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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.
  • By submitting any kind of contribution to this journal, the author declares to have read and accepted the copyright notice available on this website
  • The author declares that their contribution follows RSAJournal's stylesheet (MLA7)
  • The author declares that their contribution is original, not published elsewhere, and not produced by an A.I.
  • If the contribution includes pictures/other media, the author declares to have cleared any copyright issues
  • The author declares that the submission is not under evaluation by another publication, nor will be sent to other publications for evaluation before RSAJournal has made an editorial decision
  • The author declares that the file submitted for consideration has been anonymized in all its parts, metadata included, in order to ensure a blind peer review process
  • The author will upload a bionote (150 words) as a separate word file titled SURNAME_bionote

Author Guidelines

Submissions for the General Section must be sent by January 31 to be considered for the issue of that year (e.g., contributions sent by January 31, 2025, will be evaluated for the 2025 issue, published in September).

Submissions must be in English and should not exceed 40.000 characters (including spaces, notes, and works cited). Authors should send their submission through the Submission page, creating an account if it is their first submission. Authors are invited to follow the journal's style sheet in preparing their manuscripts. RSAJournal provides a .docx template to facilitate typesetting the essay according to the journal's layout. Please, refer to the style sheet and template BEFORE submitting a contribution.

We kindly ask authors to check that the submitted file is completely anonymised in all its parts, metadata included, in order to ensure a blind peer review process. A short bionote (150 words) should be uploaded as a separate file titled "SURNAME_bionote" within the same submission.

Copyright Notice

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  • NC: Only noncommercial uses of the work are permitted.
  • ND: No derivatives or adaptations of the work are permitted.

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

  • Authors retain the copyright and full publishing rights for their submissions to the journal.  
  • Authors grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License that allows others to share unedited work for non-commercial purposes with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
  • 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 acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.

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