About the Journal
History of the journal
The BDC journal, now an expression of the scientific research of the Interdepartmental Research Center in Urban Planning Alberto Calza Bini, comes out in a new version, in continuity with the activity carried out since 2000.
BDC intends to promote new approaches, new proposals and new tools for the implementation of urban regeneration strategies on a human scale in collaboration with the Creative and Sustainable City Research Laboratory.
Focus and field
The city, a dynamic, complex and adaptive system, a driving force for economic and cultural development, but also a context of profound conflicts, represents the field of interest, open to new challenges: promoting the implementation of circular economy principles through innovative synergies, which combining human economy, regeneration of the cultural heritage and creativity of the communities, making use of assessments, as a support to the decision-making processes of a new urban good governance.
BDC is open to qualified contributions from studies, research and experiments that develop synergies between knowledge and disciplinary fields through approaches and evaluation tools.
Ethical code
«BDC – Bollettino del Centro Calza Bini» is a scientific “peer-reviewed” and “open access” journal. Our ethic statements are based on COPE’s (Committee on Publication Ethics) Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors (http://publicationethics.org/files/u2/Best_Practice.pdf).
It is necessary that all parties involved – members of the Editorial Board and the Scientific Committee, the Editor in chief and the Co-Editors in chief, the authors, and the referees – know and share the ethical requirements.
1. DUTIES OF EDITORS
a) Publication decisions
The Editor of the journal is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. The editor may refer to the Editorial Board of the journal and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism. The Editor may confer with other Editors or reviewers in making this decision.
b) Fair play
The Editor at any time evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.
c) Confidentiality
The Editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.
d) Disclosure and conflicts of interest
Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an Editor’s own research without the express written consent of the author.
2. DUTIES OF REVIEWERS
a) Contribution to editorial decisions
Peer review assists the Editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.
b) Promptness
Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the Editor of the review process.
c) Confidentiality
Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the Editor.
d) Standards of objectivity
Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.
e) Acknowledgment of sources
Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. A reviewer should also call to the editor's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.
f) Disclosure and conflicts of interest
Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.
3. DUTIES OF AUTHORS
a) Reporting standards
Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behaviour and are unacceptable.
b) Originality and plagiarism
The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.
c) Multiple, redundant or concurrent publication
An author should not, in general, publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behaviour.
d) Acknowledgment of sources
Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work.
e) Authorship of the paper
Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors.
The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included on the paper and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.
f) Disclosure and conflicts of interest
All authors should disclose any financial or other substantive conflicts of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.
g) Fundamental errors in published works
When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.
