Rules regarding special issues
Rules regarding special issues
Rural Periodicals [Zeszyty Wiejskie], being a member of COPE since 2020, adheres to the guidelines for editing special issues following COPE recommendations: https://doi.org/10.24318/7cKLAia0
- Special issues are curated supplementary editions that consist of articles, the subject of which falls within the thematic scope of the Rural Periodicals [Zeszyty Wiejskie].
- Special issues are overseen by the editorial team.
- Manuscripts for special issues should be prepared according to the general submission rules (see: here) and submitted via email: zeszyty.wiejskie@uni.lodz.pl.
- Each submission for the special issue is managed by the editor-in-chief, or the editor-in-chief entrusts this task to the selected editorial team members.
- Selected editors coordinate the editorial process of articles submitted to the special issue and are responsible for assigning external peer-reviewers.
- All articles published in the Rural Periodicals, inclusive of those appearing in special issues, are peer-reviewed by at least two external reviewers (see: Review procedure).
- Selected editors are responsible for sending out review requests, collecting the reviews received, as well as informing the editor-in-chief about the ongoing progress of the review process of the articles submitted to the special issues.
- After the peer-review process is completed and the Reviewers' recommendations have been taken into account by the authors, the articles along with the completed review forms are forwarded to the editor-in-chief.
- The editor-in-chief and selected editors verify the compliance of the articles' content with the journal's thematic scope and whether the review process was conducted correctly.
- The final decision on the publication of articles curated for a special issue is made by the editor-in-chief of the journal in consultation with the team.
- The editor-in-chief and the editorial team reserve the right to withdraw an article if that article exceeds the thematic scope of the journal, does not meet the definition of a scientific article, contains false information, or if the author has violated the ethical principles adopted by the journal.
- In other matters, the principles of publication ethics adopted by the editorial team apply (see: Publication Ethics).
- The editorial team members are responsible for forwarding all articles to the publisher.
- Special issues are published as supplementary issues, outside of the journal's publishing schedule.
- The number of special issues published within a year cannot exceed the number of regular issues.
