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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.
  • 1. The submitted material has not been previously published or peer-reviewed in another journal.
  • 2. The submitted file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, document file format.
  • 3. Citation and references are provided in APA style.
  • 4. Text is set in Times New Roman font, single-spaced, 12-point font size; all illustrations, figures, and tables are numbered, titled, and referenced.
  • 5. The text follows the stylistic and bibliographic requirements as outlined in the Author's Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

GENERAL INFORMATION

The Pólusok (Polarities) invites papers and book reviews in political science and international relations, as well as in their broader interdisciplinary fields (security policy, international law, regional studies, etc.). When submitting manuscripts to the journal, please avoid purely historical articles and focus on contemporary issues. The journal publishes articles in three sections: Studies, Book Reviews, and Situation Reports. The Studies section is responsible for publishing original research papers, theoretical contributions and literature reviews. Situation reports focus on the analysis of short-term events that have significant impacts (e.g. elections). Contributions to these sections should be written in accordance with the following guidelines.

REQUIRED INFORMATION AND SECTIONS

The submission should include the following information in the order and format listed below:

  • Name of the author(s)
  • Institutional affiliation and position
  • E-mail address
  • ORCID-ID
  • Title of the study
  • Maximum 6-12 line abstract
  • 4-5 keywords
  • Introduction, main text, conclusion (appendix, if applicable)
  • References

Manuscripts should have a minimum of 20,000 and a maximum of 40,000 characters, including spaces but excluding references. For book reviews, the maximum length is 15,000 characters, while the book reviewed should have been published within the last 3 years. Longer manuscripts, up to 60,000 characters, will only be accepted by the Editorial Board in justified cases (e.g. when publishing the results of empirical research). Manuscripts should be written in Times New Roman, 12-point size, and single-spaced. Please use American English when preparing the manuscript.

From 2024 the journal uses the APA reference style (7th edition). For citations and references please follow these guidelines: citation style; bibliographic style

For all relevant bibliographic references, please include the DOI identifier of the article in weblink format. The identifiers are available at the following link: https://www.crossref.org/guestquery

FIGURES AND TABLES

The journal publishes only figures and tables prepared by the authors, although data reproduced by the authors' own editing may originate from secondary sources. Please insert figures and tables in the text and send them as a separate file with the manuscript. Figures should be attached as image files with a resolution of at least 150-300 dpi in TIFF or PNG format. As an online journal, Polarities also includes colour illustrations, however, the use of bright colours should be avoided. When designing figures, please consider readable sizes and a coherent layout.

When positioning figures and tables in the text, please ensure that they are placed in the relevant parts of the text, in accordance with the content. The order of their positioning should be indicated by numbering, in the following format:

- For figures, diagrams, maps, uniformly: Figure 1: Title; Figure 2: Title; etc.

- For tables: Table 1: Title; Table 2: Title, etc.

It is also necessary to indicate the data sources used, which should be inserted under the figures and tables in the following format, based on the criteria for intertextual references:

- Own editing, data source: Pálné, 2016: 45.

- In the case of an Internet source, indicate the author or corporate author, the web link to the source, and the date of last access. In this case, the format should be: own editing, data source: UNDP, www.undp.com, last accessed on 06.05.2020.

Figures and tables, their titles and sources should be arranged consistently to the left. The journal does not publish photographs for illustrative purposes.

SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS

Polarities accepts articles and reviews for online publication. After registration, manuscripts and their accompanying figures and tables can be uploaded at https://journals.lib.pte.hu/index.php/polusok. For further assistance with the registration and submission process, please consult the user guide at https://openjournalsystems.com/ojs-3-user-guide.

PEER REVIEW PROCESS

The review procedure consists of two major stages. In the first phase, the editorial team evaluates the submitted papers and sends only those that are grammatically and conceptually correct for peer review. In the case of minor errors, the author(s) may make revisions, but all corrections are the sole responsibility of the author(s).

