Publication ethics and publication malpractice statement

Human Affairs: Postdisciplinary Humanities & Social Sciences Quarterly is strongly against plagiarism and strives to promote publication ethics through establishing specific publication ethics guidelines for the authors as well as the for the editors to follow.

Human Affairs: Postdisciplinary Humanities & Social Sciences Quarterly accepts only original articles which have not been published and are not in press or under consideration for publication by another publisher at the time of submission. When submitting a manuscript, the author(s) will be asked to include a Transfer of copyright agreement. In the agreement the author(s) declare also that “the article is original, written by stated author/s, has not been published before, contains no unlawful statements, does not infringe the rights of others, and that any necessary written permissions to quote from other sources have been obtained by the author/s.” When working with a new submission, the first thing the editors check is the originality of the article, using different database searches to have a look at other articles by the same authors and related published articles. In case of problems, our editors work with the Publishing Ethics Resource Kit developed by Elsevier.

Online Manuscript Submission

First, download an Authors Agreement.

To submit your article, visit https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/humaff.

Manuscript preparation

Authors are requested to follow strictly guidelines for authors as given below. Submissions that do not conform to Human Affairs style requirements will not be considered for publication.

This journal uses double-blind review, which means the identities of the authors are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa. Please submit blinded manuscript (no author details); the main body of the paper (including title, abstract, keywords, references, figures, tables and any acknowledgements) should not include any identifying information, such as the authors’ names or affiliations.

Please, to your submission enclose the Title page. The Title page includes:
Title
Author(s) full names and affiliations, optionally ORCID iD
Correspondence details, including email address
Acknowledgements
Funding details (if relevant)
Declaration: All individuals listed as authors qualify as authors and have approved the submitted version. Their work is original and is not under consideration by any other journal. They have permission to reproduce any previously published material.
The Title page should be submitted as a separate file.

Manuscripts should be submitted in English. Only Microsoft Word 6.0 (or higher) or rich text (rtf) formats will be accepted. All texts should be edited using Times New Roman 12 p., line spacing 1,5. Subtitles in the text — first level—bold, first letters capitalized, second level italics, all 12 p. Please use no more than two levels of subtitles.

Footnotes to the text are numbered consecutively, indicated by superscript. Do not use footnotes or endnotes as a substitute for a reference list.

Illustrations, figures, diagrams, tables, photographs and the like should be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals in order of appearance in the text begin.

The manuscript sections (e.g. Introduction, Methods etc.) should not be numbered.

Manuscripts should not exceed 7,000 words, including endnotes and references.

Book review articles should not exceed 10 pages (2,500 words or 18,000 characters altogether).

For empirical research papers, manuscript should contain: Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion and Conclusion.

There is no prescribed manuscript structure for theoretical/conceptual (interpretative, critical or historical) contributions. The requirements for these conceptual articles are a) clarity of the aim/s and the lenses deployed to achieve those aims, b) explication and justification of the choice and the role of theories and concepts, c) cogent, complete, and logically coherent argument, d) critical perspective.