Editing rules
IN MEDIAS RES – Journal on Freedom of the Press and the Rules of Social Publicity
Editing rules
Manuscripts should be submitted in Microsoft Word format (with .doc or .rtf extension), and not as a read-only file.
The body of the text should be written in Times New Roman font, 12 point font size, normal line spacing, zero spacing between text, and justified.
The Journal only accepts manuscripts for review of between 40 000 and 80 000 characters, or between 10 000 and 20 000 characters in the case of a review. The number of characters must be counted including spaces, footnotes, bibliography and appendix.
1. Title
TITLE IN CAPITAL LETTERS, BOLD, CENTRED
Subtitle in italics, centred
BELOW THAT, THE AUTHOR'S NAME (WITHOUT "DR.”, "PHD", "HABIL.", ETC.) IN CAPITAL LETTERS, CENTRED
Author’s title and institution, email address and ORCID (if available) in normal font, in a footnote signed with asterisks
For example:
DEFAMATION CASES IN THE CASE LAW OF THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS
CSABA PÁKOZDI∗
Abstract (an abstract in English of at least 1,000 characters and up to 1,500 characters, at least three and up to five keywords, and an English translation of the title, must be included after the title, and the author’s name, but before the body text).
[text]
[bottom of the first page] ∗ Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, University of Miskolc. Email: pakozdi@me.law.hu.
1 [Footnote text.] (Footnotes always end with full stop.)
2
…
2. Structuring the body text
The text can be structured using Arabic numerals only, in bold. The maximum depth of subdivision is three units (e.g. “3.3.1. Relevant case-law of the European Court of Justice” is allowed, but not “3.3.1.1.”).
3. Style of the headlines
For example:
1. Bilateral markets
[text]
1.1. The relationship between bilateral markets and the relevant market
[text]
1.1.1. Examination of substitutability
[text]
For the individual units of thought (paragraphs) in the text, there can be no marked paragraph, but the line must begin immediately. The text itself is everywhere justified.
4. Legal citations
Citating acts of law
If it is essential for understanding the subject matter, the text of the law – the official Hungarian text in the case of international conventions or EU law – can be quoted exactly and verbatim, enclosed in quotation marks. In other cases, a reference to the exact place of the legislation is sufficient.
Citing Strasbourg decisions
The name of the case in English, followed by the application number and the date of the decision, e.g.:
Campbell v. Ireland, no. 45678/98, judgment of 17 September 2001
Citing EU legislation
C-230/81 Luxembourg v. Parliament
C-40/79 P. v. Commission
TEC, Article 234
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1038/2006 of 7 July 2006 establishing the standard import values for determining the entry price of certain fruit and vegetables
Within the meaning of Article 4(2a) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 of 14 June 1971 on the application of social security schemes to employed persons and their families moving within the Community, as amended and updated by Council Regulation (EC) No 118/97 of 2 December 1996, as amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 307/1999 of 8 February 1999
Foreign (national) material must be cited according to the rules of the country (e.g., in Anglo-Saxon countries, not only the name of the case, but also the law report, its year, page number, etc.), e.g.:
Royal College of Nursing v. St Marylebone Corp'n [1959] 3 All ER 663 BVerfGE 1, 97 (1951)
5. References
Continuously numbered footnotes and not endnotes are required.
Books
First name comes first, followed by the surname.
e.g., Nick Couldry and Andreas Hepp, The Mediated Construction of Reality. Cambridge, Polity, 2017.
Article from a volume of studies
Author's Surname In Small Capitals, First name in normal font: The full title of the cited study, not italicised. In SURNAME OF THE EDITOR OF THE VOLUME OF STUDIES IN SMALL CAPITALS, First name in normal font: Title of the volume of studies with italics. Place of publication, Publisher, year of publication. page number.
e.g., VÉKÁS Lajos: ‘On our contract law regime de lege ferenda. In HARMATHY Attila (ed.): Endre Nizsalovszky memorial volume. Budapest, Eötvös, 1994. 231.
