Article Submission Guidelines
The submitted articles should be original (should not have already been published) and should not be submitted for publication elsewhere as well; they should comply with the scientific and ethical norms of their field and also bring a novel contribution to it. The manuscripts will be sent simultaneously to the journal and to the editor-in-chief by e-mail in Word format by 20 April (for the first issue) and by 20 September (for the second issue).
The articles may be written either in Romanian or in an international language (English, French, Italian or German). Irrespective of the language of the text, the abstract and the keywords should be in English; the article title should also appear in English translation after the original title, when the original language is not English. The authors are kindly asked to fully comply with the style andgraphic requirements which can be found here – please scroll down – or else their submission is not eligible for reviewing. .
The reviewing process and receipt of recommendations for the authors, if any, will take 4 to 6 weeks; the articles accepted for publication which should require emendation by the authors must be resubmitted at the latest by 2 June and 2 November, respectively.
The authors retain the copyright of their articles. Should the authors choose to republish their articles at a later date, they must fully acknowledge the first publication.
The journal charges no reviewing, processing or publication fees.
The style sheet and media transfer should take into account the following:
- Please send your papers electronically as an attachment.
- The text must be processed in Word.
- Length: 5000–7000 words
- Page layout: B5(18.2 cm x 25.7 cm); margins 2.5 cm
- Font: Times New Roman 12 pt
- Line spacing: 1
- Alignment (for text, footnotes and Works Cited): justified
- Please do not insert page numbers.
- Indent paragraph beginnings one tab (or 1.25 cm); do not indent the first paragraph of any section.
- Tables and charts should be inserted as objects which can be moved with the text.
- Title (also in English translation): regular, bold, centred, Times New Roman 12 pt
- Author’s name: under title, regular, aligned right, Times New Roman, 12 pt
- Affiliation: under author’s name, regular, aligned right, Times New Roman, 12 pt
- Abstract (in English): Times New Roman 11 pt, italics, justified; minimum 10 lines
- Keywords (in English): Times New Roman 11 pt, italics, justified; 5–7 terms; please separate the terms through semicolons and add a semicolon at the end too
- Please insert footnotes if necessary for further explanations. Do not offer bibliographic metadata in the footnotes.
- Quotations exceeding two lines should be typed in a paragraph indented (only left) one tab (or 1.25 cm), Times New Roman 12, single spaced, justified, preceded and followed by a blank line. Two-line quotations – which use quotation marks – should not include the quoted text’s full stop (if any) before the in-text citation brackets. Block quotes – which do not use quotation marks – should include the quoted text’s full stop before the in-text citation brackets. Please use the type of quotation marks specific to the language of the text. In English, for a quote within the quote please alternate single quotes and double quotes or the other way round, depending on the type of quotation marks used throughout the text.
- References: The Works Cited list and in-text citations will be written in our journal’s adapted MLA style. After a quote in the body of your paper, indicate the source in brackets, using the format specified below as the In-Text Citation form; all references should be given in alphabetical order at the end of the paper under the heading WORKS CITED, using the format specified below as the Works Cited form. The second line of the reference should be indented one tab (or 1.25 cm). Please do not number the Works Cited entries.
Guidelines for MLA Citation Style