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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 has it been sent to another journal (or an explanation has been provided for this in the comments to the editor).

  • The submission file is in Microsoft Word, RTF or ODT format.

  • Where possible, the exact URL of the references have been provided, complete with the latest verification date.

  • The text has single spacing; it is in a 12-point font; it has italics, rather than underlining (with the exception of URL addresses), and all of the references to illustrations, figures, and tables are positioned within the text in the appropriate places, following the Author Guidelines.

  • The text is compliant with the style and bibliographical requirements summarised in the Author Guidelines, which are contained in the INFO section of the journal.

  • If you are making a submission for a peer-reviewed section of the journal, please follow the instructions on How to ensure a blind review.

  • References are placed at the end of the manuscript. The references  include only works cited in the text. References are ordered alphabetically by author family name or by title, in case authors are missing.

    References list are put among the manuscript metadata during the submission.

  • Editorial modifications of both text and metadata are allowed. At the end of editorial workflow authors will check the proofs and can discuss any modifications.

  • Authors submitting non-english proposals are required to add an English version of the title and the abstract in the manuscript metadata. 

    As regards the title, it has to be put after the one in the original language, after the symbol "/" (e.g. Il mio titolo / My title).

    A regards the abstract, it has to follow the one in the original language, in a new paragraph.

  • Authors are aware of the privacy and consent policy adopted by this journal, available here.
  • The text has been revised by a native speaker (in the case of papers written in a language other than the author's).

Author Guidelines

The ICC Journal adopts specific and mandatory Author Guidelines about citations, formatting, supplementary files and bibliographic standards.

The journal does not apply any charge to the authors, neither for the submissions and for articles processing.

The data collected from registered and non-registered users of this journal falls within the scope of the standard functioning of peer-reviewed journals. It includes information that makes communication possible for the editorial process; it is used to informs readers about the

authorship and editing of content; it enables collecting aggregated data on readership behaviors, as well as tracking geopolitical and social elements of scholarly communication.

This journal’s editorial team uses this data to guide its work in publishing and improving it. Data that will assist in developing this publishing platform may be shared with its developer Public Knowledge Project in an anonymized and aggregated form, with appropriate exceptions such as article metrics. The data will not be sold by this journal or PKP nor will it be used for purposes other than those stated here.

 The authors published in this journal are responsible for the human subject data that figures in the research reported here.

Essays

This section is devoted to publish scientific essays, submitted to a double-blind peer review.

Documents

This section is devoted to publish project reports, conference proceedings, relevant dissertations, scientific reviews...

Knowledge Infrastructures

In the section Infrastructures for Knowledge, platforms, databases, modeling and analysis tools, on-line observatories, etc., are presented, shared and critically discussed; these research tools allow the processing of knowledge, also in support of culturally based territorial development, with integrated and shared approaches. The purpose of this section is to build bridges between different disciplinary sectors and to graft interest in the management dimension and critical knowledge of research tools on a solid transdisciplinary basis.

Privacy Statement

Privacy and consent policy

The data collected from registered and non-registered users of this journal falls within the scope of the standard functioning of peer-reviewed journals. It includes information that makes communication possible for the editorial process; it is used to informs readers about the

authorship and editing of content; it enables collecting aggregated data on readership behaviors, as well as tracking geopolitical and social elements of scholarly communication.

 This journal’s editorial team uses this data to guide its work in publishing and improving it. Data that will assist in developing this publishing platform may be shared with its developer Public Knowledge Project in an anonymized and aggregated form, with appropriate exceptions such as article metrics. The data will not be sold by this journal or PKP nor will it be used for purposes other than those stated here.

 The authors published in this journal are responsible for the human subject data that figures in the research reported here.

 Those involved in editing this journal seek to be compliant with industry standards for data privacy, including the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) provision for “data subject rights” that include (a) breach notification; (b) right of access; (c) the right to be forgotten; (d) data portability; and (e) privacy by design.

 The GDPR also allows for the recognition of “the public interest in the availability of the data,” which has a particular saliency for those involved in maintaining, with the greatest integrity possible, the public record of scholarly publishing.