Submissions

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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • All authors have ORCID numbers. If you do not yet have an ORCID, Registering is free of charge and takes only a couple of minutes.
  • The submission and a submission with significant overlaps has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal or book for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor). If your submission was published in a working paper series, you may submit it for Tér és Társadalom, but please indicate this fact in Comments to the Editor.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.

  • I know the journal’s Statement of publication ethics and prevention of publication malpractice, and my submission complies with this.

  • The format of the submission is Microsoft Word (*.doc, *.docx), *.rtf or *.txt.
  • Figures are uploaded as supplementary files, ideally in an editable format (such as Excel, PowerPoint, EPS).
  • The manuscript fully complies with the requirements set out in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) guidelines.

Author Guidelines

To simplify the editorial work, ’Space and Society’ primarily accepts manuscripts online, uploaded on http://tet.rkk.hu after registration on the website. If you have any technical problems or questions related to the submission of your manuscript, please contact the editors.

Preparation of the manuscript

Manuscripts up to 40,000 characters (including spaces, without references) can be published in the Studies, Outlook, and Facts section. Manuscripts longer than required might be rejected by the editorial office for formal reasons. The length of book reviews is limited to 10,000 characters (including spaces).

When uploading the manuscript, please indicate the contact details of the authors, their ORCiD ID, the title of the manuscript, in the case of the manuscripts intended for the Studies, Outlook and Facts section, an abstract of 1500-2000 characters, and 3-5 keywords , on the form provided. The abstract should contain the purpose of the study, the structure of the article, and the main results. In the abstract, please avoid using first-person pronouns (I, we, mine, etc.), use passive structures instead. The keywords will be translated into Hungarian and added to the text by the editors. The text of the manuscript should be uploaded in a separate file, excluding details of the author, abstract, and keywords, preferably in .doc, .docx, or .rtf format. Please use as little formatting as possible to support the work of the layout editor.

The notes should contain additions to the main text, without for example explanation of the figures. At the end of the text, before the references, set any acknowledgment and name the institutions, organizations, and scholarships that support the publication of the manuscript.

Figures and tables

Please also submit figures and tables  inserted into the text. Indicate their exact position, title, source, and refer to them in parentheses in the text of the manuscript. The figures (maps, diagrams, photographs, etc.) should be attached to the manuscript in separate files, preferably in .eps or .tiff. The resolution of the graphics should be 300 dpi. (The maximum print width of the figures is 11.6 cm and 18.3 cm for the full-page laid-out one.) Illustrations are published in greyscale. Please aim for legible dimensions on the captions. The copyright management of graphics is the responsibility of the author of the manuscript. For reasons of length, please include a maximum of 4 to 5 figures in a study.

The title of the tables and figures will also be translated to Hungarian, and added to the text by the editors.

Citation in text

Detailed examples of how to format inter-text references are found here.

In general, list name(s) and the publication date, separated by commas. For direct quotes indicate page number(s). For more than three authors, use “et al.” in the paper body, and the full list in the references. Separate multiple authors by semicolons, listed in publication order. E.g. (Hawkins, 1881; Silver, 1881; Livesey, Smollett, 1882; Trelawney et al., 1884; Bones, Gunn, 1890; Flint, 1892).

References

The text is followed by References in alphabetical order by the names of the authors (editors). In all cases of references items, also include the DOI numbers: copy the references into this search engine (https://doi.crossref.org/SimpleTextQuery) and copy the links back to the manuscript file. Capitalize initials in book titles, but not in article or chapter titles.

Reference style

Book:

Soja, E. (1996): Thirdspace. Journeys to Los Angeles and Other Real-and-imagined Places. Blackwell, Oxford.

Journal article:

Berndt, C., Boeckler, M. (2011): Geographies of markets: Materials, morals and monsters in motion. Progress in Human Geography, 4., 559–567. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132510384498

Chapter in an edited volume:

Merrifield, A., Swyngedouw, E. (1996): Social justice and the urban experience: an introduction. In: Merrifield, A., Swyngedouw, E. (eds.): The Urbanization of Injustice. Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1−17.

Datasets, statistics

CSO [Central Statistical Office] (2005): Regional Statistical Yearbook 2004. Budapest

Websites

http://www.rkk.hu/tudomanyos_tevekenyseg/nemzetkozi kutatasok.html (Download: 2011. March 16.)

Editing process

After submitting the manuscript, logging in to the journal’s website, the author may monitor the editing process. The editors will contact her/him via email. All papers are subjected to pre-review screening by the editors to establish their basic suitability for the journal.

