Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik employs a double-blind peer review system. The publication of a contribution is expected to follow standards of ethical behaviour by all parties involved in the act of publishing: editors, authors and reviewers. Reviewers are asked to verify that the submission adheres to best practice in avoiding research misconduct.

The editors, the boards and editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the author and reviewers. The members of the international advisory board assist the editorial board in the search for and selection of external reviewers. Submissions are evaluated solely for their intellectual content without any bias to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors. Editors and peer reviewers should not review manuscripts in which they have a conflict of interest. Material from submitted, unpublished submissions should be kept confidential and must not be used by others without the explicit written consent of the author.

Authors are requested to confirm that their article is their own original work, that it does not infringe the intellectual property rights of any other person or entity, and cannot be construed as plagiarising any other published work, including their own previously published work. Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should appropriately cite or quote publications that have influenced the content of their work. In the case of multiple-authored submissions, the lead author ensures the consent of all named co-authors to publication and to being named as a co-author. All persons who have made significant scientific or literary contributions to the work reported should be named as co-authors. Others who have participated to a lesser extent should be acknowledged or listed as contributors. Authors must disclose all sources of funding for the research reported in the paper. They must declare any potential conflict of interest – be it professional or financial – which could be held to arise with respect to the article. Authors who discover a major error in their own published work are required to notify the publisher or editor and assist with withdrawal or correction of the submission. Authors should not submit contributions with essentially the same content as previously published work, except if expressly communicated and agreed; and authors should not submit a (partial) pre-edition of a work that is planned to be published again. By submitting an article to Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik authors declare that the submission is complete and that the exploitation rights to the work have not been exercised elsewhere either fully or partially. Authors have to confirm that they possess the copyright and/or right to use all parts of the work; this especially applies to images in the work.

Reviewers are asked to return their reviews within one month (in exceptional cases, no more than two months). They must not show or discuss the contents of the manuscript with others. The purpose of peer review is to assists editors in making editorial decisions and possibly also to assist the author in improving the paper through editorial communications. Material from submitted, unpublished manuscripts should be kept confidential and must not be used by others without the explicit written consent of the author. Reviewers should not consider reviewing manuscripts in which they have a conflict of interest. Reviewers are expected to express their opinions objectively. They should avoid statements damaging to the author's reputation. Critique should be directed against the work, not the author. Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also call to the editor's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published work of which they have personal knowledge. Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik adheres to the COPE Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journals (http://publicationethics.org/resources/code-conduct).