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Author Guidelines

Focus and Scope

Romano Džaniben is the only Czech Journal of Romani Studies whose contributions are subject to a peer-review process and which is published both in print and online in a freely accessible format. It was founded in 1994 and is published by the registered association of the same name, Romano Džaniben. The journal accepts, for peer review, studies and material dealing with Roma society, history, language and culture in the broadest sense. The journal also accepts review articles, i.e. more comprehensive reviews that take into account the broader context of the topic of the reviewed publication. Each issue of the journal also features (in non-peer-reviewed sections) a diverse range of interviews, personal profiles, memoirs, book reviews and discussions.

By submitting an article for consideration for publication in the journal, the author agrees to the license terms.

Please send your contributions by registering/logging in on this website. If you need advice, please do not hesitate to contact the editorial office: redakce@dzaniben.cz

Publication Frequency

There are a total of 2 issues per year, published on 30. September and 31. December.

Open Access Policy

Romano Džaniben aims to promote cutting-edge research in the field of Romani studies and to facilitate the free exchange of scientific knowledge. To this end, the editors provide open access to all content under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license, which allows anyone to copy, distribute, adapt, and use the content, including for commercial purposes, provided the original author, title, source, and license are properly credited.

Related information for authors:

● Copyright - the copyright owner is the author.

● Fees - authors do not pay any fees for processing or submitting manuscripts.

● self-archiving - the author can archive the version before and after printing as well as the publisher's version (PDF). However, this must include the journal name, year, issue, pages, DOI and a link to the journal website.

Indexing, Abstracting and Archiving

Romano Džaniben will seek regular indexing and abstracting in the international databases in 2025/ 2026.

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

The editors agree with and follow the general guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics: http://publicationethics.org/

For more information, see the Publication Ethics tab.

For more information about the editorial board and editorial team, see the Editorial Team tab.

 

Specific guidelines for authors

Please send your article in Times New Roman font, size 12, double-spaced, justified alignment. Footnotes and longer quotations indented in the text should be in font size 11.

The article must include:

• title in Czech and English
• abstract in Czech and English (both max. 250 words)
• keywords in Czech and English
  information about the author (e-mail, job title, institution/ workplace, ORCID, ROR)

Citation standard

We follow the APA citation style (7th edition), which uses in-text citations (author–date). We apply this style to texts from all disciplines, although specific conventions may vary in some fields (e.g., footnotes are sometimes preferred in historical studies).

BASIC RULES
Citations in the text are given in parentheses: (Author, year, p. xx).
The bibliography is arranged alphabetically by the surname of the first author.
If there are multiple works by the same author from the same year, they are distinguished by lowercase letters: (Hübschmannová, 2000a), (Hübschmannová, 2000b).
The titles of books, journals, and anthologies are written in italics, while other elements (e.g., article or chapter titles) are written in regular font.
English titles use sentence case—capital letters only for the first word and proper nouns.

LINKS IN THE TEXT
One author:
(Hübschmannová, 1993)
Hübschmannová (1993) uvádí, že …
(Matras, 2002, s. 59)
(Guy, 1998, s. 16–17)
(Guy, 1998; Hübschmannová, 1993, 2000; Matras, 2002)

Two authors:
(Marushiakova a Popov, 2020)

Three or more authors:
(Sadílková et al., 2018)

LIST OF REFERENCES

In the list of references, unlike in the text, we always list the names of all authors, even if there are three or more. All authors are listed, separated by commas, with "and" before the last name:

Novák, J., Svoboda, P. and Černá, M. (2020). Article title.

Sorting: alphabetically by the last name of the first author/editor; if authors are the same, sort chronologically (older → newer).

DOI/URL: if a DOI exists, it is given in full at the end of the record (https://doi.org/...).

Selected samples

Book
Hübschmannová, M. (1993). Šaj pes dovakeras – Můžeme se domluvit. Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého.

Stewart, M. (1997). The time of the Gypsies. Westview Press.

Chapter in a book, article in a collection
Grill, J. (2015). Historické premeny štruktúry medzikultúrnych vzťahov: Formy spolužitia v prípade Tarkoviec na východnom Slovensku. In T. Podolinská a T. Hrustič (Eds.), Čierno-biele svety: Rómovia v majoritnej spoločnosti na Slovensku (s. 146–171). Veda.

Sadílková, H. a Závodská, M. (2021). Asserting a presence in the public sphere: Autobiographies by two Romani Holocaust survivors in Communist Czechoslovakia. In C. Donert (Ed.), The legacies of the Romani genocide in Europe since 1945 (s. 183–213). Routledge.

Qualification thesis
Guy, W. (1977). The attempt of Socialist Czechoslovakia to assimilate its Gypsy population [Dizertační práce]. University of Bristol.

Mižigár, M. (2016). Romové v Písku: případová studie poválečného osídlení [Bakalářská práce]. Univerzita Karlova.

Collection
Marushiakova, E. a Popov, V. (Eds.). (2022). Roma portraits in history: Roma civic emancipation elite in Central, South-Eastern and Eastern Europe from the 19th century until World War II. Brill.

Podolinská, T. a Hrustič, T. (Eds.). (2015). Čierno-biele svety: Rómovia v majoritnej spoločnosti na Slovensku. Veda.

Article in a professional journal
Where available, include the DOI.

Olivera, M. (2012). The Gypsies as indigenous groups: The Gabori Roma case in Romania. Romani Studies, 5(1), 19–33.

Kobes, T. (2012). „Naši Romové“ – difrakční vzorce odlišnosti východoslovenského venkova. Romano džaniben, 19(2), 9–34.

Article in a newspaper
Elšík, V. (2005, 23. května). Romové, etnicita a radikální konstruktivisté. Literární noviny, (21), 6.

Internet sources
Berkyová, R. (2016, 26. května). „Vzkazuji Romkám…“ O emancipaci (nejen) romských autorek. Romea.cz. https://romea.cz/cz/uncategorized-cz/vzkazuji-romkam-o-emancipaci-nejen-romskych-autorek

Archival materials
Archival documents are cited in footnotes or in the text, as appropriate. The maximum amount of available information is provided: author or title, date, collection name, location, box/folder/unit number, etc.

Example: Protocol of negotiations on the post-war settlement of Roma in Czechoslovakia (1945, June 15) [Manuscript]. Collection of the Ministry of the Interior, Fund "Post-war settlement", Box 12, Folder 7, Unit 3. Archive of the Ministry of the Interior, Prague, Czech Republic.