Submissions
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.- 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).
- The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
- Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
Copyright Notice
Articles published electronically are open access (OJS), freely available online and can be downloaded. Authors of articles are not charged any publication or publishing costs (APC). Users have the right to read, download, copy, print, and search the articles, or share the full text with a link.
Authors must declare that their submission has not been previously published in another journal, that financial support has been acknowledged, and that the list of references is complete and accurate, including specification of URLs and DOIs (if available). When submitting a draft article, each author approves the submitted version. Authors guarantee that the article is their original work. Authors are required to participate in the peer review process, follow the advice of reviewers, meet the prescribed deadlines, and, if any, withdraw the submission or correct errors.
All submitted articles are subject to peer review, where the editors request an independent evaluation from at least one expert, ensuring that the reviewer(s) have no conflicts of interest with the authors. The final decision is made by the Editor-in-Chief, who takes into account the evaluations and the suggestions of the editors. The editors and reviewers treat the submission confidentially.
The publisher and editors are committed to maintaining high ethical standards and to preventing publications that involve research misconduct. They follow the COPE guidelines on such ethical issues.
The authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication under the Creative Commons License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0), which allows others to share the work, while acknowledging the authorship of the work and the first publication in the journal.
The journal archives all published articles, and the journal's owner, the Hungarian Society of Transportation Sciences, will continue to operate the database even if the journal ceases to be published.
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Privacy Policy
Data collected from registered and non-registered users of this journal is within the standard operating scope of peer-reviewed journals. It contains information that enables communication during the editorial process; it is used to inform readers about the author of the content; it allows the collection of aggregate data on reader behaviour and to track geopolitical and social elements of scholarly communication.
The journal's editorial team uses this data to guide its work in publishing and developing the journal. The data that supports the development of the publication platform can be shared in an anonymised and aggregated form with the developer's Public Knowledge Project (https://pkp.sfu.ca/) with appropriate exceptions, such as article metrics. The data will not be sold or used by this journal or PKP for purposes other than those stated here. Authors published in this journal are responsible for the human subject data reported in the research published here.
Those involved in editing the journal strive to comply with data protection industry standards, including the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR - https://gdpr.eu/) 'data protection requirements' (https://gdpr.eu/data-privacy/), which include (a) breach notification; (b) right of access; (c) right to be forgotten; (d) data portability; and (e) privacy by design. The GDPR also allows for the recognition of a "public interest in data availability", which is particularly important for those concerned with ensuring the highest possible integrity of the public treatment of scientific publications.
