Submissions

Author Guidelines

The articles to be published in De musica disserenda should be submitted to the Institute of Musicology, Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (p. b. 306, SI-1001, Ljubljana), or to the e-mail addres of the journal (dmd@zrc-sazu.si). They must be written in MS Word. The deadlines for submissions are June 30th and December 31st for the volume published in the next half of the year. The length of the articles should be ca. 30 000 characters with spaces (including footnotes, abstract, summary, list of the quoted literatur as well as other appendices).  They may be written in English, Slovenian, German, Italian, French, by agreement with the editor also in other languages.

Each article must include a short abstract (up to 100 words), up to five keywords, a longer summary (up to 600 words), and a list of the quoted literature and sources.  Tables, pictures, music examples should be numbered and equipped with titles. Articles written in languages other than English must additionally include translations of the title, keywords, abstract and summary. The authors must  provide information on their career: the academic title, the scholarly field of their education, affiliation, position, postal address, e-mail.

After the article has been accepted for publication, two sets of page proofs are sent to the author: the first one after the peer-review when minor amendmets concerning the contents are still possible, and another one after the completed layout of the volume; on this stage only technical details may be improved.

No autorship fee is payed for the articles appearing in De musica disserenda.

The authors are entitled to two free copies of the publication and to the PDF file of the published article. 

Peer Review Process

After receiving a new text submission, the editorial board considers whether the text is appropriate for publication in the journal. All the articles meeting the basic criteria for publication in the journal De musica disserenda are anonymously reviewed. Two positive reviews are neccesary for publication: two reveiwers receive an article without the name of the author, and the author receives the reviewers‘ feedback without their names as well. Emendations of contens and technical issues might also be suggested by the editor of an individual issue.

The reviewing process might take from eight up to twelve weeks. It is an anonymous process: two reviewers receive an article without the name of its author, and the author does not know who the reviewers are as well. If the article receives two positive reviews, the author is able to emend and correct the text twice: after the review, changes of contents and technical issues are still possible (perhaps recommended by the reviewers); in the process of type-setting, however, only smaller technical changes are possible.

Open Access and Archiving Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to the full-text of articles at no cost on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. There is no Article Processing Fee charged to authors.

Digital copies of the journal are stored by the repository of ZRC SAZU and the digital department of Slovenian national library NUK, dLib.

Copyright Notice

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

Authors confirm that they are the sole authors of the submitting article, which will be published (print and online) in journal De musica disserenda by ZRC SAZU, Založba ZRC. Author’s name will be evident in the article in journal. All decisions regarding layout and distribution of the work are in hands of ZRC SAZU.

Authors guarantee that the work is their own original creation and does not infringe any statutory or common-law copyright or any proprietary right of any third party. In case of claims by third parties, authors commit their self to defend the interests of the publisher, and shall cover any potential costs.

Authors retain all copyright to the work published in this publication. The author licences to ZRC SAZU the right to publish, reproduce and distribute the article in printed and electronc form in different formats in ZRC SAZU's journal. Authors consent that ZRC SAZU is accorded the credit  of the original publisher in case of reuse of the article, and to make the article available to the public under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Users can access and use all journal archives and individual articles published in them under the terms and conditions of this license. This does not apply to third-party materials published in the articles.

The same applies to some (older) articles where the statements © authors and ZRC SAZU or © ZRC SAZU are used: the authors are the sole owners of the copyright.

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), providing they acknowledge the initial publication was made in this journal.

Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.