The Bulletin of Linguistic and Intercultural Studies (BSLI)

is a multilingual open-access double-blind peer-review scientific publication, published bi-annually and promoted through official Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) channels in both online and printed format by the “Mihai Viteazul” National Intelligence Academy (ANIMV) Publishing House, Culture and
Civilization Collection

(ISSN 2971-9615 şi ISSN-L 2821-496X)

Submission deadlines for articles

  • February 1st (published until the end of the 1st semester)
  • July 1st (published until the end of the 2nd semester)

Authors interested in publishing in BSLI are invited to submit articles in .doc/.docx format to the email address [email protected] with the subject “BSLI_Article Proposal”.

Submission, review and publication of the articles shall be free of charge.

Profile

  • The Bulletin of Linguistic and Intercultural Studies publishes articles, analyses, studies,
    and reviews in the field of foreign languages, cultures, and civilizations, focusing on their applicability in the national security field.
  • The articles are categorized within the following thematic areas:
    • Culture and civilization studies;
    • Summaries, reviews, case studies;
    • Incursions into history and anthropology;
    • Focus – Global evolutions and trends.

Some of the authors submitting articles are affiliated with the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI), which explains their using literary pseudonyms or aliases instead of their actual names. Nonetheless, professors and researchers from the “Mihai Viteazul” National Intelligence Academy and authors from the civilian sector are exempt from this practice and publish using their real names.

The articles express the authors’ opinions and do not reflect the official policy or position of ANIMV or SRI.

Advisory board

  • Associate professor PhD Armand GOȘU, University of Bucharest, Faculty of Political Science;
  • Associate professor PhD Răzvan GRIGORAȘ, “Mihai Viteazul” National Intelligence Academy, Bucharest;
    Research scientist I PhD Ruxandra BULUC, “Mihai Viteazul” National Intelligence Academy, Bucharest;
  • Research scientist II PhD Cristina IVAN, “Mihai Viteazul” National Intelligence Academy, Bucharest;
  • Advanced intelligence instructor PhD candidate Ana-Maria SURUGIU, “Mihai Viteazul” National Intelligence Academy, Bucharest;

Scientific reviewers board

  • Associate professor PhD Cristina BOGZEANU, “Mihai Viteazul” National Intelligence Academy, Bucharest;

  • Associate professor PhD Ioana LEUCEA, “Mihai Viteazul” National Intelligence Academy, Bucharest;

  • Advanced intelligence instructor PhD Florin BUȘTIUC, “Mihai Viteazul” National Intelligence Academy, Bucharest;

  • Lecturer PhD Lisa ACHIMESCU, “Mihai Viteazul” National Intelligence Academy, Bucharest;

  • Lecturer PhD Ileana-Cinziana SURDU, “Mihai Viteazul” National Intelligence Academy, Bucharest;

  • Lecturer PhD Silviu PETRE, “Mihai Viteazul” National Intelligence Academy, Bucharest;

  • Lecturer PhD Adrian POPA, Vasile Goldiș Western University of Arad;

  • Advanced intelligence instructor PhD Sorin SURUGIU, “Mihai Viteazul” National Intelligence Academy, Bucharest;

  • Junior intelligence instructor PhD Andreea-Claudia GRADEA, “Mihai Viteazul” National Intelligence Academy, Bucharest;

  • Junior intelligence instructor PhD candidate Ana-Maria TRIFAN, “Mihai Viteazul” National Intelligence Academy, Bucharest;

  • PhD Cătălina FRĂȚILĂ, “Mihai Viteazul” National Intelligence Academy, Bucharest;

Editorial board

  • Editor in chief: Advanced intelligence instructor PhD candidate Ana-Maria SURUGIU, “Mihai Viteazul” National Intelligence Academy, Bucharest;
  • Editorial secretary: Cristian COSTEA, “Mihai Viteazul” National Intelligence Academy, Bucharest;
  • Technical Editor: Irina FLOREA, “Mihai Viteazul” National Intelligence Academy, Bucharest;

Editors

  • Intelligence instructor PhD Elena NOVĂCESCU, “Mihai Viteazul” National Intelligence Academy, Bucharest;

  • PhD Viorel POPESCU, “Mihai Viteazul” National Intelligence Academy, Bucharest;

  • Intelligence instructor PhD candidate Ionuț NICULESCU, “Mihai Viteazul” National Intelligence Academy, Bucharest;

  • Advanced intelligence instructor Răzvan MARFIEVICI, “Mihai Viteazul” National Intelligence Academy, Bucharest;

  • Senior intelligence instructor Ionuț GÂNDAC, “Mihai Viteazul” National Intelligence Academy, Bucharest;

  • Intelligence instructor Anda COSTEA, “Mihai Viteazul” National Intelligence Academy, Bucharest;

Peer-review process

The Bulletin of Linguistic and Intercultural Studies is a double-blind peer-review publication. The articles published undergo an evaluation and review process for originality, relevance, structure, academic character, and argumentation by practitioners before being accepted for publication. An article can be accepted as submitted, accepted with revisions, or rejected for publication. A scientific reviewer may provide comments or suggestions for improvement, which the editorial board reviews and then sends to the author for text enhancement, if necessary.

Dissemination

  • The publication is available in digital format on the www.animv.ro and www.sri.ro websites.
  • Printed versions of the publication are provided to authors free of charge in paper format.

Anti-Plagiarism Policy

  • Plagiarism is considered a significant breach of truthfulness and involves stealing intellectual property from other people’s work.
  • BSLI requires that manuscripts submitted for publication be the author(s) own contribution, unless there is explicit permission and proper citation.
  • This request applies to text, figures and tables, but also to direct translations from another language.
  • Responsibility for articles rests entirely with the author(s), who must confirm in the copyright release form that all data in the article is real and authentic, and if they have used the work and/or text of other authors, they should be cited accordingly, in order to avoid plagiarism or self-plagiarism.
  • Authors should not publish manuscripts that describe essentially the same research in multiple journals. Submitting the same manuscript to multiple journals simultaneously is considered unethical, unacceptable behavior.
  • The Editorial Board may reject any article at any time before publication and even after acceptance if there are doubts about the integrity of the work.
  • BSLI has a plagiarism screening policy. All articles will be uploaded to the screening service ro, and the reports will be analyzed by a special commission, in accordance with ANIMV’s strategy for preventing and combating the phenomenon of plagiarism, available here.

Copyright

    • The authors bear full responsibility for the content of the articles, but do not retain the copyright.
    • For an article to be published, the copyright agreement must be completed and signed.
    • The articles are published in accordance with the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license type.

Length and Format

  • Articles will have between 5 and 10 pages on A4 paper, written with Cambria font, size 12, spacing at one line;
  • Each contribution must include the following elements:
    • title;
    • author’s name, pseudonym (alias), completed studies(except authors who publish under pseudonym/alias);
    • an abstract in English of 100-150 words, written with Cambria font, italic style, size 11, spacing at one line; o 5-6 keywords;
    • text organized into chapters and subchapters, with an introduction and conclusions; o critical apparatus: final bibliographic references and in-text citations in accordance with the APA citation style, inserted with the automatic function. For details, please visit the official website: www.apastyle.org (footnotes are only used for clarifications or examples of statements in the text and will be as brief as possible and not used for bibliographic references);
    • annexes, if applicable.
  • Tables, graphs, images, and annexes should be numbered and referenced to the source, allowing for editing and modification.