The Scientific Committee of the Scientific Bulletin will make an initial selection of all received manuscripts. The selected papers will be reviewed by at least two reviewers, based on anonymity.

The Scientific Bulletin practices a strict peer review process based on anonimity, that is the author's name is not disclosed to the peer reviewer, and the other way around. Each paper is reviewed by at least two peer reviewers. Each work is analyzed as quickly as possible, and an editorial decision is usually made within 4-6 weeks after the submission.

After the peer review, the response can be: acceptance as it is; acceptance with minor changes, and the requirement to submit the work again after performing the suggested changes or rejection. If the article is sent again for publication, after correction, this is referred to the initial peer reviewers to evaluate its new form.

If one reviewer supports the acceptance and the other one the rejection of the article, it gets sent for analysis to other two reviewers. If a decission whether to accept or reject the article still can not be reached,  the chief editor decides if the article is accepted after changes or rejected, depending on compliance with the editorial policy and the positive aspects identified by the reviewers.

2. Types of accepted papers
The Scientific Bulletin publishes articles, comments and reviews. Articles should usually be between 8,000 and 10,000 words (including footnotes), but larger or smaller  papers may be accepted based on their merits.

The editorial board may invite authors to publish articles on a certain theme and the received articles undergo the peer review process.

The ideas for the reviews are sent directly to the chief editor at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . For information concerning the format, see the curent issue of the Scientific Bulletin.

3. Publication Statement
Before publishing, Lumen Publishing House and the Scientific Bulletin requests the authors to sign a statement of publication. This statement is an exclusive declaration through which the author holds copyright over the work, but allows the Scientific Bulletin and Lumen Publishing House to publish that work, throughout the entire period of the copyright contract.

4. Guidelines for Publication
It is mandatory  for papers to include:
- The title in the same language the article is published; The translation of the title in English for the works published in Romanian;
- The names and affiliation of the authors as well as the scientific title and position of the person, the financing source of the research if any,the email address of the author/authors, the phone number (optional);  
- Abstract in English, not exceeding 150 words;
- Maximum 6 Keywords in English;
- The abstract and keywords will be in English for both the works in Romanian and English.
- The content of the paper will be structured  in introduction, chapters and subsections distinctly marked as heading 1, heading 2, etc., and possibly numbered. The introduction should include a short motivation of the choice of theme, a brief literature review if it’s the case, the questions or objectives of the research.
- There will be a chapter or a subsection on the methodology, the justification of the selected methodology, the method of applying it, etc.

- There will be a chapter or a subchapter containing the  analysis of research results and discussions
- It is mandatory to have conclusions.
- Quotations will be given as much as possible in the form of paraphrase. Quotations will be indicated in the text by specifying, between brackets, the author’s name and the year of publishing, example (Derrida, 2008). For more than three authors one writes (Miftode et all, 2004).
- The cited works must be listed in the bibliography, too.

Bibliography will be observing the APA STYLE rules.

- Example of volume citation: Miftode, V. (2010). Treaty of Social Assitence. Protection of Specific and Automarginalised Populations, Lumen Printing House, Iasi.
- Citing an article in a magazine: Ciuca, A., Human Rights Questions from Bioethics to Biolaw in Scientific Bulletin, Year 19, 2010, 31-35.
- Citing chapters in books: Ailincai, A. (2010). Appreciative Inquiry and Effects of Managerial Communication in Sandu, A. coord. (2010). Appreciative Seminars, Lumen Printing House, Iasi.
- Citing an article available online follows the same rules applied to magazines or books and needs in addition the specification of  the Internet address and the date on which it was consulted.
- When there are several publications by the same author in the same year, one specifies a, b, etc.. next to them. (2010a).