AUTHOR GUIDELINES
The article should be submitted in electronic form to the addresses nataly@ius.bg.ac.rs and tokoviosiguranja@uos.rs . Receipt of all submissions will be confirmed via email.
The editorial board will consider the suitability of all articles for the peer review process. The peer review process involves double-blind review.
The editorial board reserves the right to adapt the article to the publication’s unique editing standards and the spelling rules of Serbian and English languages.
Submitted papers must meet the scientific paper standards in terms of scope and scientific apparatus. The standard length of the paper is one author's sheet (16 typed pages), with a maximum of 1.5 author's sheets (24 typed pages).
Articles should be written in Times New Roman, 12 pt font, with 1.5 line spacing. The article in Serbian should be written in Latin script, except for foreign words and words in Latin, which should be written in Latin script and italicized.
The article must begin with the title, the full name and surname (of all) authors, the full (official) name and address (including the country) of the institution where the author is employed. The note at the bottom of the first page should include the email addresses (of all) authors, as well as their ORCID numbers.
Sources (references) should be listed in footnotes, in 10 pt font. A period should follow the end of each footnote.
The article must contain an abstract with the basic goals of the research, methods, results, and conclusions. The abstract should be no more than 150 words.
After the abstract, the article must list key words that best describe the content of the paper for indexing and search purposes. The number of keywords should not exceed 5.
The article must contain a list of references (bibliography), which includes only bibliographic sources (articles, monographs, etc.) and is given in a separate section after the text. References should be listed consistently, in alphabetical order by the author's surname, as they appear in the original.
The article must also include an abstract and key words in English. The abstract and key words should be provided at the end of the article, after the References section.
The title of the article should be centered and written in uppercase letters. Headings within the article must follow this format:
1) First-level heading – centered; numbering: Roman numerals (e.g., I, II, III, etc.); first letter capitalized, the rest lowercase.
2) Second-level heading – centered; numbering: Arabic numbers with a period (e.g., 1., 2., 3., etc.); first letter capitalized, the rest lowercase.
3) Third-level heading – centered; italicized; numbering: lowercase letter with a closed parenthesis (e.g., a), b), v), etc.); first letter capitalized, the rest lowercase.
4) Fourth-level heading – centered; numbering: Arabic number with a closed parenthesis (e.g., 1), 2), 3), etc.); first letter capitalized, the rest lowercase.
Example:
I Concept
- Definition
- Definition in Comparative Law
1) French Legislation
REFERENCE STYLE
- Books
a) Books should be cited as follows:
author’s first name, author’s last name, title of the work in italics, edition number if applicable, place of publication, year of publication, page number.
Example: Nenad Grujić, Raskid ugovora zbog neispunjenja i pravna dejstva raskida, Beograd, 2016, 111.
Susan Hodges, Cases and Materials on Marine Insurance Law, Cavendish Publishing Limited, London, 2002, 74.
b) When citing a text from multiple pages that are specifically determined, separate the page numbers with a dash, followed by a period. If more than one page is cited from a text, but they are not specifically stated, after the number which notes the first page “etc.” is added with a period at the end.
Example: Susan Hodges, Cases and Materials on Marine Insurance Law, Cavendish Publishing Limited, London, 2002, 74–80.
Example: Philip Wood, Principles of international insolvency, Sweet &Maxwell, London 2007, 111 etc.
c) When citing a book by multiple authors (up to three), their names are separated by commas.
Example: Katherine B. Posner, Tim Marland, Philip Chrystal, Margo on Aviation Insurance, Fourth edition, London, 2014, 429.
d) If citing a book with more than three authors, only the first author’s name and surname are given, followed by the abbreviation et al. in italics.
Example: Hugh Beale et al., Contract Law. 2nd edn. Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 2010, 54.
e) A book edited by someone is cited by adding the designation "editor" or the abbreviation "ed." in parentheses after their name.
Example: Mirko Vasiljević (urednik), Akcionarska društva, berze i akcije, Beograd, 2006, 27.
Marko Baretić, Saša Nikčević (urednici), Zbornik Treće regionalne konferencije o obveznom pravu, Zagreb, 2022, 44.
Fidelis Oditah (editor), The Future for the Global Securities Market, Oxford, 1996, 74.
Jürgen Basedow, Roland Donath, Urlich Meyer, Dieter Rückle, Hans-Peter Schwintowski (Hrsg.), Anleger- und objektgerechte Beratung, Private Krankenversicherung, Ein Ombudsmann für Versicherungen, Band 11, Nomos, Baden-Baden, 1999, 55.
f) When citing a single book by a specific author, in repeated citations, use the first initial of the first name with a period and the last name, followed by the page number.
Example: N. Grujić, 102.
S. Hodges, 231.
g) When citing multiple books by the same author, in repeated citations, use the first initial of the first name with a period and the last name, followed by the year of publication in parentheses, and the page number.
