Author Guidelines

1. Preparation of the manuscripts.
The manuscript should contain the following (in order of appearance):
– Name and surname of author:
Please include ORCiD.
Please provide your institutions ROR.
One author will need to be identified as the corresponding author, with the author’s email address provided in the submission form.
Please note that no changes to affiliation can be made after the paper has been accepted for publication.
Short biographic information must be provided by the corresponding author at the time of manuscript submission. Once the paper has been accepted for publication, all co-authors have to provide a short biographic information (no more than 200 words). This information will be visible on the published article’s landing page.

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. 

– Title of the article;
– Abstract of the article (max. 500 characters);
– Keywords (from 3 till 7);
– The body text of the article (min. 40.000; max. 80.000 characters);
– Endnotes;
– References;
– Address of the academic institution and e-mail of author

2. Authors could be submitted an electronic copy of the article to the addresses of editors:
liutauras.kraniauskas@gmail.com or arunas.poviliunas@fsf.vu.lt

3. Format of references:
List of entries cited in the text should correspond to the following criteria:

a) Books:
Kavolis, Vytautas. 1994. Žmogus istorijoje. Vilnius: Vaga.
Alexander, Jeffrey. 1987. Twenty Lectures: Sociological Theory Since World War II. New York: Columbia University Press.
Alexander, Jeffrey. 1982-83. Theoretical Logic in Sociology (4 vols). Berkeley: University of California Press.

b) Articles in journals and books:
Kavolis, Vytautas. 1996. „Lietuvos sociologija pakeliui į save“, Kultūros barai 1: 2-8.
Alexander, Jeffrey C. 1989. ‘Introduction’ in Jeffrey C. Alexander. 1989. Structure and Meaning. Relinking Classical Sociology. New York: Columbia University Press: 1-7.
Alexanderis, Jeffrey 1999. „Modernizmas, anti-, post- ir neomodernizmas: socialinių teorijų pastangos suprasti mūsų laikų ‘naująjį pasaulį’ “, Sociologija. Mintis ir veiksmas 1(3): 22-39.

c) Articles in collective monographs:
Beck, Ulrich. 1994. ‘The Reinvention of Politics: Towards a Theory of Reflexive Modernization’ in Ulrich Beck, Anthony Giddens and Scott Lash (eds.) Reflexive Modernization. Politics, Tradition and Aesthetics in the Modern Social Order. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.
Giddens, Anthony and Turner, Jonathan. 1987. ‘Introduction’ in Anthony Giddens and Jonathan
Turner (eds.) Social Theory Today. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.
Greimas, Algirdas Julius. 1996. „Apie atsitiktinumus vadinamuosiuose humanitariniuose moksluose“ kn. Mitologija šiandien. Antologija (sudarė Algirdas Julius Greimas, Teresa Mary Keane). Vilnius: Baltos lankos.

Where applicable, include the hyperlink, DOI or other persistent identifier associated with the data set(s).

d) Format of references in the text
(Kavolis 1996; 76) - pagination follows year, separated by semicolons
(Bourdieu 1984; Dimaggio 1987; Lamont 1988) - enclose within a single pair of parentheses a series of references separated by semicolons
(Hardt and Negri 2000) - with dual authorship, give both names;
(Bennett et al. 1986) - for three or more names use 'et al.'

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.