Instructions for authors
For publication, authors are required to follow the template provided. For the in extenso article (images included) the limit is 10 pages.
The citation style accepted by the journal is APA – American Psychological Association, 7th edition.
By submitting a paper to be published in ARGUMENT Journal, the author integrally and tacitly takes responsibility for respecting copyrights and for his/her property over the material submitted (the full text belongs to the author/s and isn't the subject of any kind of plagiarism, copying or compilation; the used sources – including photos, drawings, tables etc. – have been cited acknowledging the copyrights or the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License policy – CC BY 4.0). For this purpose, the author/s will download, fill in, sign and send the copyright form provided.
Authors have the obligation to correct and rewrite the article as required by the editorial team and the reviewers in order to ensure the coherence, clarity and quality of the printed materials.
Along with the in extenso article in Romanian and English (only for non-Romanian authors, the editorial team will assure the Romanian translation) and the copyright statement, authors will also send the images used separately, in .jpg format at a resolution of 300dpi, in CMYK.
All articles submitted for publication will be verified in the anti-plagiarism system.
There is no fee for article processing or publishing. Authors wishing to purchase the physical copy of the journal will cover the printing costs.
Starting with no. 13, Argument journal launches a call for reviews and will publish reviews of books, conferences and other events following the general theme of the journal. The reviews must be critical, they will be 700-1500 words long and they will be submitted both in English and Romanian (only for non-Romanian reviewers, the editorial team will assure the Romanian translation).
Argument is an open access journal, fully bilingual – published in Romanian and English.