• The journal’s policy on authorship and contributions

The Editorial Board assumes that all persons listed as authors of a submitted manuscript meet the following criteria for authorship: a) They drafted the manuscript b) They contributed significantly to the acquisition, analysis or interpretation of the data presented in the manuscript; c) They approved the version of the manuscript to be published; d) They agree to be accountable for all aspects of the work, ensuring that any inaccuracies and issues of integrity are adequately investigated and resolved.

The Editorial Board encourages collaboration with colleagues, who will be included as co-authors of the manuscript if they meet the above criteria for authorship.

Contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in the Acknowledgements section.

In the event of an authorship dispute, the authors will be asked to resolve it themselves. If this is not possible, the Editorial Board reserves the right to withdraw the manuscript from the editorial process.

Authors submitting a manuscript to the CSHR must adhere to the following principles of good research practice:

1)        Submitting not more than one publication for simultaneous consideration

2)        Submitting original work that has not been published elsewhere in any form or language (partially or in full), unless it has been substantially reworked or supplemented. A supplemented contribution must give information in a note at the end of the text about the reworking and the extent of the supplement with a clear statement on where the original version was published;

3)        Providing transparency on the re-use of materials to avoid the concerns about text-recycling (selfplagiarism)

4)        Not splitting a single study into several parts to increase the quantity of submissions and submitted to various publications or to one publication over time (salami publications)

5)        Clear and honest presententing of the data, avoiding fabrication, falsification, inappropriate data manipulation, and using the untrustworthy sources

6)        No data, text, or theories by others are presented as if they were the author’s own (plagiarism)

7)        Proper acknowledgements to other works must be given

8)        Citing of the appropriare and relevant literature in support of the claims made

9)        Avoid unnecessarily expanding the bibliography of a study to please editors, reviewers, or colleagues, or to manipulate bibliographic data

10)      Avoid hiding the use of AI or automated tools in the creation of content or drafting of publications.

 

•  The manner in which the journal will handle complaints and appeals.

The Editor-in-Chief of the CSHR is the contact person for complaints and appeals, acting on behalf of the Editorial Board. The procedure for resolving complaints and appeals is as follows:

• 1) Complaints relating to the scientific content, e.g. an appeal against the rejection of a manuscript.

Based on the authors’ arguments and the content of the reviews, the Editor-in-Chief will decide whether to uphold the decision or whether a further independent opinion from a third reviewer is needed. The complainant will be informed of the decision. The decision on the appeal is final.

• Complaints about processes, e.g. the long review procedure.
• Complaints related to publication ethics, e.g. conduct of a researcher, author or reviewer.

The Editor-in-Chief will investigate the matter and inform the complainant of the decision. If the complainant is dissatisfied with how his or her complaint has been handled, he or she may appeal to the journal’s publisher’s statutory body, the Institute for Contemporary History of the CAS, v. v. i.

• The journal’s policy on conflicts of interest;

When submitting a manuscript, the Editorial Board asks authors to disclose any potential conflicts of interest, such as research funding, employment (including conflicting affiliations) and non-financial interests (including membership of the journal’s editorial board).

 

• Content created by artificial intelligence (AI)

Passages that are the product of AI must be clearly distinguished from the actual author’s text, similarly to direct or indirect citations of literature. The citation must include the name of the source (description of the prompt); the name of the AI tool (e.g. ChatGPT); the version of the AI tool (date of the version); the name of the company that created the AI; the date the content was created; and the URL of the AI tool/unique URL of the conversation. Insert a footnote where you paraphrase the AI-generated text and include the text of the query (prompt). Example of a prompt for ChatGPT: Describe the symbolism of the green light from F. S. Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Paraphrasing of the generated text: the green light primarily symbolizes four main things: optimism, the unattainability of the American dream, greed, and envy (“Describe the symbolism”), while probably the most important one that connects all four themes is greed. Footnote: “Describe the symbolism of the green light from the novel The Great Gatsby by F. S. Fitzgerald” prompt. ChatGPT, version accessed 2/13/2023, OpenAI, 8/3/2023, chat.openai.com/chat.

•  The journal’s policy on ethical oversight.

The Editorial Board asks authors to include evidence of approval from the relevant ethics committee for manuscripts that involve research with human participants (e.g. oral history interviews, questionnaires, surveys).

•  The journal’s intellectual property policy;

The authors are the copyright owners. The editors reserve the right to edit contributions in terms of vocabulary and grammar. The studies will be published in traditional paper form and as an online version. By submitting a manuscript, the author consents to its inclusion in the journal, should it be recommended for publication in the peer review process, and to the publication of a printed version of their article in the electronic version of the journal online.

•  The journal’s options for post-publication discussions and corrections.

If the authors discover serious errors or inaccuracies in their article after publication, they must report this to the journal’s editorial board. The method of correction will depend on the nature of the error. This may involve correcting the article or retracting it.

•  Process for identifying and addressing allegations of research misconduct.

The Editorial Board strongly urges authors to adhere to the principles of good research practice when submitting manuscripts to the CSHR. Research misconduct in publication may include, but is not limited to, plagiarism, citation manipulation, data falsification/fabrication, and other questionable research practices. If suspected research misconduct occurs either before or after the publication of an article, the Editorial Board will properly investigate it according to the guidelines provided by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). COPE: Committee on Publication Ethics. If the suspicion is confirmed, the Editorial Board will propose corrections or retraction of the article based on the seriousness of the misconduct.

•  Royalties

The Czech-Slovak Historical Yearbook does not charge any fees for publishing manuscripts or materials in the journal. It also does not pay royalties for published texts.

•  The journal’s policies on data sharing and reproducibility. Access and Archiving
•  Access

Printed copies of the journal are available in all university and scientific libraries in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

The website offers open access

https://www.cskh.sk/cesko-slovenska-historicka-rocenka/fulltext/

Access to this website is free of charge. The journal can be viewed or downloaded in PDF format.

•  Archiving

All issues of the Czech-Slovak Historical Yearbook published from 2021 onwards are stored on the www.archive.org portal, where they will remain permanently accessible even if the journal ceases publication. The journal’s texts are freely available. All newly published issues will also be made available on archive.org as soon as they are published on the journal’s website.

 

•   Information about the ownership and management of the journal

The journal is governed by an Executive Editorial Board and overseen by National and International Editorial Board. It is published by the Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Prague),   Masaryk University in Brno and the Historical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (Bratislav).

 

•   Sources of revenue

The journal does not generate any income from royalties, subscriptions or advertising. The publishers cover the costs of publishing the journal.

 

•   Advertisement

As the magazine does not publish any advertisements, it has no advertising revenue.

• Direct marketing

The journal publishes calls for papers for individual issues by email through state historical societies in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and also publishes them on the publishers’ Facebook page. The announcement of the publication of a new issue is also posted on Facebook.