An article collection devoted to the conference will be published in:

After the conference, authors will be invited to submit a full article on the topics of their presentation for possible publication in the prospective Journal article collection.

Submission deadline and peer-review process

Submissions are accepted until March 3, 2024.

All submitted manuscripts shall undergo the standard peer review process of the Journal.

The review process of each manuscript will be conducted independently and as efficiently as possible. Indeed, once a manuscript is received, it will be sent out for reviews immediately. Once accepted, it will rapidly go into production, and will then be published both in the current regular issue of the journal and in the virtual special issue available in ScienceDirect.

Instructions for submissions

All manuscripts must be original and shall be submitted using the Journal online submission platform.

Guest editors will perform a quick pre-screening about the suitability of the received submissions for the article collection and will send further instructions to authors.

For manuscript preparation, please follow the guidelines in the Journal website.

If you wish to submit, please send an expression of interest as soon as possible to guest co-editor . You will also receive precise instructions on how to submit.

Guest editors

Stefano Ferracuti

Professor of Forensic Psychiatry
Department of Human Neuroscience
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Toni Mancini

Professor of Artificial Intelligence
Department of Computer Science
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Gabriele Mandarelli

Professor of Forensic Psychiatry
Interdisciplinary Department of Medicine
University of Bari, Italy

Gerben Meynen

Professor of Ethics and Forensic Psychiatry
Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Faculty of Humanities, Moral and Political Philosophy, Vrije University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Giovanna Parmigiani

Research fellow in Forensic Psychiatry
Department of Human Neuroscience
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy