The submission of a contribution can be done by signing in or, if you have already signed, by logging into the personal account. Alternatively, the submission can be made by sending an email to ejplt@unisob.na.it. Submissions sent by email must be accompanied by the acceptance of this Code of Ethics and must be anonymised in accordance with the Author's Guidelines; the Editorial Team Coordinator enters them in the platform in anonymised form for the review.
The contribution must be drafted based on the Author's Guidelines indicated and must develop issues relating to the areas of interest of the Journal.
The articles published in the EJPLT are subjected to a peer-review process, according to the following scheme:
- The Editorial Team Coordinator collects the proposals.
- The Director, with the support of the Vice-Director and the Coordinator of the Editorial and Referees Board, makes an initial assessment of the submissions, considering their consistency with the Journal's scope and interests, their originality, and, in particular, the appropriateness of the research methodology adopted in addressing the legal issues examined. The assessment also includes verification of the contributions' compliance with the formal requirements set out in the Author Guidelines section.
Interdisciplinary contributions are encouraged and will be positively considered in the assessment of the research methodology: this applies to works in which the author, individually or through co-authorship with scholars from STEM disciplines, integrates and hybridises knowledge from different disciplinary fields, including through the adoption of experimental methodologies. This does not affect the equality principle or the assessment of scientific quality carried out by the Referees and stated in the Code of Ethics. If the contribution is deemed to be in line with the interests of the Journal, it is prepared for the peer review process, submitting the contribution to at least a Referee chosen by the Director based on the specific skills required. Contrariwise, if the contribution is not considered consistent, the Editorial team Coordinator sends a communication to the author(s), with specific reasons for the non-acceptance.
- In the personal account or via email, the author receives a detailed sheet with the evaluation of the Referees and any other indications developed by them. The outcome of the review is one of the following: acceptance; acceptance subject to minor revisions; major revisions, followed by a further round of review; rejection.
Articles, comments on decisions, use cases, focus papers and project deliverables go through a double-blind review process carried out by the referees of the EJPLT. Referees are sector specialists who verify articles' suitability for publication on the EJPLT (peer review). Before the contributions are sent to the Referees, the Director of the EJPLT may verify them and reject those that do not meet the required standards of quality, originality and significance (initial assessment). After the peer review, the Director may ask for further review.
The peer-review process usually ends within one month.
Observatory papers and news goes through a single-blind review process carried out by the scientific committee of the EJPLT to verify compliance with the templates and standards of citation indicated in the Author's Guidelines section. They are uploaded only on the EJPLT portal but not in the EJPLT issues.
Contributions can be written in English, Spanish, French or Italian.
Authors should act in compliance with the EJPLT Code of Ethics and, in particular, submitted contributions should not have been previously published or be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.
There are no charges for publishing on EJPLT.