Address:

Zavod za varstvo kulturne dediščine Slovenije

Varstvo spomenikov – uredništvo

Poljanska cesta 40

SI-1000 Ljubljana

Editor:

Biserka Ribnikar Vasle, biserka.ribnikar@zvkds.si

Executive Board:

• dr. Andrej Gaspari, Univerza v Ljubljani, Filozofska fakulteta, Oddelek za arheologijo, Ljubljana, Slovenija
• dr. Sonja Ifko, Univerza v Ljubljani, Fakulteta za arhitekturo, Ljubljana, Slovenija
• dr. Mojca Marjana Kovač, Zavod za varstvo kulturne dediščine Slovenije, Piran, Slovenija
• dr. Robert Peskar, Zavod za varstvo kulturne dediščine Slovenije, Ljubljana, Slovenija
• dr. Bojana Rogelj Škafar, Slovenski etnografski muzej, Ljubljana, Slovenija
• mag. Marko Stokin, Zavod za varstvo kulturne dediščine Slovenije, Ljubljana, Slovenija
• dr. Marko Špikić, Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Odsjek za povijest umjetnosti, Zagreb, Hrvaška
• mag. Tamara Trček Pečak, Univerza v Ljubljani, Akademija za likovno umetnost in oblikovanje, Ljubljana, Slovenija
• dr. Katharina Zanier, Zavod za varstvo kulturne dediščine Slovenije, Ljubljana, Slovenija
• mag. Gorazd Živković. Bundesdenkmalamt, Abteilung für Kärtnen, Celovec, Avstrija

PRESENTATION

1. Varstvo spomenikov is Slovenia's main academic and professional journal devoted to the theory and practice of monument protection. It is published by the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia.

2. The journal first appeared in 1946, with one issue published a year up to 2010.

3. The journal is divided into two parts. The first (longer) part contains articles classified according to the COBISS (Co-operative Online Bibliographic System and Services) typology under codes 1.01 to 1.04, where 1.01 means original scholarly article, 1.02 means review article, 1.03 means short scholarly article and 1.04 means professional article. The articles published in this part of the journal are peer-reviewed and are counted as reference articles in domestic and foreign academic environments. The category of the article is proposed by the author but the final decision is taken by the editorial board on the basis of the reviewer's proposal.

The second (shorter) part, which follows the first, contains reviews (COBISS code 1.19), presentations (of books, projects, events, lectures, conferences, etc.), library information, etc. Articles published in this part of the journal are not subject to peer review. The first part of the journal is called Razprave [Papers] and the second Predstavitve [Presentations]

TYPE, LENGTH AND STRUCTURE OF ARTICLES

4. The individual issues of the journal are not as a rule thematically oriented. The journal publishes articles from various fields and disciplines (archaeology, ethnology, history of art, architecture, landscape architecture, conservation, restoration, geography, etc.) which follow the scholarly and professional interest of their authors in the protection, research and management of cultural heritage, international acts and national legislation, spatial planning and information technology in the monument protection field, Conservation studies, monument protection history and doctrine, etc.

5. Articles in the Razprave section are published in Slovene and English. As a rule translations are arranged by the editorial office.

6. Papers should not exceed 24 pages (30 lines, 64 characters per line) or 46,000 characters with spaces. Articles from the Predstavitve section should not exceed 5 pages (9,300 characters).

