Submission Guidelines

The contributions must be in one of the following languages: English, French or German, with a short abstract and keywords written in English. The main text of contributions should not exceed 10,000 words.
As far as we are a peer-reviewed publication, please do not indicate your name and affiliation, except the first page of your manuscript where mention only the followings:

  • Name of the author(s)
  • Affiliation of the author(s)
  • Electronic address of the author(s).

Please send your work in Times New Roman, 12, double space. Please do not insert any indent.

Please provide information about the source of funding/ acknowledgments, if applicable. Acknowledgments should be placed at the end of the contribution, just before references list.

We ask authors to provide notes and comments as footnotes within the flow of the text, generally at the bottom of the page. In case your notes contain charts, tables, long equations, or other terms that make a footnote impractical, you can include this information in an appendix or as an endnote. The references should be cited in the text. No full-length bibliographic references should appear in the main text of the submission. All references should be placed at the end of the submission.

References

List all sources cited in the text in a section at the end. Place them in alphabetical order, and do not number them. Include all authors’ names.
A citation of a reference places both the name and the date within parentheses, with no punctuation between them: (Mureşan 2007). For author – page citation please use: (Mureşan 2007: 78).

For works with two authors, use the full form of the citation at all times. For three or more authors, use the first author’s surname followed by “et al.” for all citations. When two or more works by the same author are cited together, do not repeat the name(s). Separate the dates by commas: (Bolovan 1999, 2005). With more than one reference to an author in the same year, distinguish those works by attaching lower case letters (a, b) to the year of publication: (Bolovan et al. 2005a, 2005b).

Examples

Basic format for books

Last name, Initials. (Year). Book title: Subtitle. Place: Publisher.

Book – single author

Citation in the text (Hărăguş 2008)

Reference list form: Hărăguş, M. (2008). Tranziţia la statutul de părinte în Europa. Evoluţii recente şi posibili determinanţi. Cluj-Napoca: Presa Universitară Clujeană.

Two authors

Citation in the text (Blossfeld and Rohwer 2002)

Reference list form: Blossfeld, H.P., Rohwer, G. (2002). Techniques of Event History Modelling. New Approaches to Causal Analysis. Mahwah, New Jersy: LEA Publishers.

Basic format for a chapter in an edited book

Last name, Initials. (Year). “Chapter’s title”. In Last Name, Initials (ed.).Book title. Place: Publisher, pp.

Citation in text: (Rotariu 2009)

Reference list form: Rotariu, T. (2009). “Marital and Extramarital Fertility in Latter-Day Romania”. In Fauve-Chamoux, A., Bolovan, I. (eds). Families in Europe between the 19th and the 21st Centuries. From Traditional Model to Contemporary PACS. Cluj-Napoca: Presa Universitară Clujeană, pp. 361-380.

Basic format for journal articles

Last name, Initials (Year). “Article title”. Journal Title Volume number (Issue number): page numbers.

Citation in the text: (Oaneş and Hărăguş 2009)

Reference list form: Oaneş, C., Hărăguş, M. (2009). “The Growth in Non-Marital Fertility and Other Related Behaviours in Romania after 1989”.  Romanian Journal of Population Studies III (1): 45-71.

Note: The same format should be used for references from newspapers.

Basic format for doctoral theses

Last name, Initials (Year). Thesis/Dissertation title. [PhD thesis]. Place: University, Faculty/Department.
Citation in text: (Crăciun 2009)
Reference list form: Crăciun, B. (2009). Evoluţia demografică a saşilor din Transilvania în epoca modernă. [PhD thesis]. Cluj-Napoca: Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai, Facultatea de Istorie.

Basic format for unpublished manuscripts
Last name, Initials (Year). Manuscript title [unpublished manuscript]. Place: Institution.

Citation in text: (Mureşan and Hărăguş 2010)

Reference list form: Mureşan, C, Hărăguş, M. (2010). Cum să înţelegem schimbările actuale ale fertilităii in România [unpublished manuscript]. Cluj-Napoca: Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai

Basic format for website content

Corporate body (Year). Title of the page. url, accessed in date.

Citation in the text: (Eurostat 2009)

Reference list form: Eurostat.(2009). Live births outside marriage. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/

Submission

Submission should be done electronically via e-mail to rjps@ubbcluj.ro. A confirmation letter is sent after the receipt of the manuscript. The paper is peer-reviewed (double-blind review) and feedback is forwarded to the authors within 4 months. Manuscripts should respect the formal requirements stated in the above sections.

The journal does not have article processing charges (APCs) nor article submission charges.