Submissions

1 – Use our Template and write your paper in one of the following formats:
- Essays (includes Working Papers, Visual essays or Conference Abstracts);
- Articles (Full Papers).
​2 – Register or, if already registered log in .
​3 - Select "New Submission" and follow the instructions.
4 - The Blind Peer Review process starts (several review rounds are possible);
5 - Accepted paper APC payment or validation (mandatory)
6 - Accepted paper is published online (ideally 12–24 weeks after submission)
6 - Layout and printed issue launch (until the end of the edition year).

Continuous Publishing
Articles will be published on a rolling basis as they are accepted, following Editorial Procedures and Peer Review.

On this title article processing charges (APCs), apply.
Since January 2026, we have adopted a single APC rate (per author) applicable to all submissions (Gold Open Access). We have also established a clearly defined Waiver Process: limited to a maximum of two articles per issue, for invited authors—either selected on the basis of merit and/or demonstrating justified financial incapacity.
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This title is Open Access, meaning all content is freely available without charge to users or their institutions. Users are permitted to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without requesting prior permission from the publisher or the authors. This policy aligns with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) and Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) definition of open access.

Open Access Policy
Our journal operates under a full Open Access model. We support the free, public, and online availability of scholarly and artistic research outputs.

We promote unrestricted access — by both human readers and machine systems — and encourage the computational reuse, integration, and transformation of published content into broader knowledge structures.

Research in public art should contribute to a transparent, collaborative, and internationally connected knowledge ecosystem.

Open Data
In line with Open Science principles, our journal encourages:

• The deposit of research data, analytical materials, code, visual documentation, or other underlying materials in appropriate repositories prior to or at the time of publication. Exceptions may apply in cases involving justified legal or ethical constraints.

• The sharing of information about software, models, methods, protocols, or other resources that support reproducibility and reuse.

• The recognition that research data in public art may include textual documents, interviews, field notes, photographs, videos, maps, technical reports, and documentation of participatory or site-specific processes.

When materials are shared, access links must be included in the manuscript. Examples of repositories: SciELO Data; Zenodo; 

Digital Preservation Policies
Our journal uses the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN) in order to ensure digital preservation through the LOCKSS system.

Preprints
Our journal accepts submissions that have been previously shared on preprint servers. Authors must clearly indicate the location of the preprint and provide its DOI upon submission.

If the article is accepted and published, authors are required to update the preprint record with the full reference to the final published version.

Publication, indexation and DOI
All accepted papers will be freely available for download and assigned a unique Digital Object Identifier (DOI). We are continuously working on expanding and maintaining compatibility with major global citation indexes, directories, aggregators, repositories, preservation and metadata infrastructures.

The final version of the approved article will be published with the name of the editor or editors responsible for the manuscript evaluation process.

For articles with more than one author, each author’s contribution must be identified after their name (e.g., Miguel Soares, Conceptualization). We use the Contributor Roles Taxonomy” (CRedit) as a reference.

Editorial Procedures and Peer-Review

- Initial Checks
All submitted manuscripts will be checked by a the Managing Editor to determine whether they are properly prepared and whether they follow the ethical policies of the journal. Manuscripts that do not fit the journal's ethics policy or do not meet the standards of the journal will be rejected before peer-review. Manuscripts that are not properly prepared will be returned to the authors for revision and resubmission. After these checks, the Managing Editor will consult the journals’ Editor-in-Chief or Guest Editors to determine whether the manuscript fits the scope of the journal and whether it is scientifically sound. No judgment on the potential impact of the work will be made at this stage. Reject decisions at this stage will be verified by the Editor-in-Chief.

- Peer-Review
Once a manuscript passes the initial checks, it is assigned to two or more reviewers. Reviewers are selected and invited based on the expertise required for each submission. Reviewers must hold a PhD and/or be recognised experts in the relevant field.
To ensure the absence of conflicts of interest and an unbiased peer-review process, reviewers may not be members of the journal’s Editorial Team, must not have co-authored publications with the author(s) within the past five years, and must not be affiliated with the same institution as the author(s).
The journal operates a double-blind peer review process, ensuring that both authors and reviewers remain anonymous. Peer-review reports are confidential and will be shared with others only with the reviewer’s explicit permission.

- Editorial Decision and Revision
With the exception of Editorials and Commentaries all the Articles, and Essays go through the peer-review process. The editors will communicate the decision that resulted from the review process, which will be one of the following:

• Accept after Minor Revisions:
  The paper is in principle accepted after revision based on the reviewer’s comments. Authors are given five days for minor revisions.
• Reconsider after Major Revisions:
  The acceptance of the manuscript would depend on the revisions. The author needs to provide a point by point response or provide a rebuttal if some of the reviewer’s comments cannot be revised. Usually, only one round of major revisions is allowed. Authors will be asked to resubmit the revised paper within a suitable time frame, and the revised version will be returned to the reviewer for further comments.
• Reject and Encourage Resubmission:
  If additional experiments are needed to support the conclusions, the manuscript will be rejected and the authors will be encouraged to re-submit the paper once further experiments have been conducted.

All reviewer comments should be responded to in a point-by-point fashion. Where the authors disagree with a reviewer, they must provide a clear response.

- Production and Publication
Once accepted, the manuscript will undergo copy-editing, language editing, proofreading by the authors, final corrections, pagination, and, publication on our website.

Use of Large Language Models (LLMs)

To ensure transparency, ethical practice, and the integrity of the scholarly record, any use of LLMs must be clearly disclosed by the authors.

Authors must indicate the use of LLMs in the Acknowledgements or Methods sections. Identify the LLM tool and its contribution, where relevant. Briefly describe the tool used and its role (e.g. language editing, stylistic improvement, exploratory literature assistance, or idea structuring).

All content generated or assisted by LLMs must be critically reviewed and verified by the authors. Authors retain full responsibility for the accuracy, originality, validity, and ethical integrity of the manuscript. Potential biases, inaccuracies, or unsupported statements produced by LLMs must be carefully addressed. LLMs or AI tools cannot be listed as authors or co-authors.

Compliance with these guidelines is required to meet ethical publishing standards, including those recommended by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). For further guidance, see:
https://publicationethics.org/cope-position-statements/ai-author