Submissions

Submission Preparation Checklist

• The submission represents an original work that has not been published elsewhere nor submitted to another journal for publication;
• The submission meets word length requirements for the manuscript type, which is all-inclusive of article text, references, tables, and figures;
• The submission cites current theoretical and empirically-based literature, including relevant articles published in Belügyi Szemle/Academic Journal of Internal Affairs (AJIA)
• The submission reports sample size, population, confidence interval, and effect size, if applicable;
• The submission includes four keywords;
• The submission includes a name (highlighting the corresponding author), e-mail address, institutional or organisational affiliation, doctoral title*, rank*, ORCID, MTMT, SCOPUS* identifier of each author in the format specified in the Author Guidelines;
• The submission includes an Abstract that clearly articulates why the manuscript marks a new and demonstratively significant advancement in research and aligns with key elements of journal's Aim, Methodology, Finding and Value.
• Tables, figures, pictures and diagrams in the submitted manuscript include titles and sources;

• Authors submitting papers to the journal accept the following conditions

  The Author, by acknowledging and accepting the Author's Declaration, undertakes to submit the article submitted for publication to the Ministry of the Interior as publisher (hereinafter referred to as the "Publisher") and agrees that the Publisher may publish the above-mentioned article in the academic journal Belügyi Szemle/Academic Journal of Internal Affairs. The Author acknowledges that the rights of publication and use of the article submitted for publication are vested in the Publisher upon first publication under the terms and conditions set forth in the Author's Statement.

  The Author agrees that the Publisher will publish the article in such a way that the rights of use of the article by any third party after first publication are subject to the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license terms. The Publisher will make the published article freely available and downloadable in the Open Journal Systems software application for managing and editing scientific and peer-reviewed journals (hereinafter referred to as OJS system) without time limitation. The Publisher will not use the published article for commercial or business purposes, either individually or in a manner that is exclusive to the journal as a whole. The Publisher may convert the published article into any electronic format and may copy the article to an electronic storage medium by computer. The Publisher may share the rights of publication and use of the published article with any third party or exercise these rights jointly with any third party, or translate the article into another language. It may take action on behalf of the Author in the event of infringement, misappropriation or infringement of intellectual property rights in relation to the article. It may exercise all rights granted to third parties under the "CC BY-NC-ND 4.0" licence terms indicated above;

• The submission adheres to APA 7 stylistic and bibliographic requirements;
• The Author's Declaration has been read and accepted by the Author.

Detailed information can be found in the Author's Guide!

Archiving policy

For the purposes of long-term preservation, all published metadata is deposited to Crossref. The articles are archived by the Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in:

• REAL – at article level
• REAL-J – at journal level
• Electronic Periodicals Archive & Database (EPA)
• PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN)

Repository policy

Belügyi Szemle/Academic Journal of Internal Affairs is indexed in Sherpa Romeo that provides a searchable database of publishers’ copyright and self-archiving policies.