7. The contents of papers should follow this sequence: title, subtitle (where appropriate), abstract, keywords, text divided into individual chapters (including an introduction and conclusion), list of references and summary. The title and subtitle of the article should accurately but concisely indicate the essential content. As a rule, the most important concepts dealt with in the article should be indicated at the start of the title or subtitle. The maximum recommended length of titles is 140 characters. The abstract should be no more than 6–10 lines long (up to 650 characters). It must be self-explanatory and intelligible to someone who has not read the whole article; it should contain an outline of the methodology used and results obtained; whole sentences should be used and little-known abbreviations should be avoided. Abbreviations should be explained in Slovene at first use. If this is not possible, the abbreviation should be explained in the language in which it originates. Keywords should consist of 3–8 words indicating the content of the article; these should be simple expressions in the nominative singular case. The author should attempt to select keywords that are already in general use in the COBISS system. The UDC call number or classification shall be provided by the editorial office. The summary should be 30–45 lines long (maximum 1,900 characters). In it, the author shall define the purposes, main characteristics and methodology of the research work and the most important results and conclusions of the article. The text of the article must be clearly and intelligibly structured with titles of sections and subsections. A maximum of two levels of subsections (subsections and sub-subsections) are permitted. The author may also include a short acknowledgements section which will be published before the list of references.

8. In order to guarantee anonymity during the peer-review process, the name(s) of the author(s) should only appear on a separate cover page. Titles and degrees should be included. Official abbreviations should be used for degrees but titles are not abbreviated. Female authors should use the female form of their title (e.g. docentka). The cover page should also state the address of the institution where the author is employed (or other appropriate address) and an e-mail address. If the article is the work of more than one author, the authors themselves shall determine the order in which their names appear. The cover page should not contain other information.

9. For book presentations and reviews (COBISS code 1.19) published in the second part of the journal, the author must first indicate the title of the article. This does not necessarily have to be the same as the title of the book or work which the author is presenting or reviewing but must relate to the content/review of the presented work or book and should be as brief and uncomplicated as possible. Following the title, the author must also indicate: the original title of the work, the name of the author(s), the name of the editor(s), the publisher and the year of publication, and the ISBN number.

FORMATTING AND LANGUAGE OF ARTICLES

10. Articles must be written in Microsoft Word format. Only one style should be used throughout the article – the default Normal style. This means that articles must have the following characteristics: line spacing: single; font: Times New Roman; font size: 12 pt; alignment: left; margins: 2.5 cm; A4 format. These rules change slightly in the case of illustrations and tables, where the font must be Arial and the font size must not be smaller than 10 pt. The pages of the article should be numbered in sequence and the page number should appear at the bottom of the page (centred).

11. The text of the article should use simple formatting. The use of indentations, hyphenation, underlining, shading or any other forms of formatting except the use of bold and italics is not permitted. The entire text should be lower-case (with the exception of initial capitals) and should contain no unnecessary abbreviations. If abbreviations cannot be avoided, the author should explain them at first use.

12. The author may include original expressions/terms alongside expressions translated into Slovene. The author should include the expression in brackets after the Slovene translation, following an abbreviation indicating the language of the original expression/term (e.g. Eng. for English, Ger. for German, Fr. for French, etc.) and then the expression/term in italics. The Slovene translation of the expression/term should be placed in inverted commas.

13. Do not use the automatic bullets and numbering functions in Microsoft Word to list items. Items in a list should be numbered or marked manually even though this means that the text will not be aligned vertically. The same applies to numbering the title, subtitle, sections, subsections, tables and figures. If numbers are not used to indicate the items in a list, dashes should be used instead.

14. Articles published in Slovene must be written in standard literary Slovene and observe the rules of Slovene usage as set out in Slovenski pravopis (2003, 2007).

15. The use of foreign words in articles written in Slovene is only permitted if a more suitable expression does not exist in Slovene.

TABLES AND ILLUSTRATIONS

16. Tables in the article shall be referred to (in articles written in Slovene) by the expression preglednica. Tables are incorporated into the text of the article and must not extend beyond the 2.5-centimetre margin. Each table must be intelligible, clear and simple, without additional explanation or description. Tables should consist of rows and columns intersecting in cells. Cells should not be shaded. Tables must be numbered in sequence with Arabic numerals and must have titles. The title of the table should appear above the table. The number and title of the table should be separated by a colon. Titles of tables should be as short and simple as possible. The title of a table should only end with a full stop if it is a full sentence. The author must cite the sources of the data in the table below the table. The sources used must be listed (in full) in the list of references at the end of the article.

