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Author Guidelines

To submit a new paper to our journal:

  1. Register on the Journal website; we encourage you to register also as a Reviewer at the same time;
  2. Follow the Guidelines for Authors for preparation of your manuscript;
  3. Read our Editorial Policies and our Competing Interest policies.
  4. Log in;
  5. Click on the "NEW SUBMISSION" button to start the online procedure.

To submit a revised version:

  1. Log in;
  2. Click on the title of your paper;
  3. Next to the heading "REVISIONS", upload your revised paper by using the "UPLOAD FILE" button;
  4. Inform the Editors that a revised version has been uploaded.

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration.
  • The submission file is saved as a single WORD or PDF document containing full text, tables and figures.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines. A template for the manuscript formatting is available: if the manuscript does not meet the journal's requirements, it will be returned to the authors.
  • This journal charges a fee for publication. With this submission, you agree to pay the amount due if the manuscript is accepted for publication.
  • Authors are kindly invited to suggest at least 3/4 potential reviewers (name, affiliation and e-mail) for their manuscript in the "Comments to the Editor" field (Step 1. Submission Process).

Original Articles

Original Articles: ONE file only

should normally be divided into: Abstract (unstructured), Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Conclusions and References. The number of references should not exceed 40 and the total number of tables and figures should not exceed 15 (complex tables will be made available online as supplementary material at the Editorial Office's sole discretion, including ensuring efficient readability of the paper publishing format).  The abstract should contain a maximum of 400 words.

All References must be fully traceable and accessible, and should be provided in English whenever possible, in accordance with international scientific standards. This ensures that cited sources can be identified, retrieved, and understood by the global scientific community. References that are not available in English should be accompanied by an English translation of the title and, where applicable, sufficient bibliographic information to allow verification and access.

Review Articles

Review Articles: ONE file only

no particular format is required for these articles; however, they should have an informative, unstructured abstract of max 250 words. The total number of tables and figures should not exceed 15 (complex tables will be made available online as supplementary material at the Editorial Office's sole discretion, including ensuring efficient readability of the paper publishing format).  The number of references has no specific limitations, provided that all of them are essential for the scope of the review.

All References must be fully traceable and accessible, and should be provided in English whenever possible, in accordance with international scientific standards. This ensures that cited sources can be identified, retrieved, and understood by the global scientific community. References that are not available in English should be accompanied by an English translation of the title and, where applicable, sufficient bibliographic information to allow verification and access.

Technical Notes

Technical Notes: these are articles with a simple layout and containing limited data (no more than 5 between figures or tables) and a small number of citations (no more than 20). They should be limited to 3,000 words of text (figure captions, table headings and reference lists are additional to this limit).

All References must be fully traceable and accessible, and should be provided in English whenever possible, in accordance with international scientific standards. This ensures that cited sources can be identified, retrieved, and understood by the global scientific community. References that are not available in English should be accompanied by an English translation of the title and, where applicable, sufficient bibliographic information to allow verification and access.

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PAGEPress has chosen to apply the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0) to all manuscripts to be published.

An Open Access Publication is one that meets the following two conditions:

  1. the author(s) and copyright holder(s) grant(s) to all users a free, irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual right of access to, and a license to copy, use, distribute, transmit and display the work publicly and to make and distribute derivative works, in any digital medium for any responsible purpose, subject to proper attribution of authorship, as well as the right to make small numbers of printed copies for their personal use.
  2. a complete version of the work and all supplemental materials, including a copy of the permission as stated above, in a suitable standard electronic format is deposited immediately upon initial publication in at least one online repository that is supported by an academic institution, scholarly society, government agency, or other well-established organization that seeks to enable open access, unrestricted distribution, interoperability, and long-term archiving.

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.

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