About the Journal
Focus and Scope
Ktisis - Journal of Late Antique Housing focuses on exploring late antique dwellings in the Mediterranean region, adopting a multidisciplinary approach that encompasses archaeological, architectural, textual, historical and sociocultural analyses. It delves into the complexities of late antique housing, examining not only structural aspects but also the symbolic meanings embedded in decorative elements and their broader social implications.
The journal has a strong partnership with CISEM (Centro interuniversitario di studi sull’edilizia abitativa nel Mediterraneo), which has been hosted within the University of Bologna's Dipartimento di Storia Cultura e Civilltà since 2018. CISEM serves as a focal point for scholars and researchers interested in late antique housing, fostering collaborative research efforts and facilitating the dissemination of scholarly findings.
Contributions to Ktisis undergo rigorous peer review process and are published in Italian, English, French, German, Modern Greek, and Spanish, ensuring accessibility to a global audience of scholars and researchers interested in late antique studies, history of architecture, and Mediterranean archaeology.
Section Policies
Ktisis invites submissions spanning diverse disciplines, encouraging interdisciplinary and reception studies. Papers must offer novel insights into the Late Antique housing, fostering dialogue and further research.
Articles
Articles focusing primarily on Late Antique dwelling are welcome. The Editors consider research papers up to 15,000 words, including notes. Longer submissions are accepted only in exceptional cases, after prior discussion with the Editors. Papers should be well-structured, presenting clear arguments with broader significance and accessible to non-specialists. English fluency is expected. The Journal doesn't reprint previously published material or accept papers under consideration elsewhere.
Submissions should be emailed to the Editors in Word format. Contributors must adhere to detailed formatting and style instructions.
The articles will be subjected to the peer review process described in the following section.
Reviews
Additionally, Ktisis publishes Review Articles highlighting recent advancements and reviews of significant new publications in various scholarly languages. Submissions should be emailed to the Editors in Word format. Contributors must adhere to detailed formatting and style instructions. The reviews will not be subjected to the peer review process but to the judgment and control of the Editors and the Editorial board.
Peer Review Process
Authors wishing to contribute to the Journal with their own writing, in the form of an article or review, must send an abstract detailing the topic in English to the journal principal contact (approximately 150 words). If the theme is deemed consistent with the Journal's objectives by the Editors-in-chief, the author must then submit the complete article, including text, bibliography, figures, and captions. The texts can be provided in Italian, English, French, German, Modern Greek, and Spanish.
Submissions undergo review by two referees who are specialists in the field, with at least one being a member of the Scientific Committee. To maintain impartiality, submissions are sent to reviewers anonymously. To facilitate this, authors need to ensure that manuscripts are prepared in a way that does not give away their identity. While the reviewing process may take time, authors typically receive a decision within three months. Detailed feedback is provided to authors for potential revisions before final acceptance.
Publication Frequency
Ktisis is an annual journal. The journal is updated regularly during the year so to offer an up-to-date overview of the research outcome, and at the end of each year an annual digital volume is compiled, encompassing all the articles published online throughout the year.
Open Access Policy
This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
It releases its articles under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 4.0 International License (CC BY-ND 4.0).
This license allows anyone to download, reuse, re-print, modify, distribute and/or copy the contributions. The works must be properly attributed to its author(s). Any modified copy of the contributions and any work derived by the contributions cannot be distributed. It is not necessary to ask further permissions both to author(s) or journal board, although you are kindly requested to inform the journal for every reuse of the papers.
Authors who publish on this journal maintain the copyrights.
Authors are welcome to post the final draft on a personal website, a collaborative wiki, departmental website, social media websites, institutional repository or non-commercial subject-based repositories only upon the acceptance of the submission.
Publication Fees
The journal has neither article processing charges nor submission processing fees.
Ethics
Ktisis adopts the AlmaDL Journals Code of Ethics.
The code is inspired by the guidelines from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), in particular to the COPE Core Practices and its Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing.
All parties involved in the editorial process, editorial staff members, authors, reviewers must know and apply the ethical principles of that document.
Data Policy
When relevant, authors are encouraged to follow Open Science and FAIR principles by publishing the research data associated to their articles in trusted data repositories, according to the international best practices and data management guidelines.
Detailed information is reported in the AlmaDL Journals Data Policy.
Authors who are affiliated to the University of Bologna can publish their data in AMSActa, the institutional research data repository.
Archiving Policy
As part of AlmaDL Journals, the Journal adopts a strategy to ensure long term preservation of the published content. Please see the archiving policy of the publishing service AlmaDL Journals.
Publisher
Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
Alma Diamond – open scholarly communication
Via Zamboni 33,
40126 - Bologna (Italy)
Ownership
Dipartimento di Storia, Culture e Civiltà, DISCI
Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
Piazza S. Giovanni in Monte, 2
40124 - Bologna (Italy)
