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Galilæana. Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Science

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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • ORIGINALITY: The submission must not have been previously published or submitted to another journal. If this is the case, authors must provide a direct explanation to the editors in the “Comments” section. Authors are also responsible for informing the journal if the work has been previously uploaded to any repository.
  • METADATA: Authors must provide a title, an abstract (150 words), and three significant keywords in both Italian and English.
  • FILE FORMAT: Submissions must be in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF formats (.rtf, .doc, .docx, .odt).
  • TEXT FORMAT: The text must use single spacing and a 12-point font. Italics should be used in place of underlining.
  • LENGTH: The proposal, excluding the abstract and references, must comply with the length limits specified for the targeted section. Exceptions must be justified and agreed upon with the editorial team.
  • REFERENCES: Where possible, URLs for references should be provided.
  • FIGURES AND TABLES: Articles may include illustrations, figures, and tables. Each image must be consecutively referenced in the text (e.g., Fig. 1) and accompanied by a caption. Images should be submitted as separate files in .jpg or .png format with a resolution of at least 300 dpi. Authors are responsible for obtaining publication rights for any included images.
  • STYLE AND CITATION GUIDELINES: The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the contributor’s guidelines.
  • LANGUAGE REVIEW: Authors are responsible for the linguistic revision of their articles.
  • PUBLICATION LICENSE: Authors acknowledge and accept that the content will be published under the CC-BY 4.0 Attribution license (as presented at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
    The copyright remains with the author, who transfers the right of first publication to the journal. Simultaneously, the content will be licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license, allowing others to share the work with proper attribution to the author and the journal for the first publication.

Essays

The English language is the recommended submission language, along with the Italian language. Submission in the major European languages may be considered for double-blind peer review as long as the author(s) commit to provide an English translation of their work if it is accepted for publication.

The journal Editors-in-chief have a preliminary say whether to admit or reject the anonymized submission, based on the article's adherence to Galilaeana scientific scopes and aims.

Preliminarily accepted articles undergo a double-blind peer-review process by at least two independent experts in the field. Occasionally, up to one of the experts may be a member of the journal's Scientific committee.

The outcome of the peer-review process is binding. Should the opinions be incompatible, the editors will seek a third review.

Upon receiving reviewer reports, the Editors-in-chief decide whether to further pursue publication of the manuscript (either requesting the author revise and resubmit their manuscript, accepting, or rejecting it). The decision letter sent to authors will be accompanied by the expert reviewers’ reports within 16 weeks from the submission date.

The submission file must include:

  • Title (both in the submission’s language and in English)
  • Contact person (will be removed by the journal’s editorial team for anonymity purposes)
  • English abstract (ca. 150 words)
  • Keywords (three to five are recommended)
  • Article body (max 12.000 words, including footnotes. Longer papers may be considered by prior arrangement with the Editors-in-chief). 
  • References

Essay reviews

Submissions to this section undergo an open peer-review

The submission file must include:

  • Title (both in the submission’s language and in English)
  • Contact person (will be removed by the journal’s editorial team for anonymity purposes)
  • English abstract (ca. 100 words)
  • Keywords (three to five are recommended)
  • Article body (max 6.000 words, including footnotes)
  • References

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Copyright Notice

The content is published under the CC 4.0 license (Creative Commons 4.0, attribution) as presented at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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 acknowledgment of the work’s authorship and initial publication in this journal.

This allows for immediate free access to the work and permits any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose.

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 acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.

Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) after the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.

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