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Article types

Research Article
Review
Systematic Review
Letter

Readiness requirements

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Abstract length

  • Enter required metadata (title, abstract, keywords, references).

Keywords

  • JEL Classification: Authors must include relevant JEL codes, listed below the keywords.

Reference style

  • Articlo formats your supplied references in APA style and checks that citations match the reference list; source validity is not verified.
  • Each in-text citation, e.g., ( Smith, 2020 ) or Smith et al., ( 2020 ); must be hyperlinked to the corresponding bookmarked reference entry in the reference list.
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  • Authors must confirm, where applicable: ethics committee approval (committee name and approval/reference number, or a justified exemption).
  • Authors must ensure accuracy, completeness, and consistency in all references.
  • Both in-text citations and the reference list must fully comply with the requirements below.
  • Every in-text citation must have a matching entry in References, and vice versa.
  • Every reference must have a corresponding bookmark within the document.
  • Section title: References (use consistently; do not use “Bibliography” or “Literature”).
  • Authors must: Ethical citation practice: Authors must cite sources accurately and only where genuinely relevant.
  • Authors must disclose any preprint at the time of submission and provide the relevant URL or DOI.
  • Letter: Posting a preprint is not considered prior publication, but authors must disclose it at submission and provide the URL or DOI on the Title Page and in the Cover Letter, not in the anonymized manuscript.
  • DOI or URL is required when available, with https://doi.org/ format; hyperlinks must be active.
  • Additional requirements: References to your own previous work must be written in a way that does not reveal authorship (e.g., use “Author(s), Year” instead of “We have previously shown…”).

Figure and table rules

  • Keep every figure and table numbered, captioned, and cited in the manuscript. Keep figures embedded; Articlo also extracts numbered source files for the package.
  • Figures must also be uploaded as separate high-resolution files in TIFF, JPG, or EPS format (minimum 300 dpi).
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  • Table title should appear above the table, left-justified, and include a bold label (e.g., Table 1 ).
  • Figure title should appear above the figure, left-justified, and include a bold label (e.g., Figure 1 ).
  • Every Table or Figure must include: Typography: the label " Note." must be font 9 pt, italics.
  • Note on Conference Papers: Authors must acknowledge and cite the original conference source, including any reused tables, figures, or data.
  • Tables must be fully editable (not pasted as images).
  • All figures and charts must use grayscale or high-contrast black-and-white shading.
  • Every Table or Figure must include: s ource ( or “Author’s calculation/illustration” ).
  • Every Table or Figure must include: e xplanation of abbreviations ( if any).
  • Every Table or Figure must include: methodological/data notes (as applicable).
  • All captions and notes should be left-justified.
  • Declarations must specify the tool name and scope of use (e.g., language editing, data analysis, figure creation, idea generation).
  • Authors must fully disclose any use of AI tools in manuscript preparation or research, including text generation, data analysis, image or figure creation, or translation.
  • Review: The journal considers: Narrative (Integrative/Conceptual) Review: is required to describe the search approach and include a summary table; a conceptual synthesis figure/model is strongly encouraged.

Funding statement

  • Add or confirm the author-written Funding statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • All authors must: clearly state all sources of funding,.
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  • Contributions that do not meet these criteria (e.g. general supervision, funding acquisition, technical help, formatting, proofreading) must be acknowledged in the Acknowledgments section.
  • Authors must: Funding disclosure and competing interests: Authors must openly disclose all sources of research funding, including the names of funding organi z ations, grant numbers, and the specific role of each funder (e.g., study design, data collection, analysis, decision to publish, manuscript preparation).

Competing interests

  • Add or confirm the author-written Competing interests statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • Add or confirm the author-written Conflict of interest statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
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  • All authors must disclose potential conflicts of interest, including financial (grants, employment, investments) and institutional or personal connections.
  • All authors must: fully disclose any conflicts of interest (financial, institutional, or personal),.
  • All financial and non-financial competing interests that could influence the work must also be declared in a separate statement.
  • Misconduct allegations may include (but are not limited to): Undisclosed conflicts of interest.
  • However, in exceptional cases, Editorial Board members may be invited only when highly specific expertise is required and no conflict of interest exists; in such cases, they are subject to the same confidentiality and conflict-of-interest safeguards as all reviewers.
  • Confirm compliance with the journal’s guidelines and policies (authorship, ethics, conflict of interest, plagiarism screening).

