Author Guidelines

Verbum is a scientific publication for research in Germanic, Romance, and Slavic linguistics (04H) and educology (07S). Verbum publishes authentic scholarly articles, reviews and overviews of new books and research, information about scientific conferences, seminars and other scientific events, translations of scientific publications. The size of articles is from 20,000 to 40,000 characters with spaces; the size of reviews and overviews is up to 15,000 characters with spaces.

Papers submitted for publication should not have been published or submitted for publication elsewhere.

They are reviewed by at least two anonymous referees following the double blind refereeing procedure.

Please use the TEMPLATE to prepare your paper for publication.

Articles submitted for publication in Verbum should include the aim(s) and methodology of the research, give an overview of the work previously done on the problem under investigation, substantiate the achieved results of the research and have a list of references. Articles should contain abstracts in the language of the article and English (900 – 1,200 characters with spaces) with 5-7 key words indicated.

It is the authors’ responsibility to ensure that the final version of their paper is proofread and edited, and fully conforms to the requirements of Verbum. Contributions presented in violation of the present requirements will not be considered by the Editorial Board.

Author details
All authors of a manuscript should include their full name and affiliation in the submission form.

• 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. 

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.