^Editorial Team

Direttore Scientifico/Editor in Chief

Luigi Bravi (Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio” di Chieti-Pescara

Direttore responsabile/Managing Director

Lorenzo Furlani

Comitato di Redazione/Editorial Board

Bonita Cleri (Centro Studi Mazzini), Marzia Faietti (Kunsthistorisches Institut zu Florenz), Gabriele Finaldi (National Gallery, London), Christoph Luitpold Frommel (Bibliotheca Hertziana, Roma), Carlo Gasparri (Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”-Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Roma), Tom Henry (University of Kent), Barbara Jatta (Musei Vaticani), Paul Joannides (University of Cambridge), Fausto Testa (Politecnico di Milano), Ranieri Varese (Università degli Studi di Ferrara), Catherine Whistler (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford), Timothy Wilson (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford), Gerhard Wolf (Kunsthistorisches Institut zu Florenz)

Comitato Scientifico/Advisory Board

Anna Maria Ambrosini Massari (Università degli Studi di Urbino – Carlo Bo), Paolo Bertoncini Sabatini (Università degli Studi di Pisa), Anna Cerboni Baiardi (Università degli Studi di Urbino – Carlo Bo), Guido Cornini (Musei Vaticani), Valter Curzi (Sapienza, Università di Roma), Vincenzo Farinella (Università degli Studi di Pisa), Luigi Gallo (Galleria Nazionale delle Marche), Achim Gnann (Albertina, Wien), Matteo Lafranconi (Scuderie del Quirinale), Massimo Moretti (Sapienza, Università di Roma), Cecilia Prete (Università degli Studi di Urbino – Carlo Bo)

Redazione/Editorial Assistants

Valentina Battisti, Valentina Campolucci, Rowena Coles

The Editorial Team of «Accademia Raffaello Atti e Studi», comprising the Editor in Chief, the Editorial Board and the Advisory Board, is responsible for the contents published in the journal, which obliges all its members to guarantee its scientific quality, to avoid bad practices in the publication of the results of the investigations, and to manage the edition of the received papers in a reasonable time. In this responsibility lies the requirement to observe the following principles:

Impartiality – The Editorial Team must be impartial in managing the works proposed for publication, also respecting the intellectual independence of their authors, who must be allowed the right of reply when their work has been negatively evaluated.

Confidentiality – The members of the Editorial Team must keep absolute confidentiality about each text received and its content until it has been accepted for publication. Only then will it be possible to disseminate its title and authorship. In addition, no member of the Editorial Team may use in any way for his own research any data, ideas, hypothesis, argument or interpretation contained in unpublished works by another author, except when expressly consented in writing.

General Statement

«Accademia Raffaello Atti e Studi» (ISSN: 2039-0475) is an annual double-blind peer-reviewed scientific journal, published by the Accademia Raffaello (since 1869 in Urbino, Marche, Italy, www.accademiaraffaello.it).

«Accademia Raffaello Atti e Studi» is registered among the Scientific Journals of the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes (Anvur): Area 08 (Civil engineering and architecture); Area 10 (Antiquities, philology, literary studies, art history); Area 11 (History, philosophy, pedagogy and psychology).

«Accademia Raffaello Atti e Studi» is independent from institutional affiliations, authors are not paid for their contributions and will not be charges the article processing costs (APC). In each issue will disclose any public and/or private funders.

«Accademia Raffaello Atti e Studi» is committed to upholding ethical behavior standards during every stage of the publication process. In order to do so, we abide by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)’s Best Practice Guidelines: https://publicationethics.org.

Accademia Raffaello Atti e Studi guarantees the originality of all the submitted manuscripts. In the event of plagiarism, the manuscript will be rejected. The opinions and facts stated in each article are the sole responsibility of their authors.

Creative Commons Attribution

All content published on «Accademia Raffaello Atti e Studi» is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution. NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Green Open Access

Each author is the sole owner of the literary and scientific rights of his/her work, and can, for strictly personal use only and without commercial purposes, immediately after the publication, and without any time embargo, freely share his/her manuscript – in whole or in part –, and the PDF of the final processed and published version of his/her revised and accepted article, in open access, on websites, or online archives or repositories, without the written permission of the Publisher.

Focus and Scope

The main research interest of «Accademia Raffaello Atti e Studi» focuses on Raphael, Art History and Urbino studies.