17. The uniform designation 'Figure' shall be used for all types of illustration (photographs, maps, graphs, sketches, etc.). Figures must not be embedded in the text of the article. They must be numbered in sequence with Arabic numerals and must have titles. The number and title should be separated by a colon. Titles of figures should be as short and simple as possible. The author shall also include the source(s) of the illustration in the manner set out in these instructions for in-text citation of sources and references. In the case of original photographs and illustrations not taken from sources, the name of the photographer/illustrator shall be given after the title of the figure. The title of the figure shall only end with a full stop placed after the citation of sources (or the name of the photographer/illustrator) in the case of a full sentence.

18. If the author refers in the text to a figure (describes it, comments on it, etc.) it must be stated in the text what figure the author is referring to; if a figure complements the text of the article, the figure complementing the text must be indicated at the most appropriate point in the text. When referring to figures in the text, their numbers should be used, e.g. '(Fig. 1)', 'as can be seen from Figure 1', 'as shown by Figure 1', etc.

19. If a figure consists of more than one image (e.g. a vertical and/or horizontal sequence of photographs, sketches, tables, etc.), each individual element of the figure must be visibly and clearly numbered. The caption to the figure must include the number of the individual element of the figure and the title/explanation of this element, in the manner indicated in the example below. Such a title shall end with a full stop.

20. If an illustration contains text (e.g. labels on sketches, legends on graphs, labels/textual indications of units on the X and Y axes of graphs, etc.), this text must be given in Slovene and English. Labels should be as simple and as short as possible (if labels or textual indications of units on the X and Y axes of graphs and elsewhere are long, it is better to label these units with numbers and explain the numbers in a legend).

21. The font used in all illustrations must be Arial and the font size must be no smaller than 10 pt. Single line spacing, left alignment and A4 format must be used.

22. Illustrations (with the exception of graphs) must be delivered as bitmap images with a resolution of at least 350 dpi (dots per inch), in JPEG (highest quality) or TIFF format. The width of an image at this resolution should be at least 14.8 cm. If authors are unable to submit illustrations in the prescribed form, they should consult the editor before submission.

23. Graphs must be in Microsoft Excel format.

24. Each illustration must be saved and submitted to the editorial office in its own file. The filename of an individual image file must have the following format: surname of (first) author, underscore, abbreviation 'sl', underscore, number of the figure in the text, e.g. Fister_sl_1.

25. The author should count the space that the illustration will occupy in the article as an amount of text, in other words 250 words (half a page) or 500 words (whole page).

26. Authors should be moderate in their use of illustrations in the article. They should only use those they consider necessary to aid understanding of the content of the article.

NUMBERS AND MEASUREMENTS

27. Metric measurements should be used. In the case of numbers greater than 9999, commas should be used to separate thousands and millions (for example 13,432 or 1,514,800). When giving the scale of a map, a space should be used either side of the colon (for example 1 : 500,000). Numbers and units are separated by a space (for example 135 m, but 23.5%), but a space is not used before superscripts or subscripts indicating powers or indices (for example 143 km2, b5, 17 °C). Symbols in mathematical operations are separated by spaces, except brackets (e.g. p = a + c – b – (a + c : b).

ABBREVIATIONS

28. The Slovene versions of abbreviations and bibliographic references (ur.; idr.; isti.; ista; prav tam) shall be used in articles written in Slovene.

The abbreviation 'prim.' (cf.) is used to draw attention to a view which differs from that of the author or from that of the author of another cited work.

NOTES AND REFERENCES

29. Bibliographic references shall be given in the text. Explanatory notes shall be given as footnotes.

Footnotes containing additional text by the author shall be numbered consecutively from the beginning to the end of the text. Footnotes should not be too long.

