Instructions for Authors
General Notes
The journal "Protection of Nature" has been
published since 1949 and is the only of such type
of journals in Serbia. The journal publishes
professional, scientific and review papers,
information and statements, as well as reviews of
recent literature. The topics include a range of
natural and social science disciplines that study
the nature, geo- diversity, bio-diversity and
landscape diversity, protection and conservation,
the aspect of nature protection in tourism, urban
planning,
education
and
philosophical
understanding of nature.
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The manuscript should be up to 12 pages of
standard A4 paper size, and in the case of longer
papers, it is necessary to contact the chief editor
of the journal. Information and statements should
be up to three pages, including references and
abstract. A list of references should be up to two
pages with the complete original literature
references.
Only papers which were not published or
simultaneously submitted to another journal
should be accepted. The papers intended for
publishing in the first issue of the annual volume
will be accepted until April 15th of the current year,
whereas all papers submitted from April 15th to
October 15th will be published in the second issue
of the same volume.
Author / co-author may not submit more than two
papers for the same issue of the journal. If the
author is from abroad, the paper will be published
in English, with a summary in Serbian language,
provided by editorial board.
All papers will be reviewed. Editorial board
decides on the final contents of each issue of the
journal. There is no fee for published papers.
Preparation of manuscripts
 The title should be concise, thus explaining the
main aim of the paper. The concise title
should consist of up to 70 characters.
 The author / co-author: full name, institution
name and address, e-mail address.
 Key words: five to seven words.
 Abstract: up to 10 lines.
 Text (including abstract, figures, tables,
literature references) should be printed on a
standard A4 size paper (1800 characters),
with the 1.5 line spacing, justified, and with
designated space for figures or tables which
should be submitted as a separate file. The
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page should be formatized with margins,
2.5 cm from each edge. For measurement
units SI system is recommended. Foot notes
should be
avoided. Manuscript pages
should not be numbered.
Abbreviations should be clearly explained
when first used in the text.
The names of species should be according to
the biological nomenclature.
Literature references cited in the paper should
be listed on a separate page (in alphabetical
order). Literature references should be written
as in the original, if Latin, in Latin alphabet, if
Cyrillic, in Cyrillic alphabet.
When citing articles, the last name and first
letter of the name, or last name and initials of
all co-authors, year, full title of the article,
journal, volume, first and last page of the cited
article should be written. For instance:
Tilman, D. (1990): Constrains and tradeoffs:
toward a predictive theory of competition and
succesion. Oikos 58: 3-15.
Two or more authors: Bauer, A. & Knecht, F
(1997)
For citations from the book, the surname or the
surnames of authors, year, full title of the book,
publisher and place of publishing, number of
pages should be written:
Harper, J. L. (1977): Population Biology of
Plants. Academic Press, London.
If a particular chapter of the book is cited, the
surname or surnames of the authors, year, full
title of the article, or the chapter, the full title of
the book in which it was published, the name
(s) of the editor, pages, publisher and place of
publishing should be written:
Grime, J. P. (1979 ): Competition and struggle
for existence. In: Population dynamics;
Anderson, R. M., Turner, B. D. and Taylor, L.
R. (eds.), pp. 123-140. Blackwell Scientific
Publications, Oxford.
The literature references are cited in the paper
in the following way: Pantić (1988 ) or ( Pantić,
1988). If the citation refers to the work of more
than two authors, it should be written as
follows:
Harper et al. (1974)
At the end of literature references list, the
online references should be written, preferably
with the date of the download from the site.
The paper should generally include: an
introduction, defining the topic and providing
sufficient information on the previously
conducted research. The topic of the research
should be noted without conclusions.
Materials and methods should be clearly
explained in order of research conducted and
origin of material, that is, the topic of research.
The results should be placed in logical order.
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When discussing, the authors should clearly and
concisely interpret the results and point to the
importance of the results in the wider context,
without repeating the text from the section on
Results. The conclusion should be concise and
with indents.
The acknowledgements should be included in
cases of participation in projects, particular
funding of research or consultations.
Technical details:
The text should be written in Times New Roman,
font size 11, in Word format. Pictures should have
a resolution of at least 300 pixels / inches.
Acceptable formats for figures and tables are Tiff
or JPG. Additional materials (figures, tables,
graphs, etc.) should not be placed in the draft
version of the Word document, but provided as a
separate folder in the above mentioned format.
The manuscripts should be submitted to the chief
editor at the address of the Institute for Nature
Conservation of Serbia, in electronic form (CD)
and two printed copies, or by e-mail.