Peer Review policy

«Accademia Raffaello Atti e Studi» reserves the right to reject any original based to quality, form or edition criteria, before on to the evaluation process. The proposal is evaluated by two reviewers specialists of recognized prestige in the matter through a single-blind peer-review process. Peer reviewers are selected by the Editorial Board with the advice of the Advisory Board. At least one of the two reviewers be external to the Advisory Board.

Reviewers maintain the confidentiality of any material submitted during the review process. The Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial Board undertake not to use and / or cite in their research the contents of an article proposed, without the written consent of the author.

As soon as the Editorial Board receive the peer-review schedule by the reviewers, they will promptly notify the authors of the outcome.

The Editorial Board guarantee the authors extensive collaboration in providing explanations on the reasons for any non-acceptance.

Authors wishing to file a complaint following a rejection should, in the latter instance, contact the Editor-in-Chief to: segreteria@accademiaraffaello.it.

Evaluation phases

First formal review. The Editorial Board, after acknowledging receipt of the text to the author through his email address, will make a first analysis of the article to check if it meets the requirements indicated in these Rules for authors. Each article must faithfully conform to these Rules, otherwise it will be returned to the author to adapt it to these. That return will be communicated to the author within a period of less than one month.

Evaluation by the double blind peer-review process. After this first formal review, the article that has passed it will be submitted to the external opinion of at least two specialists of recognized prestige in the matter, to evaluate its content through the double blind pair review system, which implies the anonymity of the author and the evaluators. The fundamental criteria that will be taken into account for a positive evaluation of the articles will be: the relevance of the selected sources, the quality of the methodology used, the originality of the subject, the updating of the bibliography, the validity of the conclusions and the general scientific interest of the text, as well as its most significant contributions to the fields covered by the journal. The arbitrators’ evaluations will be specified in four possibilities: "Accepted", "Accepted with substantial corrections", or “Rejected". In case of discrepancy of evaluation between the two assigned arbitrators assigned, the article will be evaluated by a third specialist, whose opinion will settle the tie. In the cases of "Accepted with substantial corrections", it will be returned to the author to make the modifications or corrections requested. If the text is “Rejected”, the authors will be notified of the reasons given by the evaluators for making such a decision. The authors will be informed of the result of this review, as well as the evaluators’ opinion or recommendations and may, eventually, resubmit their article as a new publication proposal to the journal that will be evaluated, in any case, as a submission independent of the previous one. After knowing the reports, the author will have a correction period, during which time he will have to make the necessary corrections and amendments, and send the text so that the Editorial Team can verify that the necessary corrections and amendments have been made changes required before publishing. In the event that the original is accepted by «Accademia Raffaello Atti e Studi», its author, once informed, must communicate his agreement or resignation.

Final decision. Once the result of the double evaluation has been obtained, the Editorial Board of the journal will decide to publish the article or not, according to the following details. The Editorial Board undertakes to communicate by email the author of the acceptance or rejection of his work. Accepted papers will be published in their proposed form, except in the case of grammatical or writing errors. In the latter case, the Editorial Board, without interfering in substantive matters regarding the content of the article, is granted the freedom to introduce slight modifications in terms of writing, spelling, punctuation and graphic design. Texts that pass the three phases of the review process will be published in order of receipt and acceptance. During proofreading, the author may only introduce errata corrections, without making significant changes to the texts. Authors must correct the first tests within the period indicated from the delivery of the tests. Otherwise, it is understood that they accept the correction made by the Editorial Board.

Submissions

Type of Articles

Articles should be original and innovative, offering new research material and/or new perspectives. «Accademia Raffaello Atti e Studi» does not solicit contributions and not consider proposals for unfinished articles.

Deadline

September 30th of each year

Language matters

«Accademia Raffaello Atti e Studi» publishes articles in English, French, German, Italian, or Spanish. Translations have to be arranged for by the author, and are required to be carried out by a language professional. The same applies for articles not written in the author's native language: these must undergo a professional language editing organized by the author.

Text and image files may be sent to: segreteria@accademiaraffaello.it

Important notice

We kindly ask that you do not submit your article elsewhere during the reviewing process. 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.

Anonymization

The personal information of the authors must not appear under any circumstances in any part of the article, that is, neither in the central text, nor in the footnotes or in the bibliography. Any reference that identifies the author must be removed.

First page

The article will include the following information:

Title of the article in the original language

Title in English. If the article is written in English it will be translated into Italian.

Abstract in English.

Keywords in English.

Text

The text file should now be sent in two formats: Pdf and Word Processing File (*.doc/*.docx). Please include references to the illustrations in the main text (Fig. 1, Fig. 2, etc.).

