Peer review

The submitted manuscripts are subject to a peer review process. The purpose of peer review is to assists the Editorial Board in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communication with the author it may also assist the author in improving the manuscript.

The review is double-blind.

Every paper has at least two reviewers.

The duration of the review process depends on the reviewers.

After submitting your manuscript, expect to receive a response to your submission within 7 days. If no one has contacted you after 7 days, please contact the same email or the email of the technical editor miroslav.galic@ff.unibl.org

If the editors decide that your paper meets the aims and scope of our journal, expect an additional 4 to 8 weeks for the review process. Our journal recommends reviewers to make their decision within 4 weeks, but the process of finding a suitable reviewer, with the possibility that some may refuse to review the paper, can take up to 4 additional weeks.

After accepting the work for publication, the editors retain the freedom to decide in which of the following issues of the journal your work will be published, with the fact that our journal publishes online first, which means that online access to your work will be much earlier than in the printed version.

The editors try to keep the period between submission of the manuscript and online publication to no more than 6 months.

The choice of reviewers is at the Editors’ discretion. The reviewers must be knowledgeable about the subject area of the manuscript; they must not be from the authors’ own institution and they should not have recent joint publications with any of the authors.

In the main review phase, the Editor sends submitted manuscripts to two reviewers experts in the field. The reviewers’ evaluation form contains a checklist in order to help referees cover all aspects that can decide the fate of a submission. In the final section of the evaluation form, the reviewers must include observations and suggestions aimed at improving the submitted manuscript; these are sent to authors, without the names of the reviewers.

All of the reviewers of a manuscript act independently and they are not aware of each other’s identities. If the decisions of the two reviewers are not the same (accept/reject), the Editor may assign additional reviewers.

During the review process Editor may require authors to provide additional information (including raw data) if they are necessary for the evaluation of the scholarly merit of the manuscript. These materials shall be kept confidential and must not be used for personal gain.

The Editorial team shall ensure reasonable quality control for the reviews. With respect to reviewers whose reviews are convincingly questioned by authors, special attention will be paid to ensure that the reviews are objective and high in academic standard. When there is any doubt with regard to the objectivity of the reviews or quality of the review, additional reviewers will be assigned.