Aims and Scope:

• Addressing relevant, important matters is thematic issues.
• Improving the international profile of the journal, welcoming articles of international scholars.
• Including the journal in further international databases and improving its visibility.
  

The journal is classified by the Romanian National Council for Scientific Research (CNCS)
in the B Category (2011-2020: Myths, Rituals, Symbolic Representations, Theology and Religious Studies. Ethnography; 2020-present: Theology).

Open Access: Yes

Publication fees: None

When citing this journal, please use the abbreviation: Studia UBB Theol. Cath. Lat.

 

 

Receipt of the articles, information about copyright:

Submission:

Articles should be submitted to the editor-in-chief, Dávid Diósi, david.diosi@ubbcluj.ro, following the Guidelines.

Only original contributions are accepted. The journal does not republish previously published articles and does not accept manuscripts already submitted elsewhere for reviewing. Conference papers should be revised before submission.

Following peer-reviewing, the editorial board rejects papers that do not match scholarly standards for academic publications. Authors are informed about the acceptance, conditional acceptance, or rejection of the paper, within one month. Conditional acceptance requires considering the suggestions made by the reviewers and revising the paper accordingly. Notwithstanding peer-reviewing, the authors are entirely responsible for the content of their paper and any breach of academic integrity.

The journal owns the copyright of the published paper. Subsequent reprinting of the article or parts of it is subject to the approval of the editors.

Issues, Deadlines:

The journal is published bi-annually in June and December.

Submission deadlines:
-April 30,
-October 30.

Fighting plagiarism and other forms of academic fraud:

Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai takes seriously the prevention of plagiarism and other forms of academic misconduct including but not limited to the fabrication and/or falsification of data. Authors should be aware that:

- All essays are checked by a soft meant to verify plagiarism.

- Plagiarism or other forms of academic fraud discovered and documented during the reviewing process result in the rejection of the manuscript. The editors will notify the higher education or research institution to which the author is affiliated, and bring the attempt of academic fraud to the attention of the scholarly community and of public opinion.

- Upon information on allegations of plagiarism or other forms of academic fraud following the publication of an article, any article that has been already published in Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai, following the thorough verification of the notification, the Editors may take the following steps: a) contact the Index of allegations of plagiarized works in Romania; b) follow the procedure in place for plagiarism or other forms of academic fraud discovered and documented during the review process, discussed above; c) officially inform the higher education or research institution to which the author is affiliated, making available all necessary documents (including the author’s responsible declaration of originality); d) advise the most important international databases about the allegation of plagiarism; and e) publish (on the site, etc.) the official position on the matter.

For conceptual and general guidelines on plagiarism, the journal follows the guidelines in “What Constitutes Plagiarism?”, in Harvard Guide to Using Sources, available here:
https://usingsources.fas.harvard.edu/what-constitutes-plagiarism.

See also: https://researcheracademy.elsevier.com/uploads/
2020-06/RA_HEADT%20Centre%20Webinar%20on%20Plagiarism_FINAL.pdf

 

Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement:

The Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement aligns with the recommendations of COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics): Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors and the Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers.

 

Privacy Statement: 

The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.

Copyright info:
©Studia UBB Theologia Catholica Latina. Published by Babeș-Bolyai University.
“Transfer of copyright agreement”: When the article is accepted for publication, I, as the author and representative of the coauthors, hereby agree to transfer to Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai Theologia Catholica Latina all rights, including those pertaining to electronic forms and transmissions, under existing copyright laws, except for the following, which the author specifically retain: authors can use the material however they want as long as it fits the terms of the below license.

Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.