There are no publication fees and no remuneration to authors or reviewers. 

Board members and editors carry out their duties without remuneration. 

The Authors, the Reviewers, the Editors and the Scientific Board are required to adhere to the Committee on Publication Ethics recommendations (COPE):

https://publicationethics.org/

Board members and editors cannot submit an article to LD&S while they are in their position. Guest-editors cannot publish an article in the thematic issue they are coordinating.

The papers are published under the CC-BY-NC 4.0 license (detail available here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). It offers unlimited access to all its content all over the Internet, immediately upon first publication (with no embargo period). 

Copyrights and publishing rights are held by:

Processing time from submission to publication usually ranges from 2 months to 8 months. 

Publication dates are June and December each year. 

Ethics statement

Journal’s community aims to prevent “ghost-writing”, plagiarism and other forms of scientific dishonesty.  

A double blind peer-review procedure is in operation, where both the Authors and the two independent Reviewers do not know each others identity. Transparent procedures are in place and conflict of interest is avoided. 

List of peer-reviewers is published annually (December issue) for the reviews done during the year (the publication date can be later) to maintain anonymity.

Authors are requested to provide a statement that their submitted work:

• is their own personal work and does not bridge any copy rights or authorship rights;
• has not been published in whole or in part elsewhere;
• is not currently being considered for publication in another journal;
• they are individually responsible for the content of their article.

Any detected cases of misconduct, whether on the part of authors, reviewers or editors, will be immediately challenged and addressed in appropriate manner.

Responsibilities of the Editor in Chief: 

Editor in Chief is obliged to represent the journal in any official matters, including indexing and archiving, granting rights and access, transfer to new systems, data bases and websites.  Editor in Chief is representing the interests of RC25 community on practical and strategic level ensuring continuation of journal’s prosperity and existence.  Editor in Chief is in charge of editorial processing, editing, reviewing, decision making, any official business related to type setting, inviting co-editors or support-staff acquisition. Editor in Chief is responsible for the Editorial Board composition and for checking if the Editorial Board members maintain their RC25 ISA membership status. Special wavers are possible at the discretion of Editor in Chief. 

In cases of : letter of resignation, proven grave misconduct, death or severe illness of the Editor in Chief,  RC25 proposes a new Editor in Chief within the next 6 months that has to be approved by the President and vice-president of RC25. If they cannot agree, a majority vote should be taken by members of the Editorial Board and the RC25 Executive Board. Temporary leadership of the journal should be given to Executive or Managing Editor during the gap in service.