Ostrava, Czech Republic
Klironomy: Authors' Guide Line
Authors' Guide Line for Manuscript Submission
- The manuscript has to meet to the standards of IMRaD and APA6/7.
- The manuscript must contain the original text. The share of originality is not less than 70%.
- Quantity of the authors is up to 4 researchers.
- The file format is Word (2016 or newer version).
- Margin on all sides is 2.5 cm.
- Garamond font style, size 12, line spacing 1.2.
- Full author's data in the top of it: name and surname, academic title and academic degree (if any), position, department, faculty, organisation, town and country, active email(-s), ORCID ID (if any), Scopus ID (if any).
- The title of the manuscript should be no more than 150 characters.
- Abstract is from 800 to 2500 characters. There is a brief summary of the relevance of the topic, the study object, the study purpose and objectives, the main methods used in the study, the main researchers whose works are used, the results of the study described in the article are intended.
- Keywords have to include the words of the article text – from 4 to 12 words.
- Author's data, title, abstract and keywords have to be printed in English and the language of the article if it is written in other language.
- Abbreviations (if any) and their transcription should be printed after the Keywords.
- The manuscript text has to include following parts – Introduction, Methods, Literature Review, Results (main part divided on several logic paragraphs headed), Discussion, Conclusion, and References.
- The Introduction is 15 up to 40 lines. There is the relevance of the topic, the object of the study, the purpose and objectives of the study, the main methods used in the study, the main researchers whose works are used, as well as to whom the results of the study described in the manuscript are intended.
- The Methods describes the research methods that the author used in his work. First, general scientific methods are described, then specialized ones, depending on the scientific field of work. Each method is described according to the principle: briefly about the method + how it is used in the study.
- The Literature Review is intended to describe the sources of information from References. Sources can be described individually or grouped by directions. Each source is described according to the principle: briefly about the content + the reason for including the source in the list of references.
- Every paragraph of the Results (main part) has to end by logic conclusion in 5-10 lines beginning from the phrase "Thus,..." or similar.
- The Discussion is 15 up to 30 lines. In the Discussion, it is necessary to put forward the study problem and questions for further discussion of the manuscript's topic.
- The Conclusion is from 20 to 40 lines. It is necessary to briefly describe the interim results (according to the paragraphs of the manuscript) and summarise the overall results of the study.
- The Reference must consist of at least 10 sources of information. We recommended to include 15 and more sources in the list.
- If you do not know the APA standard, references have to be formed in alphabetical order and numbered. Then references in the text are numbered in square brackets according to the list after the text of the manuscript, for example, [2] or [4; 6] if two sources are used.
- However, if you know the APA standard, then please make links according to this standard.
- The tables are numbered separately and placed in the Appendix. The table title after the numbering ("Table 1. ...") is placed above the table on the left.
- The illustrations are numbered separately and placed in the Appendix section. The title of the illustration after the numbering ("Figure 1. ...") is placed under the illustration in the center.
- All numbers of the tables and figures used in the Appendix has to be mentioned in the text in view of example: (Table 1) and (Figure 1).