Authors Guidelines
Submission of manuscripts
The journal does not charge any fees at submission, reviewing, and production stages.
Papers are published under the condition that they have not been previously published, nor a request for their publication in another journal has been submitted. Papers that are not adequately prepared on the basis of this guideline will not be considered.
Papers with attachments must be submitted in electronic format, where paper text and graphic attachments (photographs, charts) must be in separate documents.
When submitting a paper, the author also must submit basic contact information: First name and surname with the middle letter, scientific title, mobile and landline numbers, postal address, email address, institution of employment and the position. This information will not be published, but it will be used for the editorial correspondence with the author. The information given as a part of the paper (metadata) will be published in the journal.
Rights and obligations of authors and publishers
The papers that are accepted by the editor and the reviewers and meet the journal criteria in terms of relevance and professional level will be published. The Editorial Board reserves the rights to adjust the papers to general rules of journal editing and language standards.
It is presumed that all opinions expressed in the published papers are those of the author only. The editor, reviewers or the publisher do not bear responsibility for the opinions of the author.
If the paper is accepted for publication, the rights to reproduce the paper in any other media belong to the publisher from the date of paper acceptance.
The paper should be prepared according to Acta Economica journal standards.
If the stated criteria are not respected, Editorial Board might not accept the paper or it might ask for paper adjustment, due to which the publication might be delayed
Paper scope
The paper should be structured to maximum 16 A4 pages (30 000 characters).
Document formats, styles and formatting
Paper text in electronic format must be in one of the standard formats: doc, docx, rtf (Microsoft Word).
Illustrative attachments (images, photographs, charts etc) should be submitted in electronic format, with a resolution of at least 300 pixels by inch in actual size. Attachments in electronic format must be submitted as separate documents in one of the standard formats: jpeg, tiff, gif, pdf, indd (Adobe InDesign), ai (Adobe Illustrator) and adequately titled, with the clearly marked place in paper text where the attachment appears and the attachment title as stated in the media.
Regardless of the language, it is essential that the paper is typed in Unicode supported standard, preferably Times New Roman.
Paper language and letter
Papers are written in English language with titles, abstracts and keywords in Serbian. Serbian language parts of the paper should be typed in Cyrillic letter. The language of the paper attachment should be in English
The costs of translation of parts of the papers from Serbian into English and vice versa are at the author’s expense. The editorial staff must appoint the proofreaders for both Serbian and English.
Additional components of the paper
NOTE: Name and surname, email address and affiliation of the author should be stated in a separate document, and not in the file attachment, in order to preserve the anonymity during the review of the paper.
The author`s name
Full name of the author(s) is stated, including middle letter. Names and surnames of the local authors are always stated in their original form (with Serbian diacritic marks). Scientific titles of the authors are not stated.
Contact information
Address or email address of the authors are stated in the journal. If there are several authors, only the contact information of the first author is stated.
Name of the author`s institution (affiliation)
Full (official) name and address of the institution where the author is employed and possibly the name of the institution where the author carried out a survey. In complex organizations full hierarchy is stated (e.g. University of Banja Luka, Faculty of Economics Banja Luka). At least one organization in the hierarchy must be a legal entity. If there are several authors of the paper, and some are from the same institution, all institutions must be stated.
Names, surnames and affiliation of authors are written in two languages (English and Serbian Language).
Title
It is in general interest to use the words in the title which are suitable for indexing and searching. If there are no such words in the title, it is advisable to attach the title heading. The title is written in two languages, as follows:
- in two places – at the beginning of the paper in English, and at the end of the paper before the translated abstract in Serbian.
Captions
It is recommended that the headings are numbered in Arabic numerals, e.g.: 1. The first heading, 2. The second heading, 2.1. The first heading of the second row, 2.2. The second heading of the second row, 3. The third heading (like heading structure used in this guideline).
Abstract
Abstract is a brief informative presentation of the paper content which allows the reader (and the participants in editorial process) to quickly and accurately assess its relevance. It is in the best interest of the author that the abstract contains terms often used for indexing and searching of articles. Components of the abstract are objective, methods, results and conclusion of the research.
Abstract should contain from 100 to 250 words, and it should be placed:
- In the first part of the paper, between the title and keywords. The abstract must be written in English language.
- At the end of the paper, after the paper title in Serbian and names, surnames and affiliations of the authors in Serbian language. Abstract at the end of the paper should be written in Serbian. Abstract does not contain references.
Key words
Key words are terms that best describe the content of the paper for indexing and searching. They should be awarded retrospectively relying on international source (list, dictionary or thesaurus), which is widely accepted within a given scientific field.
The number of key words should 4-6, and it is desirable to specify frequent words.
Key words are given in the English in the first part of the paper after the abstract. Key words include those words that best describe the content of the paper for indexing and searching purposes, and which are assigned with a reference to an international source, most widely accepted within another scientific field.
Key words in Serbian are given at the end of the article, after the abstract in Serbian.
Content of the paper
The paper should be relevant for scientific and professional public with clear, prominent objectives and research results, conclusion, references in the text and bibliographic unit at the end of the paper. Ideas in the paper must be original and significantly contribute to the research subject, and methodology must be clearly described.
Previous versions of the paper
If the paper at its previous version was presented in the oral form at the coference (under the same or similar title) that information should be listed in a separate note, usually at the bottom of the first page. Note mark should be placed at the beginning of the text. The paper which has already been published in other journals cannot be republished under the same or similar title.
Tables and charts
Tables and charts should be provided in uniform manner. It is desirable that they are prepared in the framework of the paper file. Each table, chart or image must be numbered in order of appearance in the paper, with the appropriate title (e.g. Table 2: Reliability of the variables). The name is written above the table or graph, while the source is listed below the table or graph. If the results of the author's research are presented in the table or graph, the Author's analysis is provided under the source.
Quotation in the paper
References to sources, verbatim or paraphrased, should be marked in the text which has been quoted by stating the last name of the author, year of the quote publication (and the page from which the quotation was taken) in the parentheses.
The quote must be literally compliant with the original (including punctuation mark, diacritics etc). In the first quotation of the foreign author, his/her name should be transcribed in Cyrillic letter, and in the parentheses the original name form should be stated.
The omitted parts of quoted text should be indicated with three dots in square brackets [...]. Comments, objections, reconstruction of the quotes should also be listed in square brackets. Within quoted text, semi-quotation marks are used.
Notes (footnotes)
Notes are provided on the bottom of the page containing quoted text. They should be entered with the help of automated tools for footnoting in this particular program.
References
References typically include bibliographic resources (articles, monographs etc) and are given exclusively in the separate section of the paper, in the form of list of references. References are not translated or transliterated in the paper language.
For different types of bibliographic units, bibliographic data are differently stated. Rules of APA standards, outlined in the table below, must be respected. Non-standard, incomplete or inconsistent reference quotation will be one of the criteria for publication in the journal.
