Guide for Authors:
Please note that we will publish your article exactly as we receive it and that no corrections are possible in a later stage. Please make sure that you use as much as possible normal fonts in your documents. Special fonts may cause problems during processing. To avoid unnecessary errors you are strongly advised to use the ‘spellchecker’ function of MS Word. Use clear, concise British English language.
IMPORTANT:
Abstracts must be written in English language. Full articles can be written in English language. The articles will be published together with the author’s electronic titles for the purpose of a later translation (direct contact of the author).
- Figures and tables should be embedded and not supplied separately.
- Section headings: should be left justified, with the first letter capitalised and numbered consecutively, starting with the Introduction. Sub-section headings should be in capital and lower-case italic letters, numbered 1.1, 1.2, etc, and left justified, with second and subsequent lines indented.
- Formatting your document
- Authors’ names: Remember to include the correct superscript linking to the appropriate affiliation details.
- Affiliations: Remember to include the correct superscript linking to the appropriate author details.
- Abstract (200–400 words): giving a brief account of the most relevant aspects of the paper.
- Keywords: Insert 5–10 keywords
- The expected research papers’ length is about 7,000 to 8,000 words, but also shorter or longer contributions may be considered.
- Paper structure – Papers should be prepared in the following order:
- Introduction: to explain the background work, the practical applications and the nature and purpose of the paper.
- Body: to contain the primary message, with clear lines of thought and validation of the techniques described.
- Conclusion
- References
- All figures should be numbered with Arabic numerals (1, 2, …). All photographs, schemas, graphs and diagrams are to be referred to as figures.
- Figures must be embedded into the text and not supplied separately.
- Equations and formulae should be typed in Mathtype, and numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals in parentheses on the right hand side of the page (if referred to explicitly in the text). They should also be separated from the surrounding text by one space.
- References in text:
- In-text references include the surname of the author(s) and year separated by a comma:. . . (Boyer, 1993); Boyer (1993) showed that . . .
- For two authors, use an ampersand in brackets or an and in running text: . . . (Hady, Neimir, 1997); Hady and Neimir (1997) reported that . . .
- For more than two authors, cite only the surname of the first author followed by et al.: . . . (Besleme et al., 1999); Besleme et al. (1999) believe that . . .
- Distinguish references to more than one publication by the same author in the same year a, b, c and so on: . . . (Bierer, 1992a, 1992b); Bierer (1992a, 1992b) presented . . .
- Separate references to multiple studies with by a semicolon, arranged by year and then alphabetically: (Jenss, 1987; Saleh, 1992; Bens, 1998; Grum, 1998).
- Mark quotations with double quotation marks (“ ”). Modify capitalisation with square brackets as necessary. Indicate the page of the source after a colon. Place a full stop at the end of the sentence: “The national context is important for under standing urban planning” (Orion, 2005: 39).
- Reference list:
- Books: Grum, B., Alenka Temeljotov Salaj (2011). The new wave of cities. Ljubljana, European Law Faculty.
- Articles in journals: Grum, B. (1995). Housing reform and housing conflict: The privatisation and denationalisation of public housing in the Republic of Slovenia in practice. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research,19(3), pp. 435–446.
Internet sources: Grum, D. (2006). Social exclusion and social security. Available at: http://www.avramov.org/documents/document7.pdf (accessed 20 Feb. 2008).
