Instructions to Authors (Formatting)
By submitting an article to Lyuboslovie, authors agree with the journal’s Ethical Statement and confirm that their use of GenAI, if any, complies with the principles mentioned in the GenAI Statement.
- Lyuboslovie accepts texts in Bulgarian, Russian, English and German.
- The authors send in a separate file the following information in English: name, surname; title, degree; affiliation; email address.
- The journal accepts texts according to the following criteria:
- articles – min. 4000 words – max. 7000 words
- texts for Cultural heritage – min. 3000 words – max. 6000 words
- texts for Academic review – min. 2000 words – max. 5000 words
- The article is approved after blind peer reviewing by experts in the corresponding thematic field and editing by the journal’s editorial board.
- Formatting guidelines:
- The title the article should be both in English and in the language of the article (Bulgarian, Russian, German).
- Articles should contain an abstract and key words in English.
- The texts for Cultural heritage, Documents and memory and Academic review do not contain an abstract and key words in English.
- Pages should not be numbered.
- Technical requirements:
Title – centered, font Constantia 11, ALL CAPS Bold.
Аbstract (after one blank line) – min. 220 – max. 250 words, font Constantia 10 /Italic/.
Key words (on the next line) – font Constantia 10 /Italic/, up to 5.
The text of the article (after one blank line) formatted as follows:
Page Setup:
Margins: Top – 2.8 см; Bottom – 2.8 см; Left – 2.8 см; Right – 2.8 см.
Paper Size: Envelop B5 Custom size: Width: 17.5 см; Height: 25.0 см
Layout: Header: 1.4 см, Footer: 1.4 см
Format: Font – Constantia; Font Style – Regular; Size – 11
Paragraph: Line Spacing All: 1; Alignment: Justified;
Spacing: Before – 0 pt. After – 6 pt.
Line spacing – Multiple 1.15
- Citation
The journal follows the APA standard of citation. Citations of more than 4 lines start at a new line – Constantia 10, Regular, justified, indent on the left 0.5 cm.
Authors cited in the text are marked as follows:
(Spasov, 2002, pp. 120 – 122); (Dobreva, Savova, 2009, p. 13).
- Notes
Only footnotes, formatting: Constantia 9, Regular, justified; numbered in Arabic numbers.
- References
The References should include only authors cited in the text of the research article, and the number of cited sources should range between 10 (minimum) and 20 (maximum).
One blank line after the text the works cited are ordered alphabetically, font size Constantia 10, Regular, justified. Titles in Cyrillic are transliterated:
А = А, Б = В, В = V, Г = G, Д = D, Е = Е, Ж = ZH, 3 = Z, И = I, Й = Y, K = К, Л = L, М = М, Н = N, О = О, П = Р, Р = R, С = S, Т = Т, У = U, Ф = F, X = Н, Ц = ТS, Ч = СН, Ш = SН, Щ = SНТ, Ъ = А, Ь = Y, ЬО = YО, Ю = YU, Я = YА, Э = E. ы = Y, ДЖ = DZH,
ДЗ = DZ
Examples of references
- Books / Monographs
Anderson, B. (1991). Imagined Communities. London, New York: Verso.
Savova, I. (2007). Text i vreme. Shumen: Konstantin Preslavsky University Press. [Савова, И. Текст и време. Шумен: УИ “Еп. К. Преславски”, Шумен, 2007.]
Dobreva, E., Savova, I. (2009). Tekst & diskurs. Terminologichen spravochnik. Faber: Veliko Turnovo. [Добрева, Е., Савова, И. Текст & дискурс. Терминологичен справочник. Фабер: Велико Търново, 2009.]
- Journals / Periodicals
Fileva P. (2008). Kachestvo na upravlenieto na mediynite organizatsii. Medii i obshtestveni komunikatsii, 3. [Филева П. Качество на управлението на медийните организации. Медии и обществени комуникации, 3. http://www.media-journal.info]
Gudikunst, W. B., Yang, S., Nishida, Т. (1987). Cultural Differences in Self-Consciousness and Self-Monitoring. Communication Research. SAGE, 14 (1), 7-34.
Pileva, M. (2012). “Zemnite gradini na Bogoroditsa” – edna savremenna “Pesen na pesnite”. Literaturata, 12, 135. [Пилева, М. „Земните градини на Богородица” – една съвременна „Песен на песните”. Литературата, 2012, 12, 135].
- Collective volumes
Banton, M. P. (1996). The Actor’s Model of Ethnic Relations. In J. Hutchinson, A. D. Smith (Eds.) Ethnicity. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 98-104.
Daynov Е. (2002). Kakvi gi vizhdame? Obrazite na maltsinstveni i spetsifichni obshtnosti v Bulgaria v ogledaloto na mediite. In L. Kolova, М. Pancheva (Eds.), Tehnite glasove. Prisastvieto na maltsinstveni i spetsifichni obshtnosti v bulgarskite medii (kraya na 20 – nachaloto na 21 vek). Sofia: Tsentar za sotsialni praktiki, 31-53. [Дайнов, Е. Какви ги виждаме? Образите на малцинствени и специфични общности в България в огледалото на медиите. В: Л. Колова, М. Панчева (ред.). Присъствието на малцинствени и специфични общности в българските медии (края на 20-ти – началото на 21-ви век). София: Център за социални практики, 2002.]
Faryno, J. (2014a). Mechite natsionalni ikoni. Balgarskata mechka (transl. from polish R. Chavdarov i D. Chavdarova). In V. Panayotov, D. Chavdarova, S. Sivriev (Eds.). Via signorum 1. Collected papers in honour of prof. Dobrin Dobrev. Shumen: Konstantin Preslavsky University Press, 89-126. [Фарино, Й. Мечите национални икони. Българска мечка (прев. от полски Р. Чавдаров и Д. Чавдарова). В: В. Панайотов, Д. Чавдарова, С. Сивриев (ред.). Via signorum 1. Юбилеен сборник, посветен на 60-годишнината на проф. д.ф.н. Добрин Добрев. Шумен: УИ „Епископ Константин Преславски”, 2014, 89-126.]
- Electronic resources
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page