Author Guidelines
The journal welcomes original research articles, review articles, and theoretical or analytical papers that fall within its scholarly scope. Manuscripts must not be under consideration by another journal at the time of submission. All co-authors must agree to the submission, its content, and the stated order of authorship. Authors must inform the editorial office of any prior dissemination of a preprint, conference abstract, or thesis or dissertation, and explain its relationship to the submitted manuscript. Prior dissemination does not, in itself, preclude consideration; however, it must not conceal duplicate publication or unattributed reuse of previously published work.
The Editorial Board encourages submissions in English to facilitate the international dissemination of research findings. Manuscripts in other languages may be considered if the editorial office can secure reviewers with appropriate subject expertise and language proficiency. Every article must include a title, abstract, and keywords in English. Where the main text is written in another language, these elements must also be provided in the language of the manuscript. The language versions must be equivalent in substance. Authors remain responsible for factual accuracy, terminology, and linguistic quality, including where translation or language-editing assistance has been used.
Author Information and Affiliations
A separate title page must accompany the manuscript and include the article title; the full names of all authors; their institutional affiliations; ORCID iDs, where available; and the corresponding author's contact email address. Each affiliation must identify the institution and, where applicable, the faculty, department, or other unit, together with the city and country. Authors should list the institution with which they were affiliated when the work was carried out; a different current affiliation may be added as supplementary information. Where an author lists multiple affiliations, each must have a clear connection to that author's scholarly activities. Authors without an institutional affiliation should identify themselves as an "Independent Researcher" and provide their city and country. The corresponding author must also specify which email address is to be published with the article.
The manuscript must be submitted in anonymized form, without names, affiliations, or other details directly identifying its authors. Identifying information must also be removed from file names and metadata, comments, tracked changes, and supplementary materials. Authors should cite their own publications in the usual manner, without expressly drawing attention to their authorship; relevant references must not be omitted for the sake of anonymity. Acknowledgements, grant identifiers, author contribution statements, and any other potentially identifying information must be supplied separately to the editorial office at the time of initial submission. Details identifying an ethics committee must likewise be provided separately if their inclusion would compromise anonymity. The editor must have access to complete information, and the relevant disclosures must be restored to the article before publication.
Manuscript Preparation
The recommended length of the main text is 15,000-40,000 characters, including spaces, excluding abstracts, references, and appendices. Shorter or longer submissions may be considered where justified by the nature of the work. Manuscripts must be submitted as editable DOCX files, formatted on A4 pages in 12-point Times New Roman, with 1.5 line spacing and 2.5 cm margins. Pages must be numbered consecutively, headings must follow a consistent hierarchy, and paragraphs must be organized according to their logical content rather than by inserting manual line breaks. Manuscripts should be emailed to the editorial address provided in the journal's contact information, together with the separate title page and any supplementary files.
The abstract must be 150-250 words long and summarize the research problem, objective, approach, and principal findings or argumentative contribution of the article. It must be understandable without reference to the full text and must not make claims unsupported by the article. The abstract must be followed by five to eight keywords or key phrases. Empirical studies will generally be organized into an introduction, methodology, results, discussion, and conclusion; theoretical papers and humanities scholarship may adopt a structure appropriate to their subject matter and mode of argumentation. The introduction defines the problem and places it in the context of existing knowledge. The methodology section explains the selection of the sample or materials, the procedures used for data collection and analysis, and the ethical conditions under which the research was conducted.
Results must reflect research actually carried out and be reported with sufficient information to allow readers to assess how the findings were obtained. Quantitative studies must report sample size and analytical methods and, where appropriate, effect sizes and the uncertainty associated with estimates. Qualitative studies must explain how materials were selected, how they were analysed, and what steps were taken to support the trustworthiness of the interpretation. Review articles must describe how the literature was selected and examined and distinguish systematic from non-systematic approaches. The discussion must situate the findings within the relevant scholarly literature and assess their contribution and limitations proportionately. Neither a hypothesis that is not supported nor a statistically non-significant result is, in itself, grounds for rejection; conclusions must nevertheless remain within the limits of the methods employed.
