Template/instructions for authors
Please note the following guidelines when working on your article:
- Each chapter requires a summary of no more than 5 sentences.
- Divide chapters into sections and subsections: 1 section, 1.1 subsection, etc.
- Format text using the Word template and Word functions.
- Basic font: Times New Roman without manual hyphenation in the body text
- Format highlighted words and parts of sentences in italics in the running text.
- Use consistent spelling for technical terms and abbreviations.
- Number figures and tables from 1–n: Fig. 1, Fig. 2, Tab. 1, Tab. 2, etc.
- If necessary, obtain permission to reuse figures/graphics and copyrights.
- Author name(s) and year of publication in parentheses: (Bourdieu 1990)
- If the author's name already appears in the text: ... Bourdieu (1990) ..., otherwise: (Bourdieu 1990, p. 120) (Weber 1956, p. 20ff.; Durkheim 1988a, p. 41ff.)
- For two authors: (Münch and Smelser 1992, p. 11), for more than two authors: (Zapf et al. 1990)
You can download the complete manuscript guielines here (in German).
Here you can download the publisher's Word template as well as instructions.