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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
The submission file is in Microsoft Word or RTF format.
Illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end; references are written in a separate section at the end of the paper (even when they are written in footnotes).
"The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
If the paper was written within a project financed by the Serbian Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation, both the title and ID of the project is stated in the paper under Acknowledgements.
Abstracts and keywords are written in two languages (a) Serbian, (b) English;
Manuscript contains between 6,000-8,000 words of text itself
I confirm that I am familiar with the ethical principles stated in the respective Journal documents.
I confirm that I am familiar with the Journal’s open access policy.
Licence Agreement: The undersigned Author(s) hereby grant to The Review of International Affairs (RIA), ISSN 0486-6096, ISSN online 2955-9030 (hereinafter referred to as the Journal), in case of acceptance for publishing, the right to publish this manuscript, including any tables, illustrations or other material submitted for publication as part of the manuscript (hereinafter referred to as the Article), to be cited as its original publisher in case of reuse, and to distribute it in all forms and media. As regards the Scholarly communication rights: the author(s) retain the copyright in the Article and that no rights in patents, trademarks or other intellectual property rights are transferred to the Journal. As the author(s) of the Article, I/we understand that I/we shall have the same rights to reuse the Article as those allowed to third party users of the Article under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 4.0 International license (CC BY-SA 4.0) licence. Pertaining to the User rights: The publisher will apply the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence to the Article published in the journal on its online platforms on an Open Access basis.
The views expressed in the published articles and other materials do not express the views of Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Board. The authors take legal and moral responsibility for the ideas expressed in the articles. The Publisher shall have no liability in the event of issuance of any claims for damages. The Publisher will not be held legally liable in case of any compensation or similar claims.

Privacy Statement

Your name and email address provided during registration will be used exclusively for the purposes of this journal and its publishing activities, in accordance with the applicable laws of the Republic of Serbia on personal data protection. The collected personal data will not be disclosed, shared, or made available to third parties under any circumstances, except where required by law.

Ensuring a Blind Peer Review

To ensure the integrity of the blind peer-review for submission to this journal, every effort should be made to prevent the identities of the authors and reviewers from being known to each other. This involves the authors, editors, and reviewers (who upload documents as part of their review) checking to see if the following steps have been taken with regard to the text and the file properties:

The authors of the document have deleted their names from the text, with Author and year used in the references and footnotes, instead of the authors' name, article title, etc.;
With Microsoft Office documents, author identification should also be removed from the properties for the file (see under File in Word), by clicking on the following, beginning with File on the main menu of the Microsoft application: File > Save As > Tools (or Options with a Mac) > Security > Remove personal information from file properties on save > Save.
With PDFs, the authors' names should also be removed from Document Properties found under File on Adobe Acrobat's main menu.