General publishing principles
The periodical Belügyi Szemle accepts and publishes scientific and professional messages in connection first of all with questions of law enforcement, public order and public safety, safety politics, self-governing, social deviance, and further analyses and evaluates questions of law enforcement from point of views of criminal sociology and criminal law. Beside them we also offer space for papers of water management, psychology, medicine, and other bordering scientific areas.
When confirming the receipt of a message the editorial team informs the authors about the acceptance and expectable publishing of the manuscript sent in.
Extent
The acceptable extent is in case of papers 20-40.000 characters (about 10-20 pages). The manuscript may contain diagrams and pictures, too. In the first footnote of the manuscript should be noted support resources, in case they are relevant. The extent of reports, reviews should not exceed 8-12.000 characters (about 4-8 pages).
Structure and form of announcement
The announcement begins with the name of the author (centred, font Times New Roman, size 12, boldface type). Place the title of the announcement under the name of the author (centred, font Times New Roman, size 15, boldface type) and its English translation (centred, font Times New Roman, size 12, simple type).
They are followed by a Hungarian and an English abstract of maximal 2000-2500 characters, and five keywords in Hungarian and five in English. (1,05 line spacing, font: Times New Roman, size: 11)
The text of the announcement should be written with 1,05 line spacing, Times New Roman fonts, size 11, the bibliography comes as closing of the manuscript. Specially marked parts within the text should be written in italics in case of literalness. Boldface fonts should be used exclusively for chapter titles. Chapter titles should be presented unenumerated in Times New Roman, size 13, boldface fonts. Change of character spacing, MAJUSCULE (certain elements or parts of the text in CAPITAL LETTERS), small capitals and underlining must not be used in the manuscript.
Please send the whole manuscript in .docx format to the e-mail address of our Editorship szerkesztoseg@belugyiszemle.hu .
The downloadable and editable form Author’s Declaration you can find in the submenu Author’s Declaration and send immediately after completing to our Editorship by clicking on the Resend button. In case of papers of several authors please complete the form for each author.
Application of diagrams, charts, illustrations, formulas
Photo
Width of the photo should be maximum 1500 pixel. In this case can be with 126 mm text width a resolution of 300 dpi obtained, which is a precondition for a good typographic quality. In each case we ask you to attach appropriate pictures placed in the Word document also as separate files (tif, jpg, ping, etc.).
Diagram, spreadsheet
Diagrams and their explanations should be simple and clear. Diagrams, spreadsheets edited in Word (SmartArt, Diagram) should stay editable and not formed to pictures. In case of Excel spreadsheets please attach also the source file in each case. The printed form of a colour picture is black-white, therefore it is practical to use bigger contrast, in case of a spreadsheet is the use of different line types and fill pattern for a more attractive visualization recommended.
Spreadsheets
A spreadsheet should be edited with Word spreadsheet program (in manageable, interpretable form), at the requested position.
Mathematical formula
In case of mathematical formulas please use MathType. A description of the application you can find under the link https://mathtype.hu.downloadastro.com. Spreadsheets should be sent in the simplest layout, with vertical or horizontal columns. Please do not use special solutions, shadows or coves.
Further information
Please translate texts of diagrams in foreign languages into Hungarian or attach the translation of the foreign words. In Hungarian text please use decimal commas and not decimal points, for quotations in the text please always indicate their sources. In case the author uses not own-made illustrations, please indicate their sources. It is duty and responsibility of the author to clear copyright owners, and in case something is not for free use the author must get approval for publication. For each publication in a scientific periodical is indispensable obligation the author(s)’ declaration that the paper is own intellectual creation and property. The author’s declaration you can complete after opening the submenu Author’s Declaration.
References
References should be indicated at the end of the publication, alphabetised. In used literature and in footnotes may only contain instructions to bibliography.
Literal references in the text: (author, year of publication, page number – Balogh, 1957, 27.; Feuer et al., 2002, 35–36.). In case you refer to the same author(s) to several papers in the same year then the publications must be distinguished with a, b, c etc. signs both within the text and in the bibliography. Bibliographical data must correspond in the text and in the bibliography.
