Author Guidelines

The Editorial Board sets forth the following requirements for contributors of manuscripts.

Technical instructions for authors. Papers submitted to the journal must be typed in a journal’s offered template. The template can be found here. While typing, please keep all references to sections, bibliography, equations, tables, and figures linked. We recommend using the Harvard Style.

Please write your comments or questions in a submission form.

Information about author. Contributors of texts (articles) should submit the following particulars in Lithuanian and English on the left of the first page: address, workplace, position, academic degree, telephone number, e-mail address, ORCID ID. 

The structure of an article. An article should consist of  parts: particulars of the author (1), the title (2), an abstract in English (3), keywords (4), the main body – the introduction, the subject of a research, the goal, the extent to which the problem has been explored, research methods, results (5), conclusions/discussion (6), bibliographic references (7).

Size. Up to 1 author’s sheet (40,000 printing characters). A summary cannot exceed 2,000 characters. 

Publication language. Articles are published in English and Lithuanian. A summary of an article in English is published in Lithuanian. 

Formating requirements. The basic font – Times New Roman (alternatively, Palemonas or Aistika), font size – 12 pt, line spacing – 1.5 pt.

Articles are peer-reviewed by 2 scientists (a member of the Editorial Board and an appointed researcher). More on peer-review in [peer-review]. 

Authors should observe high standards concerning Ethical policy for authors of the journal as set out by the Commission on Publication Ethics (COPE). Any cases of ethical misconduct are treated very seriously and will be dealt with by the COPE guidelines. For more information [Ethical policy for authors]

Authors need to register with the journal before submitting. 

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.