recently published work, or discussing problems of cultural politics and publishing; they aim at a scientific discussion about a relevant topic. This section can collect and make public in prompt collection materials produced in seminars and workshops, in order to avoid dispersion of the fruits of first-hand reflections and research.

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Studies

Research and historiographical evaluation original contributions.

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Sources and Documents

Archive or library researches that collect new materials.

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Readings

Bibliographical and documentary reviews, outlines of works in progress or of observations arisen in the course of a research. Besides these materials, promptly issued by the Journal, we aim at collecting the ideas and suggestions elaborated in the preparatory phases of projects, conferences and publications: such a patrimony often gets lost as it undergoes subsequent reworking or is considered of minor importance; on the contrary, it deserves to be known just because of its nature of “open work”.

Open Submissions

Indexed

Publication Frequency

CESURA - Rivista publishes two issue in a year, then collected in one volume per year.
Individual items are published as soon as they are ready, by adding them to the "current" volume’s Table of Contents.

Open Access Policy

CESURA - Rivista provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

CESURA - Rivista does not have article processing charges (APCs) nor article submission charges. The journal’s editorial processes and editors’ decisions are independent of any commercial consideration.

Books and Journals are published under a  “Creative Commons - Attribution” (CC 4.0 BY NC ND).

 With the licence CC-BY-N-ND, authors retain the copyright, allowing anyone to download, reuse, re-print, modify, distribute their contribution. 

Under the following terms:

 Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

 NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.

 NoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.

Publication ethics and publication malpractice

The publication of an article in a peer-reviewed journal is an essential model for CESURA - Rivista.

It is necessary to agree upon standards of expected ethical behavior for all parties involved in the act of publishing: the author, the journal editor, the peer reviewer and the publisher.

CESURA - Rivista’s ethic statements are based on COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

Authors, Editors and referees are expected to know and share the following principles.

Duties

Duties of Editors

Publication decisions

The Director-in-chief and the Board of Directors of CESURA - Rivista are responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. The Director-in-chief and the Board of Directors may be guided by the policies of the journal’s editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The Director-in-chief and the Board of Directors may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.

The Director-in-chief and the Board of Directors work on a volunteer basis. Nothing can interfere with CESURA - Rivista freedom of choice and activities, as long as their work is coherent with the scholarly mission of the journal.

Editors do not attempt to influence the journal’s ranking by artificially increasing any journal metric. In particular, they strive to ensure that submitted papers are reviewed on purely scholarly grounds and that authors are not pressured to cite specific publications for non- scholarly reasons.

Fair play

The Director-in-chief, the Board of Directors and any editorial staff at any time evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.

Confidentiality

The Director-in-chief, the Board of Directors and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest

Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor’s own research without the express written consent of the author.

Duties of Reviewers

Contribution to Editorial Decisions

Peer review assists the directors and editors in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.

Promptness

Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse himself from the review process.

Confidentiality

Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editors.

Standards of Objectivity

Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

Acknowledgement of Sources

Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also call to the editors attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.

Disclosure and Conflict of Interest

Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

Duties of Authors

Reporting standards

Authors of reports of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable.

Data Access and Retention

If applicable, authors are asked to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review, and should be prepared to provide public access to such data, and should in any event be prepared to retain such data for a reasonable time after publication.

Originality and Plagiarism

The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others, that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.

Multiple, Redundant or Concurrent Publication

An author should not in general publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable.

Acknowledgement of Sources

Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work.

Authorship of the Paper

Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors.The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included on the paper, and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest

All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.

Fundamental errors in published works

When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editors or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.

Plagiarism Policy

All articles submitted to CESURA - Rivista will be checked to detect plagiarism, also using software such as Compilatio, Turnitin or iThenticate.
A specific process is followed to manage a case of plagiarism. 
CESURA - Rivista follows the guidelines contained in the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) flowcharts.
In the case of suspected plagiarism in a published article:

1) The person who advised CESURA - Rivista of the situation is informed about the process to be followed.
2) The contributions are compared to check the degree of copying.
3) All Editors of CESURA - Rivista are informed and asked for their comments.
4) The author of the article in question is contacted with documentary evidence of  the case of plagiarism and is asked for a response.

If the author is found guilty of plagiarism:

1) The editor of the journal/series in which the original plagiarised contribution was published and the authors of the plagiarised article/book are informed;
2) CESURA - Rivista publishes an official retraction of the paper;
3) The article is withdrawn from the CESURA - Rivista site;
4) CESURA - Rivista will not publish any article of the author concerned for a period of 5 years.

Management of post publication issues and possibile correction/retraction of published articles

The Editor-in-chief and the Board of Editors are willing to accept well-founded criticism about published work and have no preclusions with respect to the possibility of publishing research that challenges previously published work. It is also part of their duties to publish corrections, clarifications, and retractions where there is a need. Authors must always be given the opportunity to respond to criticism, and the journal has no preclusion against studies that propose negative results.

Statement on the Use of Artificial Intelligence

CESURA - Rivista recognizes the significance of emerging technologies involving artificial intelligence (AI), along with the associated opportunities and challenges these innovations present to academic research.

Authors who have utilized AI tools in manuscript preparation, creation of images or graphical elements, or during data collection and analysis, must explicitly declare such usage

Journal editors are prohibited from using artificial intelligence software on submitted manuscripts. Likewise, reviewers commit not to using AI tools during the evaluation process.

Archiving

CESURA - Rivista è integrata nel gruppo delle riviste di SHARE Press.