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Thank you for choosing to submit your paper to The Lab's Quarterly. Please, read carefully the submission guidelines to prepare your article (style, formatting, references, etc.) before submitting.
The journal accept manuscript in the following languages: Italian, English and French.
Norme redazionali Editorial guidelines
Peer Review process
All submitted articles are first assessed for suitability by editors and than double-blind peer reviewed by independent, anonymous expert referees. Further information on the reviewing process can be found on our Code of Ethics below. The journal follows the review process criteria approved by the Committee of the Italian Sociological Journals (CRIS).
Anti Plagiarism policy
To avoid plagiarism, all the submitted work are checked for plagiarism via Turnitin Originality Check provided by the University of Pisa. By submitting their work, authors are agreeing to originality checks during the peer-review process. Further information on our conduct on plagiarism can be found on our Code of Ethics below.
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The author(s) authorise The Lab’s Quarterly to publish their articles online – making it available to the public through the journal’s website and its social media channels – and to use it under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence (including reproduction, elaboration and juxtaposition) for these purposes. The author(s) retain copyrights but agree not to translate or publish it in other journals until at least 18 months after its publication in this journal. Copies of this journal or articles in this journal may be distributed for research or educational purposes free of charge and without permission. However, commercial use of the TLQ website or the articles contained herein is expressly prohibited without the written consent of the editor. This license allows anyone to copy and distribute the article for non-commercial purposes provided that appropriate attribution is given. For details of the rights authors grants users of their work, see the "human-readable summary" of the license, with a link to the full license.
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Repository Policy
We encourage authors to post their pre-publication manuscript and the Publisher’s final formatted PDF version in institutional or other repositories or on their websites without embargo.
Submitted version, Accepted version or Published version can be deposited in any repositories immediately after the publication to preserving anonimity during the review process.
The published source must be acknowledged and a link to the journal home page or articles’ DOI must be set.
The Lab’s Code of Ethics
The Lab’s Quarterly is a peer-reviewed social science journal officially recognized by the ANVUR (National Agency for the Evaluation of the University and Research System) as an academic journal in the Area 14 (Political and Social Sciences) of the Italian university system.
The journal encourages dialogue among the multiple fields in the social sciences through calls for proposals and special issues, welcoming contributions from young and early-career researchers. Furthermore, it aims to contribute to the national and international sociological debate by adopting the perspective of an open, public and democratic sociology. To this purpose, The Lab’s Quarterly publishes manuscripts under the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND.
This version of The Lab’s Code of Ethics (updated: June 1, 2026) describes the journal’s ethical guidelines. Guest Editors, Reviewers and Authors of manuscripts processed by The Lab’s Quarterly are invited to follow these guidelines carefully. The current version of The Lab’s Code of Ethics is inspired by COPE’s “Core Practices” (2017) and the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity (2017). For any question or concern regarding the journal’s Code of Ethics, please write to thelabs@sp.unipi.it.
It is reminded that, prior to publication, a release form signed by all contributing authors must be provided.
