The Civil Review (CR) is a quarterly periodical that was started in Hungary, 2004. The periodical is a real civic initiative: the founder editors – well known and key experts, researchers, NGO leaders – realized that there was a massive demand for the distribution of high quality studies focusing on civil society and NGO sector related issues.  

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For Our Authors

Civil Review is a professional journal, which publishes scientific analyses and reviews. All submitted articles, which match the journal’s character, will be judged by the editorial office with the assistance of experts. All papers should be unpublished, original and should not be under the review of another journal. As our journal is included into the international citation index, the submitted paper’s format has to comply with the following instructions:

1. The article should be sent by e-mail to: Ez az e-mail cím védett a spamkeresőktől, engedélyezni kell a Javascript használatát a megtekintéshez Length should be approx. 40 000 characters in MS-Word for Windows in 6.0 format (or fresher).

2. A short summary of the paper in English is required. (1500-1500 characters each.) The accepted studies will be accessible on the internet. Please attach your contact information (mailing address, telephone, fax, mobile phone, e-mail), and five keywords of the study in  English.

3. Please include the author’s curriculum vitae; written in ten rows, as a continuous text and in third person singular. (Viewpoints: year of birth, place of birth, qualifications, workplace, relevant activities, main topics, potential prizes, awards.)

4. The title of the text should include only the author’s name and the article’s title (and subtitle). The potential acknowledgements will have to be added in footnote marked by *.

5. Footnotes must only be attached to the body of text if they contain comments, supplements to the main text. Footnotes must not include a single reference to a literature in itself. References should be placed in the main text as the following:

– If the author’s name of the quoted work appears in the text, then the year of publication and, if necessary, the pages numbers should follow the name in brackets. For example: Pokol (2004: 75)

– In other cases (for example: quotation, etc.), the author’s name, the year of the publication and if necessary, the quoted page numbers should be in brackets; for example: (Malinowski 1979: 35).

Please avoid references like: “OP.cit.” and “Loc.cit.”

6. Tables in the text need to be numbered and supplied with a title. The title of the tables, the name of the columns and rows, and the explanations must be written in the language of the article. We cannot accept merely inserted tables from statistic and analyst programs which are not revised. If the author would like to attach illustrations, they should be submitted in black-duplex format.

7. Bibliography has to be included on a separate page after the main text under “Bibliography.” It must be in alphabetical order of authors, include all the refrences used in the main text and in the footnotes. It must not include works that are not referred to in the text. The format of references in our journal is the following:

– book: Author(s) (the year of publication): Title. Place of publication: Publisher’s name; example: Hoe Kázmér (1999): Well-making. Budapest: Ásatag Publisher.

– journal article: Author(s) (Year of publication): Title of article. Number of Volume, (Issue): the first and last page number; for example: Gardener Kelemen (1999): How Should We Spray? Nursery, 25 (2): 23–35.

– article in an omnibus edition: Author’s name (year of publication): Title of article. IN Editor of the omnibus edition: Title of the volume. Place of publication, Name of the publisher, first and last page number of the quoted work. Example: Spray Béla (1999): What Is The Garden Good For?. In Mole B. Béla (szerk.): Let’s Do Gardening! Budapest: Gardener Publisher, 89–101.

Unfortunately we cannot publish the works without summary, keywords and curriculum vitae in English.

The Civil Review Editorial Board and its Editorial Office