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Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • 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

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Articles that are based on research in various social science fields and analyze social processes and phenomena relevant to social sciences are published in the journal. In this journal there are published empirical and theoretical articles that contribute to knowledge in various social sciences, present results of original social research, expand and deepen the understanding of objects of various social sciences.

The article must contain all the necessary parts of a scientific article – aims, objective, methods, results, conclusions, and the list of references.

The publishing languages are Lithuanian and English. The length of the article must be between 35,000 and 40,000 characters with spaces. Articles are evaluated (anonymously) by two scientific reviewers.  

Article metadata should be arranged as follows:
1) title. Capitalised Each Word,
2) All authors of a manuscript should include their full name and affiliation in the submission form.

  • Please include ORCiD.
  • Please provide your institutions ROR.
  • One author will need to be identified as the corresponding author, with the author’s email address provided in the submission form.
  • Please note that no changes to affiliation can be made after the paper has been accepted for publication.
  • Short biographic information must be provided by the corresponding author at the time of manuscript submission. Once the paper has been accepted for publication, all co-authors have to provide a short biographic information (no more than 200 words). This information will be visible on the published article’s landing page.

In case if there is more than one author, please provide an explanation at the end of the article detailing each author's contributions according to the CRediT criteria. Reference: CRediT_Taxonomy_Terms_and_Definitions_list.

Example: Author contributions
John Jonsered: conceptualization, methodology, formal analysis, investigation, writing - original draft, writing - review & editing, visualization. Lucy Schneider: conceptualization, methodology, formal analysis, investigation, writing - original draft, writing - review & editing. 

3) abstract (up to 200 words in Lithuanian or English, depending on the language of the submission),
4) keywords (up to five), keywords must be separated by commas and provided one by one,
5) main text (recommended scope of the article from 35 000 to 40 000 characters with spaces),
6) Authors are obliged to use the American Psychological Association (APA style, https://apastyle.apa.org/ ) system of referencing. DOIs should be included if any.

Papers should be arranged as follows:

  • Title of the article.
  • Abstract
  • Keywords in the language of the article.
  • Describes scientific concerns and relevance of the article, names research subject and aim, presents novelty, relevance and methods of the research as well as current level of research on this matter.
  • Theoretical framework of the research (insert the title of the part of the article). The theories and concepts on which the research is based are presented, relation of the presented research with similar scientific researches.
  • Research methodology. Describes research methods and instruments used, presents research sample and stages, points out important data collection and analysis procedures.
  • Analysis of research results or scientific problem. Research results and their analysis are presented, analysis of the scientific problem is done.
  • Conclusions (Summarisation or Discussion). Brief and structured conclusions and generalisations are drawn which reflect the set aim of the article, results are discussed and interpreted, their relation to other scientific research is analysed.
  • List of references.
  • Summary in English (at least 2000 characters without spaces). The summary must reflect research problem, research methodology, the main results and conclusions of the article.

Article Submission

Articles are submitted in digital form (doc, docx) to the Journal Management System.

Accessibility
The European Accessibility Act, which requires e-publications to be accessible to all, including blind and partially sighted individuals, came into force in 2025. We will ensure that the e-files are properly prepared; however, you need to describe the tables and illustrations in your article in a way that a blind person can understand. 

For examples of illustration descriptions, refer to the Guide to Image Descriptions – AccessiblePublishing.ca. Place your description under the table or illustration in square brackets [ ] to provide a clear explanation. These descriptions will not be visible in the final version but are essential for language editors and layout artists during production. 

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