Please refer to Instructions for Authors ( https://italiaforestalemontana.it/index.php/ifm/about/submissions) for detailed guidelines for preparing your manuscript before submission to one of the Journal’s sections:
Scientific and ScholarLy articles
The journal accepts scientific articles dealing with all fields of forest and environmental sciences, policy, law, economics, wood science, including connections with history, sociology and geography. All scientific or scholarly manuscripts undergo a double blind peer review process. The Journal accepts manuscripts both in Italian and English. To reach a wider audience authors are encouraged to submit their work in English.
All scientific or scholarly manuscripts must include an Abstract maximum 200 words and 3-5 keywords
a) Original Research Articles
b) Review Articles– Review Articles provide syntheses of the current knowledge and/or new paths of thought in broad topical areas within the scope of the journal.
c) Brief Research Communications– Preliminary or novel results on limited scientific data sets or applications of existing methodologies to new research areas. This section also accepts syntheses of Master Thesis reporting innovative and scientifically accurate research results.
Technical Notes
Technical notes can present new field techniques, novel computer algorithms or software applications, interesting results from non-replicated administrative studies, management application of the latest science in a management context and other topics of technical and operative interest. Manuscripts must include an Abstract of no more than 150 words and 3-5 keywords. A short list of cited literature may be included. Manuscripts are evaluated at the discretion of the editor in chief and/or editorial board; technical notes may be sent for outside review. Field Notes are not considered peer reviewed and are not outlets for reporting original research.
Editorial Features
All manuscripts submitted to these sections are evaluated at the discretion of the editor in chief and/or editorial board; manuscripts submitted to Commentaries, Discussions, and Forest Culture and Perspectives may be sent for outside review
a) Commentaries– This section accepts short opinion pieces on current issues within the journal’s scope.
b) Discussions – This section accepts longer opinion pieces and innovative points of view on current issues within the journal’s scope.
c) Forest Culture and Perspectives– Manuscripts of general interest presenting historical or current aspects of forestry culture are published in this section.
d)Letters – Directly address ideas or facts presented in the Journal within the past six months.
e) News and book reviews– This section accepts short pieces reporting news and book reviews.
Extended abstracts
Extend abstracts (2–4 pages) can be accepted when part of conference proceedings or as synthesis of previously published papers. In this case the purpose is dissemination and the original publication must be fully cited. The author/s must avoid reproducing copyrighted figures or extensive text unless permission has been obtained. Extended abstracts are reviewed by the editor in chief or the editorial team.
Peer review
Submissions to peer reviewed sections of the journal are first evaluated by the Editorial Board. If the manuscript is considered suitable for publication, it is sent to at least two reviewers. The peer review process is double-blind, where both referees and authors are kept anonymous. Publication decisions by the Editorial Board are final.
Publication Policy and Code of Ethics
The relevant duties and expectations of authors, reviewers, and editors of the journal are set in the Journal’s Code of ethics which refers to the guidelines and standards developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics
The Journal will consider only original manuscripts that have not been published elsewhere and are not under consideration by another journal. In the case of review articles, it is the responsibility of the author to obtain permission from the copyright holder to reproduce figures or tables that have been published elsewhere.
By submitting a manuscript to the Journal, the author(s) warrant that the manuscript is their own original work and that it has neither been published previously nor is currently being considered for publication elsewhere. They also warrant that the sources of any ideas and/or words in the manuscript that are not their own have been properly attributed through appropriate citations and/or quotes.
All sources of financial support for the research should also be disclosed in the manuscript.
The author(s) of a manuscript agree that if the manuscript is accepted for publication, the published article will be copyrighted using a Creative Commons “Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 International”. Only those individuals who have made a substantive contribution should be listed as authors; those whose contributions are indirect or marginal (e.g., colleagues or supervisors who have reviewed drafts of the work or provided proofreading assistance, and heads of research institutes/centers/labs) should be named in an “Acknowledgments” section at the end of the article, immediately preceding the Reference List.
License and Term of Use
The Journal is published online according to the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Under this license the Italian Academy of Forest Science retains the ownership of the copyright for the published contents, but allows anyone to download, reuse, reprint, modify, distribute and/or copy the content as long as the original authors and source are cited. In any case, the material published on the Journal website cannot be used for commercial purposes.
Article Processing Charges (APC)
L’Italia Forestale e Montana/Italian Journal of forest and Mountain Environments does not ask for article and submission processing charges (APC).