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Peer Review
Peer Review Papers may be submitted to the Themed section, for which a call for papers is issued every year, or to the Open Contributions or Continuing Discussions sections. All submissions are first evaluated by the editors of their respective section. The selected submissions then undergo a double blind review with anonymous external referees, chosen for their specific competences and research fields. One member of the Editorial Board or Advisory Board may occasionally be involved in the peer review process. In the event that referees return different recommendations, the article will be sent to a third external reader or to a member of the Editorial Board or Advisory Board and the final decision will be based on consensus. The editor in charge of the review process will ensure that the article will remain anonymous when submitted for review to a member of the Editorial Board or Advisory Board. Before going into production, the issue editor(s) will present the whole issue for final approval. Criteria for publication include: appropriateness to the journal’s mission (or to the unifying theme or issue), potential impact on the field of gender studies in an Italian context, and overall excellence.
The Invited Contributions section is by invitation only. The editor solicits contributions from practitioners, scholars, journalists, philosophers, artists, and others whose perspectives may be instrumental to the further development of the central theme of the current issue. Apart from oversight from the editors, these articles do not undergo the sort of peer review that is the practice of the other sections in the Journal.
Open Access
To foster communication, g/s/i is published online and is an open-access journal managed but the g/s/i Editorial Board. All content, including multimedia files, is freely available without charge to the user or their institution and is published according to the Creative Commons License, which does not allow commercial use of published work or its manipulation in derivative forms. Content can be downloaded and cited as specified by the author/s.
Scholarship may be submitted in either English or Italian. The journal plans publication of one volume per year that will be edited collaboratively by the Editor, Associate Editors, and Staff. Guest-Editors, responsible for establishing a theme for a volume and for soliciting and vetting all articles, may apply to the Editorial Board (see procedure below).
There are no charges in submitting papers to g/s/i or for any phase of the editing process.
Creative Commons License
g/s/i is published online and is an open-access journal. All content, including multimedia files, is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution and is published according to the Creative Commons License, which does not allow commercial use of published work or its manipulation in derivative forms. Content can be downloaded and cited as specified by the author/s, who are the copyright holders of the published articles. 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.
In exceptional cases, the Editorial Board may consider translations of articles previously published in a different language in peer reviewed journals, in accordance with the copyrights laws.
Authors are welcome to post the final draft post-refereeing (postprint) on a personal website, a collaborative wiki, departmental website, social media websites, institutional repository or non-commercial subject-based repositories.
All published articles will include this language and link: “This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License“
Ethic Code
The ethic code of g/s/i is inspired by and adapted from COPE Code of Conduct: http://publicationethics.org/files/Code_of_conduct_for_journal_editors.pdf.
The Authors, the Editorial Board, the Advisory Board, the Guest Editors, the Referees, the Staff, and the Publisher are required to accept and abide by the ethical code. Specific elements of the ethic codes are also detailed below.
Authors
Authors interested in contributing to g/s/i should read the current call for submissions: their contribution must be pertinent to the theme, topic, or area/s described in that call. Submitting a contribution does not guarantee publication. g/s/i is a peer-reviewed journal and all submitted materials are reviewed by expert external readers and the Editorial Board, who may recommend for or advise against publication, or ask for revisions. It is the responsibility of the Editorial Board to make a final decision on publication of any content in each issue. Articles must be original and unpublished.
Authors are responsible for the articles they submit: they must assure the originality of their works, being aware of the consequences of misconduct. They should always acknowledge their sources and provide relevant citation details for all publications that have influenced their work.
Authors are asked to follow the Author’s Guidelines published by the journal, therefore ensuring accuracy, completeness and clarity of research reporting, including technical editing. Articles must conform to the editorial standards of The Chicago Manual of Style and specific guidelines available at:
Articles in other formats and styles will not be accepted. Articles must be either in English or Italian. Suggested length is 10,000 words, including bibliography and footnotes.
Authors of articles accepted for publication will be asked to submit accurate and timely revisions at the discretion of the journal’s Editorial Board and in accordance with the editorial norms supplied.
In the case of contributions or editorial revisions non submitted on time, they will be reconsidered for publication in the Open Contribution or Continuing Discussions sections of the following year, depending on topic.
Authors will provide the journal with their persistent digital identifier (ORCID: https://orcid.org/).
Editorial Board
The Editorial Board consists of:
- the general Editor, who is also in charge of the Themed and Continuing Discussions sections,
- the Editor of Invited Perspectives,
- the Editor of Open Contributions, and
- the Reviews Editors.
The Editorial Board will act promptly if they suspect misconduct or if an allegation of misconduct is brought to them. This duty extends to both published and unpublished papers.
