Manuscripts that do not comply with the requirements will be returned to the author(s), who may submit them edited according to the requirements a second time.
If the author(s) sends the manuscript a second time in a version that does not meet the standards, the manuscript will be returned to the author(s) with the justification that the requirements have not been met and it will not be considered again by the Editorial Board.
– The manuscript should be between 8 and 15 standard typewritten pages, including citations/references, notes and the list of references cited/bibliography and appendices.
– The file of the manuscript should be in MS Word format. It should be saved with a .doc or .docx extension.
– The manuscript file should begin with the author’s last name.
– Manuscripts of larger length (more than 15 standard pages) are accepted exceptionally only by decision of the Editorial Board.
– Text should be in Windows Word format, Times New Roman. Size: 12; justification: Justified; line spacing – Single. It should be saved with a .doc or .docx extension.
– Leave one line space between the different structural parts of the scientific article (title, author information, abstract, keywords, introduction, main body, conclusion, citations and notes, bibliography, appendices).
– Tables with more than 4 horizontal columns to be attached as a picture.
– All photographs, tables, diagrams, maps, infographics and other visuals to the manuscript should be submitted as separate files (jpg, png) as well as incorporated into the text of the paper.
– The title of the scientific article and internal headings are in bold Size: 12, Justified.
– The titles of the numbered tables are written in the text of the scientific article above the table – Italic, Size: 11, Justified. If the table is not the author’s original work, but is an adapted version or translation from another scholarly source, this is explicitly stated.
Examples:
Tab. 1. Impact of artificial intelligence on basic elements
of the educational and scientific process. Adapted from.
Tzoc, Elias. (2023). Chat GPT: Implications for academic libraries. College &
Research Libraries News, 84, no. 3: 99-102. DOI:https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.84.3.99
– Figure titles with numbering appear in the text of the research article below the figure – Italic, Size: 11, Justified. If the figure is not the author’s original work but is in translation and/or adapted from another source, this is explicitly stated.
– Examples:
– Fig. 3. Building trust
– Fig. 1 Layered model of trust (adapted from Bentele, 2008)
– When text from another file or article is used and added to the submitted manuscript, it should be pre-formatted or pasted unformatted (Paste special -> Unformatted text) to avoid font size and type imbalance and “text breakage”. explicitly stated.