Author’s Guidelines

Psychological Research journal publishes only original research papers – theoretical, experimental and applied, by Bulgarian and foreign authors, in Bulgarian and English.

1. The articles should be submitted on CD and as hard copy to the editor’s office of the journal: Institute of Population and Human Studies, Sofia, 1113, „Academic G. Bonchev“ , bl.6, 5th floor, room 512, addressed to the editor or to e-mail (psy_research@abv.bg); contact tel.: + 359 (0) 2 9793048
2. Journal holds the copyrights of the published materials.
3. The manuscripts have to be formatted as follows: font Times New Roman, Size 12, Line spacing 1,5; format doc for Windows XP; standard A4, 30 lines per page, 60 characters per line. The total volume of articles should be up to 20 standard pages.
4. The title of the article should be written in small letters in Bulgarian and English.
5. Under the title, in Bulgarian and English, are stated the both names of the author / authors as they are known in the scientific circles: no abbreviations, titles and degrees; concise indication of the institution to which they belong, under the name must be written an e-mail of all authors and phone number of the leading author responsible for correspondence; brief text of all titles and degrees of all authors of the material, currently held positions, interests and number of published articles – Bulgarian and English language (up to 10 lines).
6. Under them are written: summaries in English and Bulgarian (up to 200 words) and keywords (up to 6) in Bulgarian and English.
7. Additionally in the end of the 1st page in footnote can be included the funding source of the represented study.
8. The figures, graphs and tables are placed within the text. The figures and graphs are labeled below, and the tables – on the top; the tables and graphs, if any, are provided in doc. file in their place.
9. Quotation – the authors are cited in the text in brackets (name, year, and page). Authors quoted in the text are written in Cyrillic, and at the end of the sentence in brackets in the original.
10. The references should be displayed alphabetically, without numbering; first authors are listed alphabetically, followed by those in Latin. The sequence of display is: name (,), the first letter of the first name (.), and if the authors are more – similarly separated by commas. Prior to the last author should be written (and) or (&) in Latin. Then follow the year of publication in parentheses (.).The title of the source (.) City (,) Publishing house (,) pages. References should include literature with guaranteed availability!
11. After the references could be written a list, indicated as „Notes „, size 10. In them are arranged documents with unscientific character – policy documents, resolutions, reports, press releases and more.
12.  Internet sources. Generally, it is not recommended websites to be included in the literature because the information is not of guaranteed scientific quality, and often the websites do not have a long life. If you do decide that you cite them in the „Notes“ with the explicit indication of the date when these web pages are open.
13. The material might be with last section, if it needs it -,, Thank notes“. Here are the names of individuals and institutions who have contributed to the successful completion of scientific studies. Often these studies had been supported financially and the project with the funding organization should be listed here.
14. Authors and reviewers are not paid.
15. The papers are accepted for publication after blind peer review system in double blind, i.e. the procedure involves double anonymity (author and reviewer). Manuscripts of the articles that are not accepted for publication will not be returned.