Author Guidelines

Manuscripts could be submitted in Lithuanian or English.

Manuscript structure

1. Title.
2. Abstract (max 300 words).
3. Keywords (4-6).
4. Manuscript text (no more than 40 000 characters including spaces).
5. Acknowledgements.
6. References.

Authors are obliged to use the American Psychological Association (APA style, https://apastyle.apa.org/) system of referencing.

Manuscript files can be in the following formats: DOC, DOCX, RTF or ODT. The documents should not be locked or protected.

Manuscripts must be submitted to Journal management system. If you are experiencing issues using the Journal's system or have questions about your submission, feel free to contact the Journal's Deputy Editor in Chief Dr Jurate Charenkova by email jurate.charenkova@fsf.vu.lt.

Author details

All authors of a manuscript should include their full name and affiliation in the submission form.

• Please include ORCiD.
• Please provide your institutions ROR.
• One author will need to be identified as the corresponding author, with the author’s email address provided in the submission form.
• Please note that no changes to affiliation can be made after the paper has been accepted for publication.
• Short biographic information must be provided by the corresponding author at the time of manuscript submission. Once the paper has been accepted for publication, all co-authors have to provide a short biographic information (no more than 200 words). This information will be visible on the published article’s landing page.

In case if there is more than one author, please provide an explanation at the end of the article detailing each author's contributions according to the CRediT criteria. Reference: CRediT_Taxonomy_Terms_and_Definitions_list.

Example: Author contributions
John Jonsered: conceptualization, methodology, formal analysis, investigation, writing - original draft, writing - review & editing, visualization. Lucy Schneider: conceptualization, methodology, formal analysis, investigation, writing - original draft, writing - review & editing.