Submissions

Author Guidelines

Manuscripts are submitted through this online submission site. After submitting, you will receive an email confirmation and can track the status of your manuscript by logging into your account. Please read the full guidelines below before preparing your manuscript.

Manuscript submission
The journal welcomes contributions in Slovak, English or Czech. Papers have to be submitted in electronic form only in MS Word or Open Office format. Name, academic affiliations, contact details and references in the paper that could lead to the identification of the author have to be provided on a separate sheet. Submitted manuscripts must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Manuscript preparation
The standard length of articles is 6000 to 9000 ‬words (‬ including, ‬ abstract, ‬ text, ‬ appendices, ‬ footnotes and
references) ‬and ‬750 ‬to ‬2500 ‬words for reviews. Submitted articles have to be accompanied by a ‬200 ‬word English language abstract, ‬English title, ‬key words, ‬reference list and short biographical information for every author.

Citations in the text
When the author’s name is in the text, follow it with the year in parentheses ... Putnam (2000). Two authors: … Berger and Luckman (1966).
When the author’s name is not in the text, enclose the last name and year in parentheses ... (Beck 1986).
Pages cited follow the year of publication ... (Habermas 2012: 90–91)
Provide the last names for two authors, separated by a hyphen ... (Berger – Luckman 1966).
For three authors, list all three last names, separated by a hyphen, as in the case of two authors. For works with four or more authors, use 'et al.' throughout.
List a series of citations in date order separated by semicolons ... (Beck 1986; Putnam 2000).
Use 'forthcoming' to cite sources scheduled for publication.
When citing institutional authors and the name of a specific author is not known, include essential identification details from the full citation … (Statistical Office of the SR 2024).
The citation should be placed directly before the period at the end of the sentence.

Reference style
Arrange the references alphabetically based on the authors’ last names. If there are multiple entries by the same author(s), organize them by the publication year. In cases where several works by the same author(s) are published in the same year, list them alphabetically by title and label them as 'a,' 'b,' 'c,' etc. If a cited work is not yet published but has been accepted for publication, indicate this by using 'Forthcoming' instead of the date and provide the name of the journal (or publisher for books). Using 'et al.' in the reference list is not acceptable; please list all authors.
Provide DOI whenever possible.

The reference list should be prepared according to the journal standards in alphabetical order at the end of the paper. Some examples of the preferred references style:

• DŽAMBAZOVIČ, R. – GERBERY, D., 2018: Medzigeneračná sociálna mobilita na Slovensku. Sociológia 50(4): 396-428. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/sociologia.2018.50.4.16
• BÚZIK, B., 2000: Zjavenie sa modernizácie v slovenskej sociológii. Sociológia 32(4): 385-390.
• KLOBUCKÝ, R. − MRVA, M., 2019: Vývoj spoločenskej dôvery. In: Rabušic, L., Kusá, Z., Manea, Ch. B., Strapcová, K. (eds.): Odděleně spolu? Česko a Slovensko optikou vývoje hodnot po roce 1991. Bratislava: Slovart.
• LAIFEROVÁ, E. – MISTRÍKOVÁ, Ľ. – CAPÍKOVÁ, S. – LUBELCOVÁ, G. – ECKEROVÁ, L., 2018: Slovenská sociológia po páde komunizmu. Ideové korene, súčasné trendy a osobnosti vedy. 2. upravené a rozšírené vydanie. Bratislava: Univerzita Komenského. 276 s. ISBN 978-80-223-4271-1.

In the Slovak language, page ranges are indicated by the abbreviation “s.”, while in English the abbreviation “pp.” is used.

Peer review policy
All papers are initially scrutinized by the editor. Manuscripts that meet the scientific and editorial standards of the journal are subject to double-blind peer review by at least two independent reviewers. The final decision on the publication of a submitted article is made by the editors, where appropriate in consultation with the editorial board. The journal reserves the right to make published contributions available in electronic or other forms.