Focus and Scope

The "form of the city", this is how the novice Latinist would translate the title of FORMA CIVITATIS: but that meaning refers rather to the term "forma urbis", while in Latin "forma civitatis" means precisely "the law of citizenship". Yet the Journal feeds on this significant assonance with the Latin language and, playing with the form already in the title, it proposes to publish scientific contributions in  English, characterized by the application of innovative and experimental methods, on the themes that they range from urban morphology to history, the theory of form, architectural and restoration projects, without excluding, however, archaeology. The FORMA CIVITATIS, International Journal of Urban and Territorial Morphological Studies (IJUTMS) aims to publish yearly online scientific papers in English, both online (open access) and in printed format, pertaining to the study of urban and rural formation processes, with a wide and interdisciplinary approach and a specific focus on innovative research methodologies.
In order to reduce the global digital divide, all the journal's contents are free and open access, all papers are available for download in PDF format here

https://www.formacivitatis.com/index.php/journal/issue/archive

Hardcopies of the journal may be ordered online through the Publisher's website Grünberg Verlag, Weimar and Rostock, Germany

http://www.grunbergverlag.de/

 

All submissions will be subject to a rigorous double blind peer review process. The peer review process is administered by the editorial board as a double blind peer review process.

Section Policies

Articles

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Book Reviews

Submissions will be peer reviewed

Editors

• admin admin
• Alessandro Camiz

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Researches

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Thesis

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Calls for papers

Open Submissions

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Peer Reviewed

Architecture

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Archaeology

Editors

• Valentina Porcheddu

Open Submissions

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Peer Reviewed

History

Editors

• Marco Cadinu

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Landscape

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Editorial

Editors

• admin admin
• Alessandro Camiz

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Front Matter

Editors

• admin admin
• Pelin Arslan
• Alessandro Camiz
• Eleonora Cecconi
• Özge Özkuvanci

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Reports

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

All submissions will be subject to a rigorous anonymous peer review (double blind). The peer review process is administered by the editorial board. Contributors will be notified if their contribution is accepted, rejected or accepted with revisions required. The peer review is executed by at least 2 reviewers, screening the paper for compliance with academic writing standards, if the submission follows the authors’ guidelines, and evaluating its structure, methodology and scientific quality. The peer review process is recorded in a "review form response" log.

Publication Frequency

Journal items will be published collectively, as part of an issue with its own Table of Contents. Issues are published yearly, both in open access (Online ISSN: 2748-3134) and printed (Print ISSN: 2748–2812). Each issue is dedicated to a specific topic and also has a title and a dedicated ISBN code. Publisher: Grünberg Verlag, Weimar-Rostock, Germany http://www.grunbergverlag.de/; Legal deposit is done by the Publisher at the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. https://portal.dnb.de/opac/simpleSearch?query=forma+civitatis

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.

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

Plagiarism Policy

All submissions are screened for plagiarism as part of the peer review. The plagiarism control is executed by the peer reviewers and documented in the «peer review response» log.

Licensing Policy

Forma Civitatis permits the following licenses: CC BY. Authors publishing under any license allowed by the journal retain all copyrights and publishing rights.

Business declaration

Forma Civitatis is a strictly scientific journal and does not charge contributors for publication fees or APCs (Author Processing Charges). The journal does not charge authors for any other costs, such as editorial processing charges, language editing fees, colour charges, submission fees, page charges, membership fees, print subscription costs, or other supplementary charges.

Open access

This journal provides immediate GOLD OPEN ACCESS to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.