Author guidelines

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.

Author Guidelines

As regards the formatting of the papers, it is necessary to follow the submission guidelines to facilitate the preparation of the journal and its timely publication.

Articles submission

Libellarium is published twice a year. The Editorial Board accepts articles throughout the year. Articles can be submitted in Croatian or English.  

Articles should be submitted via the submission system available at: 

https://morepress.unizd.hr/journals/index.php/libellarium/about/submissions.

During the submission, authors are advised to use their ORCID ID (if applicable). 

Editoral Board accepts unpublished manuscripts. Manuscript submission complies with Zakon o autorskom pravu i srodnim pravima (NN 167/03). By that, the author confirms that his work is an original manuscript and that there is no copyright violation and it adheres to strict rules of academic integrity, including ethical issues, methodology, citation, etc. By submitting the manuscript to the journal, the authors give authority to the journal to process the manuscript and confirm that the manuscript is not under consideration for publishing in another publication.

General format guidelines

The manuscript should not exceed 57,600 characters with spaces (one or two author sheets). The Editorial Board may, in exceptional cases, decide to publish longer texts.

The papers should be accompanied by a separate document including

• title,
• name and surname of the author(s), job title/position
• ORCID (If applicable)
• the e-mail address(es),
• affiliation of the author(s).

The manuscript should consist of an Abstract, Introduction, Body of manuscript (with subtitles), Conclusion, and References. The main body of the text should be font size 12, line spacing 1.5, and alignment Justify. 

Structured abstract

A structured abstract (200 to 300 words) should consist of 4 to 7 following elements:

Purpose (mandatory)
Approach/methodology/design (mandatory)
Findings (mandatory) 
Research limitations (if applicable) 
Practical implications (if applicable)      
Social implications (if applicable)
Originality/value (mandatory)

The abstract should be accompanied by up to five key words, i.e., the terms that help in the classification of the paper. Keywords should be sorted alphabetically and separated by commas.

Text editing

Chapter numbering. The chapters in the paper are to be numbered by using Arabic numerals (1, 2, 2.1, 2.2, etc.). They should be highlighted in bold, and the subheadings should also be in italics.

Tables and figures. Tables and figures (charts) within the text should be numbered in order of appearance. Each table and figure should be described in such a way that they are legible even without the context. Table descriptions should be placed above the table, and figure descriptions should be placed below the figure. Within the part of the text that refers to a particular table or figure, it is necessary to state in parentheses which table or figure it is referring to. E.g. (Figure 1) or (see Table 2).

Illustrations. Illustrations (especially photographs and maps) should be submitted separately (JPG, TIFF) and should be of satisfactory resolution. The place of the illustration should be marked in the text of the paper.

In-text citations. Direct quotations in the text should be used sparingly and only when it is essential to express a thought in the words of the original author. All in-text citations should first be announced in the narrative text by the author of the article (the reasons for the decision to state something directly should be clarified), and commented on at the end of the quotation (explain what the original author meant in that quote). Quotations of up to 10 words should be given within the text in the usual typeface and placed in quotation marks. If the quotation is more extensive, it should be separated from the whole text as a separate fragment using single spacing (indent the left and right margins by 1 cm), with a smaller font size (11).

Citation guide

Notes are listed at the bottom of the page (footnotes), and the references (bibliography) at the end of the paper. The references are stated in brackets in the text of the article. When citing notes and bibliography, The Chicago Manual of Style, Author-Date System, should be used. For the ways of quoting the bibliography at the end of the paper, as well as citing the literature in brackets in the paper itself, more details are available at:

https://librarybestbets.fairfield.edu/citationguides/chicagoauthor-date.

Archival sources should be cited in the footnotes, at the end of the page. 

The Editorial Board encourages authors to inform themselves in more detail about formatting the manuscript by reading and inspecting other published articles.