Submissions

Author Guidelines

Instruction for the Authors

Papers should be original and unpublished, and should not be under publication consideration with any other outlet.

Please include a separate page with the title, the name and the e-mail of the author/ authors for the double-blind review process. The page with the abstract should contain the title, the abstract and key words.

• Studies submitted for publishing inside the announced deadlines, which would be reviewed by the editorial board, as well as by the reviewers especially named in this respect, have to be written in one of the main foreign languages worldwide accepted (English);
• The authors should exclusively guarantee for the content and translation into a foreign language of the studies submitted for publishing;
• In preparing a paper for submission to our journal, the editorial board provides the necessary instructions for editing, and it will be sent to solicitors from the following e-mail addresses: raularian.rusu@ubbcluj.ro.
• The papers which do not follow the format would be automatically rejected.
• The authors will be announced on the acceptance or rejection if their papers and about the suggestions made by the reviewers.
• The editors’ committee would reject those papers which do not reach the quality level required for an academic journal.
• Plagiarism is strictly forbidden, and by submitting the article for publication the authors agree that the publishers have the legal right to take appropriate action against the authors, if plagiarism or fabricated information is discovered.
• Publication of articles in the journal not involve processing costs or publication cost.
• The readers have the right to download, print, copy, read, distribute, search or link the full texts of articles.
• The publisher allows the author(s) to hold the copyright without restrictions and to retain publishing rights without restrictions.

1. Layout. A4, Portrait. Margins: 4 cm (left/right) and 4,8 cm (top/bottom).
   Headers and Footers “Different first pages” and “Different odd and even pages”, 4.8 cm and 4.5 cm.
2. Title and authors’ names. Title will be written in Times New Roman (TNR) 11, with capital letters, Bold, centered.
   Authors will also indicate a short (running) title just below the Abstract.
   Authors are written with TNR 10, bold, in capital letters. First and last names are written in
   the center of page. Each author will indicate the affiliation 1 (see the Footnote of current page). 1 Author’s affiliation (TNR 9, italic). *Affiliation, address, telephone and e-mail only for corresponding author (TNR 9, italic).
3. Summary is written with TNR 9 with 1.25 cm left and right indentation. A maximum of 300
   words are recommended for summarizing the contents of the article.
   Keywords are written below Summary and before Running Title (see above) in TNR 9. A maximum of 6 different keywords are allowed.
4. Main text will be written in Times New Roman 10, justify and at single line spacing. The text will be clearly structured into “ Introduction”, “ Materials and methods” , “Results and discussions” and “Conclusions. At the end of text the References should be indicated.
5. References. In the main text, the authors will be mentioned with their first names, followed by the year of publication within brackets (Johnson, 1998; Webbs and Johnson, 2000; Johnson et al., 2001). At the end of text, the references are listed in the alphabetically order, with TNR 10, as follows.
   Article citation:
   1. Pop, Gr., Bodocan, V. (1991), Opţiuni electorale pentru alegerea primarilor în Banat, Crişana-Maramureş şi Transilvania, Studia UBB, Geographia, Anul XXXVI, 2, Cluj-Napoca.
   2. *** Monitorul Oficial al României, Partea I, Anul 176 (XX) – Nr. 820, Legi, Decrete, Hotărâri şi Alte Acte, Vineri, 5 decembrie, 2008.
   Web sources are accepted only when no printed resource is available.
6. Figures and tables. In the text, the figures and tables should be indicated within the brackets as follows (Fig. 1) or (Fig. 1 and 2) or (Fig. 1 a, b), and (Table 1), respectively. The figure caption should be written below the figure, in TNR 9, centered. The table caption should be written above the table, in TNR 10 and aligned to the right.
   Original pictures and charts will be provided at the end of the manuscript. The format of pictures should be *.jpg, *.png, *.bmp, *.tif at 300 dpi. The charts should be imported in excel format.