Ethic Code
Publication ethics and publication malpractice
Atlanti is a peer-reviewed journal and conforms to the general model followed by other peer-reviewed journals for scientific articles’ publication.
All parties involved in the publishing process – author, journal editor, peer reviewers and publisher – have to agree with the journal’s ethical standards.
Atlanti accepts the ethical principles of COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.
Publication Decisions
The editor of Atlanti is responsible for deciding which submitted articles should be published. The editor 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 may confer with other editors or reviewers in making his decision.
Open Access Policy
Atlanti provides open access to articles after six months from their publication, on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
It releases its articles under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution Licence 3.0.
With this licence, authors retain the copyright, allowing anyone to download, reuse, re-print, modify, distribute and/or copy their contribution. The work must be properly attributed to its author. It is not necessary to ask further permissions both to author(s) or journal board, although you are kindly requested to inform the journal for every reuse of the papers.
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 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Unpublished materials included in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor’s own research without the author’s manifest and written consent.