30. Where the cited author is known, the bibliographic reference in the text should be as follows: (Zadnikar, 1982: 20–23) or, for example, 'Zadnikar (1982) states that...' Where a cited work has two authors, both are cited: (Buser, Cajhen, 1980) or, for example, 'Buser and Cajhen (1980) consider that...' In the case of works by several authors, only the surname of the first author is given, and the abbreviation et al. (meaning 'and others') is used for the other authors: (Benedetti et al., 2004) or 'Benedetti et al. (2004) believe that...' If there are six or fewer authors, all six are cited in the list of references at the end of the article, in the manner specified in these instructions. If there are more than six authors, the list of references at the end of the article cites the first six authors and adds the abbreviation et al. for the others, as specified in these instructions. If the article uses multiple sources with the same initial authors, all the authors up to and including the first different author must be cited in the text.

31. Works by one author published in the same year must be distinguished by the addition of lowercase letters (a, b, c, d, etc.) closed up to the year of publication e.g. '(Božič, 1992a, 1992b)' or 'Božič (1992a, 1992b) mentions that...' This is also how they must be cited in the list of references at the end of the article. Works by different authors all of which relate to the same content should be cited in alphabetical order of the author surname, separated by semicolons: (Fister, 1987; Stopar, 1990; Zadnikar, 1975). When citing two or more works by the same author, cite the author and the years of publication of these works in chronological order, separated by a comma: (Zadnikar, 1982, 1988). If the text contains consecutive references to the same work, the abbreviation ibid. is used in the second and all subsequent consecutive references in the same paragraph. If a work is still in the process of being published, use the wording 'in press' in brackets instead of the date of publication – this is also the way to cite the work in the list of references at the end of the article.

32. Quotations should be placed inside single inverted commas. The page on which the quotation appears in the work is indicated after a colon. A full stop is placed as final punctuation after the bracket containing the source of the quotation. If the text of the quotation in the cited work is on two or more pages, an unspaced dash is placed between the page numbers (Zadnikar, 1982: 36–37).

33. Longer quotations (over 40 words) should be placed in a separate paragraph and written in italics. A blank line should be left before and after this paragraph. In this case inverted commas are not used to mark the start and finish of the quotation. A full stop is placed as final punctuation after the bracket containing the source of the quotation.

34. In the case of quotations in which words/sections are omitted, omissions are indicated by an ellipsis in square brackets: [...]. This symbol is followed by a capital letter, unless only part of a sentence is omitted. If a capital letter does not appear at this point in the quoted work (e.g. because it is not the beginning of a sentence), the first letter is enclosed in square brackets.

35. In references to sources of which the author and editor are unknown, the name of the publisher (in articles in English the name of the publisher must in this case be translated into English) and the year of publication of the work are cited. For data published by the Statistics Office of the Republic of Slovenia, for example, the citation should be as follows: (Statistics Office of the Republic of Slovenia, 2007). Abbreviations may also be used for sources, e.g. SURS for the Statistics Office of the Republic of Slovenia, but the name of the source must first be given in full in the text of the article, followed by an explanation that from this point on an abbreviation, which must be specified, will be used for this source. For the above example (Statistics Office of the Republic of Slovenia, 2007), further references to it will use (SURS, 2007).

36. When citing laws in the text, the name of the law, the number of the Official Journal of the Republic of Slovenia and the year shall be given, where the abbreviation OJ RS shall be used for the Official Journal of the Republic of Slovenia, for example: (Cultural Heritage Protection Act, OJ RS, No 16/2008). When quoting directly from laws, the page number in the OJ RS is added.

37. If laws have official abbreviations, for example ZVKD-1, these may be used, but the name of the law must first be given in full in the text of the article, followed by an explanation that from this point on an abbreviation, which must be specified, will be used for this source.

LIST OF REFERENCES

38. All works (sources and references) cited in the article must be listed in alphabetical order at the end of the article in a section entitled References. The list of authors must not be numbered or otherwise labelled (with bullets, dashes, etc.). In the case of the citations shown below, the punctuation marks and font style (italic or regular) are given exactly as they must be given by the author in his/her article. 

