1. Submit your manuscript to the publisher in Microsoft Word file format by e-mail (ondrisova@sak.sk). As the author(s), provide your first name(s) and last name(s) including academic degrees, titles or any other academic ranks.
2. Your research article must in terms of its contents contribute to solving current issues in legal theory and practice. The article cannot have been previously published in any other journal.
3. Publication title (also in English) should be concise and informative. It is recommended to divide the text into sections and subsections with subheadings. A concise abstract is required (maximum of 600 characters including spaces) that briefly summarizes the problem and the author´s/authors´ conclusions as well as keywords (3 – 5) both in Slovak and in English.
4. As the author, briefly inform of your current academic work (CV) (maximum of 500 characters including spaces). Also provide your photograph using a resolution of at least 290 × 343 pixels.
5. The maximum recommended length of the research article is 34 000 characters including spaces. The article must include a list of references (bibliography) in alphabetical order. There is a footnote limit; footnotes shall not exceed 25 % of the text length. The maximum recommended length of a book review, commentary, event report, reflection on a current topic or current trend etc. is 4 500 characters including spaces. A scan of the book cover must be provided with a book review on condition that no more than one year has passed since the book was published.
6. The author is required to properly cite or paraphrase sources used while writing the article in the form of footnotes. Notes in the text should be assigned sequential numbers without parentheses or periods. When citing, bibliographic data should be provided in the following format:
Last Name1, M. – Last Name2, M.: Work Title. Or Subtitle. Place of Issue: Publisher, YEAR, p. XY.
Last Name1, M. – Last Name2, M.: Publication Title. Online. Available on: URL/URI. [Date accessed].
7. If the author used any artificial intelligence tools [AI] when writing the article, there is no need to cite or mention them in the text if the AI tool was used exclusively for formal text editing. The use of AI for the text translation must be indicated in a note with the source of the original text according to the citation norm (see above) and with the information “Translated by [TOOL SPECIFICATION].” When using AI tools to write the article, it is necessary to include the following information in a footnote at the end of the article: “AI tools [LIST OF TOOLS] were used to write this article for the purposes of [REASON]. The author is responsible for the accuracy of the final text.” When citing or paraphrasing AI outputs, a bibliographic reference must be provided in the following format: [AI Title provided by the author of the text], Year, Online. In: SERVICE NAME. Version. Available on: Service/Distributor. URL/URI. Date accessed. Note. [In this case, the note shall include information what activity AI was used for/assignment].
8. All articles must be peer-reviewed. Peer-reviewers are appointed by the Reviewing Committee; their number shall depend on the nature of the article, however, there shall always be at least two peer-reviewers to evaluate and validate each article. Peer-reviewers act objectively and impartially on the basis of pre-defined evaluation criteria.
9. The peer-review process strictly follows the principles of anonymous, objective evaluation and validation of articles, respect for the authors´ opinions and such assistance to the authors that will enable the publication of articles after their revision, modification or after adding missing information or content.
10. Peer-reviewers shall submit their peer-reviews to the Reviewing Committee within a period of time corresponding to the complexity of the text under review, or they shall within the same period of time propose revision or modification of the text or any information or content to be added to the original text.
11. Requests for modification, rewriting or for adding any missing information or content shall be sent to the authors exclusively on behalf of the Reviewing Committee. The Reviewing Committee will then evaluate to what extent the author has met the specified requirements and, based on the result, it will decide whether to accept the article for publication or reject it. It also reserves the right to publish its collective opinion on the published article.
12. The authors whose articles were published will be remunerated. The body that decides about the amount of the author´s remuneration is the Reviewing Committee on the basis of the results of the peer-review process.
13. Once the article is approved for publication purposes the Editorial Board reserves the right to edit and proofread the manuscript and make necessary stylistic, language and technical corrections. Just before publication, the author will receive his/her article to approve editorial changes and to add any missing information or content or update the article. Once approved by the author, the article will be published without any subsequent proofreading or editorial changes.
14. Articles are published on the basis of the authors´ written consent given in a separate Proof Correction Form.
Author’s Licence
The manuscript is the verbal work of the person who created it (the “author”). The person who submitted the manuscript to the Editorial Board assures the publisher that he/she is the author of the manuscript or that he/she holds the rights which under applicable legal rules authorise him/her to give his/her consent to the publisher to use the article to the extent specified below and/or that the author is acting on behalf of and for the account of his/her employer in the respective case.
By sending the manuscript to the publisher, the author gives his/her consent to the publisher to use the manuscript (the “licence”) in all ways known at the time of its submission to the Editorial Board [in particular Sec. 19(4) of Act No. 185/2015 Coll. as amended (Copyright Act)] and without any material or territorial restrictions on the licence and for the time the economic rights to such subject matter of protection exist (Sec. 32 of the Copyright Act).
The author grants the licence to the publisher free of charge and on a non-exclusive basis. The publisher may give its consent to a third party to use the manuscript within the scope of the licence granted (the “sublicence”).
Both the publisher and the author may request the other party to issue a written confirmation that the Licence Agreement was entered into under Sec. 65(4) of the Copyright Act. If either party does not exercise this right within 15 days after the date of the Licence Agreement, the right to issue this confirmation no longer exist. If the right has been exercised and either party fails to issue the confirmation within 15 days after having received the request for confirmation, the Licence Agreement shall be deemed not to have been made. The publisher and the author also agree that the author may not unilaterally revoke the licence.