Editors have a system for managing their own conflicts of interest as well as those of the staff, authors, reviewers and editorial board members. They have a process for handling submissions from the editors, employees or members of the editorial board to ensure unbiased review. They encourage study and research into peer review and publishing and reassess the journal’s process in the light of new finding. They guarantee that errors, inaccurate or misleading statements are corrected promptly and with due prominence. They will publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when needed. They will respond promptly to complaints and will ensure there is a way for dissatisfied complainants to take complaints further. Complaints and appeals could be sent to the to the general Editor (marinin@dickinson.edu), Managing Editors at info@gsijournal.com, or to the editors of the respective sections:
Themed and Continuing Discussions (marinin@dickinson.edu),
Invited Perspectives (pbonifazio@austin.utexas.edu),
Open Contributions (enerenberg@wesleyan.edu), and
Reviews (ryancm@indiana.edu and erica_moretti@fitnyc.edu).
The editors ensure that contents are published on a timely basis, following the stated frequency. They take all reasonable steps to guarantee that the published material is securely preserved and all articles are published in open access, freely available to anyone. They take all reasonable steps to ensure the quality of the material published in g/s/i. The section editors will ensure that appropriate reviewers are selected for submissions.
The editors strive to ensure that peer review at the journal is fair, unbiased and timely. A description of peer review process is published, and the section editors are ready to justify any important deviation from the described process.
It is a fundamental policy of g/s/i to respect pluralism, civility and mutual understanding within the intellectual community that it represents. The Editorial Board does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, religion, age, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or political philosophy of the authors, before submitting the articles to referees. The final decision of the Editorial Board may be constrained by such legal requirements regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism.
Editors and staff provide guidance to authors that encourage accuracy, completeness and clarity of research reporting, including technical editing and the use of appropriate guidelines and checklists.
The editors have a system to ensure that the 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.
Tenure on the Editorial Board will be for a minimum of two years. Members of the Editorial Board who have participated insufficiently for two years may be asked to resign. (Insufficient participation means: failure to participate in the editorial and peer review process). All Editorial Board members will participate in the research and writing of grants for funding the journal as well as any conferences that should be proposed.
Advisory Board
The Editorial Board nominates a number of experts in appropriate fields to serve as an International Advisory Board for three-year renewable terms. All nominations must be approved by the majority of the Editorial Board members. Members of the Advisory Board may be asked to review essays and/or write reviews of publications for the reviews section according to the rules stated above.
Staff
In addition to the Editorial Board, the journal has Managing Editors and Assistants Editors, who assist the issue Editor(s) in all aspects of the journal’s production. The Managing Editors are responsible for coordinating the copyediting and publishing phases of the editorial process. They must collaborate with the editors, with whom they will have frequent meetings and be regularly in contact via email. All staff must accept and abide by the Ethic Code.
Guest Editors
g/s/i will occasionally publish guest-edited issues related to themes that may be of special interest to g/s/i’s avenues of editorial inquiry. In these cases, the Invited Perspectives, Open Contributions, and Continuing Discussions sections, as well as the Reviews continue to be overseen exclusively by their respective editors. The guest-editing process and timeline are as follows:
May 31 (year before proposed publication): send us your proposal with rationale/theoretical framework, and guest-Editor/s bios. The proposal should also include: 500-word abstracts, bibliography, and bio for each contributor. The Editorial Board will evaluate the proposal and submit it to the Advisory Board. If the proposal passes these steps, as guest-Editors, you will send a g/s/i formal request to the contributors, with specific information about format and length or article to submit .
January 31 (same year of proposed publication): The completed articles should be submitted to both the guest-Editors and general Editor (Nicoletta Marini-Maio). The articles will go through double blind review: two external readers will be selected, one by the guest-editors and one by the editor; g/s/i policies for review should be followed. Guest-Editors cannot be selected as readers. Guest-Editors and general Editor will manage the communication process with their respectively selected readers and all the editing phases according to the follow timeline:
March 30: deadline for readers to submit feedback.
May 30: deadline for authors to submit revised articles.
June 30: deadline for guest-Editors to submit edited articles (content, citations/bibliography, language). All articles should follow the editorial norms as stated above. Other styles (or inaccurate/inconsistent formats) will not be accepted. Templates will be provided.
g/s/i Editors, Managing Editors, and Assistant Editors will manage and supervise the copyediting, pagination, and publication processes. Publication is scheduled for August 31.
Reviewers
Reviewers are provided guidance on everything that is expected of them including the need to handle submitted material in confidence. They are required to disclose any potential competing interests before agreeing to review a submission.
Reviewers are encouraged to comment on the originality of submissions and to be alert to redundant publications and plagiarism. They will alert the Editorial Board regarding intellectual property issues and plagiarism and work to handle potential breaches of intellectual property laws and conventions. They 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.
g/s/i is indexed in the following databases:
EBSCO – University library database services
ROAD – Directory of Open Access scholarly Resources
WorldCat – The world’s largest library catalog
MLA International Bibliography and MLA Directory of Periodicals – Global databases of the Modern Language Association
Google Scholar – Academic search engine
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