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University of Maribor Press operates on a modern basis and meets the demands of today's rapidly changing scientific communication. It publishes scientific books, expert books, textbooks and other monographs in various fields of science, technology, art, humanities and social sciences, in print and electronic version. It is also an open access publisher and provides the academic community with an environment to pursue new avenues of scientific communication, that is, open access publishing.

The collection at ScienceOpen presents the production of scientific books and international conference proceedings of University of Maribor.

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.

• The manuscript for submission is prepared in permitted file formats
• The consents of third parties (authors, holders of material copyrights) for the use of their copyrighted works (graphs, images, photographs…) in the proposed publication are regulated.
• Application for a proposal for publishing at the University Press is complet
• The minimum resolution of the graphic material used is at least 300 dpi
• Graphical guides for table design are followed

Author Guidelines

To guarantee a smooth publication process, it is important that you ensure the text and figures of your manusript are complete and final when submitted to us. We will then handle all the typeseting and production processes from that point onwards. Authors are responsible for ensuring that their manusripts conform to the style of the publisher. Sub-headings should be in capitals (or Roman numerals); sub-sub headings in lower case italic. Quotations should be in single quotation marks, doubled with single. Long quotations of five or more lines should be indented without quotes. Capitals should be used sparingly, principally for proper titles and where they may be necessary to avoid ambiguity.

Simple references to be inserted in round brackets at the appropriate place in the text, stating author's surname, publication date of work referred to and, where appropriate, relevant pages. For example: (Adams, 2006: 34).

Comments to appear as notes, indicated consecutively throughout the article by raised numerals corresponding to the list of notes placed at the end of the manuscript. Reference list to appear after the list of notes, containing all the works referred to, listed alphabetically by author's surname (or name of sponsoring body), stating author's surname, forename and/or initials, date of publication, title of publication, edition, place of publication and publisher, and pages if relevant. For example:

Tan, Q. (2011) County Gorernment Reform in Urbanizing China, Lex localis - Journal of Local Self-Government, 9(4), pp. 353-371, doi: 10.4335/9.4.353-371(2011).
Musgrave, M. R. (1959) The Theory of Public Finance (New York: McGraw-Hill).

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Authors who publish with this press agree to the following terms: 

Authors retain copyright and grant the press right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this press. 

Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual series for the non-exclusive distribution of the version of the work published by the press (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this press. 

Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

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