Abstract

Abstract is a brief text, which represents the paper as a whole. It should aptly depict the content of the paper, describe it, without evaluation. It must be able to stand alone, i.e. it must be understandable for a reader who does not know the full text of the paper, or does not know the language in which the paper is written. Abstract is written by whole sentences containing words and set phrases which help readers to understand the content of the text. It should not contain unusual terms which would have to be defined, nor acronyms and less usual symbols.

Abstract fulfils following functions:

1. Enables potential readers to decide whether the paper is relevant for them and whether it is worth it to study it as a whole.
2. Enables creation of computer recherches, i.e. search (except key words) for important words in the text of the abstract to choose the paper as a potentially interesting for a researcher working in some specific research area.
3. Abstracts are translated into English and thus provides information about the text for foreign readers.

In case of research papers (quantitative, qualitative or mixed) the editorial board suggests to use so called informative abstract. It is formally structured by headings in bold at the beginning of each part of the abstract: Aims, Methods, Findings, Conclusions. Abstract should provide all the important specific information (including important numerical information) about the realized research. The abstract should range between 150 and 250 words.

In case of theoretical, historical, review, methodological and discussion papers the editorial board suggests to use so called indicative abstract. . It is formally structured by the following parts of the abstract (without headings): Study type, Problem / Main topic, Presentation sequence, Conclusions. The abstract should range between 150 and 250 words