Guide for Authors
INTRODUCTION
The journal couples issues devoted to Russian literature with contributions
on Croatian, Serbian, Czech, Slovak and Polish literature. Languages of publication are English and Russian; in exceptional cases articles
in French or German are accepted. All methods and viewpoints will be welcomed, provided they contribute something new, original or challenging
to our understanding of Russian and other Slavic literatures.
Types of paper
Regular papers.
Original full-length research papers which have not been published previously may be submitted as regular papers. There is no standard
for the length of articles, provided that they are interesting and original, even very long articles may be accepted.
Contact details for submission
The author is requested to send two paper copies to the Editor-in-Chief, Prof.
Willem G. Weststeijn, Slavic Seminar, University of Amsterdam, Spuistraat 210, 1012 VT Amsterdam, The Netherlands. With the manuscript,
the names, addresses and e-mail addresses of one or more referees may be submitted. The reading/reviewing process takes some two months,
after which the author will be informed about the editorial decision. If this is positive, the editor expects a final version and an
abstract (the latter in English, not exceeding 100 words), both to be sent electronically (as word.doc only) (
w.g.weststeijn@uva.nl).
Page charges
This journal has no page charges.
Ethics in publishing
For information on Ethics in publishing and Ethical guidelines for journal publication
see
http://www.elsevier.com/publishingethics and
http://www.elsevier.com/ethicalguidelines.
Conflict of interest
All authors are requested to disclose any actual or potential conflict of interest including
any financial, personal or other relationships with other people or organizations within three years of beginning the submitted work
that could inappropriately influence, or be perceived to influence, their work. See also
http://www.elsevier.com/conflictsofinterest.
Submission declaration
Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously
(except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis), that it is not under consideration for publication
elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was
carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere including electronically in the same form, in English or in any
other language, without the written consent of the copyright-holder.
Changes to authorship
This
policy concerns the addition, deletion, or rearrangement of author names in the authorship of accepted manuscripts:
Before the
accepted manuscript is published in an online issue: Requests to add or remove an author, or to rearrange the author names, must
be sent to the Journal Manager from the corresponding author of the accepted manuscript and must include: (a) the reason the name should
be added or removed, or the author names rearranged and (b) written confirmation (e-mail, fax, letter) from all authors that they agree
with the addition, removal or rearrangement. In the case of addition or removal of authors, this includes confirmation from the author
being added or removed. Requests that are not sent by the corresponding author will be forwarded by the Journal Manager to the corresponding
author, who must follow the procedure as described above. Note that: (1) Journal Managers will inform the Journal Editors of any such
requests and (2) publication of the accepted manuscript in an online issue is suspended until authorship has been agreed.
After
the accepted manuscript is published in an online issue: Any requests to add, delete, or rearrange author names in an article published
in an online issue will follow the same policies as noted above and result in a corrigendum.
Copyright
Upon
acceptance of an article, authors will be asked to complete a 'Journal Publishing Agreement' (for more information on this and copyright
see
http://www.elsevier.com/copyright). Acceptance of the agreement will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information.
An e-mail will be sent to the corresponding author confirming receipt of the manuscript together with a 'Journal Publishing Agreement'
form or a link to the online version of this agreement.
Subscribers may reproduce tables of contents or prepare lists of articles
including abstracts for internal circulation within their institutions. Permission of the Publisher is required for resale or distribution
outside the institution and for all other derivative works, including compilations and translations (please consult
http://www.elsevier.com/permissions).
If excerpts from other copyrighted works are included, the author(s) must obtain written permission from the copyright owners and credit
the source(s) in the article. Elsevier has preprinted forms for use by authors in these cases: please consult
http://www.elsevier.com/permissions.
Retained author rights
As an author you (or your employer or institution) retain certain rights; for details
you are referred to:
http://www.elsevier.com/authorsrights.
Role of the funding source
You
are requested to identify who provided financial support for the conduct of the research and/or preparation of the article and to briefly
describe the role of the sponsor(s), if any, in study design; in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data; in the writing
of the report; and in the decision to submit the article for publication. If the funding source(s) had no such involvement then this
should be stated. Please see
http://www.elsevier.com/funding.
Funding body agreements and
policies
Elsevier has established agreements and developed policies to allow authors whose articles appear in journals
published by Elsevier, to comply with potential manuscript archiving requirements as specified as conditions of their grant awards. To
learn more about existing agreements and policies please visit
http://www.elsevier.com/fundingbodies.
Language and language services
Please write your text in good English (American or British usage is accepted,
but not a mixture of these). Authors who require information about language editing and copyediting services pre- and post-submission
please visit
http://webshop.elsevier.com/languageservices
or our customer support site at
http://support.elsevier.com
for more information.
PREPARATION
Articles in English may be in American or British English,
but should be written consistently in whichever is chosen. However, original spelling in quotations should be retained. Manuscripts should
be typewritten first copies or full-quality prints with a wide margin and double spacing throughout, i.e. also for abstracts, endnotes
and references. Every page of the manuscript, including the title page, references, etc. should be numbered. Please use one side of the
paper only. Keep the layout of the text as simple as possible. Do not justify text or split up words. The first page should be the title
page containing full title, short title (maximum 40 letters including spaces) and author's name, postal address and e-mail address. In
case of a Russian author's name and an article in English please indicate the desired transcription; if not the editors will use the
scientific transliteration. In case of a non-Russian author's name and a Russian language article please state the desired transcription/transliteration
in Cyrillic. The author is requested to indicate how his/her name should be alphabetized.