Monographs and books (single author)

Fister, P. (1986): Umetnost stavbarstva na Slovenskem. Ljubljana, Cankarjeva založba.

Note: Author's surname name, Author's initial(s). (year of publication): Title: Subtitle if any. Place of publication, Publisher.

Monographs and books (three to six authors)

Pernet, L., Carlevaro, E., Tori, L., Vietti, G., Della Casa, P., and Schmid-Sikimić, B. (2006): La necropoli di Giubiasco (TI): Vol. II, Les Tombes de La Tène finale et d'époque romaine, Collectio archaeologica 4. Zurich, Swiss National Museum.

Note: If there are six or fewer authors, all authors are listed in the list of references. If there are more than six authors, the first six are given and then the abbreviation 'et al.'

Monographs and books (authors not known, editor known)

Dromgoole, S. (ed.) (2006): Legal Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage: National Perspectives in Light of the UNESCO Convention 2001. Leiden, Martinus Nijhoff.

Undergraduate theses, master's theses, doctoral dissertations, research reports

Uhać, M. (2003): Brodolom na rtu Savudrija. Undergraduate thesis. University of Zadar.

Verbič, T. (2008): Poročilo o ogledu arheoloških izkopavanj na lokaciji NUK 2. Research report. Ljubljana, Zavod za varstvo kulturne dediščine Slovenije, Območna enota Ljubljana.

Papers or chapters in monographs, books, encyclopaedias and proceedings of conferences, conventions, seminars, etc.

Dumont, A. (2000): Etat d'un cours d'eau à la fin du 18e siècle : la visite de la rivière d'Ourthe (Belgique). In: Bonnamour, L. (ed.): Archéologie des fleuves et des rivières, 25–27. Paris, Éditions Errance.

Note: In the case of proceedings of conferences, conventions, seminars, etc., the author does not state the name of the conference, convention, seminar, etc. or where and when it took place. The title of the book, monograph or proceedings is given in italics.

Papers in monographs published in a series with its own title

Svetličič, V. (1997): Drobne najdbe iz kovine, jantarja in roževine. In: Horvat, J.: Sermin. Opera Instituti Archaeologici Sloveniae, 3, 31–38. Ljubljana, Založba ZRC.

Note: the title of the book is followed by the title of the series and the number of the volume (if the collection is numbered). Numbering is always given in Arabic numerals even if Roman numerals are used in the book. The volume designation (Band, Heft, Vol., No etc.) before the number is also omitted.

Articles in periodicals

Delak Koželj, Z. (2008): Programski model delovanja etnologa konservatorja. Varstvo spomenikov, 44, 256–262.

Raban, A. (1992): Archaological Park for Divers at Sebastos and Other Submerged Remnants in Caesarea Maritima. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, 21(1), 27–35.

Note: the numeral 21 in 21(1) refers to the year of publication while the numeral 1 is the number of the issue in that year. If the publication does not have an issue number (for example a single annual publication), the author merely gives the number referring to the year of publication, but not in brackets. Names of publications must not be given in abbreviated form and must be given in italics.

Entries in encyclopaedias and lexicons

Slovenski biografski leksikon, s. v. 'Turner Pavel'.

Ulčar, M. (1995): Enciklopedija orožja: Orožje skozi sedem tisočletij. Ljubljana, Državna založba Slovenije, s. v. 'Enostrelne zadnjače'.

Note: when citing entries from well-known encyclopaedias and lexicons, only the title (in italics) and the edition (in the case of there being more than one) are given. It is not necessary to state the volume number or the place and year of publication. The title is followed by the abbreviation s.v. (from the Latin sub verbo meaning under the word or heading) and the cited entry in inverted commas. Italics are not used for the cited entry.

When citing information from a less well-known lexicon or encyclopaedia, the reference must of course include all the information given in the case of monographic works.

 Articles in daily newspapers

Petkovšek, J. (2009): Potrebujemo zakon, ne le odlok. Delo, 51(24), 30. 1. 2009, 9.

