Article and review proposals should be sent to journal system.

Please ensure that you carefully read and adhere to the author's guidelines when preparing your manuscript for submission. It is mandatory that authors submitting to West Balkan Journal follow these guidelines and utilize the provided template. Failure to do so may result in rejection by the editorial team prior to review. Manuscripts must strictly comply to the specified formatting requirements.

 A. GENERAL REQUIREMENTS

1. Title. The title of your manuscript should be concise, specific and relevant. Please do not include abbreviated or short forms of the title, such as a running title or head. The chapter titles are in 14 pt in Times New Roman. The titles are in 11pt, in bold and without numbering.
2. Personal Details. Name of the author their home institution and their ORCID number. Authors' full first and last names must be provided. The initials of any middle names can be added. At least one author should be designated as the corresponding author. The email addresses of all authors will be displayed on published papers. (If an author does not wish to have their email addresses displayed in the journal, they shall indicate it to the editor.)
3. Author Contributions. Each author is expected to have made substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data; or have drafted the work or substantively revised it; AND has approved the submitted version (and version substantially edited by journal staff that involves the author’s contribution to the study); AND agrees to be personally accountable for the author’s own contributions and for ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work, even ones in which the author was not personally involved, are appropriately investigated, resolved, and documented in the literature.
4. Bibliographical References. References at the end of the manuscript must be written in Chicago Manual Style 17 Edition (Author Fullnote) automatically by Mendeley Reference Manager. Use other published articles in this journal as models. All publications cited in the text should be included as a list of Bibliography, arranged alphabetically by author. The writing of references is not separated into books, journal articles, conference papers.
5. Funding. All sources of funding of the study should be disclosed. Clearly indicate grants that authors have received in support of they research work and if they received funds to cover publication costs.
6. Acknowledgments. In this section the author(s) can acknowledge any support given. This may include administrative and technical support, or donations in kind (e.g., materials used for experiments).

B. ARTICLE PROVISIONS

1. Article Manuscript. The text is single-spaced, justified, preferably saved in MS Word in Times New Roman 11 pt.
2. The abstract should be a total of maximum 300 words maximum. The abstract should be a single paragraph and should follow the style of structured abstracts, but without headings: 1) Background: Place the question addressed in a broad context and highlight the purpose of the study; 2) Methods: Describe briefly the main methods; 3) Results: Summarize the article's main findings; and 4) Conclusion: Indicate the main conclusions or interpretations. The abstract should be an objective representation of the article: it must not contain results which are not presented and substantiated in the main text and should not exaggerate the main conclusions.
3. Five to ten pertinent keywords need to be added after the abstract. We recommend that the keywords are specific to the article, yet reasonably common within the subject discipline.
4. Introduction. a) The introduction should briefly place the study in a broad context and highlight why it is important (aim). b) It should define the significance of the article, including specific research questions/hypotheses. Please highlight controversial and diverging hypotheses when necessary. c) The used methodology. d) Briefly highlight the main conclusions.. e) Finally, describe briefly the structure of the article.
5. Materials and Methods. They should be described with sufficient detail to allow others to replicate and build on published results. New methods and protocols should be described in detail while well-established methods can be briefly described and appropriately cited.
6. Results. Provide a concise and precise description of the experimental results, their interpretation as well as the experimental conclusions that can be drawn.
7. Discussion. Authors should discuss the results and how they can be interpreted in perspective of previous studies and of the working hypotheses. The findings and their implications should be discussed in the broadest context possible and limitations of the work highlighted. Future research directions may also be mentioned. This section may be combined with Results.
8. Conclusions. The conclusion of this study can be presented in a brief conclusions section. Conclusions must answer the purpose of research and research findings. Concluding remarks should not only contain repetition of results and discussions or abstracts. You should also suggest future research and show what is happening.
9. Bibliography. Writing techniques using footnotes and bibliographies / bibliography using a system citing the Chicago Manual of Style 17th edition (fullnote). Use a tool such as Zotero, Mendeley, or EndNote for reference management and formatting, and choose Chicago Manual of Style 17th edition (fullnote).
10. Research Article must be submitted in English should not exceed 80,000 characters and should preferably include between 30,000 and 50,000 characters, including spaces, notes and bibliography. For Review Article, the proposed reviews should not exceed 20,000 characters and should preferably include between 12,000 and 15,000 characters, including spaces, notes and bibliography.
11. The text is single-spaced, justified, preferably saved in MS Word in Times New Roman 11 pt.
12. The subtitles are in 11 pt, in italics (non-bold) and without numbering
13. Footnotes are in Times New Roman 10 pt by using a tool such as Zotero, Mendeley, or EndNote for reference management and formatting, and choose Chicago Manual of Style 17th edition (fullnote).
14. Do not put a period at the end of a title or subheading

C. Footnotes Direction

1. They will be placed at the bottom of the page and numbered from 1 to n.
2. Authors are kindly reminded that they should cite only sources that are strictly relevant and necessary. Commonly known or easily verifiable facts do not require a source note, nor should embedded hyperlinks be used.
3. Footnotes are notes that are placed at the bottom of a page and used to reference parts of the text (generally using superscript numbers).
4. Authors use footnotes for several purposes, including citations, parenthetical information, outside sources, copyright permissions, background information, and more.
5. Footnotes should account for no more than 10 per cent of the total word count of the document as submitted.
6. NB: Endnotes are not used.

D. Illustrations

Figures, diagrams, tables, maps, photos, ... etc. will be provided as separate documents (in pdf, png or jpeg).

Their titles and captions will be placed in the text at the desired place for their insertion.

The illustration credits must be mentioned (©, date, place).

E. Abbreviations

dir. (for under the direction) - ed. in English (Eds if several authors)

1. (for editing)

coll. (for collection)

vol. (for volume)

1. 5 (for number)
2. 4 (for page)

4th (for fourth)