Instructions to authors
International Politics is a four-monthly scientific journal published in April, September, and December every year. The journal publishes articles in Serbian and English.
The journal publishes peer-reviewed original and reviewed articles and book reviews in the fields of international relations, foreign policy, international public law, and international economics.
The original research article presents the research results with a clear contribution to expanding and/or deepening existing knowledge. It should be set up so that it has the following parts: an overview of the situation and the goal of the research; a clear explanation of the theoretical background (review of literature) in the introduction; a hypothesis or research question; applied methods; a presentation and explanation of the results; and a conclusion that talks about the main research findings, hypothesis, or research question.
A review article provides a comprehensive summary of research on a certain topic or a perspective on the state of the field by describing current areas of agreement as well as controversies and debates. The review article identifies gaps in knowledge and the most critical research questions that still haven’t been answered. It also suggests directions for future research.
A book review is a systematic description and/or critical analysis of the quality and significance of a book, edited volume, or textbook. A book review should include a general description of the topic or problem the book is about, a summary of the book’s main argument, basic information about the author, an overview of the book’s contents, strengths, and weaknesses, and a summary of the reviewer’s opinion of the book.
For contributions to be considered, they must be prepared according to the instructions below:
I – Instructions for Writing Articles
- Articles should contain 5,000 to 8,000 words.
- Articles should be written in English or Serbian, using Times New Roman font size 12, with page numbers in the lower right corner.
- The name and surname of the article’s author should be written above the article’s title.
- The name and surname of the author/s of the article (and eventual title), the name of the institution where he/she is employed and its headquarters, as well as the author’s address for correspondence (postal, institutional, or electronic), should be written in the first footnote.
- The abstract is attached in both Serbian and English, and the author should indicate the research question, the most essential hypotheses, context, and research conclusions. The abstract should contain up to 200 words, and below that, the author should list up to 10 keywords.
- Latin, ancient Greek, and other non-English words and phrases (like status quo, a priori, de facto, acquis communautaire, etc.) should be written in italics in the text.
- If the author wants to let readers know that some of the views in the article are his or her own and not those of the institution where he or she works, he or she must add a special footnote with the symbol * to the end of the title of the article, where it will be specifically mentioned.
- Footnotes must be written at the bottom of the page (Footnote option), and footnotes’ labels should be exclusively put at the end of the sentence.
Following these suggestions, the footnotes should include information about the specified bibliographic unit:
a) Monographs
The full name of the author, the title of the monograph (in italics), the name of the publisher, the place of publication, and the year of publication. If only one page of the source is cited, the page number should be indicated; if more than one page is mentioned, the middle line is used without a space (for example, 123; 22–50).
When a collection of papers, which one person has edited, is cited, it should be written (ed.) with a period. On the other hand, when there are more editors, it should be written (eds) without a period.
Kada se navodi priređeni zbornik radova na engleskom jeziku koji je priredilo više priređivača, iza imena priređivača se u zagradama stavlja (eds), bez tačke. Ako se radi o jednom priređivaču, stavlja se (ed.), sa tačkom.
Primeri:
Bogdan Stojanović, Teorija denuklearizacije: zašto države prekidaju programe nuklearnog naoružanja?, Institut za međunarodnu politiku i privredu, Beograd, 2021, 205.
Džon Rols, Pravo naroda, Alexandria Press i Nova srpska politička misao, Beograd, 2003, 107.
John Gillingham, European Integration 1950–2003, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003, 221.
Duško Lopandić (ed.), Regional initiatives in Southeast Europe: multilateral cooperation programs in the Balkans, Institute of International Politics and Economics, Belgrade, 2001, 24–32.
Theodor Winkler, Brana Marković, Predrag Simić & Ognjen Pribićević (eds), European Integration and the Balkans, Center for South Eastern European Studies, Belgrade & Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of the Armed Forces, Geneve, 2002, 234–7.
b) Članci u naučnim časopisima
Puno ime i prezime autora, naslov teksta (pod znacima navoda), naziv časopisa (Italic), broj toma, broj izdanja, str. od-do. Brojevi stranica se odvajaju srednjom crticom (–), bez razmaka. Ukoliko su neki podaci nepotpuni neophodno je to i naglasiti.
