Guidelines for authors

• Sociologija is a social science journal dedicated to studies in Sociology, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology.
• Articles can focus on theoretical developments, new methodological approaches, as well as on empirical research.
• Articles must be original, not previously published and not under simultaneous consideration for publication elsewhere, either in part or full.
• Manuscripts are accepted in Serbian (including Croatian, Bosnian, and Montenegrin), and English.
• Manuscripts will be subject to anonymous peer review by at least two independent and specialist reviewers. The Editor shall forward constructive comments to the author(s).
• The author is obliged to respond to the comments of the reviewers.
• All interventions in the revised text must be clearly marked (red font or highlighted in yellow).
• The journal also publishes book reviews, debates, or other articles of scientific and professional interest.

• Articles must be submitted via our online submission system, which is located on the website of the journal Sociologija.
• In order to submit an article, you should register. During registration authors should use their email address as username, as we will contact you through this address. You should also define a password which will be hidden from any administrator. Paper should be submitted only in word format (.doc or .docx).

• On the first (title) page in the left upper corner should be written name(s), main professional/academic affiliation(s) and e-mail address(es), of authors.
• The title in English and in the original language (if the original language is different) should be written in the middle of the page.
• No other information should be included in the first page, as it should be easily removed for review procedure.
• On the second page again the title in the original language should be written and then abstracts and keywords in the original language and English if the original language is different.
• Please ensure that your name does not appear anywhere in the manuscript itself (including references) to facilitate the blind refereeing. If the author refers to his own (previously published) works, instead of the name it is necessary to put the mark XXX (for example: XXX, 2005: 25).

• Manuscript should be submitted in the Latin alphabet.
• Page format A4 (210X297 mm), font size 11, and line spacing double throughout. Recommended font Times New Roman.
• Length of articles should be between 4000 and 9000 words (maximum 25 pages).
• Graphs and tables are counted as 250 words (1/2 page).
• Book reviews, debates, and comments should not exceed 8 pages.
• The text should be formatted, the first line of each paragraph of text should be indented (Indent: 1.4 cm), unless it is a paragraph that comes after the title or subtitle, when it is not necessary to indent the beginning of the paragraph.

• Abstract (not more than 200 words) should contain a brief description of the subject analyzed in the text, description of the aims and methods of the study and an explanation of the scientific contribution of the text.
• Key words (up to 5) should be key notions from the article.
• If an article is not written in English, both abstract and keywords should be written in original language and English.

• The title should accurately point to the subject of the analysis and be written bilingually – in Serbian and English.
• The title of the text should be written in capital letters, in Times New Roman font, size 14, and bold.
• First level heading should be written in Times New Roman font, size 13, and bold, with numbering. Capitalize only the first letter of the first word in the heading and of proper nouns.
• Second level heading should be written in Times New Roman font, size 12, italic, with numbering. Capitalize only the first letter of the first word in the heading and of proper nouns.
• Third level heading should be written in Times New Roman font, size 12, regular, with numbering. Capitalize only the first letter of the first word in the heading and of proper nouns. Capitalize only the first letter of the first word in the heading and of proper nouns.
• It is not recommended to use subtitles below level three.

Example :

• TITLE (Times New Roman, font 14, bold)
• 1. First level heading (Times New Roman, font 13, bold)
• 1.1. Second level heading (Times New Roman, font 12, kurziv)
• 1.1.1. Third level heading (Times New Roman, font 12)

• On the title page, below the title, following data about the reviewed book should be quoted: First and Last name of author(s), Title in italic, Place of publishing, Publisher, Year of publishing, Total number of pages.

• Acknowledgments, if any, should be written after the article, before references.
• Authors are requested to identify the project under which the research was conducted in the footnote after the title. Additionally, authors are requested to identify who provided financial support for the conduct of the research and/or preparation of the article.

• Footnotes should contain only brief accompanying comments.

• Tables should be labelled with the table number and descriptive title.
• Table numbering should be bold, while table or chart title should be italics.
• Numbering and title should be placed above a table or chart.
• Cite your sources below a table or a chart in italic, if they are reproducing an existing table from another source or if you are representing calculated data resulting from other sources or databases.

