Author Guidelines

The journal publishes original academic studies. We accept manuscripts in Czech, Slovak, English, German, French and Russian. Unsolicited manuscripts are not returned and no royalties are paid. Please send manuscripts for review, and any enquiries, to the executive editor (shb@phil.muni.cz). 

Guidelines for editing contributions

The editorial board of Studia historica Brunensia asks authors to follow these guidelines when submitting manuscripts:

Division of articles:

- Title of the study (in the language of the article and also in English)

- Author ́s name, email, affiliation, ORCiD

- Abstract (in English, cca 1500 characters including spaces)

- Key words (in English 10 words maximum, starting with „Keywords“)

- Text of the study (in English or German, maximum length 60 000 characters including spaces)

- Summary: enclosed in English or German as a basis for translation to Czech (the summary will be published in Czech), maximum length 2000 characters including spaces

- Appendices – maps, graphs, tables or illustrated material – should be submitted separately and discussed with the editors beforehand. The author will provide any necessary copyrights for illustrated material, it is necessary to always attach descriptions stating the author and source of any illustrated appendices.

Text:

- Written in WORD or in another compatible variant; format .DOC, .DOCX or .RTF

- Do not use text formatting; do not divide words into syllables at the end of the line

- Always use automatically arranged footnotes, insert footnotes after the punctuation mark

- Write numbers 1–9 in words, double or triple numbers in numeral characters

- Do not make spaces after the brackets or hyphens; the correct way: (1230–1253)

- Using of images, screenshots, and graphics is possible after consulting the editor

- Use the following abbreviations in the footnotes: page – pag.; signature – sign.; folio – fol.; recto – r. ; verso – v. ; manuscript – ms.; S. – Seite; p. – page; Nr. – Nummer; No. – number

- The journal reserves the right to make linguistic corrections to all texts, but stylistic or other changes must be approved by the author before the publication.

Citation guidelines, bibliographic citations

Use abbreviated citations in footnotes (except for unpublished sources). The text is followed by a list of full citations divided into sections on sources and literature.

For examples of footnote citations and examples of full citations in the list of sources after the text see the instruction for authors.

Thank you for keeping to these guidelines as they significantly simplify the work of the editors. 

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