GENERAL REQUIREMENTS FOR MANUSCRIPTS

Abstract

Articles follow the 7th edition of Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA*) and are subjected to double peer-review and selected for publication on the basis of the following criteria:

• the study is thematically relevant to the aim of the journal;

• original, previously unpublished, not submitted to other journals during the evaluation process, ethical parameters highlighted;

• presents empirical analysis or in-depth theoretical consideration;

• contains basic structural elements:o Empirical study – introduction, background, aim, research parameters (sample, method, instrument), ethics, findings, discussion, conclusions, implications, references.o Conceptual study – introduction, background, aim, method, ethics, reflection and discussion, conclusions, insights, references.

• focuses on an acute research problem;

• is of adequate stylistic and linguistic quality.