Author Guidelines

It is essential for us that authors write and prepare their manuscripts according to the
instructions and specifications listed below. The length and effectiveness of the peer review
process will depend upon the care used by authors in preparing their manuscripts. Therefore,
contributors are strongly encouraged to read these instructions carefully before preparing a
manuscript for submission, and to check the manuscript for conformance before submitting it
for publication.

Manuscripts considered for publication in Organizacija are those which:

1. Contain original work - which is not published elsewhere in any medium by the authors or
anyone else and is not under consideration for publication in any other medium.
2. Are focused on the core aims and scope of the journal - Organizacija is open to
contributions of high quality, from any perspective relevant to the organizational phenomena.
3. Are clearly and correctly written - should contain all essential features of a complete
scientific paper, should be written in a clear, easy to understand manner and be readable for a
wide audience.
4. Are written in English - should be clearly and grammatically written, in an easily readable
style. Attention to detail of the language will avoid severe misunderstandings which might lead
to rejection of the paper. Correct language is the responsibility of the authors. Papers can be
written either in American or in British (-ize) spelling style consistently throughout your
manuscript.

Organization of the manuscript:

Chapters and subchapters must be numbered (1., 1.1, …2, …). Pages should be numbered
consecutively throughout the manuscript. Maximum length of an article is 10,000 words,
inclusive of the abstract, tables, references, figure captions and footnotes. Article should be
submitted in MS Word format.

Paper elements:

1. Title page including:

1.2 Title
We suggest the title should be as short, informative and comprehensible for a broad scientific
audience as possible. If a long title is necessary, please prepare an optional short title. It should
not contain non-standard acronyms or abbreviations.
1.2. Name(s) of author(s)
We need full first name, initial(s) for middle name(s) and full last name. Give the names of all
contributing authors on the title page exactly as you wish them to appear in the published
article.
1.3. Name and address of workplace(s)
List the affiliation of each author: organization (e.g. university), department (e.g. school), city,
country).
1.4. Personal e-mail address(es)
At least one e-mail address is needed. It will be used as the corresponding author's email
address in all contacts with the authors.
2. Abstract

An abstract should give concise information about the of the core idea of your paper and
clearly describe the major findings reported in the manuscript. It should be informative and not
only present the general scope of the paper but also indicate the main results and conclusions.
An abstract should be structured in four paragraphs: Background/Purpose, Methods, Results
and Conclusion, and should not exceed 200 words. It should not contain literature citations or
allusions to the tables or figures. All non-standard symbols and abbreviations should be
defined.
Please consider:
- Online systems rely heavily on the content of titles and abstracts to identify articles in
electronic bibliographic databases and search engines.
- Potential reviewers may reject to evaluate a paper or reject the paper if the abstract doesn’t
provide a clear, easy to read and concise information what the article is about and what are
the results.
- Be careful how you start the abstract. In particular the first sentence “grabs” the attention of
the reader, or discourages him/her from reading the rest. Therefore don’t start the abstract
with general rhetoric which tells little or nothing about the research reported in the article.

3. Key words

List of key words (not more than 7) proposed by the authors, separated by semicolons.

4. Text

General rules for writing:

Structure of a paper

Research papers and review articles should follow a strict structure following typical
requirements for scientific publications1:

4.1 Introduction
Introduction indicates the scope of the subject and presents the purpose of the studies reported.
Introduction should clearly show the studies reported relationship to earlier work in the field,
while avoiding being an extensive review of the literature.
- Briefly present/ define the topic (subject, problem ...) investigated in the article and place it
into a wider context with other research related to the subject area addressed by the article

1
See details e.g. at: https://thevisualcommunicationguy.com/writing/how-to-organize-a-paper/how-to-organize-a-
paper-the-imrad-format/ or search the internet using keywords IMRAD format
 (and indicated by the title of the article), usually with help of a few citations/summaries
from appropriate key references.
- Introduction must provide a rationale (motivation) for your study: why is necessary, worth,
to invest research effort into studying a topic that is indicated by the title of the article?
What gap of knowledge will you try to fill, or what controversy or inconsistency will you
try to resolve? What is missing from our understanding and why is it important?
- If appropriate, you may explain the rationale more in detail at the end of the literature
review, before presenting research questions.
- Clearly state the aim (goal, purpose …) of the study and present the research question(s).
- If appropriate you can present research questions after (or exceptionally within) the
literature review, before hypotheses (where applicable).
- If appropriate you can place research questions and hypotheses, together with their
rationales, into a separate chapter or subchapter, after the literature review.
- If and where necessary, define key terms, concepts, notions … used in the article.