Data availability statement

  • Add or confirm the author-written Data availability statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • Authors must also ensure compliance with funder open access mandates (license, data sharing).
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  • A Data Availability Statement (DAS) must be included in every submission, clearly indicating where and how the data can be accessed, or explaining restrictions if the data cannot be shared.
  • Review: Comply with data sharing and transparency: Authors may be asked to provide raw data for editorial review and should be prepared to make it publicly available where appropriate.

Ethics statement

  • Add or confirm the author-written Ethics statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • Research involving human or animal subjects must be conducted in accordance with the journal’s Research Ethics Policy.
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  • Authors must confirm, where applicable: informed consent.
  • Please include relevant ethics approval, consent, and permission details in the manuscript.
  • All authors must: comply with international ethical standards for research involving human or animal subjects, including: informed consent where applicable,.
  • Ethical compliance: Research involving human or animal subjects must include a statement of ethical approval and, where applicable, confirmation of informed consent.
  • Review: All authors must: comply with international ethical standards for research involving human or animal subjects, including: prior approval from an Institutional Review Board or ethics committee,.
  • The j ournal requires compliance with ethical standards in all stages of research: Human and animal research: All studies must have prior approval from an appropriate ethics committee.
  • The j ournal requires compliance with ethical standards in all stages of research: Informed consent: Participants must be informed of the purpose, procedures, risks, and benefits of research and must voluntarily consent.

Blinded manuscript

  • Review: Remove author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, and other direct identifiers from the blinded manuscript file.
  • Review: Do not include any personal or institutional identifiers in the anonymous manuscript.doc file (to preserve double-anonymous review).
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  • Note on Conference Papers: While the journal follows a double-anonymous process, complete anonymity cannot always be maintained for publicly presented work.

Cover letter

  • Letter: Provide the claims and editor-specific context for the cover letter; Articlo creates an editable companion without inventing content.
  • In addition, authors must ensure they have obtained permission to use any copyrighted materials, proprietary data, or content involving third-party intellectual property, where applicable.

Author contributions

  • All authors are required to declare their individual contributions according to the CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy).
  • The CRediT statement must be included on the Title page at the time of submission and it will be published with the final version.
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  • Any request to add or remove an author after manuscript submission must be submitted in writing to the Editorial Office, with a clear explanation and a revised CRediT statement.

Supplementary files

  • Include every cited supplementary file and use matching labels in the manuscript.
  • Review / Systematic Review: The journal considers: Systematic Review: is required to follow PRISMA 2020 and include (supplementary) a flow diagram, checklist, and the full search strategy.
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  • Review: The journal considers: Scoping Review: is required to follow PRISMA-ScR and include (supplementary) a flow diagram, PRISMA-ScR checklist, and the full search strategy; it maps the breadth of evidence, so transparent reporting of search and selection is essential.

Title page and author information

  • Provide the author, affiliation, and correspondence details for the separate title page; Articlo creates the editable companion file.
  • Disclosures must appear on the title page of the manuscript.
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  • Authors must follow the standard order of sections: Title page (Please download Template.docx and complete it locally).
  • Suggested names must include: institutional affiliation, and.
  • Additional requirements: Author details should appear only on the separate Title Page (uploaded as a separate file).
  • At submission: the DAS should be provided on the Title Page (not in the anonymized manuscript) to preserve anonymity.
  • Any relevant conference affiliation or external partnership must be disclosed and must not influence editorial evaluation or acceptance.
  • Disclosures must be declared in a dedicated statement in the Title page of the manuscript.

