Guidelines For Submissions

Guidelines for Preparing and Submitting Contributions

We invite authors to submit papers that contribute to the thematic focus of the Cherry Symposium 2025. Please follow the guidelines below to ensure your submission meets the formal and content-related requirements:

Types of Contributions

• Research paper – original scientific work with clearly defined methodology, results, and discussion.
• Professional paper – contributions from practice offering insights, case studies, or reflections relevant to the field.

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Submission Process

• Submissions are accepted via the online submission form.
• Each paper will undergo a double-review process by independent reviewers.
• All submitted summaries and presentations will be published in an online publication.
• Selected papers will be published in the official Proceedings of the Cherry Symposium 2025.
• Authors of accepted papers will be invited to present their work during the symposium.
• At least one author must register and attend the event.

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In Slovene and/or English

Conference Proceedings entail the publication of papers covering the proposed conference topics. The editorial committee only accepts unpublished manuscripts in Slovene and/or English. The editorial committee reviews the authenticity of the papers with the Turnitin plagiarism detection program.

Manuscripts are submitted to the editors exclusively through the electronic system for submission of works.

All papers that are submitted after the specified deadline, as well as those that do not comply with the instructions, will not be submitted to the review process. Authors are kindly asked to heed the deadlines and follow the detailed instructions.

Important Deadlines

• Abstract submission deadline: 20. 5. 2025
• PowerPoint submission deadline: 1. 6. 2025
• Notification of acceptance: 4. 6. 2025
• Final paper submission: 1. 8. 2025

Review Procedure

All papers that pass the first editorial check will be sent to the blind review process, which does not reveal the identity of the authors or reviewers. Authors are invited to remove information about their identity from the properties of the electronic document.

After the review process, the reviewers will propose one of four possible recommendations in the publication process:

• publish without changes;
• publish with proposed changes;
• refer for a thorough revision and send the new manuscript for new reviews;
• not for publishing.

After the review process, the authors submit a new version of the manuscript to the editorial committee with notes on how and in which part of the text they have considered, taking the reviewer’s suggestions. If the reviewers’ specific comments are not adopted, it is necessary to submit an explanation with precise arguments.

Also, the reviewers suggest one of four possible categorisations of works:

• original scientific paper (contains previously unpublished results of scientific research);
• previous communication (contains new results of scientific research, but without enough details to enable verification as in original scientific articles, and it is useful to publish the results quickly);
• review scientific paper (contains an original, concise and critical presentation of a field in which the author himself participates, and which contributes concerning already published works);
• professional paper (contains useful contributions from the profession and for the profession, and does not have to contain a scientific contribution).

Copyright

The authors retain the copyright for the works published in the Symposium Proceedings. However, with their consent to the publication in the Proceedings, they grant the right of first publication in printed and electronic form. Papers published in the Proceedings, with appropriate referencing, can be used free of charge for educational and other non-commercial purposes.

Research Ethics

The research published in the papers should be in accordance with the valid ethical regulations and codes of conduct of research.

Instructions for Paper Summary (Abstract) Outline

Deadline: 20. 5. 2025

The summary (abstract) should not exceed 200 words and should refer to the purpose of the work, the methodology used, the most important results and the conclusion. Authors should specify between 3 and 5 keywords in the language of the work. The summary text should be submitted in PDF format using the Submission Form.

Instructions for PowerPoint Outline

Deadline: 1. 6. 2025

• The content and length of the presentation are not restricted.
• The presentation should be submitted in PDF format using the Submission Form.

Instructions for Final Paper Outline

Deadline: 1. 8. 2025

• The length of the paper (including footnotes, bibliography, and places for graphic attachments) must be up to 5,000 words. The total number of words includes the words of the summary in Slovene and English.
• No numbering is necessary when designing the papers, and the authors must use the font Times New Roman, size 11, spacing 1.5 and align the text on both margins (Justify).
• Authors are advised not to divide the text into too many sub-chapters. Authors are instructed to prepare papers with up to 4 subchapters (Introduction with an overview of the literature, Research Methodology, Results and Discussion, and Conclusion) for papers presenting research results or up to 3 subchapters if they are exclusively theoretical papers (Introduction, Presentation and discussion of phenomenon and Conclusion). Each new paragraph should be started indented in the text with a margin of 1.25 cm.
• On the first page of the work, the title of the work in English should be written in capital letters, the name and surname of the author without titles, the name of the institution and the e-mail address. This data must be centrally aligned (Center) with the rest of the text. The editors will delete this data before submitting the manuscript for review.
• The paper should contain a summary in English. The summary should not exceed 200 words and should refer to the purpose of the work, the methodology used, the most important results and the conclusion. Authors should specify between 3 and 5 keywords in the language of the work.
• In the list of references, all those references mentioned in the text should be listed. The works are numbered and listed in alphabetical order according to the authors’ surnames and in chronological order for the same author’s works. If several works of the same author are listed with which the same year of publication, they should be distinguished by the letters (a, b, c) from the year of publication. In the case of the joint work of several authors, the form “and collaborators” is not used in the list of references, but all authors are listed.
• The Proceedings uses APA style for formatting references in the text and in the bibliography.
• The final text should be submitted in PDF format using the Submission Form.

Formatting References in the Text According to APA Style

Sources should be cited in the text, not in footnotes. The reference is placed in brackets and contains the last name of the author, the year of publication and if it is a quote, the page number. For example, (Bondl, 1996) or Bondl (1996) or (Bondl, 1996, p. 70).

If the paper has two or three authors, all authors should be listed, e.g. Milas and Halmi (2000) or Yu, Sung and Hu (2013). In the case of a joint work of four or more authors, in the first citation, all authors’ surnames must be listed in parentheses. When citing again, the form “et al.” is used. All references in the text are cited as they were the first time, i.e. forms such as “ibid.”, “op. cit” and the like. Authors are suggested to use footnotes exclusively for commenting or supplementing what is stated in the text.

Creating a Bibliography According to APA Style

• Book (one author): Rosenberg, S. (2001). Tourism and space. London: SAGE
• Book (multiple authors): Davis, M., Tim, H., Bloom, M. (2013). Leadership. Frankfurt: Springer Book (multiple authors): Davis, M., Tim, H., Bloom, M. (2013). Leadership. Frankfurt: Springer
• Journal Paper: Spetch, M. L., Wilkie, D. M. (1983). Subjective shortening: A model of pigeons’ memory for event durations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 9, 14-30.
• Paper in Proceedings or book chapter: Musselin, C. (2003). The Academic Workplace: Up to now, it’s not as bad… but! – Country Report France, In J. Enders, E. de Weert (Ed). The International Attractiveness of the Academic Workplace in Europe, (pp. 137-155), Frankfurt: Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft
• Unpublished master’s/doctoral dissertation: Marić, M. (2012). The city and its qualities in the spatial and temporal determinants of anthropological research. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Zagreb: Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb
• Laws: Law on Science and Higher Education. Official Gazette, 33/2001, 129/2005
• Online Resources: Knight, Jane. (2002). Trade in higher education services: The implications of GATS. London: Observatory on Borderless Higher Education. Retrieved, date from HYPERLINK “http://www.obhe.ac.uk”

Template and guidelines for formatting papers can be found in the following file Template_češnjev simpozij2025.docx

If you have any questions regarding the submission process or paper preparation, please contact us at akademija[at]covirias.si.