Author guidelines
The editorial office accepts material in hard copy and in electronic form as a single file. You may also send your file in .doc or .odt format to our e-mail address: ipn_ban@bas.bg
The manuscript must not have been offered to another editorial office or published elsewhere.
1. Length – up to 20 pages for an article, 8 for a review, 5 for an information item.
2. Formatting:
1) Page format: A4
2) Font: Times New Roman 14 pt.
3) The margins on each page must be 2.5 cm on all sides.
4) Alignment: justified; indentation for a new paragraph: 1.25 cm; line spacing: 1.5
5) The pages must be numbered!
6) References and notes must be inserted using the word processor's referencing function. They must be formatted in accordance with the requirements of Annex No. 4 of the
Regulations on the Conditions and Procedure for Acquiring Scientific Degrees and Holding Academic Positions at the ISL, published on the website of the ISL: www.ipn-bg.org
3. The title of the material is written in lower case, centred, in Bold and 14 pt.
4. After two blank lines, the first name and surname of the author (authors) are written in lower case, centred, in Bold and 14 pt.
5. After one blank line, the title in English and the names of the author(s) in Latin script are written with the same style formatting;
6. After one blank line, the keywords in Bulgarian are written – up to 6, in 14 pt and Italic.
7. After two blank lines, the summary in Bulgarian is placed – up to 6 lines, in 14 pt and Italic.
8. After one blank line, the keywords in English are written – up to 6, in the same font size and style as the summary.
9. After two blank lines, the summary in English is placed – up to 6 lines, in 14 pt and Italic.
10. After one blank line follows the main text of the material in 14 pt and justified.
11. After one line following the main text, Библиография/Reference is written, and below it the literature cited in the footnotes is listed in alphabetical order, with a full bibliographic description in the Bulgarian language, written in Cyrillic and in Latin script in accordance with the transliteration rules introduced by the Transliteration Act (https://www.lex.bg/laws/ldoc/2135623667). Example: Раймундов, Петър. Особени наказателнипроизводства. София, Фенея, 2010, 460 с. ISBN: 978-954-9499-46-9. // Raymundov,Petar. Osobeni nakazatelniproizvodstva. Sofia, Feneya,2010, 460 p. ISBN: 978-954-9499-46-9.
12. The correspondence addresses are written at the end in 14 pt and Italic, stating: the full names of the authors, their scientific degrees and titles, the institution where they work, the correspondence address, telephone and e-mail.
The editorial office may make abridgements, editorial and other non-substantive changes to the text.
The publication of a piece of material does not necessarily mean that the editorial board agrees with the views expressed.
Manuscripts are not returned, and no replies regarding their evaluation are sent.
Extract from THE REGULATIONS ON THE CONDITIONS AND PROCEDURE FOR ACQUIRING SCIENTIFIC DEGREES AND HOLDING ACADEMIC POSITIONS AT THE INSTITUTE FOR THE STATE AND THE LAW AT THE BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
Annex No. 4
to Art. 42, para. 3
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B. Requirements for the bibliographic citation of the literature used:
I. Bibliographic citation must comply with the requirements of the standard BDS 17377-96 Bibliographic Citation, prepared by the National Library "St. St. Cyril and Methodius", which determines the order, scope and form of the bibliographic information for documents cited in various publications, or for individual self-contained and non-self-contained parts of them (volumes, articles, reviews, chapters, sections, etc.).
II. When citing non-periodical printed publications, the description must include the following mandatory elements:
1. Author/Corporate author; 2. Title; 3. Defining characteristics, for certain types of publications – Volume; Sequence; 4. Place of publication; 5. Publisher; 6. Year of publication; 7. Pages – the total number of pages of the publication or the specific page that alone is cited; 8. ISBN – where one is indicated on the publication.
EXAMPLE: Фотев, Георги. История на социологията. 2. изд. Т. 1. София, Труд, 2002, 374 с. ISBN 954-528-345-9.
III. When citing articles from collections:
1. Author/Corporate author; 2. Title; 3. Source – this is the printed publication in which the article was published; 4. Defining characteristics, for certain types of publications – Volume; Sequence; 4. Place of publication; 5. Publisher; 6. Year of publication; 7. Pages – from the beginning of the cited article to the end of the cited article.
EXAMPLE: Митев, Петър-Емил. Актуалността на Хаджийски. - В: Хаджийски, Иван. Избрани съчинения. Т. 1. Бит и душевност на нашия народ. София, Изток-Запад, 2002, с. 7-17.
IV. When citing articles from periodical printed publications (journals, bulletins, newspapers):
1. Author/Corporate author; 2. Title; 3. Source – the relevant periodical; 4. Year; 5. Issue; 6. Pages – beginning and end of the article.
EXAMPLE: Василев, Любен. Нови моменти от развитието на правната уредба. – Правна мисъл, 1964, № 6, с. 3 – 42.
V.1. In successive (second and subsequent) references to an already cited text, “Цит. съч.” (in Latin script “Op. cit.”) is written instead of the title.
EXAMPLE: Василев, Любен. Цит. съч., с. 51.
V.2. If the same text is cited two or more times in consecutive notes, “Пак там” (in Latin script “Ibid.”) is written.
EXAMPLE: Василев, Любен. Цит. съч., с. 51.
Пак там.
Пак там, с. 38.
V.3. In successive (second and third) references to an already cited text (whether an article or a book), when other texts by the same author have also been cited, the following are written: the author, part of the title, an ellipsis, a comma and the page number:
EXAMPLE: Василев, Любен. Записки по ..., с. 51.
V.4. The data on the promulgation of normative acts in the State Gazette are cited in accordance with the example given here:
EXAMPLE: State Gazette, No. 42 of 17 May 2005.
VI. When the citation in the text is not from the original but through another work, “Цит. по:” is written.
VII. The abbreviation used when citing one or several consecutive pages is “с.” (e.g. “с. 99” or “с. 70-99”), or the sign used to abbreviate "page" in the respective foreign-language literature (e.g. “p.” when citing a text written in English, or “S” when citing a text written in German).
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