Information for Authors

Basic Information

The journal SOCIETAS ET IURISPRUDENTIA thematically focuses mainly on social relevant interdisciplinary relations on the issues of public law and private law at the national, transnational and international levels. Its aim is to provide a stimulating and inspirational platform for scientific and society-wide beneficial solutions to current legal issues and their communication at the level of primarily legal experts, but also the interested general public in the context of their broadest interdisciplinary social relations, in like manner at the national, regional and international levels.

The journal SOCIETAS ET IURISPRUDENTIA offers a platform for publication of contributions in the form of:

  • separate papers and scientific studies as well as scientific studies in cycles
    the expected minimum extent related to one study covers 10 standard pages, the maximum extent is not limited;
  • essays on current social topics or events
    the expected minimum extent related to one essay covers 5 standard pages, the maximum extent is not limited;
  • reviews on publications related to the main orientation of the journal
    the expected minimum extent related to one review covers 3 standard pages, the maximum extent is not limited; it is recommendable to deliver also the front cover picture of the reviewed publication in the sufficient largeness;
  • information as well as reports connected with the inherent mission of the journal
    the expected minimum extent related to one information or report covers 2 standard pages, the maximum extent is not limited; it is recommendable to deliver also photo documents or other picture material of accompanying character in the sufficient largeness.

The journal SOCIETAS ET IURISPRUDENTIA is issued in an electronic on-line version four times a year, regularly on:

  • March 31st – spring edition;
  • June 30th – summer edition;
  • September 30th – autumn edition;
  • December 31st – winter edition.

The journal SOCIETAS ET IURISPRUDENTIA accepts and publishes exclusively only original, hitherto unpublished contributions written as the own work by authors those are submitting the contributions for publication in the journal SOCIETAS ET IURISPRUDENTIA.

Responsibility for compliance with all prerequisites and requirements laid on contributions published in the journal SOCIETAS ET IURISPRUDENTIA have:

  • special supervisors within the journal’s editorial board responsible for specific interdisciplinary sections in relation to the scientific aspects of contributions;
  • editor in chief in relation to the formal aspects of contributions;
  • executive editor in relation to the application of methodological, analytical and statistical questions in contributions.

Review Procedure

Reviewing the contributions for publication in the journal SOCIETAS ET IURISPRUDENTIA follows with a mutually anonymous (double-blind) review procedure realized by members of journal’s editorial board and in well-founded cases also by recognized experts working in corresponding areas.

Only contributions containing all mandatory parts in accordance with the prescribed structure of the contribution may be submitted for review procedure. Before the contributions are submitted for review procedure, the originality of the texts is formally checked by checking randomly selected strings of the texts of the contributions through the Internet search engines.

Report on results of the review procedure is made and archived on standardized forms.

Comprehensive information on results of the review procedure, together with guidance on how to proceed with submitted contributions, will contribution’s submitters receive through an e-mail answer immediately after receiving the reviewers’ written opinions by the journal’s editorial office and final judging the results of the review procedure by the editorial board.


Publication of Contributions

Publication of contributions in the journal SOCIETAS ET IURISPRUDENTIA is realized exclusively without any contributor’s claim for author’s fee (royalty). Also, the processes of receiving, reviewing and publishing of contributions in the journal are carried out exclusively free of charge. Submission of contributions for publication understands the editorial office of the journal SOCIETAS ET IURISPRUDENTIA as a manifestation of the will of the authors, through which the authors all at once knowingly and voluntarily:

  • express their own agreement with publication of submitted contribution in the journal;
  • declare that the contribution presents their original, hitherto unpublished work;
  • declare their own agreement with specifying their workplace and contact e-mail address in the section “Authors’ Contact List”.

Accepted can be only texts submitted for publication sent by their authors/co-authors directly and with their written permission for publication; text submissions sent mediated through non-authors or non-co-authors of a submitted text delivered to the editorial office of the journal SOCIETAS ET IURISPRUDENTIA cannot be accepted for the following review procedure due to the absence of the author’s/co-authors’ consent.

Contributions are accepted in the English, Slovak and Czech languages. Favouring the English language in contributions is welcome.

Publication of the contribution texts will be provided exclusively in the bilingual Slovak-English standardized letterhead template of the journal SOCIETAS ET IURISPRUDENTIA, synchronously in the form of complete versions of individual journal numbers as well as in the form of single authors’ contributions. Publication process follows in corresponding sections on the journal’s official website: https://sei.iuridica.truni.sk/international-scientific-journal/.


Structure of Contribution

Title of Contribution in Original Language:

  • please specify title, eventually subtitle of contribution in original language;

Title of Contribution in English:

  • please specify title, eventually subtitle of contribution in English
    not required in the case of English as the language of the original;

Author of Contribution:

  • please specify author’s given name, surname and all academic degrees;

Abstract in English:

  • please specify abstract in English, circa 10 rows
    not required in the case of English as the language of the original;

Key Words in English:

  • please specify key words in English, circa 10 words
    not required in the case of English as the language of the original;

Abstract in Original Language:

  • please specify abstract in original language, circa 10 rows;

Key Words in Original Language:

  • please specify key words in original language, circa 10 words;

Text of Contribution:

  • please specify in following structure: introduction, main text, conclusions; text broken down into chapters, eventually subchapters; the contribution may include sheets, charts, figures, pictures, etc., but it is necessary to indicate their sources with all obligatory bibliographic details in the full extent; notes and references to literature, please, specify in the footnote according to current citation standard ISO 690
    Note: all obligatory bibliographic data must be included to the full extent – both in references in the footnote as well as in bibliography list at the end of contribution; it is also essential that all of literature referred in the footnotes of the contribution’s text fully corresponds to the sources listed in the bibliography list placed at the end of the contribution and vice versa;

