Author Guidelines

Template for writing an article. Submitted papers must be fully proofread and drafted in style according to the instructions below.

Title, authors and abstract

• Title: should be consistent with the content of the article and up to 120 characters long.
• Authors: (abbreviation of pedagogical title, abbreviation of scientific title) name and surname of the first author (abbreviation of professional title, name of institution).
• Abstract: between 250–300 words. There are no citations in the text. The text can be structured according to the IMRAD scheme or written in paragraphs, depending on the type of the article. The abstract should include essential thoughts on the topic, hypotheses and/or research questions: short introduction, defined research problem, used methods, key findings from discussion.
• Key words: up to five key words.

Length and formatting

The article should be written in a concise and comprehensible English literary language with a maximum length of 5,000 words (approximately 10 typed pages).

• Times New Roman, 12 pt, line spacing 1.15;
• no hypertext;
• Title: 14 pt, bold;
• Subtitle: 12 pt, bold;
• Sub-subtitles: 12 pt, normal;
• main text in chapters and numeration: 1, 1.1, 1.2, etc.

Introduction

The introduction defines the research problem. Review of existing literature must justify the need for our research/study and serves as the basis for forming research goals, research questions, hypotheses and research plan. Scientific knowledge and concepts of current international and domestic research is used; used materials should not be older than 10, i.e. five years, if the research problem is well researched. It is mandatory to quote and summarize research findings.

Purpose and goals

Purpose and goals of the research must be defined. We recommend you to record research questions (qualitative research) or hypotheses (quantitative research).

Methods

Report the selected research method/paradigm (quantitative, qualitative, etc.). Present the implemented instruments, describe the pattern and the course of the research and data processing.

To be mentioned: ethical permissions to carry out the research and permissions for surveys in the organisation; guaranteed anonymity and voluntary involvement in the research, the time-period when data was collected, the location of data collection, the method of data collection, used analyses methods and statistical methods, program and version of the statistical data processing. The qualitative research must clearly state the complete course of research, the method of recording and data collection, data transcription, processing steps, techniques of data processing and interpretation of data.

Results

Results are shown with words, in tables and/or figures/graphs; be careful to select only one way for an individual result, so that the content does not duplicate. Qualitative research shows the progress of code design and categories; one or two representative statements should be included in the research for each code (those that represent the code best). Make a schematic representation of obtained codes and categories developed out of them, and provide judgment.

Tables and figures should be numbered with Arabic serial numbers and a descriptive title (above the table). The author must refer to each table and figure (up to five).

Discussion

The discussion presents the interpretation of received results and it is necessary to mention the meaning of these (concrete) results. It should be an informed, i.e. argumentative explanation; why we think we have received such results, what is their meaning, what can they influence and what can we conclude from these received results. This is where the hypotheses are tested. They can easily be confirmed or rejected. Informed answers (based on concrete results) are given in case of research questions. Results are compared with results of other research, and what does this mean for our work. At the end of the discussion, we mention the limitations of the research in terms of instruments, patterns and research progress and list recommendations that derive from our research.

Conclusion

Prepare a short summary of your key findings, summarize suggestions for cases of good practice and suggest possibilities of further research of the discussed problem. The conclusion is not a mere summary of the whole paper, but the focus is put on the clarification of results (critically position your findings and/or solutions from a wider perspective) and the mentioning of potential unsolved issues and the presentation of possible solutions.

Literature and citation style

Citation style: The Chicago Manual of Style (CMS). Each argument, theory, used methodology and concept must be confirmed with citation. Authors are asked to use The Chicago Manual of Style (CMS), 17th edition, for citing authors within the text and in the bibliography at the end of the article.

