Submissions
Peer Review Process
All submissions to Hacquetia are peer reviewed by an international team of reviewers. Each submission will be reviewed by a minumum of 2 reviewers.
Step 1: Technical and quality check
Manuscripts submitted to Hacquetia are first checked against the journal’s author guidelines to make sure they are composed according to the required sections and stylizations. In the next step, the Editor in Chief checks whether the submitted paper falls within the scope of the journal and if it is original and interesting. If this is not the case, the paper can be rejected without review.
Step 2: Review
Manuscripts submitted to Hacquetia are single-blind peer-reviewed. The Editor in Chief selects usually two independent reviewers that are experts in the corresponding field. The reviewers perform a review with detailed comments and recommendations to the author and make a recommendation to the editors whether the manuscript should be accepted, revised, or rejected. In the case of contradicting reviews, the manuscript is sent to a third reviewer or a member of the Editorial Board, an expert in the field.
Step 3: Decision
According to the reviewers' opinions, the Editor-in-Chief makes an overall decision and communicates it to the author(s). If the manuscript is accepted, it is sent to production, while if it is rejected or sent to revision, the authors receive the reviewers' comments to improve the manuscript. The revised version is handled by the Editor in Chief and the Editorial Board and in case of a major revision, a new round of review is 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 Charge (APC) to authors.
Digital copies of the journal are stored by the repository of ZRC SAZU, Portico, and the digital department of Slovenian national library NUK, dLib.
Copyright Notice
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
The authors confirm they are the authors of the submitting manuscript, which will be published (print and online) in the journal Hacquetia by Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU. The Authors’ names will be evident in the published article. All decisions regarding the layout and distribution of the work are in hands of ZRC SAZU.
The 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, the authors commit their self to defend the interests of the publisher, and shall cover any potential costs.
The authors retain all copyright to the work published in this publication. The authors licence to ZRC SAZU the right to publish, reproduce, and distribute the article in ZRC SAZU's journals. The 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 under Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 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.
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.
