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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another press for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in the Microsoft Word, RTF, OpenDocument, or WordPerfect file format.
  • Each section begins on a separate page: title page, abstract, text, appendix(es), notes, references, biographical paragraph, each table, each figure.
  • Title Page includes all authors’ names, addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, e-mail addresses, vacations or other dates when authors might be unavailable and addresses and phone numbers for those dates, and any other pertinent contact information.
  • Abstract is around 100 words. Keywords are given.
  • All in-text citations are included in the reference list; all references have in-text citations.
  • Reference list follows APA Citation Format.
  • Figures are high resolution, and an electronic version is provided; they appear exactly as they should in the book.
  • Written, signed permission for copyrighted material has been obtained where necessary.
  • The manuscript has been read and corrected by a native speaker.

Author Guidelines

General requirements:

  1. The authors are obligated to submit the paper written in Lex localis Press Form with Title Page.
  2. The language of the manuscript submitted for consideration for possible publication will be evaluated by our editors to decide if it is of sufficient quality. The English language of the manuscript is strongly recommended to be checked by a specialist in the English language before submission.
  3. At the end of the paper has to be a literature list. All the sources of the list have to be referenced in the article, indicating the family names of the authors and the publication year, pages, e.g. (Smith, 2008: 213).
  4. Papers should be prepared by means of Microsoft Word.
  5. All figures should be prepared in black and white only.
  6. Please note that Lex localis Press uses CrossCheck™ software to screen papers for unoriginal material.
  7. Authors are obligated to submit Author's Guarantee Form. 

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Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

 

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