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The Nature of Contributions

Caritas et veritas journal primarily publishes thematic issues. The Caritas et veritas editorial staff, in cooperation with the Caritas et veritas editorial board, regularly announce the topics of upcoming issues within each issue and on the journal’s website.
Expert studies and expert articles that are not related to any of the published topics may also be published in the journal, in the Varia section.

The normal scope of a single issue of the journal is five thematic articles, usually supplemented by three non-topic-based articles (Varias) and two reviews. The editors therefore have the right to reject texts for capacity reasons. These thematic texts, then, might be published in the Varia section of another issue of the journal.

• The text (academic study, academic article) must correspond to the profile and focus of the journal. Caritas et veritas is a journal reflecting on the Christian context in the humanities and social sciences. The editors have the right to reject texts that do not fit into the profile and focus of the journal before the review procedure.
• The texts must meet all the formal requirements described below. The text can be returned to the author for revision without a content assessment by the editors and without a review procedure if there are formal errors in the preparation of the text.
• Texts must have an appropriate scientific level and they should bring new ideas, respectively new views on the chosen topic. They must have a clear logical line of argument. Authors’ own views must be based on and result from their own research, argumentation, and work with sources.

Texts submitted to the editors as articles are reviewed with a double-blind review procedure.

Thematic texts must be submitted only in the English languages. Texts are translated into Czech at the editors’ discretion. After publication in the Caritas et veritas journal, the editorial staff of the journal become the copyright owner of the contributions.

Texts intended for the Varia section are accepted only in the English language.

• Texts that are in the Varia section of issues, having undergone a successful review procedure, are published in the language they were submitted to the editors.
• They are published in issues with less than seven thematic articles.
• Studies or articles in the Varia section are published in the order they were submitted (in a modified version after a successful review procedure).
• After publication in the Caritas et veritas journal, the editorial staff of the journal become the copyright owner of the contributions.

Requirements for Submitted Contributions

Dear authors, we kindly ask you to submit your article only in the prescribed format according to the template available below, which ensures a uniform layout of the journal.

Texts are accepted in electronic form in the .doc or .docx format. The scope of the text is set at a minimum of 12,000 characters and a maximum of 45,000 characters. Justified exceptions are approved by the editors. The length of other genres is determined in agreement with the editors.

Texts must meet formal criteria (this does not apply to translations from foreign journals) and have proper references to the sources used, i.e., footnotes must be complete.

In addition, an abstract of about five sentences should be attached to the text. The abstract must clearly state the information below.

1. The context and introduce the issue (what we know about the topic, what the problem is, and why it is important).
2. The current discourse and purpose of the study (what the text deals with, how it addresses the issue).
3. The methods used.
4. The findings of the author; what the arguments are.
5. What the implications of the results of the study are.

The reader of the abstract should be acquainted with the main conclusions and their importance. The recommended number of keywords is 5 to 10. Not only do effective keywords help the researchers find texts of interest in a search but they also assist readers in orientating themselves within the text.

Texts should be submitted in:

1. Times New Roman with font size 12, with single line spacing throughout the whole text, and the text should be justified.
2. Paragraphs should have no tab indents or other formatting tabs, and there should be no hard line breaks (shift + return), section breaks, or page breaks. Also, page numbering or MS Word styles should not be used.
3. Block quotes should be used for (print or online) published quotations of 3-4 or more lines in length – reduce the left and right margins by 1 cm and reduce the font size to 10.
4. Use the Oxford (serial) comma, use British spellings but not the Oxford version (organise, not organize), and the letters in ordinal numbers should be superscript (1^st, not 1st).
5. For other norms, please check already published texts online or contact the editors.

References

Dear authors, Caritas et veritas uses the Chicago 18 citation standard. However, as the journal uses British English, we have made the following three changes:

1. When using a date within a citation, please use the British style DD MM YYYY (1^st May 2021).
2. When using quotation marks, please use single quotation marks 'xyz'.
3. Punctuation order - unless it is directly part of the citation, punctuation marks should be placed.

For more information, please contact the editors directly, or the following link Chicago 18.

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