About the Journal
Author Guidelines
Abstracts submitted in response to a call should be between 700 and 1000 words (approx. 4500-7000 characters), accompanied by a concise bibliography, 5 keywords, and a short CV. If the proposal is accepted, the author commits to writing the proposed article in compliance with the Author guidelines.
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Peer Review Process and Publication Timing
Acceptance of articles for publication is subject to a double-blind peer review. Two anonymous referees are chosen on the basis of their specific competence and research fields. Papers are evaluated according to criteria such as intrinsic quality, thematic relevance and originality.
By submitting an article, the author implicitly accepts the double-blind peer-review process. The Editorial Team will provide a judgment both in case of approval or non-approval of the article. The article will be published online within twelve months after the evaluation. Once the paper is submitted and before the evaluation of the proposals, the Editorial Team will use an antiplagiarism software, in order to evaluate the originality of the texts and of their quotes, and detect possible acts of plagiarism. SRSA publishes only original articles, that have not been previously published in journals or other channels.
Open Access Policies
SRSA 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.
This journal is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial Licence 4.0 (CC-BY-NC).
This license allows anyone to download, reuse, re-print, modify, distribute and/or copy the final version of the papers without commercial purposes. The works must be properly attributed to its author(s). It is not necessary to ask further permissions both to author(s) or journal board, although you are kindly requested to inform the journal board for every reuse of the papers.
Authors who publish on this journal maintain the copyrights.
Indexing and archiving
Since its foundation in 2017, SRSA has been included in the ANVUR (Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes) list of scientific journals for the purpose of the National Scientific Qualification. Since 2020, SRSA is rated as a “A-Class” journal by ANVUR. The journal is indexed in the following databases:
- ACNP – Catalogo italiano dei periodici
- BASE – Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
- ERIH PLUS – European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social Sciences
- Google Scholar – Academic Search Engine
- ROAD – Directory of Open Access scholarly Resources
- ZDB – Zeitschriften Datenbank
- Worldcat – The world’s largest library catalog
Publications Ethics
The Publication Ethics adopted by SRSA is inspired by COPE (Code of Conduct of the Committee on Publication Ethics) guidelines.
Duties for the Editor-in-chief
The Editor-in-chief takes all reasonable measures to ensure the quality of the material published on SRSA. The Editor has a duty to act if he suspects misconduct or if an allegation of misconduct is brought to him. This duty extends to both published and unpublished papers.
The Editor has a system for managing his own conflicts of interest as well as those of the staff, authors, reviewers and Editorial Team members.
The Editor has a process for handling submissions from the editors, employees or members of the editorial Team to ensure unbiased review.
The Editor encourages study and research into peer review and publishing and reassess the journal’s process in the light of new finding.
The Editor guarantees that errors, inaccurate or misleading statements are corrected promptly and with due prominence, publishing corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when needed. The Editor will respond promptly to complaints and will ensure there is a way for dissatisfied complainants to take complaints further. Complains and appeals could be sent to direzione.srsa@gmail.com.
The Editor ensures that contents are published on a timely basis, following the stated frequency.
The Editor takes all reasonable steps to guarantee that the published material is securely preserved and all articles are published in open access, freely available to anyone. Permanent identifiers as DOI guarantee tracking and preservation of articles in the long term.
Duties for the Editorial Team
The Editorial Team provides authors with the Author Guidelines which set out the requirements that contributions must meet before being submitted to SRSA.
The decision of the Editorial Team as to accept or reject a paper for publication in the journal is based on subject relevance and originality and is guided by the review of suitably qualified referees. The Editorial Team will ensure that appropriate referees are selected for submissions.
The Editorial Team strives to ensure that peer review at the journal is fair, unbiased and timely.
A description of peer review process is published, and the Editorial Team is ready to justify any important deviation from the described process.
The Editorial Team evaluates manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.
The Editorial Team’s decision may be constrained by such legal requirements regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism.
The Editorial Team provides guidance to authors that encourage accuracy, completeness and clarity of research reporting, including technical editing and the use of appropriate guidelines and checklists.
The Editorial Team has a system to ensure that material submitted to the Journal remains confidential while under review. Confidentiality of individual information obtained in the course of research or professional interactions is guaranteed.
Duties for Authors
Authors are responsible for the articles they submit: they must assure the originality of their works, being aware of the consequences of misconduct.
Authors should always acknowledge their sources and provide relevant citation details for all publications that have influenced their work.
Authors are asked to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review, and should be prepared to retain such data for a reasonable time after publication in order to provide access to such data.
Authors are asked to follow the Author Guidelines published by SRSA, therefore ensuring accuracy, completeness and clarity of research reporting, including technical editing.
Duties for Referees
Referees are provided guidance on everything that is expected of them including the need to handle submitted material in confidence.
Referees are required to disclose any potential competing interests before agreeing to review a submission.
Referees are encouraged to comment on the originality of submissions and to be alert to redundant publications and plagiarism. They will alert Section Editors regarding intellectual property issues and plagiarism and work to handle potential breaches of intellectual property laws and conventions.
Referees should help identifying relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors.
The Journal policies will be reviewed periodically, particularly with respect to new recommendations from the COPE.