Laws

Protection of Cultural Heritage Act. OJ RS, No 16/2008. Ljubljana.

Publications of which the author and editor are unknown – for example statistical sources, encyclopaedias, atlases

Statistics Office of the Republic of Slovenia (2007): Statistični letopis 2007. Ljubljana.

Note: the publisher is given first, followed by the year of publication, the title of the work and the place of publication. In articles in English, the name of the publisher and the title of the work must be translated into English in this case.

Unpublished manuscripts and typescripts of which the date of writing is known

Plesničar-Gec, L. (2000): Emonski teater. Typescript.

Note: the name of the author of the manuscript/typescript is given first, followed by the date of writing, the title and an indication that it is a manuscript/typescript.

Unpublished manuscripts and typescripts of which the date of writing is not known

Snoj, D. (1999): Poročilo o zaščitnih izkopavanjih na lokaciji NUK II. Typescript (received 24. 1. 1999).

Note: the name of the author of the manuscript/typescript is given first, followed by the date (in this case the year that the author of the article received the source), the title, an indication that it is a manuscript/typescript, and in brackets are the exact date on which the work was received.

Interviews, conversations

Svetina, T. (1995): Marijina kapelica na Mlinem pri Bledu (personal source 25. 3. 1995).

Note: the reference consists of the name of the interviewee, the year of the interview and, as a title, the content of the interview. The exact date of the interview/conversation is given in brackets.

General remarks

–     If a work is still in the process of being published, use the wording 'in press' in brackets instead of the year of publication – this is also the way to cite the work in the text.

–     If there is more than one place of publication, the author must cite at least one of them.

–     If the publisher is a university faculty or a department thereof, following the place of publication the name of the university must be given first, followed by the faculty and then the department if applicable.

–     If there are two or more authors, the reference in the list of references at the end of the article always starts with the author cited (first) in the text.

–     If the same author appears both as the sole author of a work and as the first author in a group of authors, the works of which he/she is sole author appear before the group works in the list of references; the latter are arranged alphabetically by the surname of the second author (or if necessary the third). If the same author appears several times, works are cited by year of publication – starting with the oldest.

–     If the title of a cited work is in two or more languages, or if the entire article is in two or more languages, the author must add the titles of the work in the other language (or other languages) in square brackets after the title in the first language. If there are several of these titles, they must be separated by a slash (/) without spaces. If a bilingual or multilingual article in a publication is published in more than one place, the page numbers must be given for each separately, as shown in the example below:

Horvat, J. (2002): The Hoard of Roman Republican Weapons from Grad near Šmihel [Zaklad rimskega republikanskega orožja z Gradu pri Šmihelu pod Nanosom]. Arheološki vestnik, 53, 117–150 [150–192].

–     Page numbers are separated by an unspaced dash; authors should be careful to use a dash (–) and not a hyphen (-).

–     Every reference must end with a full stop.

Horvat, J. (2002): The Hoard of Roman Republican Weapons from Grad near Šmihel [Zaklad rimskega republikanskega orožja z Gradu pri Šmihelu pod Nanosom]. Arheološki vestnik, 53, str. 117–150 [150–192].

–      Navedba strani se piše s stičnim pomišljajem; avtor naj bo pozoren, da uporablja pomišljaj (–) in ne vezaj (-).

–      Vsaka navedba vira se konča s piko.

39. When citing archive sources it is necessary to give the name of the archive or an abbreviation thereof, the name of the collection and its call number, the number of the unit (folder or box) and the title and number of the cited document, all separated by commas. It is also a good idea to cite, where possible, details that appear on the cited archive material, for example the number and date of publication of a document.

Example of a reference to an archive source

Arhiv Republike Slovenije (ARS), Vicedomski urad za Kranjsko, AS 1, Box 1, Document 942.

40. Internet sources are cited as shown below. The reference should always end with the date of retrieval (the date on which the source was accessed on the web).

