Res Humanitariae

RES HUMANITARIAE is a Klaipėda University journal devoted to humanities. It publishes scientific articles in the field of philology (linguistics and literature studies), philosophy, ethnology, history, theology, theatre studies, and other fields; reviews significant scientific works; gives an overview of most important events of academic life; discusses pedagogical and scientific issues. Articles published in the scientific journal “Res Humanitariae” are indexed in international databases: EBSCO Publishing, Index Copernicus.

The submitted articles must meet the requirements for a scientific publication and be prepared in accordance with the guidelines set for the following publication by the authors regarding the structure, citation, references, abstract and other (requirements for preparation of articles are specified in items 1-7).

Articles must be submitted with one review form. Two more reviewers are appointed by the Editorial Board (see item 8 for the review procedure).

The journal is published once a year. Articles sent until April 1 will be published in the annual issue of the journal. Prepared articles and associated annexes should be sent electronically, via email to the following address: res.humanitariae@ku.lt .

1. The journal accepts scientific articles having the following structure: introduction, research purpose and tasks, object, novelty and relevance, methods and methodology, analytical part, conclusions or summary, references, abstract.
2. Articles can be written in one of the following languages: Lithuanian, English, Latvian. In some special cases other languages are also allowed.
   • Articles written in Lithuanian and English shall be edited.
   • Articles written in other languages must be finalized and prepared for publication.
3. The number of pages of articles is not limited, but should not exceed 1 quire (about 20 pages, i.e. about 40,000 characters with spaces). The publication of a larger article must be negotiated with the Editor-In-Chief.
4. Formatting:
   • The manuscript texts are types on a computer and formatted in MS Word, using Palemonas or Times New Roman
   • Name and surname of the author (and co-authors) are presented on the left side of the title page, the name of the workplace is indicated on the next line. Leaving two lines, the title of the article is capitalized in the middle.
   • Abstract is presented after the title. It is a concise single paragraph text about the content of the article, which presents the purpose of the research, the applied research methods, and important conclusions and/or new questions. The abstract is written in two languages – the language of the article and another foreign language (70–100 words). After the abstract, KEY WORDS (in two languages) are provided on a new line. 3-5 key concepts are presented and used to find the article in electronic search engines.
   • For mathematical expressions, MS Equation should be used.
   • Tables (created using not MS Word), illustrations, maps, figures are presented in separate files. All tables, illustrations, maps, figures should be numbered (e.g.: Table 1, Figure 1), their titles should be written. The main text can only contain tables or figures created by using MS Word. If figures, illustrations, drawings, etc. are created using Excel or are presented with extensions wmf, bmp, tif, pcx, jpg, it is necessary to indicate where they should be inserted in the text. If tables, figures, etc. are mentioned elsewhere in the text, references should be provided (e.g. see Table 1).
   • Only good quality, sharp scanned photographs (resolution should be not lower than 300 dpi) should be used for the article.
   • When the author is first mentioned in the text, one’s full name and surname should be indicated, e.g.: Jonas Kazlauskas, afterwards the following can be indicated in two ways: a) by indicating the first letter of the name and surname, e.g. J. Kazlauskas, b) by writing only the surname, e.g. Kazlauskas. References in the text can be indicated in round brackets, e.g. (Kazlauskas 1968), if necessary, the page number is also indicated and is separated by a comma, e.g.: (Kazlauskas 1968, 85). Electronic media sources used must be also indicated by providing the electronic address (e.g.: lkz.lt). The commonly used literature abbreviations, e.g. LKŽ, LKA, BRMŠ, etc., can be written in round brackets (LKA 1991, 94) or (LKŽ I 75), (BRMŠ I 6). Articles by the same author published in the same year should be indicated in the references by adding letters next to the year (in alphabetical order), e.g.: (Pakalniškienė 1996a, 93) and (Pakalniškienė 1996b). If abbreviations were used in the text, an explanation should be given after the text of the article. Subsequently, there is a list of cited literature under the heading References (see item 6 for an example of references). References should contain authors, compilers of the book (if there are many – first three) and the publisher. Names of book compliers and authors should be written as they appear on the title page of the book, e.g. if only the first letter of the name is given, then it should be as indicated (see example of references) or the name may be reproduced in square brackets, e.g. K[azys]. References in a language other than Lithuanian are presented as in the original language (e.g. English, German, French, Russian, or other). Positions in references are presented in an alphabetical order. Sources in Latin characters are provided first, followed by sources in other scripts, e.g. Cyrillic, in accordance with the established Lithuanian standard.
   • The summary is presented after references. Provided the article is written in Lithuanian, the summary should be written in English. Provided the article is written in a foreign language, the summary should be written in Lithuanian language. The volume of the summary is not less than 1 page (300-350 words). The summary should present the relevance and purpose of the research, reveal how it was implemented and the most important conclusions of the research. The summary should be presented in the following order: the name of the author (and co-authors, if any) are indicated on the left side, then the title of the article should be written in lowercase letters in English language (if the article was written in Lithuanian) / Lithuanian language (if the article was written not in Lithuanian) and centred in the middle. Finally, the word Summary.
5. Data about the author in Lithuanian and English are presented on a separate page and should contain the following: name, surname, academic degree and title, place of work, position, scientific interests, email. A sharp, scanned portrait photograph of the author (size 10x15 cm and not lower than 300 dpi resolution) should be provided separately.
6. All cyrilic letters in the articles texts have to be transliterated into Latin letters using the following data: https://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/romanization/russian.pdf         (for Old Slavic and Russian texts) http://ukrlit.org/transliteratsiia  (for Ukrainian texts)                    
7. References

