Proposals shall be sent by e-mail to desk@revus.eu. One of the editors will reply.

Style guide

First page

The first page of all proposals shall include the following information:

1. Author’s Name and Surname (including, in a footnote marked with an asterisk, the author's academic title, affiliation, contact e-mail address and ORCID number)

2. Title (Subtitle in a separate line)
* Convey not only the topic of your contribution but also your main point.

3. Short Abstract (150-200 words)
* Clearly convey important aspects of your research, leaving out the non-essential. Limit descriptions of the intellectual background and do not rehearse known facts or information given in the title. Exclude personal opinions on the value of the work being addressed. Focus on what’s new. Clearly state the main conclusion(s). The abstract should include sufficient information for researchers and practitioners to decide whether the article is useful for them.

4. Keywords (from 4 to 7 key words)
* If the paper is not in English, it will also include an English translation of the title (and subtitle), abstract and keywords.

5. Acknowledgments (including funding information or use of GenAI, if applicable)

Content

It is recommended not to exceed 45.000 characters with spaces.

• font type & size: Preferably Times New Roman, 12 pt. Italics for emphases. (Bold is reserved for subtitles!)

• subtitles: All subtitles and sub-subtitles shall be numbered gradually with Arab numbers to the following pattern: 1, 1.1, 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.2, 2, 3 and so on. (Subtitles shall be separated from numbers for one space or one tab. They shall not be written in all capital letters.)

• long quotations: Quotations that are longer than 3 lines shall form a separate, indented paragraph. Quotation marks are not needed in this case. Font size: 10 pt. The source shall be indicated in brackets at the end of the quoted text, like this: xxxx. (Ross 2019: x–xx)

• short quotations: Quotations that are shorter than 3 lines shall have double citation marks: “Like this!”

• citations: References to cited works shall normally be put in footnotes.

• footnotes: Footnotes shall end with a full stop. Whereas footnote references to legal documents shall use the usual abbreviation such references have in the originating legal order, references to authored works shall follow this pattern:
  Surname #year#: #page(s)#. Example: Guastini 2004: 11–15. If the reference is used in a sentence, the year and the page numbers shall be put in brackets like this: As is show by Guastini (2004: 11–15), it is problematic to...

Data (if applicable)

Research data must be cited in the reference list at the end of the article.

The data must be available to the editors and reviewers at the time of submission of the manuscript and to the public at the latest when the article is published. An embargo on data access is only permitted in exceptional cases and must be accompanied by appropriate embargo conditions and a reasoned explanation.

The data must be prepared according to the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) and published under the Creative Commons licenses CC BY 4.0 or CC0 1.0 (or equivalent) in trusted data repositories prior to the publication of the article. The editorial board of Revus recommends to deposit the data in the EU Open Research Repository Zenodo (https://zenodo.org/), but authors can search for a suitable repository using tools such as https://fairsharing.org or https://www.re3data.org. For tutorials on how to use Zenodo, see:

1. Zenodo Datasets Repository: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhRTQlauPS8

2. How to upload data to Zenodo for open science? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1qK_TA52e4&list=PLj8QFvBykB7dtTd_HiOTbctHvU6pbGC0i

3. Zenodo tutorial - How to use and upload your research: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPVSErzNtME

References

All publications must include an English list of References at the end. The references must be put in alphabetic order and they must comply with the American Psychological Association's reference style (APA Publication Manual, 7^th edition). The most common categories and examples are presented in these two images (you can also download them from the Attachment section at the bottom of this page):

Citation of research data: Author, A. (Copyright Year). Title of the dataset [Data set]. Repository Name. DOI or URL.

Further examples are presented on this website: https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples

Synopsis

All publications will be accompanied with a short synopsis which will include:

1. Author's name and surname

2. English title (and subtitle)

3. English abstract and keywords

4. English Summary of the subtitles following this pattern: 1. First subtitle (Roman, with a full stop). – 2. Second subtitle (Roman, with a full stop). – 2.1. First sub-subtitle under the Second subtitle (Roman, italic, with a full stop). – 2.2. Second sub-subtitle under the Second subtitle (Roman, italic, with a full stop). – 3. Third subtitle (Roman, with a full stop). – …

5. Academic title, affiliation (including a correspondence e-mail address) and ORCID number of the author(s).