Author Guidelines
The journal publishes original scientific articles prepared by young scientists, which publish the results of the authors' research in the fields of biomedicine, physical, humanities, social sciences, and technology. Scientific articles are published in Lithuanian and English.
Bibliography
Bibliographic descriptions of literature sources are provided in the original language of the sources following APA style 7th edition. First, the sources are listed in alphabetical order in Lithuanian, English, German, French, then in Russian. Articles in the social sciences and humanities indicate the author when quoting and in brackets the year of publication of the cited literature source, for example, J. Petraitis (2013) or (Petraitis, 2013). Articles in the fields of biomedicine, physical and technological sciences are allowed to indicate only the number of the cited literature source in the list, for example: [2]; [5, 6]; [2-5]. The bibliography must not contain sources not cited in the text and vice versa – all cited sources must be indicated in the bibliography.
Include the hyperlink, DOI, or another persistent identifier associated with the cited source.
Bibliographic descriptions of sources are compiled according to the following instructions:
- Books – author's name and initials, year of publication, book title, place of publication (city), publisher, e.g.: Petraitis J., 1995, Visatos istorija. Vilnius: Mokslas.
- Journal articles – author's name and initials, year of publication, article title, journal title, volume, number, first and last page of the article, e.g.: Petraitis J., 1996, Supply and Demand. Vol. 23. No. 3. P. 56–65.
- Petraitis J., 2003, Logistikos vieta marketinge. Socialiniai mokslai: Vadyba. 2. P. 47–55.
- Conference materials, collections of articles – author's name and initials, year of publication, the title of the article, pages of the article, place of publication, and publisher, e.g.: Petraitis J., 1991, Bendrieji teksto teorijos klausimai. Tekstų analizė: tarptautinės konferencijos medžiaga. 12–15. Šiauliai: Titnagas.
- In the diary of articles – author's name and initials, year of publication, month, day, the title of the article, the title of the daily, page, e.g.: Petraitis A., 2003, gruodžio 5 d., Empirinis intelektas. P. 5.
- Patents – patent number, state, year, eg: Patent 730653, Lithuania. 2003.
- Dissertations – author's surname and initials, year, title, the title of research work, place of performance, e.g.: Petraitis J., 1997, Emocinių ir socialinių asmenybės bruožų analizė. Daktaro disertacija. Šiaulių universitetas.
- Web addresses – Enter the title and full address of the cited source to find the quoted text.
Information about the author
Presented at the end of the manuscript of the article, indicating for each author:
- the field and field of science represented,
- area of scientific interest,
- name of science,
- the institution represented,
- contact details (telephone, e-mail addresses),
- include ORCiD.
- provide authors institution ROR.
One author will need to be identified as the corresponding author, with the author’s email address provided in the submission form.
In case if there is more than one author, please provide an explanation at the end of the article detailing each author's contributions according to the CRediT criteria. Reference: CRediT_Taxonomy_Terms_and_Definitions_list.
Example: Author contributions
John Jonsered: conceptualization, methodology, formal analysis, investigation, writing - original draft, writing - review & editing, visualization. Lucy Schneider: conceptualization, methodology, formal analysis, investigation, writing - original draft, writing - review & editing.
Accessibility
The European Accessibility Act, which requires e-publications to be accessible to all, including blind and partially sighted individuals, came into force in 2025. We will ensure that the e-files are properly prepared; however, you need to describe the tables and illustrations in your article in a way that a blind person can understand.
For examples of illustration descriptions, refer to the Guide to Image Descriptions – AccessiblePublishing.ca. Place your description under the table or illustration in square brackets [ ] to provide a clear explanation. These descriptions will not be visible in the final version but are essential for language editors and layout artists during production.
Reviewing, informing the authors
Articles are reviewed. Reviewers are appointed by the editorial board. After reviewing, articles can be returned to the authors for correction, subject to comments. The authors, after correcting and supplementing the article according to the reviewers' comments, forward it to the e-mail. mail to the editor.
Messy manuscripts that do not meet the requirements of the article are returned to the authors without evaluation.
The final decision on the publication of the article is made by the editorial board by May 15 each year. and until October 15.
