Submissions

Author Guidelines

All papers are subject to an anti-plagiarism check via iThenticate.

The paper shall be written and submitted in the standard editable format of text editor (e.g. doc, docx, rtf). The authors are expected to deliver the proposed articles in correct English (British standard). Linguistic correction before the submission is encouraged. Each study and scientific article shall contain an abstract which summarizes the research aims of the paper, the structure of the paper as well as outlines conclusions. Keywords shall enable enhancing searchability of the papers and grouping papers of similar topics, so we suggest to choose, on the one hand, keywords general enough, on the other hand, precise enough in order to characterize the paper properly. Jurisdiction and area of law shall be included in key words. 

We kindly ask potential authors to respect quotation standards of Author-Date System (APA Style). Under the Author-Date System, each citation consists of two parts: the text citation which provides brief identifying information within the text, and the reference list (list of sources used) which provides full bibliographic information. References should cover solely the items referred to or cited in the text, no papers cited from a secondary source should be included in the references. In each reference item, the author must include its assigned DOI no. (if applicable) (http://www.crossref.org/guestquery/) and ISSN/ISBN.

All legislative and judicial acts, administrative decisions, author's own comments, etc. should be included as footnotes.

We recommend authors use applications to facilitate the insertion of references, such as Mendeley, Zotero, etc.

References to legal/economic scholarship, instead, should be formatted as in-text citations, in accordance with the following rules:
- single author’s work: always give the author’s surname and publication date (no matter how many times the work is cited); when referring to more than one work by a given author published in the same year, add consecutive letters of the alphabet after the date (this rule also applies to the other types of publications listed below), e.g.: (Smith, 2001); (Smith, 2001a);
- a work by two authors: always give both authors’ surnames and publication date (no matter how many times the work is cited); authors’ surnames should always be connected with “and”, even in the case of foreign-language publications, e.g.: (Smith and Miller, 2001); (Smith and Miller, 2001a);
- a work by 3–5 authors: when citing for the first time, mention the surnames of all authors, separating them by commas and inserting “and” between the last two surnames; when citing again, mention the first author’s surname with the abbreviation “et al.”, e.g. for the first time: (Smith, Miller and Black, 2001); (Smith, Miller and Black, 2001a); and then: (Smith et al., 2001); (Smith et al., 2001a);
- a work by 6 or more authors: mention the first author’s surname only (both for first and all subsequent citations), other authors should be replaced by the abbreviation “et al.”; include surnames of all authors in the references, e.g.: (Smith et al., 2001); (Smith et al., 2001a); 
- citing several works simultaneously: publications should be listed alphabetically (by the first author’s surname); several works by the same author should be separated by a comma; individual publications by various authors must be separated by a semicolon, e.g.: (Miller, 2001; Smith and Black, 2002); (Miller, 2001, 2002a; Smith and Black, 2002);
- use secondary citations in the text only, the references should include only the source read; works should be separated by a semicolon, e.g.: (Smith, 2001; cited in Miller, 2002).Quotations in the text should always be put in quotation marks, with the author’s/authors’ surname(s), publication year and page number as follows: (author/authors, publication year, page number), e.g.: (Smith, 2000, p. 67) or (Smith and Miller, 2001, p. 3), or (Smith, Miller and Black, 2001a, p. 3).

At the end of the paper, authors should include a list of references. References should be sorted alphabetically by the first author’s surname (works by the same author should be given in the alphabetical order of the titles of works) in the following format:
- Single author’s book:
Smith, J. (2000). Book title. Publication place: Publisher, https://doi.org/ insert DOI number assigned to the publication
- Books by many authors:
Smith, J., Miller, J. and Black, A. (2001). Book title. Publication place: Publisher, https://doi.org/ insert DOI number assigned to the publication
- Edited books:
Smith, J. (ed.). (2000). Book title. Publication place: Publisher, https://doi.org/ insert DOI number assigned to the publication
- Chapters in books:
Smith, J. (2002). Chapter title. In: Miller, J. (ed.), Book title (vol. 1, pp. 1–5). Publication place: Publisher, https://doi.org/ insert DOI number assigned to the publication
- Journal articles:
Smith, J. (2001). Article title. Journal title, volume(number/issue), 1–5, https://doi.org/ insert DOI number assigned to the publication
- Journal articles – more than one author:
Smith, J., Miller, J. and Black, A. (2001). Article title. Journal title, volume(number/issue), 1–15, https://doi.org/ insert DOI number assigned to the publication
- Newspaper/magazine articles:
Smith, J. (2001). Article title. Newspaper/magazine title, day or month of the publication, https://doi.org/ insert DOI number assigned to the publication
- Presentations/speeches/lectures:
Smith, J. (2001). Presentation/speech/lecture title. Presentation/speech/lecture delivered at ...., Place of conference. https://doi.org/ insert DOI number assigned to the publication
- Reports:
Institution. (2001). Report title. Publication place: Institution, https://doi.org/ insert DOI number assigned to the publication
- Books in press:
Smith, J. (in press). Book title. Publication place: Publisher.
- Articles in press:
Smith, J. (2001) (in press). Article title. Journal title, volume(number/issue).
- Unpublished works:
Smith, J. (2001). Work title. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Name of University, Place.
- Internet sources – article:
Smith, J. (2001). Article title. Journal title, volume(number/issue), pages. Retrieved from: insert www address (insert date of access dd.mm.yyyy).
- Internet sources – book:
Smith, J. (2000). Book title. Retrieved from: insert www address (insert date of access dd.mm.yyyy).