Example of a reference to an internet source where the author is known

Avramov, D. (2006): Social exclusion and social security. http://www.avramov.org/documents/document7.pdf (retrieved on 20. 2. 2008).

Example of a reference to an internet source where the author is not known

Internet 1: http://www.international.icomos.org/charters.htm (retrieved on 15. 9. 2008).

Note: in the first case the in-text citation will be: (Avramov, 2006); and in the second case (internet 1, 2...).

41. The list of references should only include works that are actually cited in the text of the article. Each item in these lists is concluded by a full stop.

REVIEW PROCEDURE, PROOFREADING AND COPYRIGHT

42. The editorial office accepts submissions of articles all year round. Authors must submit articles by post to the following address:

Zavod za varstvo kulturne dediščine Slovenije

Varstvo spomenikov – Editorial office

Metelkova ulica 4

SI-1000 Ljubljana

43. Illustrations must be saved in their final form in a folder which is separate from the text of the article. Do not send material by e-mail but write it onto a CD. Enclose a hard copy of all the files with the CD.

44. The editorial board reserves the right not to accept for review articles that are not fully drafted in accordance with the instructions for publication in Varstvo spomenikov.

45. The editorial board reserves the right not to accept for review articles that are not written in standard literary Slovene.

46. The author will be informed of the results of the peer-review process within a maximum of three months of submission of the article. If the reviewer proposes changes or improvements, the article is returned to the (first-named) author. Corrections and changes may at the same time be proposed by the editorial board. The author shall incorporate the changes proposed by the reviewer and/or editor and return the corrected text within five days. The corrections and changes are checked by an editor. Only those corrections and changes requested by the reviewer and/or editor are permitted.

47. If the review does not require the article to be corrected or supplemented, the review is not sent to the author. In this case the editorial board merely sends the (first) author a notification that the article will be published.

48. The decision on the classification of published articles within the typology of document/works in the COBISS bibliographic system is made by the reviewer. The correctness of the reviewer's decision is checked by the editor. If the editor does not agree with the reviewer's classification, the editor and reviewer decide on the classification together. The decision on the classification of unreviewed articles within the COBISS typology is made by the editor.

49.  Before publication all articles written and submitted in Slovene are copy-edited. The copy-edited text is only sent to the author for amendment if the copy editor proposes major corrections or inserts his own comments in relation to substantive content. In such cases the author corrects or improves the text in accordance with the copy editor's comments and returns the corrected text within three days.

50. Translation is done following the peer-review procedure or following incorporation of any corrections proposed by the reviewer and/or editor and a review of any major corrections proposed by the copy editor or comments by the copy editor.

In order to ensure that the translation is faultless, the translated article is checked before publication by a native speaker of English. If minor corrections are proposed, the translation is not returned to the author but corrections are made by the editorial board on the basis of the proposals of the native speaker. If it is found that the translation is linguistically problematic, the editorial board will arrange professional copy editing. The author will return the copy-edited text of the translation within five days. The amended text of the translation is checked once again. The article is published once it has been confirmed that the translation corresponds to the rules of English usage and the rules contained in these instructions.

51. Foreign authors will make arrangements with the editor for the translation of articles from English to Slovene. The article must be submitted in faultless English. Such articles will also be checked by a native speaker of English.

52. The editorial board may refuse to publish an article at the proposal of an editor or reviewer.

53. Only unpublished articles will be accepted. If the same article is already in the process of publication in another journal, the author must state this explicitly.

54. The author shall retain the moral copyright over original work submitted for publication in Varstvo spomenikov, while the material rights of reproduction and distribution in the Republic of Slovenia and other territories shall be transferred to the publisher free of charge, in perpetuity, for all cases, for unlimited editions and for all media.

55. Authors are required to obtain permission to publish illustrations over which they do not hold copyright and to forward said permission to the editorial board.

56. The author himself/herself is responsible for all claims made in an article, which is why we only publish signed articles.

57. On publication, every article author and every reviewer receives one free copy of the publication. Fees are not paid for articles.