AUTHOR GUIDELINES

Authors names will be written under the paper title after a blank line, centered across the page, single spaced specifing:
title, university/institution affiliation, country and e-mail address. You will not put the name on the article, you will
enter your name in a form and will be assigned automatically a number to your article (see the guide page 3http://seap.usv.ro/annals/docs/user_guide_USVAEPA.pdf).
Abstract:
It will be written after authors leaving a blank line before. The abstract must include sufficient information for
readers to judge the nature and significance of the topic, the adequacy of the investigative strategy, the nature of the
results and the conclusions. An abstract is not an introduction, it summarizes the substantive results of the work. The
abstract will be written in 10 point type italic, Times New Roman, justify. It must have 200 to 250 words, single spaced
type.
Key words: Select 5 to 6 keywords (words or expresions) that capture the essence of your paper. List the
words in decreasing order of importance. All the key terms must be translated in English and attached to your abstract.
It will be written in 10 point type, Times New Roman, after abstract leaving a blank line before.
JEL classification: Please put one or several JEL codes, according to the subject of your paper. The codes can
be found here: http://www.aeaweb.org/jel/jel_class_system.php

1. INTRODUCTION
The USV Annals of Economics and Public Administration (USVAEPA) welcomes
theoretical and empirical articles, from all economic fields, according to the 5 sections:
Economy, trade, services
Management and business administration
Accounting-finance
Statisitics, economic informatics and mathematics
Law and public administration
For introduction, state the purpose of the work, the motivation of the chosen theme and,
briefly explain your approach and the necessary arguments.Before introduction please let 2 blank
lines.
2. PREPARING AND FORMATTING THE ARTICLE
It is expected that manuscripts will be organized in such a manner that maximize both the
substance and clarity of the document. All articles should report original research that has not been
published or submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers presented at conferences are accepted,
provided that they have not been published in full in Conference Proceedings. The papers will be all
written in English. The papers will be checked in blind review system.
2.1. PAPER CONTENT
Organize the body of the paper using titles and subtitles to emphasize both content and
clarity. The titles and subtitles will be written in caps, 12, bold, left aligned. Please let a blank line
before and one after. Consider the following:
the accepted terminology of the field to describe any subjects or experimental
procedures used to gather and analyze data;
include detailed methods, so readers could be able to follow the investigation;
state the results clearly and succinctly;
the implications of the findings and minutely discuss the impact of the results, both
globally and specifically.
Typeface must be 12-point Times New Roman type single spaced. Tables and figures should
be sized and placed in the body of the paper just as the authors want them printed in the journal.

Care should be taken so that tables and figures could be on one page. The tables contents
will be written in 10 point type, Times New Roman and the heading of the tables will be in 10 point
type bold, Times New Roman.
The titles and numbers will be positioned above the table and the title and number of the
figures bellow. When it is needed, the source will be mentioned. The number of the tables and
figures are to be positioned in the body of the text, in a paranthesis, wherever they are mentioned,
for example: (figure no.1), (table no. 1).
Table no. 1. Fonts and their dimension
Item
Title of paper
Abstract
Title of sections
Text, Formulae
Algorithms
Endnotes (dac se folosesc)
Biblography
Source: www.annals.seap.usv.ro

Font
TNRoman
TNRoman
TNRoman
TNRoman
Courier New
TNRoman
TNRoman

Size
14
10
12
12
12
10
12

Style
Bold
Italic
Normal
Normal
Normal
Normal
Normal

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Figura nr. 1. Evoluia indicatorului X

Source: Own elaboration using data from www.annals.seap.usv.ro

The graphs must be executed clearly so as to give clear black and white copies. Number all
the equations and formulas used positioning the numbers in paranthesis on their right side.
Define abbreviations and acronyms the first time they are used in the text, even after they
had already been defined in the abstract.
Footnotes are not allowed, but you can choose one of the following citation ways:
- endnotes at the end of the paper, situated before bibliography and introduced manually. They will
be written in Times New Roman, size 10, italic. The bibliographic references in the text of the work
will be numbered with [1], [2] etc.
- citations in text in a parenthesis specifying the author name and the year of the work apparition:
(Johnson, 2000), (Johnson and Jackson, 2001) work with 2 authors, (Johnson et al., 2002) - work
with several authors, (Johnson, 2000; Peterson, 2001) if the idea is found at many authors, or
(Johnson, 2000a) and (Johnson, 2000b) - in the case where there are 2 different works of the same
author appeared in the same year (a and b indicating the order in which they appear at

bibliography). It can be also specified the page in the parenthesis (Johnson, 2000, 250). Authors
cited in the text must be found in the bibliography.
2.2. IMPORTANT SPECIFICATIONS
The articles must be at least 6 to 10 pages long in the style A4 sheet, margins left, right,
top, bottom: 2 cm.
Submitted documents must be in PC-formatted Word (.doc) file.
The articles that don't respect specified guidelines will be rejected before they are sent to
peer review. Please do not number the pages of your work.
Please do not number the pages of your work.
The Romanian authors will also send the article in Romanian language (in another
document, uploaded as a supplementary file), necessary for the scientific control.
Authors can have only one article in a journal issue, even if they are co-authors in an article
or in two articles.

3. NCRCAREA ARTICOLULUI
A GUIDE ABOUT HOW TO USE THE ON-LINE PLATFORM IS AVAILABLE here:
http://seap.usv.ro/annals/docs/user_guide_USVAEPA.pdf
In order to upload a paper, you must create an account on the journal site:
www.annals.seap.usv.ro .
After you receive the acceptance of the article publication, you have to fill in a copyright form, in
which you guarantee the originality of the article you sent to us.
The publication of an article involve the buying by the author of a printed copy of the
journal. Its price covers a part of the publication expenses.
The journal appears twice a year (June and December). For the first number of the review
(June), the manuscripts should be submitted on-line until 31 March and for the second number, until
30 September.
In the case that a lot of articles are received, the publication order is settled chronologically by the
date when they were submissed to us.
IMPORTANT: The entire responsability for the content of the published articles rests with the
authors.

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.
1. 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).
2. The submission file is in Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
3. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
4. The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining
(except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the
text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author
Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
6. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind
Review have been followed.
Privacy: The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively
for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any
other party.

4. CONCLUSIONS
Conclusions may review the main points of the paper, do not replicate the abstract as the
conclusion. A conclusion might elaborate on the importance of the work or suggest applications and
extensions and extensions of the research.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Sources should be in alphabetical order by authors last name, the list being numbered.
When certain studies, research, articles are published in a volume, the volume numbers and pages
will be specified.
Example:
1. Johnson, John, (2013), Book title, Publishing House, Town
2. Johnson, John, (2013), Article title, Journal Name, pp.5-15
3. Eurostat, European Commission - Europe in Figures, Eurostat Yearbook 2010,
Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities
4. www.europa.eu [accesat la 28.04.2014]