Instructions for authors
Please use Microsoft Word for preparing manuscripts for submission.
The manuscript should be prepared in accordance with these instructions and by using the official journal template for manuscript preparation using Microsoft Word - Microsoft Word Template.
All manuscripts should fulfil the following criteria:
- The manuscript should fulfil the format requirements
- The manuscript should fulfil the plagiarism requirements
- The manuscript should be written in accordance with the scope of AMS
- The title should be interesting and adequate
- The references should be up-to-date
- The manuscript should be up-to-date
- The manuscript should be understandable
- There should be presented new results in the manuscript
- The manuscript should have a potential to stimulate further research
The editors have the right to reject any manuscripts without justification if it does not fit into the policy of AMS, or do not fulfill the above criteria.
General
- Prepare your article by using Microsoft Word.
- The minimal length of a manuscript is 8 pages of A4 format (FIRST PAGE AND REFERENCES ARE NOT CONSIDERED AS A PART OF A MANUSCRIPT REGARDING ITS LENGTH). The total length of a manuscript, including illustrations and tables to be inserted in the text, should not exceed 15 pages of A4 format. The editorial board reserves the right of publishing more extensive manuscripts.
- The journal language is English. Either British or American English can be used, but be consistent within the manuscript. Authors should check for consistent spelling of names, terms, and abbreviations, including in tables and figure captions. If you are not a native English speaker, we strongly recommend that you have your manuscript professionally edited before submission or read by a native English-speaking colleague.
- The author's declaration should include the name and surname, academic degrees, and the organisation address(es) of the author(s).
- For a general visual appearance of the manuscript, take a look at the recent issues of the journal.
Text
- Type the text with the single-line spacing. The typeface should be Times New Roman, size 10 points.
- The manuscript should usually contain an Introduction; Analysis (state) of the problems; Material and methods; Results and Discussion; Conclusion and References.
- First-level headings should be centred and second-level headings should start from the left margin. Use at most four levels of headings.
Illustrations
- Figures, photographs, maps and schemes in your manuscript should be inserted directly in the appropriate place in the text.
- If some/all figures are too large, you can save and submit your original figures, photographs, maps, large schemes as separate graphics files (JPG graphics format is preferred). However, there still should be a reference to the particular figure in the appropriate place in the text.
- Illustrations must be of high quality. Black-and-white photographs should be sharp, and contrast and their reduction minimally to one-half of original size can be desirable.
- A reference to each illustration should be made in the text. Each illustration should be identified by its number and the name(s) of the author(s) or its corresponding reference source.
- Captions of the illustrations should be written using font Times New Roman, font size 8 pt, in italics.
- Colour illustrations are acceptable since the journal provides online access to manuscripts. However, try printing your manuscript in grayscale to verify that the readers will not miss the information from your illustrations if they have only monochrome prints.
Tables
- Tables should be incorporated into the text. Titles and possibly an explanatory description of the separate tables should accompany the tables in the text.
- For captions use Arial, size 8 points, italics.
Equations
- Please use either the Microsoft Equation Editor or the MathType add-on in your manuscript to insert equations and/or corresponding symbols into the text. Equations should be editable by the editorial office and not appear in a picture format.
References
- Only the author-date system of references style (Harvard or APA style) is acceptable.
- References should be listed alphabetically. In the reference list, names of all authors should be given.
- Do NOT use "et al." in the list of references!
- For the author-date style, do not number the references in the reference list, and in the text refer to the author's name (without initials), followed by the year of publication (both in parenthesis), e.g. "... the previous study (Michalko, 1993)..." or "...Michalko (1993) considered...".
- If a reference is made in the text to a publication written by more than two authors, the name of the first author should be used, followed by "et al.".
- If the authors are not sure how to properly create the list of references using Harvard or APA referencing style, they can use one of many online services (https://www.citethisforme.com, https://www.citationmachine.net/, etc.).
- References should have a range of at least 20-30 positions, covering important previous works realised in the given area of interest on an international scale. References covered by major citation databases are preferred (Scopus, Web of Science).
Abstract
- The abstract should contain a concise description of the contents and main results of the manuscript. It should be about 250 words (approx. 30 rows). The font is Times New Roman, size 10 points.
Keywords
- A list of up to five keywords or key expressions should be provided.
Submitting your article
- Authors should submit their manuscript by e-mail attachment, prepared in Microsoft Word; we cannot accept a PDF file.
- Manuscripts should be submitted by e-mail to actamont@tuke.sk.
- The maximum size of submission by e-mail is 25MB.
Suggesting Reviewers
- During the submission process, authors are pre encouraged to list five names of potential reviewers with the appropriate expertise to review the manuscript.
- The editorial board retains the sole right to decide whether or not the suggested reviewers are used.
- Please provide detailed contact information (address, homepage, phone, e-mail address).
- The proposed referees should neither be current collaborators of the co-authors nor have published with any of the co-authors of the manuscript within the last five years.
- Proposed reviewers should be from different institutions to the authors.
Review Process
- The Acta Montanistica Slovaca journal uses the double-blind peer review process before publication of newly submitted manuscripts.
- The whole publication process may take from 4 to 6 months. However, the final date of publication is dependent on the number of manuscripts that are already waiting for publishing.
- The individual steps of the publication process can be found here: Review Process.
