Ethical principles of the journal
The Art of Terraced Landscapes follows the principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). The journal publishes reports, essays and visual contributions from the ITLA network; the points below set out what we expect from authors and editors. The full version of these principles is given on the page of The Journal of Terraced Landscapes.
Editors
Review: manuscripts are assessed by the editors (editorial review), who may ask an expert in the field for an opinion; the decision on publication rests with the editors.
Fairness and confidentiality: contributions are judged only on their content and their fit with the journal, regardless of the author's origin, beliefs, gender or affiliation. Unpublished manuscripts are not shared outside the editorial team and are not used for anyone's own work. An editor with a conflict of interest hands the manuscript to another editor.
Authors
Original work: submit only your own work that has not been published or submitted elsewhere. Quote and cite the work of others correctly; plagiarism and self-plagiarism are not acceptable.
Authorship: list as authors everyone who made a substantial contribution to the text and approved the final version, and nobody else. Thank other helpers in the acknowledgements.
People and places: when the contribution is based on work with people, make sure they agreed to take part and to be shown in photographs, and respect their privacy.
Use of AI tools: AI tools cannot be authors. If you used one to write or translate the text, to make images or to analyse data, say which tool and for what. You remain responsible for the whole text. AI-generated images must be labelled as such in the caption.
Conflicts of interest and funding: declare any financial or personal interest that could influence the contribution, and name the funders of the work.
Corrections: if you find an error in your published contribution, tell the editors. The correction is made in the record on Zenodo, which is the version of record, and on this website.
Open access and copyright
Authors keep the rights to their work. From October 2026 contributions are published open access under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-SA 4.0), without fees. Contributions published before October 2026 remain under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0) under which they first appeared; the licence of each contribution is shown on its page and in its Zenodo record. For every photograph, drawing or artwork that is not your own, you need the permission of its author to publish it under this licence, and the caption must name the author.