Article structure and word limits

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  • Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with the APA Style, 7th Edition.
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  • Use a decimal point and a space as the thousands separator (e.g. 31.1, 45 000.87).
  • Entries must be: Left-aligned, hanging indent 0.
  • Authors submit via the Open Journal Systems platform developed by the Public Knowledge Project (see OJS Author's Guide ).
  • Authors are expected to: Authors must cite sources accurately and only where genuinely relevant.
  • Authors must confirm, where applicable: privacy protection for sensitive data and participant anonymity.
  • The terms sex and gender should be used accurately and not treated as interchangeable.
  • Note on Conference Papers: Eligible submissions must be based on conference abstracts only - not on full papers published in proceedings.
  • Note on Conference Papers: Manuscripts must demonstrate significant new content or analysis beyond the original conference version.
  • Note on Conference Papers: Accepted papers must state the conference title, date, and location.
  • All manuscripts must be submitted in MS Word (.docx) format.
  • Do not use full justification or manual hyphenation.
  • If sex and/or gender analysis was not conducted, a brief rationale should be provided where relevant.
  • Cite appendices in text and list in the order of first mention (Appendix A, Appendix B, …).
  • Entries must be: Alphabetical by first author’s surname.
  • Authors must ensure that all submissions are original, unpublished, and not under consideration elsewhere.
  • Authors must critically check all AI outputs for accuracy, originality, and compliance with ethical/legal standards.
  • Suggested names must include: official institutional email address.
  • To preserve double anonymity, all identifying information (author's details) must be removed from submitted files.
  • All manuscripts must be submitted electronically via the Online Journal System (OJS) on the Hrčak portal.
  • Only the roles that apply to the manuscript should be listed.
  • If the data include sensitive or proprietary information, authors must describe the restrictions and justify the limitations.
  • All listed authors must approve the final version of the manuscript and agree to be accountable for its content.
  • The request must include written agreement from all originally listed authors and from any author being added or removed.
  • Authors must: Ensure originality: Submitted work must be original, unpublished, and not under consideration elsewhere.
  • Where data cannot be shared due to confidentiality, privacy, or licensing restrictions, this must be clearly stated in the article.
  • At a minimum, sufficient methodological details and, where applicable, code should be provided to ensure reproducibility.
  • Manuscripts submitted to the journal must not be under consideration by another journal at the same time.
  • Authors must state the name of the committee and approval number.
  • Misconduct allegations may include (but are not limited to): Data fabrication or falsification (including inappropriate image manipulation).
  • Such comments should be concise, evidence-based, and written in a respectful tone.
  • For studies involving human participants, including survey-based research, authors should, where applicable, report how sex and/or gender were collected, defined, analy z ed, and discussed.
  • Authors must state clear research question(s), objectives and their original contribution to the field and their role in the development of the topic, relative to prior work.
  • For empirical studies involving human participants, including survey-based research, authors should report relevant sample characteristics, including sex and/or gender where applicable.
  • Do not use ibid., op. cit., supra, infra.
  • Suggested names must include: full name,.
  • Review: Only roles that are relevant to the specific manuscript should be listed (e.g., Conceptualization; Methodology; Formal analysis; Writing – original draft; Writing – review & editing; Supervision).
  • The j ournal requires compliance with ethical standards in all stages of research: Privacy and data protection: Confidential information and participant anonymity must be preserved unless explicit consent is obtained.
  • Review: The journal considers: Bibliometric Review: is reproducible and reports the database and download date, the full query, the software used, and provides a performance analysis plus at least two mapping analyses with the underlying records ( see Donthu et al., 2021 ).
  • Each research manuscript and professional paper is evaluated by at least two external experts.
  • Journal policies guarantee that editorial decisions are based solely on scholarly merit and do not discriminate on any personal or demographic basis.
  • Do not skip levels.
  • Review: Certain contributions (e.g., editorials, book reviews, announcements, corrections) are evaluated internally by the Editorial Board and do not undergo external peer review.