Example: M. Vasiljević (2012), 107.
h) If the same page of the same source was cited in the previous footnote, the abbreviation for Ibidem should be used, in italics, followed by a period (without quoting the name of the author). (without repeating the author's last name and first name).
Example: Ibidem.
If the same source (but not the same page) was cited in the previous footnote, the abbreviation for Ibidem should be used, in italics, followed by the page number and a period.
Example: Ibid., 23.
- ARTICLES
a) Articles should be cited as follows:
Author’s name, author’s last name, title of the article in roman with quotation marks, name of the journal in italics, volume and year of publication, page number (same rule as in the book citation). If the name of a journal is longer than usual, an abbreviation should be offered in brackets when it is first mentioned and used later on.
Example: Predrag Šulejić, „Pravna priroda sredstava matematičke rezerve u osiguranju“, Pravo i privreda, br. 5–8/2006, 775.
Ebers Martin, „Information and Advising requirements in the Financial Services Sector: Principles and Peculiarities in EC Law“, Electronic Journal of Comparative Law, Vol. 8, No 2/2004, 238.
b) When citing an article by multiple authors, their names and surnames should be separated by commas.
Example: Nataša Petrović Tomić, Miloš Radovanović, „Poravnanje o naknadi štete iz sredstava Garantnog fonda“, Harmonius, Journal of Legal and Social Studies in South East Europe, 2017, 175.
If citing an article by more than three authors, only the first author's name and surname are to be cited, followed by the abbreviation et al. in italics.
Farines Elise, Lagasse Mayline, Touileb Karima, Laurent Marion, “The Pre-contractual and Contractual Infiormation in Life Insurance Policy”, Insurer’s Precontractual Information Duty, Turkish Chapter of AIDA, Istanbul 2013, 123.
c) A paper or article published in a proceedings or book edited by another person is cited as follows:
Author's first name, author's last name, opening quotation marks, title of the article, closing quotation marks, title of the proceedings or book in italics, in parentheses the designation "editor" or "ed.", and the name and surname of the editor, edition number if applicable, place of publication, year of publication, page number.
Example: Nebojša Jovanović, „Otvaranje i zatvaranje privrednih društava“, Akcionarska društva, berze i akcije (urednik Mirko Vasiljević), Beograd, 2006, 307.
Helmut Heiss, “The Common Frame of Reference (CFR) of European Insurance Contract Law”, Common Frame of Reference and Existing EC Contract Law (ed. Reiner Schulze), Sellier European law publishers, GmbH, München, 2008, 13.
d) When citing an article by a specific author, in repeated citations, use the first initial of the first name with a period and the last name, followed by the page number.
Example: N. Petrović Tomić, 164.
e) When citing multiple articles by the same author, in repeated citations, use the first initial of the first name with a period and the last name, followed by the year of publication in parentheses, and finally the page number.
Example: N. Petrović Tomić (2014), 122.
f) If the same author has multiple works cited in the same year, add the Latin letters a, b, c, d, etc., after the year of publication, according to the order in which the works are cited, followed by the page number.
Example: I. Jankovec (1995a), 16.
- STATUTES AND OTHER REGULATIONS
a) Regulations should be cited as follows:
Full name of the regulation, the official gazette in which the regulation was published in italics, the gazette number and year of publication.
Example: Act XXVIII of 2017 on Private International Law of Hungary, Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia, 2017-04-11, vol. 54.
b) In case of repeated citations, an acronym should be provided on the first mention of a given statute or other regulation.
Example: Companies Act – CA, Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia, No. 6/2011, 99/2011, 83/2014, 5/2015, 44/2018, 95/2018, 91/2019 and 109/2021.
c) Article, paragraph, and point of the regulation are designated with the abbreviations art. and par..
Example: Art. 8, par. 25.
d) When citing a regulation repeatedly, its full name or the abbreviation introduced in the first citation should be given, along with the abbreviations art. or par. and the provision number.
Example: CA, art. 58.
ZPU, čl. 25.
e) Regulations in foreign languages should be cited as follows:
Full name of the regulation translated into English, year of publication or adoption, opening parenthesis, full name of the regulation in the original language in italics, any abbreviation under which the regulation will continue to appear, closing parenthesis, abbreviation art. or par. and provision number.
Example: German Commercial Code of 1897 (Handelsgesetzbuch), par. 29.
britanski Kompanijski zakon iz 2006. godine (Companies Act; dalje u fusnotama: CA), čl. 67.
- ONLINE SOURCES
a) Online sources should be cited as follows:
author’s first name and surname, or the name of the organization that prepared the text, title of the text, possible place and year of publication, the website address in italics, the date of access, and the page number.
Example: Elisabeth Pollman, “The Making and Meaning of ESG“, Law Working Paper 659/2022, available at: http://ssrn.com/an+bstarct_id-4219857, 16. 6. 2023,
b) When citing an online source repeatedly, use the first initial of the author's first name with a period and the surname, or the name of the organization that prepared the text, the title of the text, and the page number.
Example: Elisabeth Pollman, The Making and Meaning of ESG, 5.