-If your article is accepted for publication

Once an article has been accepted for publication, it must be checked carefully to ensure it is consistent with the formatting rule. The article will not be sent for publication if these rules are not respected. You should treat your manuscript as if it was a final proof in order to eliminate errors and inconsistencies as far as possible. This will save time at the proof stage.

Illustration

Illustrations should be provided in a separate file accompanied by its numbered caption, corresponding with a Fig. number within the text.

In the body of the text, they will all go under the name “Fig./Figs", numbered consecutively in Arabic numbers, and identified with all their data in the caption, including the source or origin of the image.

Illustration Licensing and Copyright

All of them will be presented on digital format in JPG, TIFF or BMP, with sufficient resolution quality, preferably 1 MB or more.

Please be aware that both works of art and photographs of works of art may be under copyright. It is the author’s responsibility to provide suitable illustrations for publication (see below), to obtain permission to reproduce them and, if necessary, to pay any copy right fees.

When, exceptionally, an image has been scanned from a published edition, it remains the contributor’s responsibility to negotiate reproduction permission with the owner of the copyright for that image.

The authors of the articles will guarantee in writing that the images sent are free of payment for copyright, either for having already honored such payment, or because the images are free to use. In any case, they must cite origin of them, as well as their authorship.

«Accademia Raffaello Atti e Studi» is not responsible for any disputes arising from the misuse of images.

Proofs

The first proof are normally expected to be returned with corrections and answers to any queries within two weeks.

«Accademia Raffaello Atti e Studi» guarantee that errors, and inaccurate or misleading statements are corrected promptly and with due prominence.

The second proof could be sent for final verification, no further corrections are allowed, except in special cases motivated by the author.

Editorial Policy

Declaration of Ethics

Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief are accountable for everything that is published in «Accademia Raffaello Atti e Studi». This includes applying the double-blind peer-review to assess the quality of the articles proposed for publication.

Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial Board should act in a fair and balanced way when carrying out their duties.

Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial Board should manage the submissions in a timely manner; treat all material as confidential and only distribute it to others for double-blind peer-reviewing purposes.

«Accademia Raffaello Atti e Studi» provide guidance to authors on everything that is expected of them.

Editor-in-Chief’s and the Editorial Board collaborate with the Publishing to avoid plagiarism and intellectual property violations.

Authors

Authors must ensure their article does not contain any libelous matter; does not violate any copyright or other intellectual property rights; does not violate any other right of any third party.

Authors should cite content from other sources appropriately to avoid plagiarism.

Every published work will state in a clear and comprehensive way the bibliographical and archival sources used in the research. In case some sections of the manuscript overlap with a published or a submitted content, this should be acknowledged and cited.

Authors should earn the permission to reproduce any kind of content from third-party sources. Any funding sources should be clearly identified in the manuscript

Reviewers

Reviewers maintain the confidentiality of any material submitted during the double-blind peer-review process.

Reviewers should immediately inform the Editor-in-Chief of any real or potential conflicts of interest that could affect the impartiality of their reviews, and refuse to review where appropriate; behave fairly and impartially; review the material in a timely manner; assist in improving the quality of a submitted proposal or typescript by reviewing the material with care, consideration and objectivity.

Reviewer who knows he cannot carry out the reading in the required time, must promptly communicate it to the Editorial Board.

Reviewers should immediately inform the Editor-in-Chief of any suspected plagiarism.

As soon as Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial Board receive the peer-review schedule by the reviewers, they will promptly notify the author(s) of the outcome.

The Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial Board guarantee the authors extensive collaboration in providing explanations on the reasons for any non-acceptance.

The Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial Board protect the identity of authors and reviewers.

The Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial Board undertake not to disclose information on the articles proposed to anyone other than the referees and the Publishing.

The Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial Board undertake not to use and/or cite the contents of an article proposed, without the written consent of the author(s).

The Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial Board, and the Publishing, guarantee that errors are corrected promptly and with due prominence.

Complaint Policy

Complaints should be sent to: segreteria@accademiaraffaello.it. Complaints are managed on a case-by-case basis. If «Accademia Raffaello Atti e Studi» receives a complaint about the copyright infringement or the violation of other intellectual property rights, or about material inaccuracies, libelous materials or otherwise unlawful materials in one of its publications, the Editor-in-Chief will investigate the complaint. The investigation procedures may include a request to the involved parties to give proof for their claims. The Editor-in-Chief and the Publishing will decide in good faith whether to announce the retraction of the work or to take any other relevant measure. Any corrections, clarifications, retractions, and apologies will be published on the next issue.