Author Guidelines

We operate an open deadline policy. Please submit your paper once it corresponds with all the formal and substantive requirements. PLEASE USE THE E-MAIL ADDRESS BELOW FOR SUBMISSIONS (I.E. DO NOT USE "SEND SUBMISSION" OPTION ABOVE)

Formal Requirements For Manuscripts

Please send the electronic version of your paper in the Rich Text Format (.rtf) or as a Word document (.doc, .docx) to the following address: cepsr@fss.muni.cz. The length of an article shall not normally exceed 10,000 words, which is roughly equal to 40 standard pages (or 72,000 characters including spaces), excluding bibliography and appendices (if any). Book reviews shall not exceed 2,000 words (ca. 8 standard pages).

An abstract of 150-200 words, as well as five to six keywords shall be included under the title of the article and the name of the author. We ask authors to state concisely in the abstract the following points: What is the main issue they deal with, how they approach it, what are their findings and how these findings further or deepen the state of knowledge in the given discipline(s).

The first page of the paper shall contain, as a footnote, the author’s contact information: Name and postal address of his/her institution, academic position at his/her workplace, and an e–mail address. Each paper needs to have a Bibliography attached at the end of the article, in the form indicated below (section Citation standards). Bibliography shall not be divided into sections such as primary and secondary, or printed and on-line sources; all sources shall be arranged alphabetically in one list. Please put Bibliography as a regular text at the end of the paper (before Appendices, if any), and not as an Endnote of Footnote. Note that all cited sources have to be included in Bibliography, and conversely, all items in the Bibliography section need to be cited in the text.

In case of ambiguity or uncertainty, please contact the Editorial Team at cepsr@fss.muni.cz.

(i) Typographical Guidelines

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General comment: If the paper has been written only by you (i.e. it has one author), please restrict the use of pluralis auctoris ("we") to places where it is suitable and relevant (for example, when speaking on behalf of other people, the scientifi community, humanity as such, etc.). If you prefer abbreviations for words such as "for example", "that is" and so on, please keep a consistent style throughout the text - i.e. abbreviate either every instance of the given word or none.

Font: Garamond, size 12
Titles of sections: First level (sections): Garamond, bold, size 14. Numbered 1., 2., etc., starting with the Introductory section. Second level (subsections): Garamond, bold and italics, size 13. Numbered a., b., c. etc. for each section. Please avoid using a third level of sub-subsections if possible.
Paragraphs: Line spacing 1,5
Margins: 2,5 cm
Indentation: None for the titles of sections and subsections, none in first paragraph of each section/subsection, 0,75 points all other paragraphs. Please do NOT use the TAB key for indentation.
Document format: MS Word-compatible formats (.rtf, .doc, .docx)

Text highlights: Please use italics, not bold font or underlining (except for titles of sections and subsections, see above)

Notes Indicated by Arabic numbers as a superscript, inserted throughout the text as "Footnotes".

Tables, pictures, graphs, diagrams, figures numbered throughout the text, separate numbering for each category (e.g. “Table 1”, “Figure 4”). Source to be cited, if not apparent from the text (e.g. “Source: Author’s own calculations”)

(ii) Citation Standards

Please use Harvard Style for citation purposes, which basically stands for the author-date system, plus Bibliography at the end of the paper. Because various journals and their publishers retain idiosyncratic rules even within the author-date system, please follow these guidelines in cases of uncertainty (the following examples are illustrative only and do not aspire at scholarly exactness. If several options overlap, please combine them using common sense):

In-text citations
Name of the author included in the main text:
Sartori (2005) or Sartori (1971, 2005). Example: „As Sartori (1971, 2005) argues, this is a mistaken reading of…“
Name of the author not included in the main text:
(Sartori 2005: 120) or (Sartori 1971; 2005) or (Sartori 1971: 15; Sartori 2005: 120; Besson 2006). Example: „As several authors argue (Sartori 1971: 15; Sartori 2005: 120; Besson 2006), this is a mistaken reading of…“
Two or three authors:
Brennan and Hamlin (2005: 54) or (Brennan and Hamlin 2005: 54), or Hasenclever, Mayer and Rittberger (1997: 115) or (Hasenclever, Mayer and Rittberger 1997: 115), depending on whether included in the main text. For Examples see above.
More than three authors:
Chambers et al. (2010) or (Chambers et al. 2010).
More than one work by the same author, published in the same year
Mair (1998a, 1998b) or (Mair 1998a, 1998b), depending on whether included in the main text
Indirect reference (i.e. adopted from another source):
Russell (1948: 120, cited in Scheuerman 2011: 28)
Works without a clear author (institutional publications): World Bank (2009) or (World Bank 2009); or by acronym: OECD (2013) or (OECD 2013). Please maintain the same style (full name or acronym) in the Bibliography as well.
Direct quotations:
In double quotation marks, plain text. Quotations longer than four lines shall be presented as self-contained paragraphs, font size 11, block indentation 0,5 both left and right. If parts of the quoted text are to be ommitted, please use the (...) tag. If the quotation needs to be altered by the author (for stylistic or substantive reasons), please use square brackets, i.e. "[italics added]" or "[italics in original]".

Bibliography
Monograph (depending on the number of authors):
Sartori, Giovanni (2005): Parties and Party Systems. A Framework for Analysis. Colchester: ECPR Press
Brennan, Geoffrey and Alan Hamlin (2000): Democratic Devices and Desires. Oxford, New York: Cambridge University Press
Hasenclever, Andreas, Peter Mayer and Volker Rittberger (1997): Theories of International Regimes. Cambridge: Cambridge UP
Collective monograph or anthology:
Besson, Samantha and José Luis Martí (eds.) (2006): Deliberative Democracy and its Discontents. Aldershot: Ashgate
Chapter in a collective monograph or anthology:
Besson, Samantha (2006): "Deliberative Demoi-cracy in the European Union: Towards the Deterritorialization of Democracy." In: Samantha Besson and José Luis Martí (eds.), Deliberative Democracy and its Discontents. Aldershot: Ashgate, 181–214.
Journal Article:
Usherwood, Simon and Nick Startin (2013): "Euroscepticism as a Persistent Phenomenon." Journal of Common Market Studies 51(1): 1–16
Papers available on-line:
Borrás, Susana and Claudio M. Radaelli (2010): “Recalibrating the Open Method of Coordination: Towards Diverse and More Effective Usages.” Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies, Report. No. 7, on-line (http://www.sieps.se/en/publikationer/recalibrating-the-open-method-of-coordination-towards-diverse-and-more-effective-usages-20107)
Articles, commentaries etc. published in mass media outlets:
Barša, Pavel (2010): „Závist holocaustu“. Lidové noviny (příloha Orientace), 30.1. 2010, p. 27

Electronic sources should include the date of their retrieval (either individually, or jointly at the beginning of the Bibliography).