References, Tables, Figures, and Supplementary Materials
In-text citations and reference-list entries must follow the seventh edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA 7). In-text citations use the author-date system. Direct quotations must also include a page number or another locator that allows readers to identify the quoted passage. The reference list must be arranged alphabetically and include traceable sources cited in the manuscript. Where a publication has a DOI, a functioning DOI link must be provided. Bibliographic entries for sources originally written in non-Latin scripts must also include Latin-script transliteration. Archival materials, personal communications, and other special categories of sources must be identified in a manner appropriate to their nature and the applicable citation rules. Authors are responsible not only for ensuring that cited publications exist, but also for confirming that they substantiate the claims for which they are cited. Citing articles published in this journal is not a condition of acceptance.
Tables, charts, figures, and other supplementary materials must be numbered consecutively, given descriptive titles, and referred to in the main text. Notes must explain abbreviations, units, and sources so that each item can be understood independently. Tables must be submitted in an editable format rather than as screenshots, and figures must remain legible at their final publication size. The editorial office may request separate source files. Third-party materials must be properly attributed, and any necessary permissions must be documented. Publicly accessible supplementary files must not contain signed participant consent forms, non-anonymized research records, or other personal information disclosed without authorization. Scholarly supplementary materials are evaluated together with the manuscript.
Author Declarations
Statements on funding, conflicts of interest, individual author contributions, research ethics, data availability, and the use of generative artificial intelligence must appear before the reference list. For funded research, authors must identify the funding body and project and describe any role played by the funder in designing the study, analysing the data, or making publication decisions. Where a study received no specific funding or the authors have no conflicts of interest to declare, this must be stated explicitly. Author contribution statements must accurately reflect the work performed; funding alone, administrative assistance, or a supervisory position does not qualify an individual for authorship.
Depending on the nature of the research, the ethics statement must explain approval by the relevant ethics committee, the obtaining of informed consent, and the measures taken to protect participants. Where a requirement does not apply to a particular study, authors must explain why rather than falsely claiming that approval was granted. The data availability statement must specify where and under what conditions supporting materials can be accessed, or explain why they cannot be made available. For work that does not generate or analyse original data, an explanation to that effect is sufficient. The disclosure of research materials must not compromise participants' privacy or breach legitimate obligations of confidentiality.
Where generative artificial intelligence has been used, authors must disclose the tool, its version where available, and the purpose and extent of its use. Research-related applications must also be described in the methodology, while assistance in preparing or translating the manuscript must be disclosed in the relevant author statement. Routine spelling and typographical checks that do not generate new content do not require a separate declaration. Authors who have not used generative artificial intelligence must state this explicitly. Human authors remain responsible for all wording, references, analyses, and conclusions. An artificial intelligence tool cannot be credited as an author or used as a substitute for research that has not been conducted.
Peer Review and Publication
Manuscripts that pass initial editorial screening are evaluated by at least two independent external experts through double-anonymized peer review. Reviewers' identities are not disclosed to authors, and identifying information about authors is not shared with reviewers. When submitting a revision, the corresponding author must provide the revised manuscript and a point-by-point response to the reviewers' comments; any recommendation that has not been followed must be accompanied by a scholarly justification. Before publication, the corresponding author must check the page proofs, author details, declarations, and licence information. Substantial changes to the results or their interpretation must be reassessed by the handling editor and, where appropriate, by reviewers.
Decisions to accept or reject manuscripts are based exclusively on their fit with the journal's scope, the outcome of peer review, and the scholarly quality of the work, and are not influenced by financial considerations. Compliance with publication ethics is also an essential condition of acceptance. No more than one article by the same author may be published in a single issue, whether that person is the sole author or a co-author. This restriction applies to every member of an author team, including members of the editorial staff and Editorial Board. Changes to author order or the composition of the author team do not constitute an exception. A further accepted article involving the same author may be scheduled for a different issue, but a genuine co-author must not be omitted to circumvent this rule.
The journal charges no fees for manuscript submission, initial editorial assessment, peer review, editorial processing, or publication. Acceptance is not conditional on purchasing services, subscribing to the journal, or making a financial contribution. Articles are published open access under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0). Further details are provided in the Peer Review Process, Publication Ethics, Open Access Statement, Privacy Statement, and Copyright and Licensing sections, which authors must consult before submitting a manuscript.