Russian Literature uses the scientific
(or international library) transliteration of Cyrillic. Please use this transliteration consistently throughout the article.
Title
: Titles of articles, essays, stories, "povesti", novellas, poems, "poemas", cycles should be in single quotes.
Titles of novels, periodicals, plays, books should be given in italics.
Quotations
: Shorter quotations should be
given in double quotes. Russian quotations of less than four lines should be in transliteration (see below). Quotations exceeding four
lines should be presented as a separate block, and, in the case of Russian quotations, in Cyrillic. Quotations within quotations should
be in single quotes. Ellipses in quotations should be given in square brackets: [...], as distinct from original suspension points, which
should follow the last word without a space. In shorter verse quotations (not exceeding four lines) verse lines should be separated by
a slash, stanza boundaries should be marked by a double slash.
Translations
: Preference is given to original Russian
titles (English translations may be given in parentheses). If translated titles are used, the original title should be given in parentheses
at least at the first occurrence.
Quotations should be given in the original language. Translations of quotations in the Slavic languages
are desirable and should follow the original - in parentheses.
Essential title page information
•
Title.
Concise and informative. Titles are often used in information-retrieval systems. Avoid abbreviations and formulae
where possible.
•
Author names and affiliations.
Where the family name may be ambiguous (e.g., a double name),
please indicate this clearly. Present the authors' affiliation addresses (where the actual work was done) below the names. Indicate all
affiliations with a lower-case superscript letter immediately after the author's name and in front of the appropriate address. Provide
the full postal address of each affiliation, including the country name and, if available, the e-mail address of each author.
•
Corresponding author.
Clearly indicate who will handle correspondence at all stages of refereeing and publication, also
post-publication.
Ensure that telephone and fax numbers (with country and area code) are provided in addition to the e-mail address
and the complete postal address. Contact details must be kept up to date by the corresponding author.
•
Present/permanent
address.
If an author has moved since the work described in the article was done, or was visiting at the time, a 'Present address'
(or 'Permanent address') may be indicated as a footnote to that author's name. The address at which the author actually did the work
must be retained as the main, affiliation address. Superscript Arabic numerals are used for such footnotes.
Abstract
A
concise and factual abstract is required, both in the language in which the paper has been written and in British or American English.
The abstract should state briefly the purpose of the research, the principal results and major conclusions. An abstract is often presented
separately from the article, so it must be able to stand alone. For this reason, References should be avoided, but if essential, then
cite the author(s) and year(s). Also, non-standard or uncommon abbreviations should be avoided, but if essential they must be defined
at their first mention in the abstract itself.
Keywords
Immediately after the English abstract,
provide a maximum of 6 keywords, using British or American English spelling and avoiding general and plural terms and multiple concepts
(avoid, for example, "and", "of"). Be sparing with abbreviations: only abbreviations firmly established in the field may be eligible.
These keywords will be used for indexing purposes.
Acknowledgements
Collate acknowledgements
in a separate section at the end of the article before the references and do not, therefore, include them on the title page, as a footnote
to the title or otherwise. List here those individuals who provided help during the research (e.g., providing language help, writing
assistance or proof reading the article, etc.).
Footnotes
Footnotes should be used sparingly.
Number them consecutively throughout the article, using superscript Arabic numbers. Many wordprocessors build footnotes into the text,
and this feature may be used. Should this not be the case, indicate the position of footnotes in the text and present the footnotes themselves
separately at the end of the article. Do not include footnotes in the Reference list.
References
References
may be given in accordance with two systems:
* A full list of references is given at the end of the article. Reference in the main
text and notes (if any) is then made by name, year, semicolon, single space, page number(s) in parentheses. Do not repeat the name if
it is mentioned in the main text.
For example:
1) As Sapir has already noted: "All grammars leak" (1921: 37)
2) The well-known
maxim "All grammars leak" (Sapir 1921: 37)
* References may also be given in endnotes. Full bibliographical data should be supplied
at the first occurrence; later references may be abbreviated - by the use of op.cit., followed by page number. However, the full data
should be repeated if any confusion with other works referred to might arise.
In all cases references should be given in conformity
with the following:
Titles of articles should be in single quotes, titles of books and periodicals in italics. Names of periodicals
should be followed by year, volume and issue numbers, and by the article's page numbers. Titles of books should be followed by place
and year of publication (publishers should be omitted.
All Web references between brackets, followed by the date of consultation of
the website between brackets.
Use of the Digital Object
Identifier
The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) may be used to cite and link to electronic documents. The DOI consists of
a unique alpha-numeric character string which is assigned to a document by the publisher upon the initial electronic publication. The
assigned DOI never changes. Therefore, it is an ideal medium for citing a document, particularly 'Articles in press' because they have
not yet received their full bibliographic information. The correct format for citing a DOI is shown as follows (example taken from a
document in the journal
Physics Letters B):
doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2010.09.059
When you use the DOI to create URL hyperlinks
to documents on the web, the DOIs are guaranteed never to change.
Proofs
The final version
of an article is the definitive one: proofs will not be sent. If an author, after having submitted the final version of the article,
still wants to make any changes, he/she should contact the Editor-in-Chief or Managing Editor.
Offprints
The
corresponding author, at no cost, will be provided with a PDF file of the article via e-mail. For an extra charge, paper offprints can
be ordered via the offprint order form which is sent once the article is accepted for publication. The PDF file is a watermarked version
of the published article and includes a cover sheet with the journal cover image and a disclaimer outlining the terms and conditions
of use.