In the second stage, submissions that pass the initial screening are reviewed by two anonymous and independent reviewers who receive the manuscript without the author(s)' name(s). To ensure the objectivity of the review process, please do not include the name of the author(s) in the text of the manuscript. Reviewers are selected on the basis of their expertise, and must not be affiliated with author(s)' institution(s). Publication of a paper is subject to the opinion of the reviewers, and in the case of conflicting opinions, the Editorial Board will decide whether to accept or reject the paper. Compliance with the formal requirements is a precondition for initiating the peer review process.

PUBLICATION

Beginning in 2024, the journal will abandon its current practice of publishing contributions collectively, issue by issue, and will instead publish papers individually. In practice, this means that the Winter/Spring (1) and Summer/Autumn (2) issues will be maintained, but accepted papers will be published on the website as soon as they are finalized and edited, and their respective DOI numbers will be also automatically assigned. This means that studies finalized between January and June will be published in the first issue of the calendar year, and those concluded between July and December will be released in the second issue. In both cases, the page numbers will continue until the closing date of that issue. We are confident that this change will improve the quality and efficiency of manuscript publication.

Pólusok/Polarities provides its publishing services free of charge, charging authors no fees for submitting manuscripts, editorial work or publication. Access to archived issues of our journal is also free. For information on guest editing special issues, please contact polusok@pte.hu.

OPEN ACCESS STATEMENT AND OTHER INFORMATION

Pólusok/Polarities has an open-access publishing model based on the terms of the Creative Commons license (CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0). The journal uses the Open Journal System (OJS3) framework provided by the University Library and Knowledge Center of the University of Pécs.

The published content is subject to the terms of the Creative Commons license (CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0). Studies will be published with a unique DOI identifier.

Copyright Notice

Pólusok/Polarities allow authors to retain the copyright of their papers without restrictions. Nevertheless, authors grant the journal and the publisher the right of first publication, and other non-exclusive publishing rights on the basis of the provisions of Hungarian Act LXXVI of 1999 on Copyright (hereinafter referred to as "the Act").

The right of use granted by the author to the journal and to the publisher covers all types of use as defined in the Act, in particular:

  • the right of first publication of the work created by the author;
  • the first right to reproduce the work in any number of copies;
  • reproduction on any analogue or electronic medium for any number of times;
  • distribution;
  • the authorization of a right of use by a third party;
  • communication to the public.

The author also grants the journal and the publisher the rights of use set out above without territorial limitation, free of charge or for an indefinite period.

Additionally, when submitting manuscripts, the author certifies that

  • the manuscript submitted for publication is original and their own work;
  • it has not been published or submitted elsewhere;
  • they waive any remuneration for authorship arising from copyright;
  • they are in possession of the rights to be transferred;
  • and assume responsibility on behalf of all co-creators for the legality of the assignment of copyright.

Pólusok/Polarities is an open access journal, published in electronic form and accessible to the public through its website. The author undertakes to publish his/her work on his/her own website and on other scientific repositories only after the official publication of the manuscript, indicating the bibliographic data and the web link (URL) of the original publication.

The author grants permission to the journal to grant third parties the right to use the work free of charge, for the purpose of, for example, placing the work in a repository, publishing or promoting it. The third parties are entitled to determine their own rules of use when granting a license for further use of the work.

The journal and the publisher reserve the right to make changes to the work without affecting its content. The final paper resulting from these changes may only be published with the consent of the author.

The author declares that no other person has any rights over the work which would limit or exclude the rights of the journal or the publisher. In the case of a multi-author work, this statement shall also apply to the co-authors, and it is the responsibility of the author submitting the work to inform them of the contents of the license.

The name(s) and attribution of the author(s) shall not be changed after the work has been submitted. The author submitting the work declares that the material intended for publication contains only open (non-classified) information and data.

For matters not covered by the license, please refer to the Creative Commons Attribution Policy. 4.0 license terms, which the author accepts together when submitting the manuscript.

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