Article from journal
Foreign journals must be referred to according to the conventions of the country, e.g., for Anglo-Saxon journals, by including the year and the first page number of the article (possibly the year of publication), with capital letters in the title of the article:
e.g. Larry ALEXANDER, ‘A Unifying Theory? Impossible’, (1995) 95 Denver University Law Review 1007.
Repeated reference
Reference to a work already cited: AUTHOR'S SURNAME (note number of first mention) + page number – e.g., VÉKÁS (n 9) 233.
If a footnote contains a complete reference to several works by the same author, and a new reference is made to one of them later, the year of publication of the work referred to is added to the previous one in brackets.
e.g., VÉKÁS (1994) (n 9) 233.
In the previous case, if several works by the same author were published in the same year and referred to, a letter is used to distinguish them (this must be indicated in the first, complete reference) – e.g., ALEXANDER (1994a) (n. 18) 1008.
If the following footnote is from the same work: Ibid. 34.
Footnotes always begin with a capital letter and end with a full stop. You can use the abbreviations Cf. and E.g.
Internet reference
Reference is made by specifying the URL,
e.g. www.echr.coe.int/Convention/webConvenHUN.pdf or
europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/news/20040702_01.html
The bibliographic reference of a volume or journal publication cannot be replaced by a URL; the internet address can only supplement the same.
6. Quoting foreign texts
The quotation is preceded and followed by a printed quotation mark: i.e. „quotation” and not “quotation”. If the quotation does not begin exactly as it appears in the original, use square brackets for correction: ‘[Q]uotation’. Do the same when correcting a part of a quotation that makes no sense. The same is true when the beginning of the quoted sentence is omitted. Parts omitted from the quotation should be indicated by ellipsis (...).
A quotation within a quotation should be indicated by an internal quotation mark (‘based on the principle of “clear and present danger”...’).
The quotation does not need to be italicized anywhere.
For example:
‘[Since] parties are a decisive part of the political system, it is appropriate that they are mentioned in the general provisions ... in the Constitution. ... [Parties] are mentioned in other constitutions [as well] outside the chapters on state organs and fundamental rights, either in connection with sovereignty or the right to vote.”
Quotations longer than 60 words should be printed in 10-point font, skipping a line at the top and bottom, starting from the beginning of the line.
For example:
To resolve the apparent contradiction, we can take as a starting point a part of the reasoning of the examined Decision 165/2011 (XII. 20.) AB of the Constitutional Court:
„Shaping democratic public opinion is both the right and the responsibility of the press as an institution. A community-based understanding of press freedom, complementing the individual fundamental rights approach, and distinguishing it sharply from various collectivist considerations based on monopolies of opinion, is not alien to democratic thinking and is even the basis of democratic legal systems. The free press and deliberative democracy are mutually dependent concepts: only the individual in a position to decide can provide an adequate response to public issues, and the free press plays a key role in shaping this decision. The maintenance and operation of a public opinion capable of making democratic decisions can therefore justify interventions by the state that go beyond the mere protection of institutions and the creation of a framework.”
The conclusions drawn from the quoted passage of the decision should be carefully considered and analysed before turning to the specific provisions of the decision.
7. Emphasis
In the body text, the emphasis of a phrase or passage is given by italics – no underlining, no bold, no CAPITALIZATION.
An important word, a word used in a specific sense, a foreign word, a legal principle in general use can be highlighted.
However, do not use italics for highlighting content or for highlighting passages that are considered important.
8. Figures, diagrams and tables in the manuscript
The manuscript may include figures, diagrams and tables.
Figures and diagrams edited in Word (SmartArt, Diagram) and imported Excel spreadsheets should be included in the document in an editable version, not converted to an image.
9. Bibliography
The references should be listed in alphabetical order by the surname of the first author.
The form of the reference in the bibliography is governed by the editorial rules described in Section 4.
If a source has a DOI (digital object identifier) number, it must be included:
Hagendorff, Thilo, The Ethics of AI Ethics: An Evaluation of Guidelines. 30 Minds & Machines (2020) 99–120, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11023-020-09517-8
The following search can be used to check whether a cited publication has a DOI registered with CrossRef: https://doi.crossref.org/simpleTextQuery
Budapest, July 2023
The editorial team of In Medias Res
