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Specification for final research papers associated with the research projects carried out for the MilitaryAcademy of Lithuania

Style of the paper: Academic-scholarly. It should provide a synthetic report of the results of completed research and its conclusions, along with bibliography and other pertinent documentation.

Structure: the usual layout for an academic document. The introduction should contain the description of problem

Basic concepts, frame of issues, provide the objective of the research and focus on reviewing literature on the issue. Subsequent chapters should further elaborate on what is the thrust of the undertaken research with a view to proving (or disapproving) the basic premise. Logically, the paper should close with Conclusions, which should tie together the views presented in the previous sections of the work.

Usage of names: for the first time it is obligatory to use full name, e.g. George Walker Bush or Vladimir Putin, or at least the first and the last names: George W. Bush. For the further usage just use the last name like Bush or Putin, but NEVER use initials with the last name: G.W.Bush or V.Putin. All names should meet requirements of English and original language. For instance, it is unacceptable to use Putinas instead of Putin!

Sample of the structure

Title - Arial 20

No content!

Abstract text     Times New Roman 10, Justified (up to 150 words)

Chapters and paragraphs (No "Heading style". Use Normal Style):

a) 1. level – Arial 16;

b) 1.1. level – Arial 12 Bold;

c) 1.1.1. level – Arial 12

Body Text:

Times New Roman 12, Single space, Normal style, No spacing!, Tabs – 1.27 cm, Justified.

Citations in Text:

if shorter than  40 words : Times New Roman 12, but use quotation marks "…." and footnote reference¹

if longer than 40 words:  -  Times New Roman 10 with footnote reference² without quotation marks. Empty space before and after quotation.

Tables:

Title above the table!

Tabel 1. Arial 10 Bold.

Figures:

Figure 1. Arial 10 Bold.

Title beneath the figure!

References (all in footnotes! No Harvard style!): see samples

1. Books, edited books (Family Name, N(ame)., Title, Publication Place: Publisher’s Name: year, page(s).

Lejins A., Bleiere D., The Baltic States. Search for Security, Riga: Latvian Institute of International Affairs, 1996, p. 15-16. 

Mouritzen H., ed.,  Bordering Russia: Theory and Prospects for Europe's Baltic Rim, Ashgate, 1998. p. 79.

Joenniemi P & Vares P., eds.,New Actors on the International Arena: The Foreign Policies of the Baltic Countries, Tampere: TAPRI, 1993, p. 199.

1. Book-section (Family Name, N(ame)., "Title" in Family Name, N(ame)., ed., Title, Publication Place: Publisher’s Name: year, page(s).

Light M., "Post-Soviet Russian Foreign Policy: the First Decade" in Brown A, ed., Contemporary Russian Politics. A Reader, Oxford: Oxford UP, 2001, p. 419-428.

1. Periodicals: (Family Name, N(ame)., "Title" in Publication, issue,  year, page(s).

Landsbergis V., "The Russian Riddle and Lithuanian Reality", Lithuanian Foreign Policy Review 2 (6), 2000, p. 202-204.

1. Periodicals on line:

Trondal J., "The Europeanisation of Research and Higher Educational Policies – Some Reflections", European Integration online Papers, http://olymp.wu-wien.ac.at/eiop/, 21 08 2002.

1. Government sources:

British Ministry of Defence, Report of the Defence Estimates 1997, London: Her Majesty's Stationary Office, 1997, p. 41.

Supreme Council of the Republic of Lithuania, Act On the Re-establishment of the State of Lithuania, http://www3.lrs.lt/cgi-bin/preps2?Condition1=50850&Condition2=, 15 08 2002

1. News agencies:

PAP-ELTA,Baltic States are worried on the statement of Mr. W. Perry, 30 September, 1996.

1. No author but institution

International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook, Washington, D.C.: IMF, 1999, p. 15.

1. Unpublished papers

Wahlbäck, K., "Security dimension", Presentation at the Workshop on the Preparing for Membership of the Baltic States, Copenhagen, March 16, 1996.

1. Inteview, private communication

Interview with Mr. Kazys Petraitis, the third secretary of the Second Department of the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 31 December, 1999.

1. Extra information: all possible extra information may be put after the reference in the framework of  simple brackets (…….)

Lane T., Lithuania: Stepping Westwards, London & New York: Routledge, 2001, p.15 (Book in the series "Postcommunist States and Nations").

Institute of International Relations and Political Science of the University of Vilnius, The Belarus Issue, Vilnius: Eugrimas, 2002, p. 10-12. (Working Paper No 1)

1. Repeated references:

a)      first time:

²⁷Knudsen O.F., ed., Stability and the Security in the Baltic Sea Region, London: Franc Cass, 1999, p. 25.

b)      second time:

⁶⁸Knudsen O.F, (note 27). p. 17.

c)      Several times in consequence:

⁶⁹Ibidem, p. 43