GENERAL REQUIREMENTS FOR MANUSCRIPTS

Abstract

Articles are submitted electronically at the following address https://ejournals.vdu.lt/index.php/SM/

Articles follow the 7^th edition of Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA[1]) 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• original, previously unpublished, not submitted to other journals during the evaluation process, ethical parameters highlighted;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.

[1] https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/