Mission and Scope Statement
Human Affairs (founded in
1990) is a postdisciplinary and international journal for the humanities and
social sciences published in English by the Slovak Academy of Sciences,
Slovakia. It aims to bring together contributions from all traditional and
non-traditional fields of humanities and social sciences which relate to crucial
contemporary human affairs. The underlying editorial strategy is to advance
human self-understanding and communication via publishing innovative theoretical,
interpretative, critical and historical contributions transcending traditional
disciplinary and cultural frontiers. By publishing original and theoretical
articles, empirical studies and their interpretations, reviews and notes of
domestic authors, Human Affairs serves the mission of fostering
multicultural and international conversation concerning the whole range of human
and social issues.
Submissions
Manuscripts should be submitted in
English.
Authors are requested to submit their papers electronically as e-mail attachment
to humanaffairs@humanaffairs.sk.
Only Microsoft Word 6.0 (or higher) or rich text (rtf) formats will be accepted.
Please check for and eliminate all viruses before sending. Authors submitting
manuscripts to the journal should not simultaneously submit them to another
journal. The manuscript should be in its final form when submitted.
Upon acceptance of an article, authors will be asked to transfer a copyright.
Form of Manuscript
Manuscripts should not exceed 15
pages, including footnotes and references, that is 3,750 words or 27,000
characters including letters and spaces altogether. Review articles should not
exceed 5 pages (1,250 words or 9,000 characters altogether).
References should be cited in
text by surname of the author and the publication date in parentheses, e.g.,
Rorty (1979) or (Rorty 1979, 25-6). If more than one article was published by
the same author in a given year, the correct style is Rorty (1979a) or (Rorty
1979b). All references must be listed alphabetically at the end of the article,
beginning on a separate sheet as follows: Rorty, R. Philosophy and the
Mirror of Nature. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979. Rorty, R.
Hilary Putnam and the Relativist Menace. Journal of Philosophy 90,
443-461, 1993. Rorty, R. Daniel Dennett on Intrinsicality. In B. Dahlbom
(Ed.). Dennett and His Critics. Oxford: Blackwell, 1994.
Illustrations, figures, diagrams,
tables, photographs and the like should be numbered consecutively with Arabic
numerals in order of appearance in the text beginning on a separate sheet and
their incorporation into the text should be clearly indicated.
Pages of the manuscript should be
organized as follows:
Page 1 should contain the article title, author(s) name(s) and an abstract of
100-150 words. After the abstract, please supply up to 5 keywords. Page 2 should
contain only the basic publishable information of the author, including his/her/their
academic degrees, current position and affiliations, the complete mailing
address of the author to whom all correspondence should be sent, including
e-mail address(es) and telephone and fax numbers.
The managing editor will acknowledge
(possibly via E-mail) receipt of the manuscript submitted. Manuscripts are first
screened by the Editors for initial acceptance decision. The contributions
fitting the scope of the journal are further reviewed by at least two
independent (possibly international) reviewers. The editors, with advice of the
Editorial Board and other peer reviewers will make final decision about every
manuscript submitted and will inform the author (possibly via E-mail).
