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Author Guidelines

Scripta Manent welcomes previously unpublished manuscripts in the following categories:

1. Keynote speeches

These are keynote speeches delivered by invited keynote speakers at the triennial International Conferences of the Slovene Association of LSP Teachers. They present the most recent trends in LSP teaching and research, and provide directions for further LSP research. Keynote speeches are typically approximately 5,000 words in length excluding tables are references.

Keynote speeches should include an abstract in English of 120-150 words in length, keywords (up to six), and an abstract in Slovene. Translations of the abstracts to Slovene will be provided for non-Slovene speakers by the Editorial Team.

2. Research articles

These present empirical research using original data, as well as replicable and verifiable research methodologies. The general structure of manuscripts should be: an introduction, a description of the theoretical framework, one or more clearly defined research question(s), a description of research methods, a description of results, and a discussion section where the practical implications of the research are clearly identified. This is followed by the acknowledgements, if any, and a full list of references. Manuscripts should be preferably about 8,000 words long, excluding figures, tables and references.

Research articles should include an abstract in English of 120-150 words in length, keywords (up to six), and an abstract in Slovene. Translations of the abstracts to Slovene will be provided for non-Slovene speakers by the Editorial Team.

3. Teaching reports

Teaching reports should draw on experience with new LSP methods, materials, means of assessment, and other areas of professional interest as well as practical applications of LSP description or analysis. Manuscripts describing carefully planned and executed experiments in the field of LSP are also welcome.

The general structure of manuscripts should be: an introduction, a presentation of the theoretical background, one or more clearly defined research question(s), correct and rigorous analysis of the research question and/or subject matter, and findings and conclusions. This is followed by the acknowledgements, if any, and a full list of references.

Teaching reports should seek to balance theory and practice by ensuring that practical descriptions relate to underlying theoretical principles and theoretical concepts to their practical applications. They should show awareness of recent work carried out in the area on which they report. They should be preferably about 4,000 words long, excluding figures, tables and references.

Teaching reports should include an abstract in English of 120-150 words in length, keywords (up to six), and an abstract in Slovene. Translations of the abstracts to Slovene for non-Slovene speakers will be provided by the Editorial Team.

4. Book reviews

Apart from relevant scholarly books and research monographs on LSP, Scripta Manent also publishes reviews of LSP coursebooks that have been published locally and should not be overlooked. Reviews should be a reliable and valuable resource for teachers and researchers.

Reviews should situate the book in its wider context of relevance, summarize the main arguments, identify the intended audience and who would find it useful, and address the reviewer’s own critical but constructive commentary.

While reviews of individual books should not exceed 1,200 words, comparative reviews of books could be up to 2,000 words in length.

While we welcome suggestions for reviews, unsolicited reviews are not encouraged.

For any queries about book reviews please contact the journal at scripta.manent.sdutsj@gmail.com.

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.

  • The manuscript has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor-in-Chief).

  • The manuscript file is in .docx, .odt or .rtf format.
  • The manuscript is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points.
  • The manuscript has been anonymized for the needs of the blind peer review process.
  • The manuscript has been proofread by a competent language editor.
  • The APA 7.0 referencing style has been consistently used throughout the manuscript.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

1) Authors are confirming that they are the authors of the submitting article, which will be published (print and online) in Svetovi / Worlds by University of Ljubljana Press (University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Aškerčeva 2, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia). The author’s name will be evident in the article in the journal. All decisions regarding layout and distribution of the work are in the hands of the publisher.

2) Authors guarantee that the work is their own original creation and does not infringe any statutory or common-law copyright or any proprietary right of any third party. In the case of claims by third parties, authors commit themselves to defend the interests of the publisher and shall cover any potential costs.

3) Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

4) Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.

5) Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.

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