In case the author refers to an internet source, it should have the form in the text (URL1), (URL2), etc in the bibliography URL1: Magyar Nemzeti Bibliográfia http://mnb.oszk.hu/. URL-references should place at the end of the bibliography, unconsidered the alphabetic order, and further exact timing of the reference must be given in each case.
Example:
URL1: Mongolia-China Relations. http://www.mfa.gov.mn/?p=29545
URL2: International Organization. http://www.imuna.org/resources/country-profiles/mongolia
URL3: Mongolian Peacekeepers Awarded UN Medal In South Sudan. 2017. https://unmiss.unmissions.org/mongolian-peacekeepers-awarded-un-medal-south-sudan
URL4: National Security Concept of Mongolia. http://www.nsc.gov.mn/sites/default/files/images/National%20Security%20Concept%20of%20Mongolia%20EN.pdf
Form of items in the bibliography should be as follows: (In case of literature used as example please apply 0,5 cm indentions.)
In case of periodical articles: Weale, M. E. – Weiss, D. A. – Jager, R. F. et al. (2002): Y Chromosome Evidence for Anglo-Saxon Mass Migration. Molecular Biology & Evolution, 19, 1008–1021. https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/19/7/1008/1068561
Andorka R. (1994): A Magyarországi Evangélikus Egyház és az evangélikusok helyzete és problémái 1941-től. Valóság, 5, 32–46.
Benson, P. L. – Donahue, M. J. – Erickson, J. A. (1993): The Faith Maturity Scale. Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, 5, 1–26.
In case of books. book excepts: Rokkan, S. – Urwin, D. W. – Smith, J. (1982): The Politics Identity. London: Sage. 15.
Benda J. (2015): A szakadék szélén. A népességfogyás okai és megállítása. Budapest: Gondolat Kiadói
Kapitány B. – Spéder Zs. (2017): Hitek, tévhitek és tények a népességcsökkenés megállításáról. Demográfiai kihívások és kezelési lehetőségeik. In: Jakab A. – Urbán L.: Hegymenet – Társadalmi és politikai kihívások Magyarországon. Budapest: Osiris Kiadó, 177–190.
In case of paper collections: Halász G. – Kovács K. (2002): Az OECD tevékenysége az oktatás területén. In: Bábosik I. – Kárpáthi A. (szerk.): Összehasonlító pedagógia – A nevelés és oktatás nemzetközi perspektívái. Budapest: Books in Print Kiadó, 25-30.
Review
Reviews will be published as usual in professional periodicals. Belügyi Szemle expects reviews of about 8-12.000 characters. Author(s) should try to use scientific interpretation and to formulate in plain language.
Please try to get a title page photo from the publisher of the reviewed work, which we would publish to call more attention. Bibliophilic data – author, editor compiler, etc, complete title. (series) place of publication: publisher, year, total page number– please indicate at the end of the text in brackets. Further are the same requirements valid for reviews as for papers.
Submission of manuscripts
As a monthly periodical Belügyi Szemle does not send page proofs to the authors but sends before reconciliation an edited version of the publication for checking, asking to overview and send back within two workdays. In case that there are only smaller corrections of linguistic correctness and stylistics needed not affecting the essential content of the message we set aside returning it to the author. In case that after the blind review the peer reviewer proposes a revision of the paper, the author will get attached to the edited version also the list of proposed corrections with an appropriate deadline set. In case of delayed return, the paper might be published with considerable delay. In case the message is corrected accordingly, it can be published.
Deadlines
Periodicals are planned to be published on the 15th of each month. Submission of manuscripts is ongoing. We ask our authors to take into consideration that publishing of submitted manuscripts needs 3-6 months with respect to year’s and half year’s publication schedules.
Eventual remarks, questions we await at the e-mail address: szerkesztoseg@belugyiszemle.hu .