AUTHOR GUIDELINES

  • Thank you for choosing us to send us your paper. These steps will help you complete all the requirements for your paper to be published in Etnosfera. 
  • Please follow the instructions, as non-corresponding materials will be automatically rejected. 
  • GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS
  1. Please ensure that you submit your manuscript before the submission deadline for the issue in which you wish to publish (see the “Call for papers” section of the website). The articles submitted after the submission deadline are not processed by the editorial board.
  2. The Etnosfera Journal currently publishes only materials in English in print and electronic issue. However, we are also publishing a Romanian version on the journal’s website, so we invite authors who would like to publish a Romanian version of the material to send it to us.
  3. Manuscripts should be submitted to us at office@etnosfera.ro. 
  4. There are no fees for publication in this journal.
  5. After submission of the manuscript, the authors will be notified of the overall eligibility of their work. 
  6. Paper quality is not being evaluated at this time.
  7. If an article does not meet the journal guidelines, it will be resubmitted to the author for revision. If, after a second submission, the article does not meet the guidelines, it will be rejected, and the author will be informed.
  • FORMAT OF THE PAPERS 
  1. The text will be edited in a Microsoft Word document.
  2. The material must be written in English.
  3. The material must have between 3.500 and 5.000 words, including tables, references, and footnotes (between 5-15 pages). Articles less than 3.500 or over 5.000 words will not be published.
  4. Article title: title 1, Times New Roman, 14 centered, uppercase, bold.
  5. Author name and surname: immediately after the article title, Times New Roman, 11, right aligned, italicized (with footnote: institutional affiliation, email address).
  6. Abstract: the material will have an abstract of 150-250 words, Times New Roman, 10, left-right aligned, 1 spacing, italicized + 3-5 keywords.
  7. The material must be organized into chapters and subchapters, which will be numbered. Titles will be written in Times New Roman, capitalized, and aligned in the center.
  8. Material text (which can be article or review): Times New Roman, 11, left-right aligned, 1.15 spacing.
  • CITATION AND BIBLIOGRAPHY  

Citation:

  1. Citation should be in footnotes only and not in the text. Footnotes should be in Times New Roman format, 10, left-right aligned, and 1 spacing.
  2. Quotes must be enclosed in quotation marks, Times New Roman, 10, left-right aligned, and 1 spacing. Important: in the footnote, the citation in the original language (except in the case of books/articles in English) should be given first, followed by the source. Each citation should be accompanied by the source (including page, except for electronic materials).
  3. Examples of citations in footnotes:

3.1 Book: author’s name and surname, Book title, City, Publishing House, Year, p. 1/pp. 1-2 (eg.: Alina Popescu, Introducere în sociologie [Introduction in sociology], Bucharest, Beladi Publishing House, 2002, p. 11). Note: if we have two authors, we use Mihai Popescu and Ion Ionescu, if we have three authors, we use Alin Vasile, Mihai Popescu and Ion Ionescu, and if we have more than three authors, we mention first all the names and then the surnames in the first citation, then we use name and then surname of the first author followed by “et al” (ex: Ion Popescu et al.). If we quote more than one work by the same author from the same year the letters a, b, c, etc., must be included after the year of publication.

3.2 Coordinated volumes: Dan Culcer, „Creția Petru”, in Maria Zaciu (coord.), Dicționarul scriitorilor români [Dictionary of Romanian Writers], Bucharest, Romanian Cultural Foundation Publishing House, 1995, p. 715.

3.3 Journal article: George Barițiu, „Scriitori clasici” [“Classic writers”], in Foaie pentru minte, inimă și literatură, Brașov, Year I, No. 16/1838, pp. 123-170.

3.4 Electronic material: Dan Popescu, „Istoria sociologiei” [“History of sociology”], in Mediafax, February 2, 2022, Available at: link, Accessed on February 22, 2021.

Other important information:

1. Differences between footnotes and bibliography:

1.1 In footnotes: we will first write the name and then the author’s surname, and the indication of the pages is mandatory (Alin Popescu…).

1.2 In the bibliography: we will first write the author’s surname and then the author’s name (Popescu Alin…). Indications for pages are mandatory only for articles published in journals or chapters in books.

2. Titles:

2.1 The titles of books, articles, etc., should be written in the original language and then translated into English and enclosed in square brackets.

2.2 For books: the title is italicized (e.g.: Alin Popescu, Introduction to Sociology …).

2.3 For chapters in books: the title of the chapter in quotation marks, and the title of the book in italics (e.g.: Alin Popescu, „Sociologie. Definiții și teorii” [“Sociology. Definitions and theories…] in Alin Popescu, Introducere în sociologie [Introduction in sociology] …).

2.4 Articles (in journals or online): the title should be placed between quotation marks (e.g.: Mihai Popescu, „Sociologie. Definiții și teorii” [“ Definitions and theories] …).

3. op. cit.: is used to quote a single work by an author; for the first time, and the reference is integral; after that, op. cit. + page/pages is used (e.g.: Alina Popescu, op. cit., p. 2); it is used in case other works by other authors have been inserted before the bibliographical reference

4. Ibidem:used when there are successive references to the same author and the same work: Ibidem, p. 9.

5. In Romanian, the quotation marks are: „ …” (These will be used in footnotes when the citations are in Romanian). If quotation marks are present, we proceed as follows: „« … »”. In English, quotation marks are: “…”. If quotation marks are used, we proceed as follows: “this is our ‘house’ for today”.

6. Apostrophe: ’

Bibliography:

1. The complete list of references quoted in the text must be presented at the end of the paper in alphabetical order after the author’s surname (g.: Popescu Maria, Istoria sociologiei [History of sociology], Bucharest, Antet Publishing House, 2001).

2. Materials without author’s surname and name will be marked with ***, title, etc. and will be placed last in the bibliography.

3. The format of the bibliography will be Times New Roman, 11, left-right aligned, 1.15 spacing (e.g.: Popescu Maria, Istoria sociologiei [History of sociology], Bucharest, Antet Publishing House, 2001).