Author Guidelines

The editorial board of Knygotyra draws your attention to some regulations on the presentation of the material. The article should include the elements required in any research publication: the goal and objectives of research, description of theoretical framework and methodology, historiography of the problem or earlier research review, results of research, discussion, conclusions, and lists of references and sources. The article or publication should be appr. 22-24 typed pages (1,5 lines spacing, or appr. 40 000 characters with space). The summary of the article (300–500 words) and key words in English must be presented at the beginning of the article. The notes and references to the text are given in footnotes (check the style of references to the literature further down). 

Visiting address
Editorial board of Knygotyra
Faculty of Communication
Vilnius University
Saulėtekio al. 9, building 1, room 502
Vilnius, Lithuania 

Mailing address
Editing board of Knygotyra
Faculty of Communication
Vilnius University
Universiteto 3
LT-01513 Vilnius
Lithuania
Tel. (370 5) 236 61 11, 236 61 12

E-mail:          
domas.kaunas@kf.vu.lt
ausra.navickiene@kf.vu.lt
ksistof.tolkacevski@kf.vu.lt 

References in Knygotyra 
References in Knygotyra should meet the requirements of the international standard ISO 690:1987 (E) Documents. Bibliographic references. Contents, format, and structure and a Lithuanian standard LST ISO 690-2:1999 and should be presented in footnotes. References in non-Latin alphabet languages are to be transliterated. Cyrillic is to be transliterated according to standard BSI: ё – e, ж – zh, и – i, й – i, х – kh, ц – ts, ч – ch, ш – sh, щ – shch, ы – y, ь – ', э – e, ю – yu, я – ya.

It is recommended to use only mandatory data elements in the references. When the book or the article was already quoted, the reference includes the only name of the author, beginning of the title and quoted page(s). The full-scale list of bibliographic references should be presented in an alphabetic order at the end of the article and numbered consequently. The articles using other systems of referencing are not accepted. In all cases where the cited source (article) has a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), it must be indicated at the end of the bibliographic description. 

Examples 

Monograph 
THOMPSON, John B. Merchants of Culture: Publishing Business in the Twenty-first Century. 2^nded. Cambridge (UK): Polity, 2012. 441 p. ISBN 978-0-7456-6106-3. 

An article in the monograph 
GAMBIER, Yves. Translation Studies: A Succession of Paradoxes. In SCHÄFFNER, Christina (ed.). Translation Research and Interpreting Research: Traditions, Gaps and Synergies. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 2004, p. 62–70. 

Article in serials 
ELIOT, Simon. Has Book History a Future? Knygotyra, 2010, t. 54, p. 9–18. ISSN 0204-2061. 

MANGEN, Anne; WALGERMO, Bente R.; BRONNICK, Kolbjorn. Reading Linear Texts on Paper Versus Computer Screen: Effects on Reading Comprehension. International Journal on Educational Research, 2013, vol. 58, p. 61–68. 

MISIŪNAS, Remigijus. Mažos ir vidutinės knygų leidyklos šiuolaikinėje Lietuvos knygų leidybos struktūroje. Knygotyra, 2018, t. 71, p. 7–30. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15388/Knygotyra.2018.71.1.

Article in electronic monograph, database, computer software 
The Law of Cultural Autonomy. In The History of Jewish Community and Holocaust in Estonia: virtual exhibition [interactive]. Tallinn: Estonian History Museum, 2014 [accessed 28 November 2015]. Access through Internet: ˂http://www.ajaloomuuseum.ee/juudikogukond/the-law-of-cultural-autonomy/˃. 

Reference to manuscripts  
Letter of Eduards Freimanis to Aina Zemdega on 8 February 1990, Edmonton. National Archive of Latvia, Coll. 1882, Inv. 1, F 64, p. 6–7.  

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. 

Note. All papers have to be prepared for a blind review. Any information that could help to identify the author(s) (author details, acknowledgements, etc.) should be omitted from the manuscript. This information can be added to the manuscript once the paper has been accepted for publication. With Microsoft Office documents, author identification should also be removed from the properties of the file by clicking on the following: File > Information > Check For Issues > Inspect Document > press Inspect > in section Choose Document Properties and Personal Information click Remove All > Save.