Participation
Instructions for authors
We publish:
- Scientific, technical and informative works from economical and technical branch,
- Book reviews,
- News and information about scientific and public events.
Contact
Please, send us the articles, suggestions and comments on littera@mail.vstecb.cz or on the executive editor’s address: votavova@mail.vstecb.cz.
Article requirements
Range: maximum 10 standard pages (1 standard page = 1800 symbols, incl. interspaces), in case of a bigger amount of pictures or graphs less pages are required
Form: electronic; articles ought to be sent please as a .doc, .rtf, .txt files on littera@mail.vstecb.cz or votavova@mail.vstecb.cz, or they can be possibly delivered in these forms on a CD to Michaela Votavová, Vysoká škola technická a ekonomická, Okružní 10, 370 01 České Budějovice.
Deadline: You can send the articles until 13. 4. In exceptional cases you can hand in your article the day of the conference in electronic form (CD) at reception desk directed to journal´s executive editor (Michaela Votavová) or send at e-mail littera@mail.vstecb.cz.
Languages: English
Structure of the article
- Name of the article in the primary language – concise, brief and clearly informative, in the language of the article
- Full name of the author, possibly a full name of the co-author/s – without a degree. The surname can be indexed.
- Employment of author/s
- Abstract (in primary language) – The goal and methods of the research are clearly determined, trials, surveys, researches, conclusions are briefly described. Range of 100–200 words (15–20 rows). Do not repeat the name of the article. Do not include generally known facts.
- Keywords (in primary language) – 4–7 words. They are supposed to be ordered from general to specific, separated by commas, first letters are small, behind the last word there is no full-stop.
- First chapter, mostly “Introduction” – Contains the aim of the work and reasoning its conduction, brief summary of contemporary state of topic or topic’s specifics, it is possible to include quotations of works focusing on the same topic, esp. from the last years.
- Second chapter, mostly “Materials and methods” – Second chapter should describe the process of data gaining, methodology selection and reasoning of chosen method. Original methodology should be described; adopted method should be cited by literature reference.
- Third chapter, mostly “Results” – Third chapter should exactly and objectively describe the results of the research (nor author’s opinion, nor interpretation). Text is likely to be accompanied by graphs, tables and other background data; however they should not duplicate the information given in text.
- Fourth chapter, mostly “Discussion” – Fourth chapter should interpret received results in the context of contemporary science and knowledge in related branches and also should discuss possible objections.
- Last chapter, mostly “Conclusion” (can be added to previous chapter) – Last chapter summarizes used materials and methods and essential features that focuses on the new knowledge.
- References – Only really quoted sources are to be mentioned. The quotation must be written according to valid regulations (watch esp. laws and internet sources quotation). The list is ordered by occurrence in text.
- Used sources – Sources used as a background sources can be mentioned here. The quotation must be written according to valid regulations (watch esp. laws and internet sources quotation). The list is ordered alphabetically (by first letter of an author’s surname).
- Name of the article in the secondary language (in Czech, if English is the primary language; in English, if the primary language is Czech, Slovak or German)
- Abstract in the secondary language
- Keywords in the secondary language
- Author(s) contact:
Whole name, incl. degree
Department
Faculty
Name of employment
Address
Country/State
E-mail
Contents
The reviewers will evaluate:
- Topicality,
- Appropriateness of topic for the journal,
- Interestingness,
- Practical contribution,
- Level of argumentation and use of logic,
- Focusing on a main problem,
- New thoughts (the article does not just summarize known facts).
We therefore recommend:
- To choose current topic,
- To process the work briefly, clearly and well-arranged
- To maintain the logical structure of text,
- To verify the conclusions with argumentation
- To focus on main problem,
- To enlist all used sources by truth,
- To mention the methods,
- To describe the results objectively, do not arbitrarily deduce,
- To take your own view in discussion,
- To summarize in a conclusion important or new features.
Form of article
Text:
- Try to reduce text-formatting to minimum.
- If you need to highlight some phrases, do it solely by bolding the font, do not underline, change colours or resize the letters.
- Explicitly show multileveled structure of titles, subtitles and lists.
- For indenting use tabulator, not spacebar.
Graphs and tables:
- Do not duplicate graphs and tables – if they give the same information, choose one of them, which is more appropriate and concise.
- Please be aware of the fact that the printing is black and white only.
Photos, drawings:
- Only photos and drawings in electronic form will be accepted, in a sufficient resolution. Scanned materials must be in 300 DPI at least.
- Do not insert these materials into a text itself. Enclose them in separated files, which are referred to in a text. (Name the photo-file “Photo 1”, in text write “Photo 1: legend, description”).
- Please be aware of the fact that the printing is black and white only.
Mathematical symbols and equations
- Equations and mathematical symbols should be set up by an equation editor.
Quotations:
- Quote according to the standards ČSN ISO 690 and ČSN ISO 690-2.
Proofreading
All authors are responsible for a proper language and grammar use. Optionally, we offer a Czech professional proofreading (English, German and Slovak after mutual agreement); changes in texts will be sent for an approval before publishing.
Warning
Editors reserve the right to refuse articles, which do not meet the requirements and instructions or which break the ethical standards or law, especially the copyright law.
By sending an article for publishing, every author declares to be an only author of a submitted text, declares mentioning of a single used source and declares that his / her text being pursuant to copyright law. Each author also declares knowing the consequences in case of false statements of previous declaration.
The right of demanding proof of authors´ copyright ownership of used photos and pictures is reserved. Authorship can be validated by statutory declaration of being author of these documents, by contract governing copyright ownership on behalf the author or by written agreement of true photos´ and pictures´ author with publishing their photos and pictures in Littera Scripta journal.
Registration
Registration for the International Week is now open.
Please fill in the attached Registration Form and return it to us till 28th February 2011 at the latest.
