Call for papers

Guidelines for authors

The journal publishes research articles (ca 45,000 characters), book reviews (ca 9,000 characters), news (ca 9,000 characters), expert essays (ca 27,000 characters) or possibly texts in other sections concerning current scientific knowledge in the field of social education. The texts must be original manuscripts not published previously and not granted by the author to be published elsewhere. The editor’s office accepts manuscripts in Czech, Slovak, English and other languages – with English translation.

Manuscripts are submitted as attachments to an email addressed to editorsoced@fhs.utb.cz or upon logging into the journal website interface. To simplify authors’ work, a template containing a published research article is available and information that author declares that this is the original study and text in this form has never been published or submitted for publication. Along with the template authors use title page. This document contains the authors’ affiliation, ORCID ID and contact information for potential reviewers.

The review process of the article manuscripts is mutually blind and lasts from one to two months, based on the received reviews. The aim of the blind review process is to reduce the possible biases of the reviewers. The reviewers are members of the journal editorial board and part-time journal fellows. Reviews of books and news articles are reviewed by the editor of the appropriate section.

The papers are checked by anti-plagiarism software Crossref Similarity Check before publication of an article. Editorial board has the exclusive right to have a final decision on publishing the manuscript, or suspend/exclude manuscript in any stage of the review process based on generally deductible reasons. However, the authors of manuscripts have no legal claim to the publication of their manuscripts at any stage of the review process.

Sociální pedagogika | Social Education journal is a double blind peer-reviewed scientific journal. As the journal follows the open access policy, the articles are available free in the electronic form in the journal’s website. The term “open access” means unrestricted online access to peer-reviewed research, enabling any user to read, download, copy, print, search, or create links to the fulltexts of articles. More detailed author guidelines are available at http://soced.cz/en/for-authors

The journal publishes research articles (ca 45,000 characters), book reviews (ca 9,000 characters), news (ca 9,000 characters), expert essays (ca 27,000 characters) or possibly texts in other sections concerning current scientific knowledge in the field of social education. The texts must be original manuscripts not published previously and not granted by the author to be published elsewhere. The editor’s office accepts manuscripts in Czech, Slovak, English and other languages – with English translation.

Manuscripts are submitted as attachments to an email addressed to editorsoced@fhs.utb.cz or upon logging into the journal website interface. To simplify authors’ work, a template containing a published research article is available and information that author declares that this is the original study and text in this form has never been published or submitted for publication. Along with the template authors use title page. This document contains the authors’ affiliation, ORCID ID and contact information for potential reviewers.

The review process of the article manuscripts is mutually blind and lasts from one to two months, based on the received reviews. The aim of the blind review process is to reduce the possible biases of the reviewers. The reviewers are members of the journal editorial board and part-time journal fellows. Reviews of books and news articles are reviewed by the editor of the appropriate section.

The papers are checked by anti-plagiarism software Crossref Similarity Check before publication of an article. Editorial board has the exclusive right to have a final decision on publishing the manuscript, or suspend/exclude manuscript in any stage of the review process based on generally deductible reasons. However, the authors of manuscripts have no legal claim to the publication of their manuscripts at any stage of the review process.

Sociální pedagogika | Social Education journal is a double blind peer-reviewed scientific journal. As the journal follows the open access policy, the articles are available free in the electronic form in the journal’s website. The term “open access” means unrestricted online access to peer-reviewed research, enabling any user to read, download, copy, print, search, or create links to the fulltexts of articles. More detailed author guidelines are available at http://soced.cz/en/for-authors

Copyright

As the publisher bears the cost of editing and publishing the journal, authors are not required to charge for publishing in the journal. Consequently, articles are available for readers free of cost. Before publication of the article, the author is asked to sign a contract of transferring exclusive copyright to the publisher (FH TBU). The author is not permitted to re-publish the article in other journal or other media without written consent from the publisher.

Sociální pedagogika | Social Education journal adheres to the principles outlined by COPE – Commission for publication Ethics and refer to the Council of Science Editors White Paper on Promoting Integrity in Scientific Journal Publications, Section 3.5 on Correcting the Literature; Creative Commons license CC BY; APA Citation Guide; Open Access policy and provide a standard way for readers to locate the authoritative version of a document by uses CrossMark (Cross-Ref).

As the publisher bears the cost of editing and publishing the journal, authors are not required to charge for publishing in the journal. Consequently, articles are available for readers free of cost. Before publication of the article, the author is asked to sign a contract of transferring exclusive copyright to the publisher (FH TBU). The author is not permitted to re-publish the article in other journal or other media without written consent from the publisher.

Sociální pedagogika | Social Education journal adheres to the principles outlined by COPE – Commission for publication Ethics and refer to the Council of Science Editors White Paper on Promoting Integrity in Scientific Journal Publications, Section 3.5 on Correcting the Literature; Creative Commons license CC BY; APA Citation Guide; Open Access policy and provide a standard way for readers to locate the authoritative version of a document by uses CrossMark (Cross-Ref).