Authors Guidelines
Instruction to authors
The authors should be able to guarantee that the manuscript represents their original contribution and that it has neither been published nor is under consideration to be published somewhere else. Submitting the same manuscript simultaneously to several journals is a violation of ethical standards. Such manuscript is to be excluded immediately.
In case the submitted manuscript contains results that are part of a larger scientific project or that the manuscript has been presented in a former version on some conference or other as an oral report (under the same or different title), at the beginning of the text, detailed references about the project, conference etc. should be given in the footnote; papers that have already been published will not be reprinted in Nova škola - Journal of the theory and practice of modern school and preschool education.
The authors should adhere to ethical standards concerning scientific research. The manuscript should not contain unsupported or illegal claims and it does not in any way violate the rights of others. The publisher will accept no responsibility in case of claims for damage compensation.
The content of the work
The authors assume all the responsibility for the content of their manuscripts and they are required, if necessary, before publishing, to acquire the consent of every person or institution that have participated in the research project presented in the manuscript. Reviews and articles must be precise and objective.
The authors assume all the responsibility for the content of their manuscripts and they are required, if necessary, before publishing, to acquire the consent of every person or institution that have participated in the research project presented in the manuscript.
The authors who wish to include illustrations, tables or other material already published should obtain the consent of the copyright owners. Obtaining the aforementioned consent is the sole responsibility of the author. In the case of any dispute (e.g. objections by copyright holders that some material was published without their consent), the journal publishes a correction or withdrawal of the work and clearly states that the error was the sole fault and responsibility of the author. Material lacking such documentation will be considered as original work of the author.
Authorship
The authors are required to mention as authors only the persons who have significantly contributed to the content of the manuscript, that is, they are required to list as authors the persons who significantly contributed to the completion of the manuscript. If there are persons who contributed to some aspects of the research project or to the preparation of the manuscript and who are not mentioned as authors, their contribution should be indicated in an acknowledgement or in an appropriate note.
The indication of sources
The authors should quote their sources appropriately and to indicate as source all those who significantly contributed to the content of their research project or manuscript. Information obtained by personal communication during the registration of the project or manuscript are not to be used without written consent of the source.
Plagiarism
Plagiarism is using as one’s own someone else’s ideas, words or any other form of creative expression without due acknowledgement and it is considered as a serious breach of the ethical code for the scientist as well as for the publisher. Plagiarism may include copyright infringement which is against the law. Plagiarism includes the following:
- Literal or almost literal reproducing parts of texts of other authors or deliberate paraphrase of them (in order to disguise plagiarism) without clear indication of source or proper designation (e.g. by using quotation marks);
- Copying illustrations or tabular presentations from works of others without appropriate indication of source and/or without permission of the author(s) or copyright owner.
We should warn the authors that every manuscript is checked for plagiarism. Turnitin software is used for these purposes.
If there is clear indication of plagiarism in the manuscript, it will be rejected immediately and the author will not be allowed to publish in the journal for the next five years.
If it is established that a work that has already been published contains plagiarism, it will be retracted in accordance with the procedure described in Retraction of already published works and the author(s) will be debarred from publishing their work in the journal for the next five years.
The conflict of interest
The authors are required to reveal any financial or other conflict of interest that may influence their results or interpretations.
By submitting the manuscript to the editorial board of the journal Nova škola the authors are committed to the requirements listed above.
The authors should submit their papers in electronic form as Word document (.doc), via the internet page of the journal novaskola@pfb.ues.rs.ba .
Manuscript length: up to 15 pages.
Format: paper size B5, font: Times New Roman; font size: 11; line spacing: Before: 0; After: 0; Line spacing: Single. Prepare the paper in black and white.
Paragraphs: format: Normal; first row: indented automatically (Col 1).
Language: papers should be written in Serbian, English or the languages of the former Yugoslav republics (Croatian, Macedonian and Slovenian), with a summary in English. For papers in the Serbian language, the Cyrillic alphabet is mandatory.
Author's name: Author's name(s), middle initial and last name(s) are indicated in the upper left corner. The name and surname of domestic authors are always printed in their original form, regardless of the language of the paper (font size 11, bold).
Name of the author's institution (affiliation): Immediately after the first and last name, the full (official) name and seat of the institution where the author is employed is stated. The position and title of the author are not mentioned (font size 10, bold).
Contact information: The author puts the electronic address in the note at the bottom of the first page of the article. If there are more than one author, only the address of one is given, usually the first one (font size 10).
Title: The title should be in the language of the paper; it should be centered and written in capital letters, two lines below the author's name (font size 12, bold).
Summary: Under the title in Serbian, write a summary of the paper containing up to 150 words and 3-5 keywords (font size 10, italics).
The structure of research papers consists of: introduction, methodology, results, discussion and conclusion (Subtitles should be written in font size 11, centered and bold).
Citing (citation) in the text: The way of referring to the sources within the article must be consistent from the beginning to the end of the text. APA citation system is required (Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 7th ed., 2020).
Notes (footnotes): Notes are given at the bottom of the page only in the case when they refer to a commented part of the text. They may contain less important details, additional explanations, indications about the sources used, etc., but they cannot be a substitute for the cited references. [Technical propositions for editing: format – Footnote Text; first row - indented automatically (Col 1); font size – 10; numbering – Arabic numerals.]
Tables, drawings and graphs should be placed in a specific place in the text, mark them with serial numbers and titles (tables above the text, graphs and pictures below) and do not lock them. The font size for the text in the table is 9. Title of tables, graphs, drawings: font size 10, italics. Edit the tables according to the APA standard (Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 7th ed., 2020).
List of references: As a rule, the bibliography of works cited includes bibliographic sources (articles, monographs, etc.) and is given only in a separate part of the article, in the form of a list of references. References are listed at the end of the paper, before the summary in English.
Summary (italics, 10 pts): At the end of the work, write the name(s) and surname(s) again in the upper left corner) and then the title of the work and summary in English. Leave one blank line between each subtitle and text.
After completing the manuscript review process and its acceptance, the editors will ask the author for affiliation information, which includes basic information about employment, areas of research activity, etc., before publishing the article, with the aim of better informing the public about the authors in the current issue of the journal Nova škola - Journal of the theory and practice of modern school and preschool education.