Literature:

  • please specify a complete bibliography of all sources according to current citation standard ISO 690
    Note: all obligatory bibliographic data must be included to the full extent – both in references in the footnote as well as in bibliography list at the end of contribution; it is also essential that all of literature referred in the footnotes of the contribution’s text fully corresponds to the sources listed in the bibliography list placed at the end of the contribution and vice versa;

Books

  • BARANCOVÁ, H., A. OLŠOVSKÁ, J. HAMUĽÁK and M. DOLOBÁČ. Slovenské pracovné právo. 1. vyd. Bratislava: Sprint 2, 2019. 663 p. ISBN 978-80-89710-48-5.
  • BARCEVIČIUS, E., V. GINEIKYTĖ-KANCLERĖ, L. KLIMAVIČIŪTĖ and N. RAMOS MARTIN. Study to Support the Impact Assessment of an EU Initiative to Improve the Working Conditions in Platform Work: Final Report [online]. 1st ed. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, 2021. 213 p. [cit. 2023-01-01]. ISBN 978-92-76-43541-9. Available at: https://doi.org/10.2767/527749.

Proceedings, Working Papers, Bulletins

  • MORÁVEK, J. Soudcovské dotváření práva. In: J. MORÁVEK, ed. Pracovní právo 2021: Sociální právo v době (post)covidové. 1. vyd. Praha: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Právnická fakulta, 2021, pp. 106-120. ISBN 978-80-7630-016-3.
  • TIPPETT, E. Employee Classification in the United States. In: N. M. DAVIDSON, M. FINCK and J. J. INFRANCA, eds. The Cambridge Handbook of the Law of the Sharing Economy [online]. 1st ed. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2018, pp. 291-303 [cit. 2023-01-01]. ISBN 978-1-108-25588-2. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108255882.022.

Journals

  • MORÁVEK, J. Změna některých výchozích sociálních paradigmat a její reflexe v právní úpravě pracovněprávních vztahů a sociálního zabezpečení. Právník. 2021, roč. 160, č. 2, pp. 136-141. ISSN 0231-6625.
  • ŠVEC, M. and A. OLŠOVSKÁ. Hospodárnosť a nevyhnutnosť jej zabezpečenia pri správe majetku zamestnávateľa vo väzbe na zodpovednostné pracovnoprávne vzťahy. Societas et iurisprudentia [online]. 2022, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 51-64 [cit. 2023-01-01]. ISSN 1339-5467. Available at: https://doi.org/10.31262/1339-5467/2022/10/2/51-64.

Legislation and Case Law

  • Act No. 311/2001 Coll. Labour Code, as amended.
  • Case of Franca Ninni-Orasche v. Bundesminister für Wissenschaft, Verkehr und Kunst [2003-11-06]. Judgement of the Court of Justice of the European Union, 2003, C-413/01.
  • Case of John Murray v. the United Kingdom [1996-02-08]. Judgement of the European Court of Human Rights, 1996, Application No. 18731/91.
  • Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council and the European Economic and Social Committee – Strengthening Whistleblower Protection at EU Level [2018-04-23]. COM (2018) 214 final.
  • Constitutional Act No. 460/1992 Coll. Constitution of the Slovak Republic, as amended.
  • Decision of the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic Ref. No. II. ÚS 133/2013 [2013-02-14].
  • Directive (EU) 2016/943 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 June 2016 on the Protection of Undisclosed Know-how and Business Information (Trade Secrets) against Their Unlawful Acquisition, Use and Disclosure. OJ EU L 157, 2016-06-15, pp. 1-18.
  • Judgement of the Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic Ref. No. 1 Sž-o-NS 152/2005 [2006-04-27].

Other Sources

  • ELGER, M. Právní stanovisko k otázce postavení členů dozorčí komise (zřizované Radou České televize dle zákona o České televizi) [2010-05-19]. In: Česká televize [online]. 2010. 5 p. [cit. 2023-01-01]. Available at: https://img.ceskatelevize.cz/boss/image/contents/rada-ct/dokumenty/pravni-stanovisko-k-otazce-postaveni-clenu-dozorci-komise-rady-ct.pdf.
  • IATRIDOU, D. European Union: European Small Claims Procedure. In: Mondaq [online]. 2020-02-24 [cit. 2023-01-01]. Available at: https://www.mondaq.com/cyprus/trials-appeals-compensation/896972/european-small-claims-procedure.
  • Sčítání lidu, domů a bytů za rok 2011: Tabulka 22 Obydlené byty podle právního důvodu užívání bytu a podle velikostních skupin obcí a krajů. In: Český statistický úřad [online]. 2022 [cit. 2023-01-01]. Available at: https://vdb.czso.cz/vdbvo2/faces/index.jsf?page=vystup-objekt&pvo=ZVCR022&pvokc=&katalog=30732&z=T.

Author’s Contact:

  • please follow the below mentioned model structure of contact information on the author of contribution:

Ing. Jana Koprlová, PhD.
Faculty of Law
Trnava University in Trnava
Kollárova 10
917 01 Trnava
Slovak Republic
jana.koprlova@gmail.com
ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-2082-1450

Contribution manuscripts can be accepted only in electronic version in the format of the text editor MS Word document. Applying the standardized types and font sizes, line spacing as well as text formatting in the contribution manuscripts is highly recommended.

Your contribution manuscripts send, please, to the e-mail address of the journal’s editorial office sei.journal@gmail.com.

In the case of any uncertainty or necessity of providing additional information send your questions, please, to the e-mail address sei.journal@gmail.com.

We are looking forward to your contribution!

Yours faithfully,

Team SOCIETAS ET IURISPRUDENTIA