Literature review (a part of the introduction, usually a separate chapter) is a systematic account
of past research, related to your topic of interest.
- It is not enough to cite and summarize from others‘ work; the review should also an
evaluation and comparison
- Literature review must be based primarily on recently published (last three years) research
papers from peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings.
- You can refer to older publications, but limit the citations to seminal (key, most important)
works related to the topic of your article
- Avoid citing textbooks and textbook like sources (they are good to refer to definitions,
descriptions, statistical methods, … but they do not report on recent research)
- Avoid citing sources that are unrelated or only loosely related to the topic addressed in the
article.
- Literature review points at „grey zones“, aspects and areas where current results are
incomplete
- Literature review represents a theoretical background of the research.
Consider the possibility to present the core of the literature review in tabular format. See
examples of different formats, e.g. at http://doi.org/10.1515/orga-2015-0022 or
http://doi.org/10.2478/orga-2018-0024

4.2 Methods

The methods section for a scientific study needs to emphasise rigour and reproducibility. In
general, methodology should be presented enough in detail, so that the study could be
replicated within the same or another population or environment.
In empirical and experimental papers the research approach must be clearly presented,
including what data was collected, how it was collected and how variables (dimensions,
constructs, …) used in statistical tests were measured.
In theoretical papers comprising the computational analysis, technical details such as the
computational methods, and models applied or newly developed models should be provided to
enable readers to reproduce the calculations.

4.3 Results
Results are central part of an article. Provide the results in a logical way – usually in the order
of the hypotheses or research questions.
- Results presented in tables or figures need not be repeated in text.
- Highlight, comment important results.
- Take under consideration that Result section should not consists of an extensive
interpretation of the results, which is reserved for discussion, while you can add
explanations that may help the reader to understand the results properly or add some
specific observations which not evident from the data at the first glance.
- Tables (with concise explanatory captions) and figures (with concise explanatory subtitles)
should be placed within the text at the appropriate points. Readers should be able to
interpret a table without reference to the text.

4.4 Discussion

Discuss all important elements of your scientific findings. The Discussion should be focused
on the interpretation of the results, their implications and significance, avoiding a repetition of
the Results section. In the discussion section authors should clearly highlight the contribution
of the paper to the literature.
- In the beginning, you may briefly summarize main results if appropriate, but take under
consideration that discussion is not a summary of the results.
- Provide the response to the research question(s)
- Interpret results taking into account alternative explanations - where applicable
- What are the practical and theoretical implications suggested by the results of your
research?
- Include all limitations: this does not weaken your study, but adds to your credibility
- Future directions for research (incompletely answered questions) often derived from
limitations.
- New questions which emerge from your research
- Be careful not to “go beyond” your data and results, in particular if the focus of your study
is narrow
- You can “suggest”, „recommend“ or even “guess” in the discussion, but it must be clearly
evident what is derived from a result and what is your suggestion, comment or guess.
- You may include a comparison with results of other similar/ compatible studies – if and
where applicable.
Conclusion is the last part of the discussion or a separate chapter:
- You may briefly summarize main results (if you haven‘t done this in the discussion), but
again keep in mind that conclusion is not a summary of the results.
- Bring the reader back to the research question – concluding with a larger and richer view of
the problem/ question under investigation
- Authors may add their own opinion and a broader comment of the results, add their
proposals, suggestions, recommendations, and evaluations, based on the results of the study
- if appropriate as a separate chapter or subchapter.
In the Discussion/Conclusion, avoid citing references, except for comparison or alignment with
the outcome of other, similar or comparable) studies. But you can refer to results, figures,
tables, (sub)chapters, hypotheses in your article.

4.5 Acknowledgements
Please supply all details required by your funding and grant-awarding bodies as follows:
This work was supported by the [Funding Agency] under Grant [number xxxx].

4.6 References
A complete reference should give the reader enough information to find the relevant article.
Please pay particular attention to spelling, capitalization and punctuation here. Completeness of
references is the responsibility of the authors. Reference list must conform to the APA style2.
Use the British Standard 2979 for transliteration of Cyrillic characters. A recommended
maximum number of references for an empirical article is 50.

5. Short biographical note – (only in the final, revised and accepted paper) for each of the
authors (not more than 80 words). See biographical notes that have been published in
Organizacija at the end of each article. Include ORCID for each author when available.

6. Appendices (as appropriate).

Other hints

- Authors must also enclose a written statement that the paper is original unpublished
work, and not under consideration or publication elsewhere. On publication, copyright for
the paper shall pass to Organizacija. In all later publications, Organizacija must be stated as
a source.
- All lettering and figure elements should be large enough to be comfortably readable when
figure or table has been reduced to fit journal page or column.
- All figures and tables must be specifically referred in the text.
- Each reference from the list must be cited in the text at least once, otherwise it must be
removed from the list. The list must include all the references cited in the text.
- Each article must be proofread by a language editor, an English native speaker or a
language expert with comparable knowledge of English, before publication in Organizacija.

2
Please see e.g. https://ncu.libguides.com/APAStyle/basics for details, or search the internet using keywords such
as APA style basics.