The procedure of reviewing publications and ethics statement

Abstract

The procedure of reviewing publications: The procedure of reviewing articles published in the journal “Ordines Militares Colloquia Torunensia Historica. Yearbook for the Study of the Military Orders” is as follows: Two independent reviewers are appointed to define the academic value of each text sent to the editorial office. Each reviewer of a given text is an employee of scientific institutions other than those at which the author of the article is affiliated. Neither of the reviewers knows the identity of the other reviewer. The names of the reviewers of given texts remain secret and they are kept by the editorial team. However, in each volume a list of reviewers cooperating with the editorial staff is published. Reviews are in a written form. To publish an article it is necessary to obtain the positive evaluation of both reviewers who express and justify their opinions concerning the academic nature and the scientific value of a reviewed text.

Ethics statement: The journal “Ordines Militares Colloquia Torunensia Historica. Yearbook for the Study of the Military Orders” implements ethics rules as well as “ghostwriting”, “guest authorship” and plagiarism detection procedures, which are prepared in accordance with COPE standards. For the details visit http://www.apcz.pl/OM/about/index or http://www.ordinesmilitares.umk.pl