Instructions for authors

Acta Missiologica is an academic periodical published twice a year in electronic form. It consists of articles written in English. 
The journal publishes a wide spectrum of articles relevant for education with special focus on assisting professions in the aforementioned areas. This area includes all educational, health, social, legal (especially international humanitarian law, international human rights law, diplomatic law and international treaty law), international organization and spiritual topics connected to the missionary context. As of Autumn 2020, the journal will also focus on specialised unique scientific and professional research at the international level, covering all fields that the journal has focused on thus far, while also presenting new ones.
 
All articles submitted to the academic periodical Acta Missiologica are subject to standard procedures and activities carried out during the submission process, review procedure and preparation for publication and they have to be treated independently from the author.
The editorial board reserves the right to make stylistic changes to the text.
Articles are assessed from the perspective of their content and format. If necessary, the author might be asked to complete or re-write their article. Based on review assessments, the article is either accepted or refused. In debatable cases, the issue‘s guarantor is responsible for the relevant area. 
 

Before submitting the article to the editorial board, read the publication's ethics guidelines carefully and follow the relevant instructions.

 

Journal structure

  1. Editorial
  2. Expert articles (including studies, research and analyses with an application dimension)
  3. Interesting and topical activities/projects in the area of mission, social, charity, humanitarian and development work.
  4. Reviews of new, interesting books and professional publications on relevant topics.

Criteria for articles

The editorial board accept articles relevant to the journal’s profile which must comply with the following criteria related to content and format.

Content: From the perspective of content, the article must include systematic work with relevant sources, the application dimension in which the author explains the relevance of their research within the context of missiology, mission work, theology, charity, social, humanitarian and development work.

If an article contains methodological research, it is necessary to include an explanation of the research methodology and its aim, and to present research findings. All these aspects are reviewed by the journal’s editorial board. If all criteria are met, the text goes through the review process.

Format: The text of the article must be written in accordance with valid linguistic standards in Word format, Times New Roman font, size 12 with single spacing.

Title page: The title page must include a clear and concise title of the article written in  English, the name of the author and the abstract in English.

Abstract: Abstracts in the English language should not exceed 1490 characters. They also have to meet the following preconditions. For empirical research: background, methods, results and conclusions with implications for practice or possibilities of further theoretical or empirical research in the relevant area. For theoretical articles or theoretical research: background and conclusions with implications for practice or possibilities of further theoretical or empirical research in the relevant area.

Keywords: A maximum of 5 keywords written in English. A maximum
of three-word phrases are admissible.
 
Text of the article: A maximum length of 50000 characters. The structure must contain
an introduction, subtitles (relevant for the profiled topic of the article)
and a conclusion with recommendations for practice.
 

Reference style: The reference style for all types of sources, such as books, journal articles, etc. is formatted in accordance with the Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS), 17th Edition, style guide. The “Notes and Bibliographic entries (in alphabetical order)” style used in the humanities field – A quick guide is available on these links - 1 -, - 2 -. 

As far as bibliographic references are considered, in professional journals we would like to provide the DOI address, if it is available. Due to extensive footnotes – in the bibliographic sources – processed using the citation style of the Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS), 17th Edition, style guide, as of 2019 it is possible to list complete or only some bibliographic resources within the Bibliography that the authors themselves consider to be greatly relevant or particularly interesting. However, this only applies to articles that have used more than 10 bibliographic sources. 

In case of any questions or any other relevant inquiries, do not hesitate to contact our technical support team at: actamissiologica.support.technical.team@actamissiologica.com

 
 
Author’s information: The authors and co-authors are asked to provide their names, academic degrees and titles, affiliation to universities or research institutions, and their contact details, including their current e-mail address. (In the case that an article has more than one author (co-authors), we would like to ask the authors to provide the contact information of the main author first of all.)
 

You are invited to send your articles to the following e-mail address: amredakcia@gmail.com ; hamarova.mariana@gmail.com

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