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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.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in an OpenOffice or Microsoft Word format and in any case coherent with the journal template.
  • Where possible, reference URLs and DOIs are provided in the bibliography.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  • Issues of publication ethics, copyright, and authorship have been considered.
  • All authors have approved the content of the submitted manuscript.
  • The file to be uploaded is edited to allow double-blind reviewing.

Author Guidelines

General information

Effetti di Lettura / Effects of Reading invites authors to submit articles to the journal. Each issue consists of the following types:

  • INVITED ARTICLES: includes a selection of articles by eminent experts on relevant topics. The papers are double-blind peer reviewed.
  • PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES: includes only papers that have passed double-blind peer review.

Proposals can be submitted in three sections:

Research: the main text should be limited to a maximum of 8,000 words (excluding the abstract in English, which should be between 250 and 300 words);

Surveys, notes, and short research reports: the main text is limited to a maximum of 6,000 words (excluding abstracts in English, which should be between 250 and 300 words).

Studies and reviews: the main text is limited to a maximum of 6,000 words (excluding abstracts in English, which should be between 250 and 300 words).

 In order to be accepted, manuscripts must follow the Guidelines for Authors provided by the journal. In case of non-compliance with the guidelines, all papers will be rejected.

Download the Template in Microsoft Word format.

Articles proposed to Effetti di Lettura / Effects of Reading must comply with specific characteristics:

  • Language: The contributions are submitted in English, Italian or French. Non-native authors must have proofread the English version of their contribution with the support of a native speaker or an organisation that can confirm through certification that proofreading has been carried out.
  • The Abstract is in Italian and English (maximum 250 words).
  • Manuscripts must follow, the maximum number of words defined for each section.
  • Manuscripts must conform to the drafting conventions established by the American Psychological Association (APA Manual Style, 7th edition). File with examples

 

Authors and author references should only be included in the final document. The author(s) must include, as part of the submission process, all details of any co-authors (including the choice of corresponding author) in the appropriate sections. It will not be possible to edit this metadata after it has been assigned to the article editor.

Download and read the document Guidelines for Authors.

Download and use the format (in .docx) to write the article.

For the corresponding author (and all co-authors), carefully enter all metadata (First Name, Last Name, Affiliation, Department, ORCID, Researcher ID, etc.)

 

Responsibility of authors

Authors guarantee that their manuscripts are original works, have not been published before, and are not being simultaneously considered for publication elsewhere. Parallel submission of the same paper to another journal constitutes misconduct, and eliminates the manuscript from further consideration.

Authors are solely responsible for the content of their submissions. The authors affirm that the article contains no unfounded or illegal statements, and does not violate the rights of third parties.

Authors must ensure that the group of authors listed in the manuscript includes all and only those authors who contributed significantly to the submitted manuscript. If persons other than the authors were involved in important aspects of the research project and in the preparation of the manuscript, their contribution should be acknowledged in a footnote or in the Acknowledgements section.

It is the authors' responsibility to specify the title and code of the research project in which the work was created, as well as the full title of the funding institution.

Authors are required to properly cite sources that significantly influenced their research and manuscript. Parts of the manuscript, including text, images, and tables that are faithfully reproduced from other works, must be clearly cited (e.g. by enclosing their position in the original document in inverted commas).

The full references of each text citation must be listed in the Bibliographic References section, according to the citation style used by the journal. The references section should only list citations.

When authors identify a significant error or inaccuracy in a published work, it is their obligation to promptly notify the Editor-in-Chief (or Publisher) and cooperate to withdraw or correct the paper.

By submitting a manuscript, authors agree to abide by the Editorial Policies of Effetti di Lettura / Effects of Reading.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish in this journal accept the following conditions:

  1. Authors retain the rights to their work, and assign to the journal the right of first publication of the work, simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Licence—Attribution that allows others to share the work indicating intellectual authorship and first publication in this journal.
  2. Authors may enter into other non-exclusive licensing agreements to distribute the published version of the work (e.g. deposit it in an institutional repository, or publish it in a monograph), as long as they indicate that the first publication was in this journal.
  3. Authors may disseminate their work online (e.g. in institutional repositories or on their website) before and during the submission process, as it may lead to productive exchanges and increase citations of the published work.

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