Publication ethics

AIB studi is member of COPE and our ethic statements are based on COPE's Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

Publication decisions

The editor in chief of AIB studi is responsible for deciding which submitted articles should be published.

The editor in chief may be guided in its decision by the the journal's editorial board's policies and by the need to comply with legal requirements concerning libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The editor in chief may confer with other editors or reviewers in making his decision.

Fair play

Manuscripts are evaluated uniquely for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, ethnic group, nationality, religious or political belief.

Confidentiality

No information about a submitted manuscript can be disclosed by the editor in chief or editorial staff to anyone else than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and publisher.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest

Unpublished materials included in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor's own research without the author's manifest and written consent.

Duties of Reviewers

Contribution to editorial decisions
Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.

Promptness
Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse himself from the review process.

Confidentiality
Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.

Standards of objectivity
Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

Acknowledgement of sources
Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also call to the editor's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.

Disclosure and conflict of interest
Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

Rights and duthies of authors

Reporting standards

If the submitted paper reports any original research, authors should present an accurate account of their work as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be accurately represented in the paper. All papers should contain sufficient detail and references to permit other researchers or professionals to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable.

Data access and retention

When applicable, authors are asked to provide the raw data connected with their paper for editorial review. They also should be prepared to provide public access to such data, and should in any event be prepared to retain such data for a reasonable time after publication.

Originality and plagiarism

Authors should ensure that their work is original. If someone else's work and/or words have been used, they must be appropriately cited or quoted.

Multiple, redundant or concurrent publication

As a general rule an author should not publish manuscripts describing the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript at the same time to more than one journal constitutes unethical publishing behavior, and is unacceptable.

Acknowledgment of sources

Proper acknowledgment of other people's work must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work.

Authorship of the paper

Authorship should be limited to those who made their significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. Anyone made its significant contribution should be listed as co-author. If someone else contributed to the research in some respects, she/he should be acknowledged or listed as contributor.

The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-author have been included in the paper, and that all reported co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper, and have agreed to its submission for publication.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest

All authors should disclose in the manuscript any financial or anyhow substantive conflict of interest that may have influenced the research's results or the results' interpretation. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.

Major errors in published works

When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it's his duty to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and to cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.

Online publication is the official publication of a research's results. Once it is published online, an article can be cited and quoted in other works, and if changes are made after that, confusion can easily arise (authors could quote different versions of the same publication etc.). AIB studi has therefore decided not to make systematic use of the technical potentialities offered by an online publication: a published document cannot simply be replaced by an updated one. Therefore after online publication further changes can only be made as an “Erratum”, which will be hyperlinked to the article.