Listing authors in the text

• One author: (Pollan 2006, 99) or Pollan (2006, 99);
• Two authors: (Ward and Burns 2007, 58‒59) or Ward and Burns (2007, 58‒59);
• Three authors or more: (Kokol et al. 2007) or Kokol et al. (2007);
• Several cited works: must be listed in alphabetical order; older sources are cited first, then more recent ones follow; when you are citing two or more works by the same author published in the same year, distinguish them by assigning them letter suffixes (“a”, “b”, etc.). They must be listed in alphabetical order, starting with the last name (Luckmann 1996; Benko 1997; Bučar 1997);
• Several works of the same author, issued in the same year: (Luckmann 1988a, 101);
• Author unknown: when no author is listed put the title or shortened title of the article and year of publication in brackets; if the author of a book is unknown, put the title or shortened title of the book and year of publication in brackets (“Karierna sidra” 2008, 21) or (Ljudske pripovedke 2008, 11);
• Citing legal sources: when the legal act is first cited, it is written in full and in brackets it states (hereinafter »abbreviation«), e.g. Civil Procedure Act (hereinafter ZPP); (Civil Procedure Act, Article 6) or (ZPP, Article 6);
• Direct quotation: (Pollan 2006, 99) or Pollan (2006, 99);
• Indirect quotation (rarely used): (Mannheim in Jambrek 1992, 33);
• Citing a source without a page: in case of citing the work as a whole, page numbers are not mentioned. When the publication is not numbered, or no page numbers are available, no reference shall be provided for pages: (Frankl 2019).

All sources cited in the text should be listed in the reference list. In case of a direct quote, summary, paraphrase or a fact found in a referenced source, exact pages must be provided.

Reference list

All sources mentioned in the text (main text and in footnotes) are listed in the reference list at the end of the paper and are arranged alphabetically by author’s last name, name of institutions and titles of documents. The reference list is numbered.

Books

• Author: Železnik, Danica. 1990. Degenerativno obolenje kolčnega sklepa. Ljubljana: Zdravstvena fakulteta Ljubljana.
• Two authors: Kališnik, Matej, and Peter Zabavnik. 2000. Uvod v znanstvenoraziskovalno metodologijo na področju biomedicine. Ljubljana: Medicinska fakulteta UL, Inštitut za varovanje zdravja RS.
• More authors: Kališnik, Matej, Peter Zabavnik, and Andrej Rožič Hristovski. 2000. Uvod v znanstvenoraziskovalno metodologijo na področju biomedicine. Ljubljana: Medicinska fakulteta UL, Inštitut za varovanje zdravja RS.
• Proceedings: Grmec, Štefek, and Dejan Kupnik, ed. 2006. Oskrba poškodovancev v predbolnišničnem okolju. Maribor: Visoka zdravstvena šola.
• Chapter in proceedings: Kupnik, Dejan, Tomaž Brodnik, and Lidija Praper. 2008. Lumbalna spinalna stenoza. In Medicinski mesečnik, ed. Nina Kobilica, 23‒29. Maribor: Univerzitetni klinični center.
• E-book: Baker, Christopher Paul. 2002. Absolutism and the Scientific Revolution, 1600–1720: A Biographical Dictionary. Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group. Available at: NetLibrary.

Articles

• Author: Hlebec, Valentina. 2012. Kontekstualni dejavniki uporabe oskrbe na domu v Sloveniji. Varstvo javnega zdravja 51(2): 120‒127.
• More authors: Černe, Anja, and Polona Selič. 2012. Kakovost življenja. Varstvo javnega zdravja 51(2): 147‒154.
• Author, online access: Hoffmann, Stanley. 2003. America Goes Backward. The New York Review of Books 50 (10). Available at: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/16350 (March 18, 2008).
• Web page: Prodi, Romano. 2001. An Enlarged and More United Europe, A Global Player: Challenges and Opportunities in the New Century. Available at: http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/laeken_council/bruges_en.htm (September 9, 2002).

Short bio

Please also submit your short CV in the style listed below (up to 50 words):

First name Last name is a professor/researcher/expert of wildlife biology at XY University. His/her work focuses specifically on the migration patterns of antelopes and their impact on the growth of native grain.

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