Example:

Table 1(bold)

Prevalence of religious people in the population of European countries (ESS, 2018) (italic)

Chart 1(bold)

Distribution of income by age categories (Serbia, ESS, 2018) (ESS, 2018) (italic)

• Adhere to the APA standard for formatting tables and charts (6th edition): https://www.scribbr.com/apa-style/tables-and-figures/

• At the end of the citation, in parenthesis provide the author's last name, year of publication, and page number. If it is not a direct quote or paraphrase, but a theory, idea or finding that were mentioned in several places in a source, then it is enough to specify the author's last name and year of publication.
• If more bibliographic units are listed in parentheses in the text, then they should be listed according to the year of the publication (from older to later editions).
• If, within the same quote, books of two or more authors whose year of publication is identical appear, they should be listed in alphabetical order.
• If two or more books written by the same author are listed for the same year of publication, then it is necessary to add an adequately small letter of the alphabet (i.e. alphabet, for English texts) after a year of publication.
• Full authorship is cited in works that have up to three authors. If there are more than three authors of one book, then it is necessary to use the abbreviation 'et al.' after the name of the first author

Citing Web Pages In-Text:

• At the end of the citation, in parenthesis provide the author's last name and year of publication.
• When a web page has no identifiable author, cite in the text the source and year of publication.

Examples:

• Example of in-text citation of a book with one author: (Giddens, 1986:68).
• Example of in-text citation of a book with two authors: (Horkheimer and Adorno, 1947:77).
• Example of in-text citation of a book with three authors: (Ristic, Pajvančić-Cizelj and Čikić, 2020:527).
• Example of in-text citation of a book with more than three authors: (Tomanovic et al., 2012:56).
• Example of in-text citation of multiple bibliographic units: (Fauconnet, 1928: 36; Barthes, 1971:183).
• Example of in-text citation of a bibliographic unit without an author: (Declaration, 1948:2).
• Example of in-text citation of book when there are other bibliographic units of the same author issued in the same year: (Durkheim, 1915c:45).
• Example of in-text citation of a web page with author: (Bilefsky and Austen, 2019).
• Example of in-text citation of a web page without author: (Tanjug, 2019).

Arrange alphabetically all the sources cited in the text.

Reference list should only contain sources cited in the text.

Reference to a book, one author: Author's Last Name, First Initial, Middle Initial, Year, Title of book (italic), Place of Publication, Publisher.

Format: Author, A. A. (date). Title of book. Location: Publisher.

Example: Giddens, A. (1990). Sociology. Cambridge: Polity Press.

• When a book has two or three authors, insert names of all the authors and order the authors in the same way they are presented in the book.

Format: Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (date). Title of work. Location: Publisher.

Example: Bourdieu, P. and Wacquant, L. (1992). An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology. Cambridge: Polity Press.

• When a book has more than three authors, list only the first author's name followed by “et al.”

Example: Bennett, T., et al. (2009). Culture, Class, Distinction. London: Routledge.

Reference to a book chapter: Author's Last Name, First Initial, Middle Initial, Year, Title of chapter or section, Editor(s), (the word “editor(s)”), Title of book (italic), Place of publication, Publisher, Start page-end page of chapter.

Format: Author, A. A. (date). Title of chapter. In: Editor, A. (ed.). Title of book. Location: Publisher (xxx-xxx)

Example: Pateman, C. (1988). The Fraternal Social Contract. In: Keane, J. (ed.). Civil Society and the State. London: Verso Press (101-125).

Reference to a journal article: Author's Last Name, First Initial, Middle Initial, Year, Title of article, Title of Journal (italic), volume number, issue number, pages.

Format: Author, A. A. (Year). Title of article. Title of Journal xxx(x):xxx–xxx.

Example: Kateb, G. (1987). Death and Politics: Hannah Arendt’s Reflections on the American Constitution. Social Research 54(3):605-616.

If more works by the same author are cited, references should be arranged according to the year of publication, from oldest to newer. References to works of the same author published in the same year should be written in alphabetical order by titles, adding the small letter of the alphabet to the year of publication, for example: (1995a), (1995b).

Reference to a webpage or piece of online content

If the page names an individual author, cite their name first:

Format: Author, A. A. (Date). Title of article. Site name. URL

Example: Bilefsky, D., and Austen, I. (22.10.2019). Trudeau Re-election Reveals Intensified Divisions in Canada. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/22/world/canada/trudeau-re-elected.html..

If the page's author is not listed, start with the title instead.

Title of article. (Date). Site name. URL

If the date of publication is not listed, use the date of modification or the date you accessed the page with a note.

Title of article. (Date of modification /Accessed Date). Site name. URL