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Author Guidelines

General Instructions

Authors are required to submit their contributions in either Serbian or English, including an abstract and keywords in both languages. In addition, the submission includes the summary in English (if the main text of the study is in Serbian) or in Serbian language (if the main text of the study is in English). The editors will translate the abstract, keywords, and summary to Serbian for non-Serbian-speaking authors.

Texts should be typed in MS Word program or equivalent, font Times New Roman, font size 12, line spacing 1.5, margins 2.5 (top and bottom, left and right). If the author needs to use alphabets which utilize specific glyphs, the fonts used must also be supplied. Double quotation mark should be used for quoted material within a text (for example “”), while single quotation mark should be used for quotes within quotes (for example ‘’). Between years and page numbers the en dash should be used ( – ).

The maximum size of a submitted article (in sections Main Theme and Varia) is 40,000 characters (with spaces), including an abstract (up to 600 characters), keywords (up to 5 words), a summary in English language (regardless of the language of the main text) of up to 2,000 characters, as well as examples, appendices, and illustrations. The list of references is not counted in this maximum word count. Scientific reviews (in the section Reviews and Polemics) and texts in the occasional sections such as In memoriam, Jubilee, etc. should not exceed 9,000 characters (with spaces).

By submitting a manuscript authors warrant that their contribution to the journal is their original work, that it has not been published before, that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, and that its publication has been approved by all co-authors, if any, and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities at the institution where the work was carried out.

Authors are exclusively responsible for the contents of their submissions, the validity of the experimental results and must make sure that they have permission from all involved parties to make the data public.

Authors wishing to include figures or text passages that have already been published elsewhere are required to obtain permission from the copyright holder(s) and to include evidence that such permission has been granted when submitting their papers. Any material received without such evidence will be assumed to originate from the authors.

Authors must make sure that only contributors who have significantly contributed to the submission are listed as authors and, conversely, that all contributors who have significantly contributed to the submission are listed as authors.

The deadline for submission of papers is 1 March (for the first volume) and 1 September (for the second volume) of the current year. Manuscripts are pre-evaluated at the Editorial Board in order to check whether they meet the basic publishing requirements and quality standards. They are also screened for plagiarism. Papers should be submitted by e-mail to the Editorial Board of the Musicology Journal via email: [email protected].

Authors will be notified by email when their submission has been received. Only contributions which conform to these instructions will be accepted for peer-review. Otherwise, the manuscripts will be returned to the authors with observations, comments and annotations.

The manuscripts are assessed by anonymous reviewers, so authors should remove any information within their texts that could be used to identify them.

 

The Editorial Board of the Musicology journal has chosen to utilize the Chicago bibliographic format of references, which has two variants: notes and bibliography and author-date. The Musicology  requires the use of the author-date variant, which has been slightly adjusted to fit the journal.

For Complete Author Guidlines in pdf format click here for the English Variant and here for the Serbian one.

 

Final Remarks

The Editorial board kindly reminds authors to follow these instructions and respect deadlines. Incomplete contributions and those that do not follow predefined technical standards will not be published.

After positive reviews and proofreading or copyediting, the Editorial Board will ask authors to revise their texts according to the given suggestions and to resubmit the text by the final deadline.

Prior to final preparations for printing the authors should check their papers in two instances: after the reviewer’s interventions and after the page layout process.

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  • The text has 1.5 line spacing; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are sent separately from the text with their places indicated.
  • The submission file is in Microsoft Word or OpenOffice document file format.

Articles

The maximum size of a submitted article (in sections Main Theme and Varia) is 40,000 characters (with spaces), including an abstract (up to 600 characters), key words (up to 5 words), a summary in English language (regardless of the language of the main text) of up to 2,000 characters, as well as examples, appendices, and illustrations. The list of references is not counted in this maximum word count.

Reviews and Polemics

Scientific reviews (in the section Reviews and Polemics) and texts in the occasional sections such as In memoriam, Jubilee etc. should not exceed 9,000 characters (with spaces).

In Memoriam, Jubilee

Scientific reviews (in the section Reviews and Polemics) and texts in the occasional sections such as In memoriam, Jubilee etc. should not exceed 9,000 characters (with spaces).

Copyright Notice

The following non-exclusive rights to the manuscript, including any supplemental material, any parts and copies thereof are transferred to the publisher:

  • the right to reproduce and distribute the Manuscript in printed form, including print-on-demand;
  • the right to produce prepublications, reprints, and special editions of the Manuscript;
  • the right to translate the Manuscript into other languages;
  • the right to reproduce the Manuscript using photomechanical or similar means including, but not limited to photocopy, and the right to distribute these reproductions;
  • the right to reproduce and distribute the Manuscript electronically or optically on any and all data carriers or storage media – especially in machine readable/digitalized form on data carriers such as hard drive, CD-Rom, DVD, Blu-ray Disc (BD), Mini-Disk, data tape – and the right to reproduce and distribute the Article via these data carriers;
  • the right to store the Manuscript in databases, including online databases, and the right of transmission of the Manuscript in all technical systems and modes;
  • the right to make the Manuscript available to the public or to closed user groups on individual demand, for use on monitors or other readers (including e-books), and in printable form for the user, either via the internet, other online services, or via internal or external networks.

The authors and third parties who wish use the article in a way not covered by the Creative Commons – Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Serbia (CC BY NC ND) must obtain a written consent of the publisher. All requests for such a use of the article must be sent in written form to the publisher’s address (Institute of Musicology SASA, Kneza Mihaila 36/IV, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia) and also to the e-mail address of the Editor-in-Chief: [email protected]

The license Creative Commons – Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Serbia, defines the notions of ”Adaptation”, ”Collection”, ”Distribute”, ”Licensor”, ”Original Author”, ”Work”, ”You” (the Licensee), ”Publicly Perform” and ”Reproduce”.

The work is provided under the terms of this Creative Commons Public License. By exercising any rights to the Work provided here, the licensee accepts and agrees to be bound by the terms of this license. To the extent this license may be considered to be a contract, the licensor grants the licensee the rights contained here in consideration of the licensee’s acceptance of such terms and conditions.

The full text of the License Creative Commons – Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 (in English) can be accessed via this link: (link).

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