RUBRICS
MAJOR ARTICLES and RESEARCH REPORTS
Articles and research reports present the results of empirical research which are interpreted using theories of the social sciences and humanities. The text must contain a clear argument, must be structured in accordance with it, must contain a brief description of the theoretical theses and methods used and must present the conclusions resulting from the empirical research and the theoretical interpretation. The text should be 18 000-45 000 characters long, including bibliography, footnotes and appendices. It must contain an abstract in English of 200-300 words and 5-7 keywords. Manuscripts go through peer reviewing process.
ESSAYS
The texts present the authors’ views on important issues in the social sciences and humanities; they do not necessarily contain the results of the authors’ empirical research. They must include critical arguments on current research issues in the social sciences and humanities, or address important academic issues, including the work of academic institutions. The text should be in the range of 5 400 – 36 000 characters, including a list of references and footnotes, and must contain an abstract in English of 200-300 words and 5-7 keywords. Manuscripts go through peer reviewing process.
DISCUSSIONS
The texts in this section are reflections of at least three authors on a specific issue. Like essays, they must include critical arguments on current research issues in the social sciences and humanities, or address important academic issues, including the work of academic institutions. The text of each author should be in the range of 5 400 – 36 000 characters, including the bibliography and footnotes, and must contain an abstract in English of 200-300 words and 5-7 key words.
PERSONALITY
This section includes interviews with important personalities of the academic sphere or overviews of professional activities of such personalities with a critical evaluation of their works. The text should be in the range of 5 400-36 000 characters, including a list of references and footnotes.
REVIEWS
The reviews are intended to inform about new or otherwise important publications in the field of social sciences and humanities, including exhibitions and expositions, with a critical evaluation of their content. The range of a review is 3 600 – 9 000 characters, including spaces and footnotes.
BOOK ESSAYS
Book essays are critical reflections on several publications that deal with the same issue (at least three titles). The scope of the essay is 14 000 – 28 000 characters, including spaces and footnotes.
NEWS
These texts inform about important events in the academic sphere (conferences, symposia, professional meetings, etc.), and about life anniversaries, or deaths of important personalities, with an evaluation of their professional activities and works. A text ranges from 3 600 to 9 000 characters, including spaces and footnotes.
FORM OF MANUSCRIPTS
The manuscripts should be submitted electronically in file formats .doc, .docx and .rtf as email attachments to etnologicke.rozpravy@gmail.com. In the case of papers undergoing a peer reviewing process an anonymised version is also required, where the information that can identify the author (s) is removed.
The texts should be written in Times New Roman, 12, 1.5 spacing (footnotes: Times New Roman, 10, 1.0 spacing). The reference list of cited works should appear at the end of a paper. The entries should be arranged in alphabetical sequence by author(s) name(s).
The title page should contain:
- the title of the paper (including English version of the title);
- the name and e-mail of each author, their academic degrees, current position and professional affiliation as well as the address of the academic institution where the author works;
- any disclosures or acknowledgements;
- a total word count and the number of tables and/or figures included. The number of tables and figures (in total) must not exceed ten. Figures and tables should be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals in order of appearance in the text. Figures or photos should be submitted as separate files in TIFF, JPG format with a resolution of at least 300 dpi or in EPS format with a resolution of at least 800 dpi; only placement indicators should appear in the main text. Each table and each figure must be accompanied by a description / title and a source; this data should be sent in a separate file.
Capitalization
- Use capitalization in the article title and headings (in English) for nouns, pronouns, verbs and adjectives.
- Prepositions and conjunctions are not capitalized (or, but, over, through, between).
- Always capitalize proper nouns, including author names and initials: D. Jones.
- If you refer to the title of a source within your paper, capitalize all words that are four letters long or greater within the title of a source: Permanence and Change. Exceptions apply to short words that are verbs, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and adverbs: Writing New Media, There Is Nothing Left to Lose.
- In References list, only the first word of a title will be capitalized: Writing new media.
- When capitalizing titles, capitalize both words in a hyphenated compound word: Natural-Born Cyborgs.
- Capitalize the first word after a dash or colon: “Defining Film Rhetoric: The Case of Hitchcock’s Vertigo.”
- If the title of the work is italicized in your reference list, italicize it and use title case capitalization in the text: The Closing of the American Mind; The Wizard of Oz; Friends.
- If the title of the work is not italicized in your reference list, use double quotation marks and title case capitalization (even though the reference list uses sentence case): “Multimedia Narration: Constructing Possible Worlds;” “The One Where Chandler Can’t Cry.”
Headings
| Level | Format |
| 1 | Flush left, Boldface, Title Case Heading, 14 Text starts a new paragraph. |
| 2 | Flush Left, Boldface, Title Case Heading, 12 Text starts a new paragraph. |
| 3 | Flush Left, Boldface Italic, Title Case Heading, 12 Text starts a new paragraph. |