Author Guidelines

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.

Author checklist

Before sending your paper to our journal, please verify if your paper complies with the following:

• The paper has neither been published nor was sent for review in another journal previously (or an explanation has been provided to the editor in the Comments).
• The file to be sent is in the Microsoft Word or RTF document file format.
• URLs and DOIs for reference were provided, if available.
• The text is formatted according to the instructions in the author guidelines.
• All illustrations, figures, and tables are placed in the text appropriately instead of being put at the end.
• The text follows the stylistic and bibliographic requirements presented in the author’s guidelines.

Guide for Authors

The Pressburg Economic Review (PER) only accepts original research papers in English that have not been previously published nor are under review in other academic journals.

By submitting papers for publication, authors automatically agree to assign the copyright.

PER uses a double-blind review process to ensure the quality of contributions. It means that reviewers and the identity of the reviewer and author are obscured throughout the assessment process and vice versa.

PER editors will remove the authors ‘ names and associations to ensure that the manuscript is ready for double-blind peer review. However, authors could take further, non-mandatory steps to ensure that their manuscripts are appropriately prepared for reviewing in a way that does not establish their identity:

• Remove any information from file names and document properties that may reveal your identity;
• Use a third party to refer to works by previous authors, e.g., where applicable, remove such phrases as “we have proved before” and replace them with “… it was proved that” [Anonymous, 2016] “;
• To ensure that the identity of the author is not revealed also in the reference list, do the following: “[Anonymous, 2016]” Details removed for the double-blind review process;
• Contributions published by the author can be referred to in the text as follows: “‘[Anonymous, 2016]”.
• It is not necessary to remove important self-citations, but make sure to limit to them only with papers relevant to the reviewers of the submitted paper;
• Make sure that the numbers do not include any identifier related to affiliation;
• Remove references to funding sources;
• Remove acknowledgments.

The two-stage review process usually takes from 6 to 8 weeks. The manuscript may be returned to the author to avoid unnecessary delays. This decision is made in the author’s best interest to avoid wasting valuable time. The Editorial Board may reject a paper and return it to the author without being submitted to the reviewer, or before the full review, if the editors conclude that the manuscript is not suitable for the journal, especially if the paper is inconsistent with the journal’s objectives and scope or does not follow the style requirements presented in the author guidelines.

PER release schedule:

№1 – March; №2 – September;

PER occasionally organizes special issues to highlight new directions of research once a year.

Article Processing Fees (APC)

Pressburg Economic Review publications are committed to an open access publishing model. Thanks to the latter, research results published in the journal can be accessed for free on the web, ensuring maximum visibility of manuscripts. This journal does not charge any publishing fees.

Before sending your paper to our journal, please make sure that it has the following structure:

The required size of the submitted manuscripts is at least 15,000 characters with spaces. The abstract, list of references, acknowledgments, and annexes are not considered in the count. The text should be written in Times New Roman, size 11, space between the lines 1.15. For more information on formatting, look at the paper template format.

Pressburg Economic Review Paper Template Format

The title of the paper should be informative, and abbreviations should be avoided. Below to the title should be indicated the full name (s) of the authors.

We strongly recommend also adding ORCID or / a RESEARCHERID (optional).

Affiliation(s) of the author(s): the author(s) should list their department, faculty, and university affiliations, as well as their full postal address and e-mail address if available.

Abstract (200-300 words) should include the manuscript’s goal, results, and research findings. An explanation of abbreviations should be provided after the first use in case of being used in the abstract.

Keywords section should include up to5 words separated by commas, preferably without general and plural terms, prepositions, and abbreviations that are not well-established in the field of study.

JEL classification should include up to 5 classification codes separated by commas. The codes are available online athttp://www.aeaweb.org/econlit/jelCodes.php?view=jel

Structure of the main part. Authors should break up the research paper into clearly and logically defined sections. A brief heading and corresponding number can be given to any meaningful subsection. A separate line should be used for each title. The appropriate numbering of all subsections is as follows: 1.1, then 1.1.1, 1.1.2, … 1.2, etc. You should not include the abstract and list of references in the section numbering.