Manuscripts for the Studies, Outlook, and Facts sections are evaluated by two anonymous reviewers, while the column editors decide on the publication of manuscripts in other sections. To carry out anonymous proofreading, please do not include your name or any other personally identifiable information in the manuscript or additional files.

After proofreading and editorial approval, the manuscript will be edited by the reader-editor, who can also contact the author in case of any questions.

After read-editing and preparing the page layout, the paper will be returned for final authoring. At this point, it is only possible to correct typos or minor formatting problems.

We will send the author(s) a copy of the published journal issue and provide access to the electronic version.

We are ready to help you with the submission of the articles via email addressing Gabor Lux (lux.gabor@krtk.elte.hu) and Erika Nagy (nagy.erika@krtk.elte.hu).

Thank you for considering our requests.

The editors

Copyright Notice

Tér és Társadalom is an open access journal. The issues will be available to everyone at the same time as they are published. 

OPEN ACCESS POLICY

Tér és Társadalom aims to increase visibility and make easier use of open access scientific papers. Readers and their institutions are supported for online access without asking for any royalty, personnel information, or login process. According to open access policy of our journal, all readers are permitted to read, download, copy, distribute, print, link and search our articles with no charge.

Tér és Társadalom is an open access journal. The term open access gives the right of readers to read, download, distribute, copy, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles free of charge. Tér és Társadalom is aiming to fully comply to the terms of Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) (http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org). According to BOAI (Budapest Open Access Initiative); By “open access” to peer-reviewed research literature, its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The author(s) and copyright holder(s) grant(s) to all users a free access to articles.

No (APC) fees are charged for the publication of any articles in this journal.

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms (excerpt):

  • Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
  • Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
  • Authors are allowed to deposit the final, published version of the work on personal, professional and institutional websites, and institutional repositories.
  • None of the authors have granted exclusive rights to, or transferred their submission’s copyright to any third party.
  • The submitted manuscript is the authors’ original work, it is submitted only to Tér és Társadalom, and has not been published previously.
  • The authors have obtained written permission from the copyright holders to reproduce any material (whether text, images, or other) owned by third parties, and such reproductions are appropriately acknowledged in the manuscript text. Authors bear sole responsibility for any form of copyright infringement in their submitted manuscripts.

AI POLICY guidelines

Tér és Társadalom (“Space and Society”) recognises the growing significance of Generative AI tools, particularly generative Large Language Models (henceforth “AI”) in academic use, while considering its associated ethical dilemmas and risks. The journal supports the ethical use of AI tools, which supplement rather than replace human scientific input. Tér és Társadalom expressly prefers scholarly papers based on a priority of human involvement, but allows the controlled use of AI tools through certain phases of the writing process. The editors reserve the right to reject manuscripts suspected of unacceptable AI usage.

Authors bear full responsibility for their submissions and AI usage. Therefore, the journal operates under the following framework for responsible use.

Disclosure of AI use: Authors must clearly and fully acknowledge any use of AI tools through a formal, written statement included with the article during the submission process. The disclosure should identify the name of the AI technology used; a detailed description of how the tools were used (including purpose, research method, formatting, grammar, tables and figures, proofreading, etc.); and how they personally supervised and verified AI-generated content. Non-use of AI tools should be declared with a simple negative statement.

Acceptable and unacceptable AI use:

AI may be used as a supplementary tool in research work and the writing process in the following areas:

  • Research preparation: literature collection, data collection
  • Quantitative analysis
  • Copyediting and grammar cleanup (spell-checking, stylistic refinement, formatting, text optimisation, citation generation, proofreading, etc.)

AI may not be used for tasks replacing human authorship and critical thinking:

  • Text generation and translation (excluding grammar checkup)
  • Fabricated or manipulated datasets, interviews, survey results, etc.
  • Synthetic data generation to fill in data gaps without a full disclosure of methodology
  • The inclusion of “data hallucinations”, i.e. fictious references, figures, or data

Specific regulations concerning editors and reviewers: The journal’s editors and reviewers are subject to further limitations in AI use. Reviewers may not use AI tools in preparing their reviews as a substitute for their expertise and critical evaluation. Editors must likewise make their decisions without the use of AI tools, except for checking submitted manuscripts for evidence of AI use (with consideration for their inherent unreliability of checking methods).

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This journal’s editorial team uses this data to guide its work in publishing and improving this journal. Data that will assist in developing this publishing platform may be shared with its developer Public Knowledge Project in an anonymized and aggregated form, with appropriate exceptions such as article metrics. The data will not be sold by this journal or PKP nor will it be used for purposes other than those stated here. The authors published in this journal are responsible for the human subject data that figures in the research reported here.

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