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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 work submitted for publication has not been previously published or is not currently under review in any other journal.
  • The text is written in clear, concise and grammatical Hungarian with correct spelling and coherent scientific style.
  • The submitted file must be in Microsoft Word or RTF format.
  • The text should be in Times New Roman with 11-point line spacing; 10-point font size; 0.5 cm first line indented. Literature cited: 9 point font; 0.5 cm hanging indent.
  • In-text citations are used instead of footnotes.
  • All references in the text appear in the references section and vice versa.
  • If the works cited have a DOI (Digital Object Identifier), these are included in the references.
  • Funding information is provided if funding was received through a grant for the research that is discussed in the article, including funder name and grant number.
  • An abstract of 15-20 lines in Hungarian and in English is also provided at the beginning of the paper submitted to the sections “Articles” or “Onomastics and Events”.
  • 5–8 keywords in Hungarian and in English are also provided at the beginning of the paper submitted to the sections “Articles” or “Onomastics and Events”.
  • ORCID identifier(s) and the affiliation(s) of the auhor(s) requested in the “Guidelines for Authors” (institution, including faculty in the case of a university) are provided at the beginning of the article.
  • Provide the information requested for the „Contributors of this issue” (academic degree and position, workplace, city, public [preferably institutional] email address) at the end of the article.
  • The text adheres to the requirements of the given section as set out in the “Guidelines for Authors” and the style sheet.

Author Guidelines

Manuscripts submitted for publication must be relevant to the scientific profile and of high quality in terms of both content and form. Detailed information on the format and references are available in this document (PDF). The style sheet is available here for the articles and here for the reviews.

The journal only accepts and publishes articles in Hungarian. Papers in “Articles” and “Onomastics and Events” are accompanied by English abstracts.

Typical length of articles:

  • Section “Articles”: between 20,000 and 60,000 characters with spaces (references, abstracts and keywords not included).
  • Other sections: between 5,000 and 20,000 characters with spaces (references, abstracts and keywords not included).

Graphic material included in articles should be provided in the jpg or png format, not exceeding a resolution of 600x500 px.

Works should be submitted by email to the following address: nevtert@btk.elte.hu.

The journal does not have any article submission or processing charges (APCs).

The peer-review process

Papers undergo a double-blind peer review process and approval by the Editorial Board. Originality, quality (in terms of both content and form) and the relevance of the scientific information will be considered as criteria of the review process.

Submitted manuscripts are pre-screened by the Editorial Board and only papers whose topic is relevant for onomastics and fit the aims and scope of the journal are submitted to the double-blind peer reviewing procedure. This preliminary appraisal also examines whether the paper is formally and linguistically acceptable. Manuscripts that do not meet the criteria outlined by the journal will not be considered for publication, and authors will be informed of this decision.

If a manuscript meets the required criteria, it is forwarded to two reviewers. Authors and reviewers remain anonymous to each other. Reviewers and members of the Editorial Board must keep all reviewed material confidential. All reviewers have expertise in areas reflected in the submitted material. Reviewers are invited from the members of the Editorial Board and experts from various research and higher education institutions across the country and abroad. If the manuscript is of any interdisciplinary nature, experts from different fields of science may be invited to take part in the review process.

Invited reviewers must inform the Editorial Board about any potential conflicts of interest.

The review should include expert analysis of the material, objective and well-supported evaluation and constructive recommendations. The review should be concluded with a statement concerning the suitability of the manuscript for publication (the manuscript is recommended for publication without changes; the manuscript is recommended for publication following revision; the manuscript is not recommended for publication).

If both reviewers recommend the paper for publication and the Editorial Board agrees, the manuscript is accepted and the authors are informed by email, including the reviews and possibly a list of revisions suggested by the Editorial Board. The Editorial Board retains the right to reject the manuscript even if both reviewers supported the publication of the paper; authors of such manuscripts are fully informed of the reasons for rejection. After revision, the Editor-in-Chief checks the final version and decides whether it is ready for publication.

If the publication of the paper was not supported by the reviewers, the authors will be provided with the reviews, including the reasons for rejection. In case of two conflicting reviews, the manuscript is sent to a third independent expert and the final decision is made by the Editor-in-Chief.

Average duration of the review process: between 1 and 6 months.

Copyright, licensing and archiving

 Works submitted for publication must be original, previously unpublished and not currently under review. By sending an article to the journal, authors confirm that the article is their own original intellectual product and that no rights of a third party are harmed by its publication. In case of any claim by a third party, authors take full responsibility including any financial consequences.

The Copyright is exclusive property of the authors, while the journal has the right of first publication. The published work is licensed under Creative Commons License “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International" (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).

The journal does not necessarily share the opinion expressed in the published articles; the only responsible are the authors.

Authors’ name(s), ORCID ID, email address(es) (preferably institutional), and their institutional affiliation are made available in the journal.

Articles published in the journal are archived in Hungarian repositories and indexed in national and international databases (see Indexing).

No publishing fees

 The editing process is absolutely free of charges for authors. In coherence to a publication politics based on the principles of justice and equity, Névtani Értesítő does not charge article processing charges (APCs) nor article submission charges. Articles are accessed free of charges, immediately after their publication.

Privacy Statement

Authors’ name(s), ORCID ID, email address(es) (preferably institutional), and their institutional affiliation are made available in the journal. The names and email addresses registered on the website are used exclusively for the stated purposes of the journal and are not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.