Introduction should clarify the relevance of the research, state its aim and goals, hypothesis and provide corresponding background. However, it should neither include a detailed literature review nor a summary of the research results.

Literature review should include an analysis of appropriate literature on the research topic. This part should expand the theoretical background in the introductory part without duplicating it and provide a theoretical framework for further research.

Data and methodology part should reflect the research design, including relevant explanations, logic, and details. It should include a description of the data, the methods of data collection, the research methods, the limitations of the research, a summary of existing, previously published methods and tools in the field, with appropriate reference. If any modifications to existing methods are used, they should be supported by a proper explanation and description.

Results and discussion should summarize the main research findings and their importance in a concise manner. Literature should not be discussed in detail in this section.

Concluding remarks should summarize the key research findings and can be supported by discussion if necessary.

Acknowledgments (if applicable) should include a list of the people who assisted in the research.

References should be formatted in the style of APA 6th Edition (American Psychological Association).

Tables and figures should have corresponding titles and numbering. The tables and figures should be numbered in the same order as they appear in the text and should be put after the relevant text or on separate pages at the end. Do not apply shading in table cells. Figures should be provided where applicable in editable formats with corresponding separate captions not linked to the figure.

Abbreviations, when used in the text, should be explained if they are not well-known in the literature at the time of their first occurrence.

Plagiarism policy

Plagiarism and its types

Plagiarism is when someone else‘s ideas, findings, methods, or words are used in the paper with or without consent without appropriate citation or reference to the original author and source. Plagiarism is defined as the copying of large sections of a manuscript from previously published sources. Self-plagiarism occurs when an author uses a large part of his own previously published work without properly citing it. Self-plagiarism can take many forms, from publishing the same content in multiple journals to editing a previously published article with new data.

Types of plagiarism

The Pressburg Economic Review is considering the following types of plagiarism:

1. Using the same material from another source without editing the text, grammar or concept is considered complete plagiarism. Intentionally using sections of another author’s paper;
2. Using text copied from the Internet;
3. Using elements of another author’s article such as figures, equations, illustrations, tables, photographs, which are not commonly known, or intentional use of whole sentences without appropriate reference;
4. If the article submitted to the Pressburg Economic Review was previously published in another language, authors must mention the title, date of the original publication, and journal, as well as the copyright notice. The chief editor may accept such a translated publication to draw the attention of a larger audience;
5. If the author copies content from another paper, he must also include it in the references. Otherwise, the author must completely rewrite the phrase and use his own language;
6. Self-plagiarism is defined as using large parts of one’s own copyrighted work without citing the original source. The whole self-plagiarism occurs when an author republishes a previously published paper of the same author in a new journal without translation. Publications based on the author’s own copyrighted work (for example, listed in the conference proceedings), where the exact reference to the previous publication is given, is not considered self-plagiarism. Such reuse of the content does not necessitate the use of citation marks to define reused text but does require citation of the source.

Anti-Plagiarism measures

The Pressburg Economic Review is strongly opposed to any act of plagiarism in any form. It is anticipated that the manuscript submitted by the author(s) to the Pressburg Economic Review is an original and unpublished paper that is not under review elsewhere. The Pressburg Economic Review does not accept plagiarism, including the duplicate publication of the author’s own work (s) in the same language, in general, or in part, without appropriate citation.

Anti-plagiarism software is used to cross-checked for plagiarism all articles submitted to the Pressburg Economic Review. If plagiarism is detected at any stage of the article creation process, the chief editor will notify the authors and ask them to rewrite the content or cite the sources from which the content was copied.

If plagiarism is identified after publishing a paper in the Pressburg Economic Review, the journal will conduct a preliminary investigation. The Pressburg Economic Review will contact the Copyright Institute and funding agencies if plagiarism is detected. If unethical behavior is discovered, the Pressburg Economic Review will issue a statement mentioning the plagiarism and providing proper references to plagiarism sections of the material, which will be linked online to and from the original article. The article containing plagiarism will also be clearly marked on each page of the PDF paper. Depending on the extent of plagiarism, the paper can also be formally withdrawn.