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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 submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text 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, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

Social ecology publishes theoretical, empirical and methodological papers within the scope of social ecology, as well as other scientific disciplines related to the area of environmental sociology. Its primary focus being on original scientific (research) papers, the journal also publishes professional papers (featured article), review articles, preliminary communication, conference papers, translations, book reviews, essays, bibliographies, as well as variety of documents and information that would be of interest to science and social development. Authors are asked to keep in mind the multidisciplinary character of the journal, and therefore to make an effort to present their papers in a way acceptable to variety of readership.

Editorial board accepts unpublished manuscripts only. Papers should be submitted exclusively in electronic form through the Open Journal System platform:

https://hrcak.srce.hr/ojs/index.php/socijalna-ekologija/about/submissions

Double spacing (30 lines per page) is required as well as wide margins (60 signs per line). Manuscripts are submitted for anonymous review. Editorial board retains the right to adapt the manuscript according to reviews and standards of Croatian language. Manuscripts and diskettes will not be returned.

The submitted manuscript must be the authors’ own original work for which they accept full scientific and ethical responsibility. The manuscript cannot be previously published or concurrently submitted for publishing elsewhere. When using other people's or one's own already published knowledge, it is necessary to state and cite it appropriately. In case of images, graphs, tables and other materials reproduction, it is necessary to obtain permission from the copyright holder. Authors are expected to list all the people who contributed to the manuscript but are not the authors, and all the organizations and projects that have, financially or in any other way, supported the research published in the article. Every published research should also have the approval provided by the ethics committee of the competent institution or a detailed description of the process of obtaining informed consent of the respondents. In case of academic dishonesty or plagiarism, the Editorial Board will initiate appropriate procedures in accordance with the internationally accepted ethical guidelines published in the Code of Conduct by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Editorial board supports and encourages the use of ORCID identifiers and recommends that authors, during registration and paper submission, provide their ORCID ID or create one, in case they don’t have it. To register with the journal, follow the link below: https://hrcak.srce.hr/ojs/index.php/socijalna-ekologija/user/register

For more detailed guidelines, authors should consult the INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS, while all our contributors are also welcomed to consult the GUIDLINES FOR REVIEWERS.

Copyright Notice

The author (or authors) is the copyright holder and retains all publishing rights. By giving consent for publication, authors delegate the right of first publication in print and in electronic format to the journal.

Social Ecology is a diamond open access journal (free to read, free to publish). In accordance with the BOAI definition of open access, all content is freely available without charge to the user. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full texts of the articles in the journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. Social Ecology applies the CC BY license.

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