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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 journal for consideration.
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • References with a DOI include the DOI in the bibliography.
  • Figures, pictures, tables and diagrams are sent in separate files as well.
  • Regardless of the language of the paper, an English title and an English abstract are required.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

Format requirements

  • Cambria font;
  • title of the article: Headline 1, capital letters, font size 11, bold, centered, with a 10-point blank line below;
  • the name of the author(s): normal, small capital, font size 11, centered, with two 10-point blank lines below;
  • the main text: font size 10, separated;
  • single line spacing;
  • normal margin: 2.5 cm in the circle;
  • tab indentation at the first line of paragraphs - paragraphs under titles and lists and after empty lines are exceptions;
  • the title of the chapter is marked in font size 11, the titles of the larger sections are in bold, and the smaller ones are in italics; in the case of enumeration, we use the black dots also visible in this document;
  • footnotes: font size 8 (Cambria), placed at the bottom of the page, closed to the left;
  • figures and tables are placed in the middle, numbered, and named above the content, in 10, italic font; in the case of figures, the appropriate resolution, min. Image files (JPG or TIF) with a width of 1000 pixels should be preferred;
  • source designation of figures and tables: below, aligned to the right, with 10 italic font;
  • please send figures, pictures, and tables as well as diagrams separately;
  • the length of a publication can be a minimum of 7 pages and a maximum of 20 pages (number of characters: minimum 18,000 including spaces, maximum 72,000 characters).

The content structure of individual publications

  • the short content summary of the publication approx. In 10 lines (abstract: what the publication is about, what we can use the extracted information for, in what broader context the topic can be inserted, etc.);
  • presentation of larger topics; the length of individual topics and larger content units should be at least 1.5 pages;
  • summary/conclusion;
  • bibliography.

Citations, references

  • to standardize the bibliography, we use the Harvard style format; a detailed description of this can be found: http://library.leeds.ac.uk/info/200232/referencing/817/new_how_do_i_insert_references_into_my_work/3
  • the bibliography is placed at the end of the chapter;
  • references with a DOI must include the DOI in the reference list;
  • the following formats are used for in-text citations:
  • (Horváth 2004);
    • (Rekettye-Szűcs 2002);
    • (Csáky et al. 2007) – in case of more than three authors;
    • (Hrubos 2006, p. 668);
    • (Barakonyi 2004a, p. 179) – in the case of several articles published in the same year (a, b, c…)
    • (Neave 1991, in Hrubos 1996) – in the case of an edited volume.

Language

  • publications in Hungarian are published with an English abstract and keywords;
  • English language papers are published with a Hungarian language abstract and keywords;
  • regardless of the language, an English title and an English abstract are required for all publications.

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