Submissions
CER'Blog is a discourse platform and forum of debate for constitutionalists in Europe and beyond. We see ourselves as an interface between the scholarly expert discourse and the political public’s demand for informed opinion on topical matters of constitutional law and policy.
We welcome article submissions.
Central European Researchers’ Blog
[CER’Blog] submission policy
01
Rules governing the operation of the Blog
The CER'Blog is open access, which means that all content is freely available to the user, the author or his/her institution. Users may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search the full text of articles, can cite or use them for any other lawful purpose without prior permission from the publisher or author, provided that appropriate attribution is given. By submitting an article, authors acknowledge the rules set out in this document.
a
Quality control
All submitted articles are checked by the editors of CER'Blog to ensure the quality of the content. The editorial team reserves the right to decide on whether to publish an article, without obligation to justify its decision. The editor has the right to refuse to publish a paper without giving any reason, and will inform the author of its decision. The editor has the right to suggest changes in the text and to moderate the text. The editor's suggestions, changes to the text have to be accepted by the author before publication.
Submitted material have to be original and owned by the authors. The author has to indicate if the paper has been previously published, is under review by another editor at the time of submission, or if publication has been agreed. Publication on the CER'Blog of an article published or in the process of publication elsewhere is only possible with the written permission of the editorial board of the journal or, in the case of a book chapter, the publisher. The article first published on the Blog may be freely published elsewhere by the author.
b
Plagiarism policy
Authors are not allowed to plagiarise in their submissions to the CER'Blog. Authors have provide the original sources of texts, ideas and images. If plagiarized content is detected during editorial review, the editorial team may reject the submission. If plagiarism becomes apparent only after publication on CER'Blog, we will either publish a correction or remove the article.
c
Copyright
The content of CER'Blog is open access and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CCBY-SA licence). This licence allows anyone to share (copy and distribute in any medium or format) and use ("remix", adapt and enhance) the content for any purpose, including commercial use, subject to the following conditions:
appropriate citation;
a link to the licence;
indication of changes made. (You may do this in any reasonable way but not in a way that suggests that we endorse the person or use.);
if you modify or use the material, you must distribute the contribution under the same licence as the original, and you may not impose additional restrictions, i.e., legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything that the licence permits.
The authors retain copyright of their articles on CER'Blog and grant CER'Blog permission to publish and distribute the article under the agreed licence. If an author wishes to publish their content on CER'Blog under a more restrictive (e.g. restricting commercial use) or less restrictive licence, they have to specify this in a separate written statement.
-
appropriate citation;
-
a link to the licence;
-
indication of changes made
(You may do this in any reasonable way but not in a way that suggests that we endorse the person or use.);
you must distribute the contribution under the same licence as the original, and you may not impose additional restrictions, i.e., legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything that the licence permits.
d
Archiving policy
Content published on the CER'Blog will be assigned a DOI and transferred to the Scientific Open Access Repository (REAL) for long-term archiving.
02
Format and content requirements for authors
The editorial board is looking for relevant and important topics and articles for the national legal communities of the Central European region, which promote cooperation between these national scientific communities. In this context, both public and private law topics, as well as international and EU law, national law and national jurisprudence, could be the subject of a CER'Blog article.
The recommended length of the article is 6.000-12.000 characters including spaces, the maximum length should not exceed 15.000 characters including spaces. The article should normally have a short, suggestive title (maximum 60 characters) and, optionally, a longer, more persuasive and descriptive subtitle (maximum 120 characters).
Online publication is ongoing, so there is no specific deadline for submitting articles, but it is useful if blog posts are timely and "up-to-date".
Authors should support their claims and if they use other authors' ideas and research results in their arguments, as they would in any other scientific publication, they should cite them. References may take the form of endnotes. When referring to online sources, use hyperlinks and refer to the DOI, which may be different from the website URL. For the order and method of bibliographic data in endnotes, use the journal guidelines below:
Harvard Reference Style Guide: https://ojs3.mtak.hu/index.php/cejcl/guideforauthors
For publication, data on the author, i.e. name, title, affiliation, field of research, email address are required.
