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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; 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.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

Jazykovedný časopis (Journal of Linguistics) publishes original linguistic research focusing on language theory, structure, and its societal and historical function. The journal welcomes theoretical, empirical, analytical articles, and reviews.

Indexed in:

  • Scopus
  • DOAJ
  • CEJSH
  • ERIH PLUS
  • CEEOL
  • ProQuest
  • Google Scholar

No publication fees.

Languages accepted: all Slavic languages, English, German.

Each article must include:

  • Abstract in English (100–200 words)
  • Keywords in English (3–8 words)
  • Articles not in Slovak/Czech must include a Slovak summary (400–600 words), translated by editors.

Peer review process: scholarly articles are reviewed anonymously by two reviewers; other contributions by one reviewer. Authors receive reviewer reports without disclosing reviewer identities.

Technical requirements:

  • Submissions must be in electronic form (Microsoft Word, Times New Roman 12, 1.5 line spacing)
  • If the text contains special characters, tables, graphs, etc., please also submit a PDF version
  • Author's full name and institutional affiliation must be included
  • Text should be left-aligned only, with no word breaking at line ends; hard line breaks only at paragraph ends
  • Paragraphs must be indented
  • Italics should be used for titles of works and examples
  • Bold font is used for subheadings and key terms
  • In-text references should follow the format: (Horecký 1956, p. 95)
  • Full list of references must be provided at the end of the article (not in footnotes) in alphabetical order. If the list includes multiple works by the same author, they should be listed chronologically.

Full guidelines are available on the journal website.

Copyright Notice

Open Access Policy

English version

All articles published in Jazykovedný časopis (Journal of Linguistics) are available under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).

License conditions:

  • Articles may be freely shared, copied, and redistributed provided proper attribution is given.
  • Commercial use of the work is not permitted.

  • No modifications, adaptations, or derivative works are allowed.

Authors' rights:

  • Authors retain copyright of their work.

  • Authors grant the publisher the right to commercially exploit and distribute the work according to the license terms.

Publication:

  • Published articles are freely accessible to all users.

  • The publisher reserves the right to perform linguistic and stylistic editing prior to publication.

Additional information:

  • Authors may not license the work for commercial use by third parties without the publisher’s consent.
  • Authors are not entitled to receive any financial compensation.

  • Legal relations are governed by the laws of the Slovak Republic.

For more details, please contact the editorial office.

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