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Author Guidelines

Contributions will be subject to a double-blind peer review process. Authors should take the responsibility for their work, fitting the international linguistic standards; if not, it will be returned to the author. The manuscripts should be submitted electronically. Authors should prepare their papers according to the journal guidelines and the word template downloadable via this link: www.laborest.unirc.it

 The manuscripts submitted to the journal should be prepared with:

- a title in Italian and English

- an Abstract in English, up to 1.150 characters (including spaces), with an accurate and structured representation of the manuscript content: the purpose of the paper; methodology; results and conclusions

- four to seven keywords in English

- a footnote next to the author’s name, for each author, which must include the author’s affiliation, his or her mailing and e-mail addresses, and information about the corresponding author (in the footer of the first page, using different symbols from sequence numbers used for text notes).

The manuscript should not exceed 4–6 pages in length, including reference lists, figures, tables, notes and eventually appendices.

The paper should be submitted as Word format (docx, doc) and should satisfy the editorial policy of the journal contained in the word template.

Authors are requested to strictly follow the editorial guidelines to ensure a fast publication process. Manuscripts not complying with the guideline or incomplete papers will be sent back to the author.

 

Once the review process has been successfully completed, the article will be finally accepted for publication as an open access article, provided that the paper has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration. Exceptions to this rule are colloquium papers delivered as invited talks or papers containing material disclosed at conferences. The corresponding author contextually declares that, for papers coauthored by scientists from various institutions, all authors are familiar and agree with the contents of the manuscript.

The Editorial Committee reserves the right to contact these authors to confirm this in case of doubt. There are no page charges for submission, processing or publication in LaborEst.

 

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.

  1. Upon submitting their manuscript, the authors declare that the paper has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration. Exceptions to this rule are colloquium papers delivered as invited talks or papers containing material disclosed at conferences.

  2. The corresponding author contextually declares that, for papers coauthored by scientists from various institutions, all authors are familiar and agree with the contents of the manuscript.

  3. The use of another person’s ideas, even unpublished, as well as the copying or paraphrasing of a text composed published elsewhere by another author and presented as if it were one’s own work, is plagiarism. The corresponding author declares to have read the Code of Ethics of LaborEst journal and that the submitted manuscript is perfectly compliant with the terms therein.
  4. Authors are invited to upload their manuscript as a Word (doc, docx) as specified by the guidelines for authors, referred to section 3.1. 
  5. Authors are invited to provide the names of up to three potential referees with the appropriate technical expertise, although the Editorial Committee will not necessarily approach them. Their email and postal addresses, phone and fax numbers should be provided as fully as possible. Authors may email this information to laborest@unirc.it
  6. Authors are also invited to prepare the manuscript in a properly correct English.
 

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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
  4. A copy of the Open LaborEst's license agreement can be downloaded at the following link: www.laborest.unirc.it

 

 

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