Guidelines for Authors

Instructions for Authors

1. Article submission: Follow the link to submit a new article.

2. All submissions are subjected to a blind peer review, which will be implemented within three months.

3. Articles should normally be around 6.000 – 9.000 words. 

4. All authors should include their full names, affiliations, postal addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses on the cover page of the manuscript. One author should be identified as the corresponding author.

5. Manuscripts should be double-spaced with ample margins, typed in Times New Roman, 12-point font size, and must be accompanied by an abstract of about 100–150 words as well as by a list of 3–8 keywords.

6. The manuscript should be an original work, and does not duplicate any other previously published work, including the author’s own previously published work. Plagiarism checks are performed for all submitted articles through Elsevier. The editors can reject manuscripts of more than the 30%-40% similarity. 

7. The manuscript must not in any way violate intellectual property rights of third parties. 

8. The manuscript should not be under consideration or peer review or accepted for publication or in press or published elsewhere.

9. Bibliographic references should be provided in footnotes e.g.,
* For philosophical texts: Hobbes, De Cive, Χ, 16 – Plat. Resp. 343c.
* For books: Lloyd S. A., 2009: 289-294 or Lloyd S. A., Morality in the Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes: Cases in the Law of Nature, Cambridge University Press, 2009, pp. 289-294.
* For articles: Ranson S., ”Towards the learning society”, Education Management and Administration, 20: 2, 1992, pp. 68-79.
* For chapters within books: Ball S. J., (ed.), 1990: 75-78 or Hoskin K., ”Foucault under examination: the crypto-educationalist unmasked”, in: Ball S. J., (ed.) Foucault and Education, Routledge, London 1990, pp. 75-78.

The references should be listed alphabetically at the end of the paper in the following standard form:

For philosophical texts: Hobbes T., De Cive: the English version entitled in the first edition Philosophical rudiments concerning government and society, The Clarendon edition of the philosophical works of Thomas Hobbes; v. 3, Oxford University Press 1983.
For books: Barnett R., The Limits of Competence: Knowledge, Higher Education and Society. Buckingham 1994: The Society for Research into Higher Education.

For articles: Ranson S., ”Towards the learning society”, Education Management and Administration, 20: 2, 1992, pp. 68-79.

For chapters within books: Hoskin K., ”Foucault under examination: the crypto-educationalist unmasked”, in: Ball S. J., (ed.) Foucault and Education, Routledge, London 1990.

10. The Editor reserves the right to make changes to manuscripts where necessary to bring them into conformity with the stylistic and bibliographical conventions of the Journal.

Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement

Dia-noesis: A Journal of Philosophy is a peer-reviewed journal committed to ensuring the highest standards of publication ethics. All parties involved in the act of publishing (editors, authors, reviewers and the publisher) have to agree upon standards of ethical behavior. We state the following principles of Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement based on the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors of the Committee on Publication Ethics – COPE (available here).

Peer review process

All of a journal’s content should be subjected to peer-review. Articles submitted for possible publication are subjected to a double-blind, peer review process. Articles are first reviewed by editors. The editor may reject it out of hand either because it is not dealing with the subject matter for that journal or because it is manifestly of a low quality so that it cannot be considered at all. Articles that are found suitable for review are then sent to two experts in the field of the paper. Referees of a paper are unknown to each other. Referees are asked to classify the paper as publishable immediately, publishable with amendments and improvements, or not publishable. Referees’ evaluations usually include an explicit recommendation of what to do with the manuscript.

Note: the 40%–60% of the submitted manuscripts receive desk rejection. Only the 40%–60% of the submitted manuscripts that make the initial cut will be sent out for peer review.