PRINCIPLES OF THE EDITORIAL WORK
The contents of the individual issues of the journal Acta onomastica are compiled by the editors and they are discussed by the editorial board.
The journal includes the following sections: Articles, From Dissertations and Seminary Works, Discussions, Reviews, Chronicle, and News and Comments. The recommended languages of the contributions are: Czech, Slovak, German, English or other Slavonic languages.
The peer review procedure is reciprocally anonymous; the reviewer does not know the identity of the author of the reviewed text, and the author of the text does not know the identity of the author of the review.
The contributions of the sections Articles, From Dissertations and Seminary Works and Discussions are reviewed at least by two reviewers. In a standard form, reviewers indicate whether they recommend the contribution for publication, suggest its revision, or do not recommend its publication. If the reviewer suggests a revision of the text, s/he indicates, whether s/he recommends initiating a second round of the review procedure. Regarding the conclusions of the reviews, the editors inform the author whether the contribution is accepted, rejected, or whether its revision is required, and provide the author with all the obtained reviews. In case the author is asked to revise the text, s/he should inform the editors about the made changes, or explain which objections where not taken into account and why. If necessary, the editors can have the revised version of the contribution re-evaluated by one or more reviewers.
The contributions of the sections Reviews, Chronicle, and News and Comments are reviewed usually by one reviewer. The revised version of the contribution is evaluated exclusively by the editors.
The editors choose reviewers regarding their professional specialisation. The reviewer should not come from the same place of work (department, institute) as the author of the contribution or should not be in a close professional contact with him/her (e.g. as a member of a project team). The reviewers of one text should not come from the same place of work (department, institute).
Contributions that entirely obviously do not comply with the orientation of the journal, entirely obviously are not in accordance with the standards of the scientific work or their linguistic quality is entirely obviously unsatisfactory are not forwarded to the review procedure. Furthermore, the editors do not accept texts already published or accepted for publication elsewhere (including translated versions of the given text).
Texts are edited in cooperation with the author. The author accepts the first proofreading of the typeset text; after the authorial proofreading the second proofreading is made only by the editors and the finalised text is submitted to printing.