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Author Guidelines

Guidelines for Authors

1. Rights and obligations of authors

The rights and obligations of authors are stated in the Code of Ethics.

2. Language, format and scope of contributions

Filozofia publishes papers in Slovak, Czech and English. Submissions in English written by non-native speakers should have their articles read and corrected by an educated native English speaker before submission. Poor language is sufficient grounds for the rejection of a submission.

Detailed instructions and recommendations for the formal editing of manuscripts can be found in this document. 

All contributions must be in a format compatible with MS Word, written in Times New Roman with a 1.5 line spacing. If the authors are concerned that the text of the article or its part may display on another device differently than intended, they may send to the editors of the magazine Filozofia also a PDF version of the article with the same content as the MS Word document (both documents need to be attached).

Filozofia only rarely accepts contributions that do not follow the word count guideline:

  • Research articles: 28,000 – 36,000 characters including spaces
  • Review studies: 18,000 – 27,000 characters including spaces
  • Reflections: 18,000 – 21,600 characters including spaces
  • Discussions – Polemics: 18,000 – 27,000 characters including spaces
  • Interviews: 12,000 - 18,000 characters including spaces
  • Book reviews: 7,200 – 9,000 characters including spaces
  • Miscellaneous (Scientific events, Critical notes, …): up to 7 000 characters including spaces
     

3. Preparing a manuscript for submission to Filozofia

A title page should be submitted as a separate file.

The title page contains the title of the submitted article, a brief summary (abstract) in the range of no more than 150 words, information about the author (name, surname, affiliation, grant support, ORCID, email address, telephone). 

Submitted papers must be prepared for anonymous peer-review. An anonymous submission should not contain any information that could lead to the identification of the authors. The authors of the article can refer to their previous works and, in that case, they should use the word author instead of their names, followed by three dots.

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • The text has 1.5 line spacing; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end
  • All author-identifying references have been removed from the text
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines
  • The submission file is in Microsoft Word document file format
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor has it been sent to another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission has not been generated or otherwise modified, in whole or in part, by AI tools (including language editing - authors are required to have their work proofread by a native English-speaking scholar before submitting). The use of tools such as ChatGPT, Copilot, Rytr, Grammarly, etc. is strictly forbidden. Any detection of any AI produced or modified text will result in the immediate rejection of the submission.
  • Abstract in the range of no more than 150 words, keywords, information about the author (name, surname, affiliation, grant support, ORCID, email address, telephone) are in separate file named "Title page."

Articles

28,000 – 36,000 characters including spaces

Book reviews

7,200 – 9,000 characters including spaces

Review studies

18,000 – 27,000 characters including spaces

Reflections

18,000 – 21,600 characters including spaces

Discussions – Polemics

18,000 – 27,000 characters including spaces

Interviews

12,000 - 18,000 characters including spaces

Copyright Notice

By submitting their manuscript to Filozofia, authors agree that their work will be licensed under a CC BY-NC 4.0. Authors give their permission to the editors and publishers of Filozofia to publish their articles in the journal. Authors also give permission to the journal Filozofia to be acknowledged as the original venue of publication.

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