Primeri:
Michael Levi, “The Organisation of Serious Crimes”, in: Mike Maguire, Rod Morgan & Robert Reiner (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Criminology, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003, 878–84. (878–9 или 878).
Robert J. Bunker & John. R. Sullivan, “Cartel Evolution: Potentials and Consequences”, Transnational Organized Crime, vol. 4, no. 2, Summer 1998, 55–76.
c) Članci u dnevnim novinama i časopisima
Navesti ime autora (ili inicijale ukoliko su samo oni navedeni), naslov članka — pod znacima navoda, ime novine ili časopisa (Italic) datum — napisan arapskim brojevima, broj strane/stranica.
Primeri:
John Gapper, “Investor votes should count”, The Financial Times, 17 April 2006, 9.
d) Navođenje dokumenata
Navesti naziv dokumenta (pod znacima navoda), član, tačku ili stav na koji se autor poziva, časopis ili službeno glasilo u kome je dokument objavljen (Italic, broj toma, broj izdanja, mesto i godinu izdanja).
Primeri:
“Resolution 1244 (1999)”, Security Council of the United Nations, 10 June 1999.
“Statut Autonomne Pokrajine Vojvodine”, Službeni list APV, 17/91, Novi Sad, 18. jun 1991, 1–14.
e) Navođenje izvora sa Interneta
Ime autora, naziv dela ili članka, puna Internet adresa koja omogućava da se do navedenog izvora dođe ukucavanjem navedene adrese, datum pristupanja stranici na Internetu, broj strane (ukoliko postoji i ako je prilog objavljen u PDF-u).
Primeri:
Maureen Lewis, Who is Paying for Health Care in Eastern Europe and Central Asia?, IBRD & World Bank, Washington D.C, 2000, http://Inweb18.worldbank.org/eca/eca.nsf/Attachments/Who+is+Paying+for+Health+Care+in+Eastern+Europe+and+Central+Asia/$File/Who+is+Paying+text.pdf, 14/09/2004, 3.
f) Ponavljanje ranije navedenih izvora
Kada se pozivamo na izvor koji je već ranije navođen u tekstu posle drugih fusnota, obavezno treba staviti ime i prezime autora, naslov izvora, zatim op. cit. I na kraju broj strane (npr. Michael Levi, “The Organisation of Serious Crimes”, op. cit., 879). Ibid. ili ibidem koristiti isključivo pri navođenju izvora navedenog u prethodnoj fusnoti, uz naznaku broja strane/stranica, ukoliko je novi navod iz tog izvora (npr. Ibid., 11).
- Na kraju članka prilaže se bibliografija koja treba da sadrži sve izvore i literaturu navođene u tekstu, a u formi kakva je navedena u uputstvu za fusnote. Jedina razlika je što se u bibliografiji obavezno navodi prvo prezime pa ime autora citiranog rada, i celokupna bibliografija se organizuje prema abecednom redosledu početnog imena navođenih autora (ili naziva korišćenih dokumenata).
II – Uputstvo za pisanje prikaza knjiga
- Prikazi skupova i knjiga ne smeju biti duži od dve i po stranice Word formata (prored single), odnosno ne smeju sadržati više od 1.200 reči (8.800 znakova sa razmacima).
- Na početku prikaza navode se bibliografske odrednice knjige u skladu sa pravilima koja su navedena za navođenje monografija u fusnotama, s tim što na kraju treba navesti ukupan broj stranica (npr. 345 str. p. 345).
- Prikazi knjiga i skupova moraju sadržati fusnote.
- Autor može navesti i nadnaslov prikaza knjige ili skupa velikim slovima — veličina slova 14, što je podložno izmenama od strane redakcije časopisa.
- Veličina slova, font i poravnanje teksta treba da budu u skladu sa ranije navedenim sugestijama za pisanje članaka.
- Na kraju prikaza navodi se puno ime i prezime autora u Italic-u, s tim što se prezime u celini piše velikim slovima (npr. Žaklina NOVIČIĆ).