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How to contribute to Kervan
GENERAL
RULES
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The essays must be scientific in nature, original and unpublished.
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The essays must be furnished with a brief, but thorough abstract in English.
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The following languages can be utilized: - English
- French
- German
- Italian
- Romanian
- Russian
- Spanish
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Any transcription or transliteration can be utilized, on condition that it maintains a scientific nature and coherence.
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The text must not have a length superior to 125,000 strokes and can be accompanied by images, graphs, tables and acoustic material.
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A biographical note on the author must accompany the essays, not to exceed 500 strokes.
TECHNICAL INDICATIONS
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The essays must be worded in electronic format with .doc extension (Microsoft Word) or .rtf (Rich Text Format), with indications of the operative system (Linux, Mac, Windows, or other) and the text elaboration program (Corel, Lotus, Star, Word, etc.).
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The types of fonts utilized must be indicated, and must be attached to the text in case there are any unusual fonts. In any case the use of New Times Roman font, or its derivatives, is recommended. The point size of the font must be 10 in the text, 8 in the notes. All the indents must be made with a uniform system of tabulation.
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Eventual notes must be collocated as a footnote.
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Eventual bibliography must be placed at the end of the essay.
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The images must be sent as a separate file, even if it already appears in the body of the text. Each image must constitute a file, with maximum dimensions of 320x240x72, formatted in .ttf or in .jpg.
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Eventual acoustic material must be formatted in .mp3, for the maximum dimensions of 5 Mb, with a 128k/s quality.
NOTE
Kervan delegates the judgement on the scientific validity of the papers submitted to the Journal only to the Editors and the Scientific Committee. However, in consideration of the new disciplinary parameters introduced by the universities for the evaluation of scientific research and accreditation, the Journal may request – if the Authors desire – that the submitted text be judged by two Referees. These Referees, as colleagues with recognized expertise in the specific scientific-disciplinary areas, receive submissions from the Journal by e-mail without the Author’s name affixed or any reference to the Author’s identity (therefore we invite all Authors to send two files of the submission, of which one is without identification). In this phase of evaluation, consequently, the Referees will not know the Author’s real identity nor vice-versa. However, to guarantee the transparency of the process, only in the following year after publication will the Journal communicate the Referees’ identity. The Journal receives from each Referee a report which in turn is sent by e-mail to the other Referee and Author. After examining the Referees’ two subsequent reports, the Editors and Scientific Committee will decide either to publish, reject, or modify the paper in question (in this last case, the revised version will be re-submitted to the Referees for a second judgement). It must be noted that the judgement of the Referees is non binding. The Editors and Scientific Committee reserve the exclusive right whether to publish the submission. The Referees’ report consists of a judgement based on the following criteria: 1) thematic and subject congruence of submission to Journal content and editorial objectives; 2) originality and relevance of approach to subject; 3) coherent and logical development of subject concept; 4) thorough knowledge of relevant literature in field. In the second part of the Referees’ report, mention must be made of the submission’s being a) publishable, or b) not publishable, or c) publishable with corrections/changes (specify).
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