Policies

Focus and Scope

The editorial team accepts contributions in the field of historical demography, historical sociology, palaeodemography, archival studies (if concerning the sources usable in demographic research), historical geography, historical statistics (if concerning the population history or demography history), ethnography and historical anthropology (if concerning the issues of natural increase, family and migrations). The journal also publishes literature reviews and reports on developments in the field. 
The editorial team does not accept reviews written by scholars who have personal or professional relations with authors of the reviewed publications.
 

Publication Frequency

Historická demografie/Historical demography is published online. There are two issues per year, published quarterly on 30 June and 30 November. 
 

Section Policies 

Peer Review Process

The peer review process is bilaterally anonymous. Each submitted paper is first judged within a narrow editorial circle. If the editorial office decides to put the article on review, it is subsequently sent to two independent opponents. The author must take into consideration their comments and make appropriate changes in his/her text. The assessments together with a new version of the manuscript are then submitted to the editorial board of the journal, whose members can decide upon additional comments and recommendations, which the author is obliged to integrate into the text. Upon the recommendations of reviewers and the editorial board, the Editor-in-Chief decides whether or not the contribution will be: a) published without changes or with only minor modifications, b) rewritten and submitted for assessment again, c) rejected, or d) sent to a third reviewer. The author is notified about the decision to publish the manuscript within 14 days after the session of the editorial board, which is always held in spring and autumn. The editorial office makes linguistic corrections and graphic layout of the text, which might demand modifications or reduction of attached graphics and illustrations.

Submitted manuscripts cannot have been published elsewhere, and they cannot be currently under review elsewhere. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.

Manuscripts are only accepted in electronic form submitted to the e-mail address of the editorial office hdredakce@gmail.com. The cover letter should contain complete address, including your e-mail and parent institution. The authors neither pay any fees for editing and publication of their articles, nor receive royalty payments. Prior to submitting the article, it is necessary to remove all identifying references to the author(s).

Open Access Policy

The journal’s goal is to foster leading research in ethnology and sociocultural anthropology by maximizing the free exchange of scholarly knowledge. Historická demografie/Historical demography provides open access to all of its content. The journal is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).
Vital Information for Authors:

1. Fees: There are no article processing charges (APC) for authors or for article submissions.
2. Copyright Owner: The author.
3. License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).
4. Self-Archiving: The author may archive pre-print, post-print, and publisher's versions (PDF) of their article, but must provide the journal title, volume, issue, pages, DOI, and link to the journal website.
5. Content freely available on the journal website: Immediately upon publication.

Indexing, Abstracting and Archiving

Historická demografie/Historical demography is regularly indexed and abstracted in Scopus and ERIH+.

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

COPE general guidelines http://publicationethics.org/

Publication Decisions
The Editor-in-Chief is responsible for determining which articles submitted to the journal are to be published. The Editor-in-Chief follows the reviewers’ recommendations and his/her decision must always be approved by the Editorial Board. The Editor-in-Chief must also follow the journal’s policies and legal requirements, such as those regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism.

Equal Opportunity
Every manuscript will be reviewed based on intellectual content without regard to the author’s age, gender, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, country of origin, or political philosophy of the authors.

Confidentiality
All manuscripts submitted for peer-review are kept strictly confidential. The Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial Team must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, or other editorial advisers, as appropriate.

Zero Tolerance for Ghostwriting
Academic integrity is the foundation of quality scholarship and readers should be assured that the authors of published works are presenting results and findings in their studies in a manner that is in keeping with the standards of transparency, integrity, and honesty.
Scholarly ethics as well as the highest editorial standards require strict transparency of information on all persons and institutions that have contributed to the publication (i.e. to its ideas, content, production, or funding, etc.). Providing complete information of this kind is not only an expression of good academic practice but also a proof of social responsibility. Ghostwriting and "guest authorship" are practices that violate this principle.
Ghostwriting occurs when a person has substantially contributed to a publication, but his/her participation as a co-author is not revealed or his/her role is not acknowledged in the acknowledgements included in the publication.
"Guest authorship" ("honorary authorship") occurs when an author’s/co-author’s contribution to a published work has been scant or none-existent, and yet he/she is listed as the author or co-author of the work.
In order to counteract ghostwriting and guest authorship, the journal’s Editorial Board has introduced the following principles:

1. Authors are required to reveal their own specific contributions to a particular work (i.e. providing their affiliation and specifying the nature of their contributions).
2. Authors are required to provide a financial disclosure (i.e. reporting their resources of financing the publication and any contributions from academic research institutions, associations, and other bodies).
3. Information specified in points 1 and 2 should be provided in the declaration enclosed with the manuscript.
4. The Editorial Board will document all instances where the priciples of scholarly ethics have been violated and infringed upon and notify appropriate bodies and authorities.

Multiple, or Concurrent Publication
Submitted manuscripts must not have been published elsewhere, and they cannot be currently under review elsewhere. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal at the same time constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is not tolerated.

Acknowledgement of Sources
Proper acknowledgment of work by others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work.

Fundamental Errors in Published Works
When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.

Copyright
During the submission process the authors are asked to agree to the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), which will apply to the submission if and when it is published by this journal.

Promptness
Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse himself/herself from the review process.

Confidentiality
Double-blind peer review is applied. Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editors.

Standards of Objectivity
Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

Acknowledgement of Sources
Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also call to the editor's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.

Disclosure and Conflict of Interest
Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

Service to the Academic community
The editors do not pay any fees to reviewers.

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