Reporting guidelines

  • Include or confirm the reporting guidelines required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Preprints and prior publication

  • Authors must also disclose any related preprint, working paper, conference paper, report, previous dissemination, or overlapping publication at the time of submission.
  • Review: Preprints are not treated as journal publications and do not replace the journal’s editorial screening, peer-review, revision, and acceptance process.

Artificial intelligence disclosure

  • Add or confirm the author-written Artificial intelligence statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • Authors must explicitly declare any use of AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, image generators, machine learning models).
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  • Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Tools.
  • Use of Artificial Intelligence Tools.
  • AI tools cannot be credited as authors or co-authors.
  • Generative AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT or other large language models) cannot be listed as authors, as they do not meet the accountability requirements of authorship.

Authorship and originality

  • All authors must approve the final version prior to submission.
  • Contributors not meeting authorship criteria (e.g., administrative or technical support) should be acknowledged in a separate Acknowledgments section.
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  • Authorship should be established at submission.
  • All listed authors must have made a substantial scholarly contribution (see Authorship and Contributions ).
  • Authors must: Avoid plagiarism: Any content from other sources must be clearly cited.
  • Ensure authorship integrity: All individuals listed as authors must have made substantial contributions to the work and approve the final version.
  • Acknowledge contributions: Individuals who contributed to the work but do not meet authorship criteria should be acknowledged appropriately.
  • Misconduct allegations may include (but are not limited to): Plagiarism.
  • Misconduct allegations may include (but are not limited to): Authorship misconduct (gift, guest, or ghost authorship).
  • All authors must: comply with international ethical standards for research involving human or animal subjects, including: protection of participant privacy and sensitive data.
  • Authorship is limited to individuals who have made substantial contributions to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the research.
  • By submitting a manuscript to the journal, all authors confirm that they have read, understood, and agreed to abide by the journal’s editorial policies and ethical guidelines.
  • The journal follows the authorship definition of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), which requires: Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data; AND.
  • The journal follows the authorship definition of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), which requires: Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; AND.
  • The journal follows the authorship definition of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), which requires: Final approval of the version to be published; AND.
  • The journal follows the authorship definition of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), which requires: Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work.

Manuscript structure

  • Must follow APA 7th Edition (see Section 4 ).
  • Headings must be numbered (1., 1.1., 1.1.1., …), Title Case, left-aligned, and consistent.
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  • The manuscript file must not contain any author identifiers in the text, footnotes, file name, or document properties (see Section 8 ).
  • This disclosure must appear in the Methods or Acknowledgments section.
  • If AI is used for research methods (e.g., data analysis, modeling), sufficient details (data, code, parameters) must be provided for reproducibility.
  • All research questions, interpretations, and conclusions must result from human judgment, not AI.
  • Such disclosure must be made transparently in the Methods or Acknowledgments section.
  • Where sex and/or gender are relevant to the research question, study design, sample, analysis, results, or generalizability of findings, authors should report how these variables were considered.
  • Where sex and/or gender are relevant to the research question, study design, sample, analysis, results, or interpretation, authors should explain in the Methodology, Results, and/or Discussion sections how these variables were considered.
  • Manuscripts must be structured into the following required sections: Introduction.
  • Review: Manuscripts must be structured into the following required sections: Literature Review or Theoretical Background.
  • Manuscripts must be structured into the following required sections: Methodology.
  • Manuscripts must be structured into the following required sections: Results.
  • Manuscripts must be structured into the following required sections: Discussion.
  • Manuscripts must be structured into the following required sections: Conclusion.
  • Do not indent the first paragraph in a section.
  • Corrections: issued to fix minor errors (e.g., factual or typographical mistakes) that do not alter the overall conclusions.

Language and text style

  • The title must be written in italic title case, 0 pt after the label.
  • Manuscripts must be written in clear, grammatically correct academic English.
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  • Use straight quotation marks and apostrophes only.
  • The use of AI for grammar correction or language editing does not require disclosure.
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What your package checks

References: APA
Title page: separate file
Declarations: Data availability, Funding, Competing interests, Conflict of interest, Ethics, Artificial intelligence

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