Peer Review Process

Manuscripts will be considered only if they have not been published elsewhere before, are not under consideration for publication elsewhere, meet the Aims and Scope of the journal Zapisnici SGD and their publication has been tacitly or explicitly approved by all co-authors (if any) and by the responsible authorities at the institution where the work was carried out. Parallel submission of the same paper to another journal constitutes a misconduct and eliminates the manuscript from consideration by Zapisnici SGD. After publication in the Journal, the authors also warrant that the manuscript will not be published elsewhere in any language without the consent of the copyright holder.

The Journal welcomes manuscripts from authors whose articles can enrich the overall view of geology scientific disciplines. After initial editorial checking, the submitted manuscripts are subject to a peer review process. This journal uses double‐blind review, which means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process. The submitted manuscripts are forwarded to two or three referees for a double-blind review. The usual period of reviewing the papers takes 30 days, depending on the number of submitted materials. All of the reviewers of a paper 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 Editors-in-Chief may assign additional reviewers.

It is understood that all the authors, having submitted their papers to the Journal, agree to the publishing politics and ethics. The Editors-in-Chief are responsible for deciding which articles will be published. The Editors-in-Chief are guided by the policy of the Journal and constrained by legal requirements in force regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism. More information about the responsibilities of editors, authors, reviewers, and the publisher can be found in Publishing Ethics.