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Author Guidelines

Include a cover letter (in a separate file) with your manuscript containing your full name, all academic titles, institutional affiliation, address and postal code, telephone number, e-mail address, the title of your manuscript and an indication of its length (i.e. the number of standard pages – 1 page = 1800 characters).

The JoP sends the anonymous copies for review, so please omit all references to your identity as the author in your manuscript. Each paper submitted to JoP is sent to two reviewers for review. Anonymity is maintained between the authors and the reviewers. The manuscript should include a title, abstract (abstract should be between 150 and 250 words) and key words in English(italicized), and references at the end of the text.

Articles or research reports should be a maximum of 30 standard pages, book reviews a maximum of 7 standard pages, and information or news a maximum of 5 standard pages.

Submit your manuscript by e-mail to: JoP@truni.sk

Citations in the text give the last name of the author(s) and the year of publication in roundbrackets(APA style).

An in-text citation is usually written (Author’s Last Name, Year). It goes after the source information. Do not put information from the source after the citation.

This should be information from the source (Neff, 1993). This should not be from the source?.

However, if you use the author's name in your text, the in-text citation only includes the year and comes after the author's name. In this case, the in-text citation introduces the source material, which immediately follows.

Examples:

One author:

According to Washington Post journalist Neff (1993), source information goes here.

• If you use the same source again in the same paragraph, you do not need to repeat the citation. You can just repeat the author’s name in your text.
• If you use a direct quotation from a source, the in-text citation should also tell the reader exactly where the quotation can be found in the source.
• For sources with page numbers, put the page number of the quotation in the in-text citation after the quotation, like this:

Author (Year) said, “This quotation” (p. #).
This is a “quotation from the source” (Author, Year, p. #).
Dr. Researcher said, “This quotation” (as cited in Author, Year, p. #).
Information from the source (Wang & Garshelis, 2008).
Wang and Garshelis (2008) gave this information.
Information from the source (Barrett et al., 2006). 
Barrett et al. (2006) gave this information.

Number footnotes throughout the text using superscript Arabic numerals.

References at the end of the manuscript must contain all references cited in the text, but only those cited in the text. All reference information must be provided in full and correctly. Please observe the following guidelines according APA style:

Examples:

Books

Leki, I. (1998). Academic writing: Exploring processes and strategies (2nd ed.). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.

Ozmon, H. A. & Craver, S. M. (2008). Philosophical Foundations of Education. Upper Saddle River: Pearson.

Journals

Fredrick, T. A. (2008). Facilitating better teamwork: Analyzing the challenges and strategies of classroom-based collaboration. Business Communication Quarterly, 71(4), 439-455.

Collections

Vujovic, S. (2000). An uneasy view of the city. In N. Popov (Ed.), The road to war in Serbia (pp. 23-145). Budapest, Hungary: Central European University Press.

Mahler, C., Mihr, A., & Toivanen, R. (2006). Teaching human rights in Europe and its role for minority movements. In M. Brosig (Ed.), Human rights in Europe: A fragmented regime? (pp. 169-183). Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Peter Lang.

On-line sources

Hatfield, H. (2004). Fitness fables. Retrieved September 10, 2010, from WebMD website: http://www .webmd.com/fitness-exercise/guide/fitness-fables

The White House. (n.d.). Nominations and appointments. Retrieved September 8, 2010, from http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/nominations-and-appointments