Submissions

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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The item has not been previously published, nor offered to another journal.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements summarized in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

TeMA Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment does not charge any author article processing charges (APC) nor article submission charges.

** If you have any problem during the submission process, contact: redazione.tema@unina.it **

First phase: Editing

Download the template of TeMA Journal paper (DOWNLOAD) and follow the typesetting instructions, including the following information:

  • Title: max 50 characters (not including spaces);
  • Subtitle: max 50 characters (not including spaces);
  • Name, Surname, email, affiliation (University, Department, etc..), ORCID and biography of all the authors;
  • Abstract: max 200 words;
  • Three to five keywords representing the main content of the article (i.e. Climate change; Urban planning; Coastal cities);
  • The text of the article should be at most 50,000 characters (including spaces) with references;
  • The figures and graphs of the article (resolution of 300 dpi) will be verified by the editorial staff. Please, provide permissions to redazione.tema@unina.it, if necessary, in case of images and graphs subject to copyright;
  • Bibliographical references should be ordered alphabetically and formatted according to the APA citation style. Images must be commented on by a brief caption.

For further details on the text editing, please refer to the information present in the paper template.

Second phase: Submission

The submission of the articles must be done by logging in the website of the journal. The procedure is divided into five steps, as follows:

Step 1. Chose the section of the journal for which the author makes the submission (FOCUS section dedicated to the specific topic of the journal number or LUME section devoted to the general theme of the land-use, transport, and environmental interactions);

Step 2. Upload the typeset paper in .doc format;

Step 3. Fill the metadata section with all information related to all authors (name, surname, email, ORCID, URL, Affiliation, country, biography) and to the article (title, abstract, organization of support, references, keywords).

Step 4. If necessary, upload additional files (such as images, tables, etc..);

Step 5. The corresponding author and co-authors will receive a confirmation e-mail (by OJS platform) and the progress of the submission can be followed through the editorial process by logging in. Please, check-in the spam folder of your email box if you do not receive the email.

Third phase: Editorial Assignment

Step 1. The editorial board assigns each item to an Editor who has the task of keeping the relationship with the author;

Step 2. The Editor will proceed to a preliminary reading, which may also involve requests of improvement to fulfill two obligations, the first of scientific nature while the second is purely editorial. In this case, the author could receive communication directly from the editor with the request of modifications.

Fourth phase: Review process

Step 1. The Editor will forward the paper to the double-blind peer-review: the text will be anonymously evaluated by two (or more) academicians whose identity will remain anonymous to the authors;

Step 2. On the basis of reviewers’ comments, the Editor will communicate the final decision (Accept Submission, Request Revisions and Decline Submission) to the authors sending an email through the OJS platform.

Step 3. In the case of “Request Revision”, the editor asks the author an improvement of the article on the basis of reviewers' comments and will decide if the second round of peer-review is needed before the final decision. After the submission of the revised paper, the editor decides to accept or either decline the publication.

 

Focus

The Focus section publishes articles that are directly related to the issue themes.

LUME (Land Use, Mobility and Environment)

LUME section publish original interdisciplinary papers on the interaction of transport, land use and environment. Domains include: engineering, planning, modeling, behavior, economics, geography, regional science, sociology, architecture and design, network science, and complex systems.

Papers reporting innovative methodologies, original data, and new empirical findings are especially encouraged.

Review Notes

this section remarks itself as a service to readers of the magazine to update them on the most important novelty in the interest of the journal. This part of the magazine consists of six sub-sections providing information on the proposed contributions to news, documents or events of major importance and relevance in the government of territorial transformations, mobility and environment.

COVID-19 vs City

This new temporary section comes from the discussions and scientific works arising by the reflections and considerations proposed in the TeMA Special Issue Covid-19 vs City, which collected contributes of some Italian researchers and technicians on the scenarios, insights, reasoning, and research on the relations between the City and the impacts of Covid-19 pandemic, questioning about the development of a different vision and a general rethinking of the city.

 

For this call for paper, the journal welcomes papers that explore the experiences and innovative methods and tools proposed at the urban and territorial level during the Covid-19 crisis, trying to understand relationships between “urban planning” and spread of infection considering the long-term impacts and perspectives that the pandemic is highlighting in the different worldwide contexts.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish in this journal agree to the following:

1. Authors retain the rights to their work and give in to the journal the right of first publication of the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons License - Attribution that allows others to share the work indicating the authorship and the initial publication in this journal.

 

2. Authors can adhere to other agreements of non-exclusive license for the distribution of the published version of the work (ex. To deposit it in an institutional repository or to publish it in a monography), provided to indicate that the document was first published in this journal.


3. Authors can distribute their work online (ex. In institutional repositories or in their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges and it can increase the quotations of the published work (See The Effect of Open Access)

 

 

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