Book:

Singer, Erickson 2011 – Merrill Singer, Pamela Erickson (eds.). A Companion to Medical Anthropology. New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing.

Vaitkevičienė 2008 – Daiva Vaitkevičienė. Lietuvių užkalbėjimai: gydymo formulės. Vilnius: LLTI.

Continuous publication:

Streikus 2003 – Arūnas Streikus. Apie antikrikščioniškus sovietinių švenčių ir apeigų tikslus. Naujasis Židinys-Aidai 10, 51–57.

Темчин 1986a – Сергей Темчин. Славянские глаголы нa *nǫтı и основы с -n- и -sta в балтийских языках. Kalbotyra 22(2), 29–34.

Online article:

Shapiro, Lee, Gross 2002 – S. I. Shapiro, Grace W. Lee, Philippe L. Gross. The Essence of Transpersonal Psychology Contemporary Views. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies 21 (1), 19–32. Retrieved from [accessed 19 03 2020]: https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1261&context=ijts–transpersonalstudies

Chapter in a book:

Mikulėnienė, Meiliūnaitė 2017 – Danguolė Mikulėnienė, Violeta Meiliūnaitė. Tarmiškumo matmuo Lietuvos etnografinių regionų struktūroje (pp. 169–195). In Naujos regionų tapatybės konstravimas: integralumas, sumanumas, konkurencingumas. Vilnius: Lietuvių kalbos institutas,

Source:

BRMŠ – Baltų religijos ir mitologijos šaltiniai. Sudarė Norbertas Vėlius, Vol. 1: Nuo seniausių laikų iki XV amžiaus pabaigos. Vilnius, 1996; t. 2: XVI amžius. Vilnius, 2001; t. 3: XVII amžius. Vilnius, 2003; Vol. 4: XVIII amžius. Vilnius, 2005.

LCVA – Lietuvos centrinis valstybės archyvas. Sedos vidurinės mokyklos pedagogų tarybos posėdžių protokolai 1928–1929 m., f. 788, ap. 1, b. 48.

LKA 3 – Lietuvių kalbos atlasas. Ats. red. K. Morkūnas. Vilnius: „Mokslas“, 1991.

7. Footnotes are placed at the bottom of a page and are numbered (e.g.: 1, 2, 3, etc.).
8. Reviewing:
   • The submitted scientific articles are reviewed by at least two anonymous reviewers, who are selected by the Editorial Board from experts in the field of the author’s research.
   • Reviewers are appointed confidentially, i.e. the reviewers are not provided with information about the identity of the author, and the author is not provided information about the identity of the reviewers.
   • The author must take into account the errors indicated by the reviewers of the article, comments concerning the validity of the statements and conclusions, the consistency and completeness of the presentation of the analysis, as well as other reasoned opinion of the reviewer.
   • The duration of the review process is 2-3 months after the submission of the article.
   • The publication or rejection of the submitted article is finally decided upon by the Editorial Board.

9. Time before the publication of the article is 4-6 months from the date of acceptance.
10. Authors are responsible for the correctness of the language of the submitted article (both the primary and the reviewed), regardless of the language in which the text was written. There should be no grammar, punctuation or speech errors. The layout of the accepted article is sent to the author before publication and should be promptly reviewed and returned to the Editorial Board. Only corrective changes are to be made in the layout.
11. Authors' ORCID has to be indexed in scientific articles since the April 2025.