The Bulletin of Linguistic and Intercultural Studies

• 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.
• BSLI is indexed into the following scientific databases:
  • ERIH Plus
  • ICI Journals Master List
  • DOAJ
• 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.

• Professor Răzvan GRIGORAȘ, PhD, “Mihai Viteazul” National Intelligence Academy, Bucharest;
• Research scientist I Ruxandra BULUC, PhD, “Mihai Viteazul” National Intelligence Academy, Bucharest;
• Research scientist II Cristina IVAN, PhD, “Mihai Viteazul” National Intelligence Academy, Bucharest;
• Advanced intelligence instructor Ana-Maria SURUGIU, PhD candidate, “Mihai Viteazul” National Intelligence Academy, Bucharest.

• Associate professor Cristina BOGZEANU, PhD, “Mihai Viteazul” National Intelligence Academy, Bucharest;
• Associate professor Ioana LEUCEA, PhD, “Mihai Viteazul” National Intelligence Academy, Bucharest;
• Advanced intelligence instructor Florin BUȘTIUC, PhD, “Mihai Viteazul” National Intelligence Academy, Bucharest;
• Advanced intelligence instructor Andreea-Claudia GRADEA, PhD, “Mihai Viteazul” National Intelligence Academy, Bucharest;
• Advanced intelligence instructor PhD Sorin SURUGIU, PhD, “Mihai Viteazul” National Intelligence Academy, Bucharest;
• Lecturer Lisa ACHIMESCU, PhD, “Mihai Viteazul” National Intelligence Academy, Bucharest;
• Lecturer Silviu PETRE, “Mihai Viteazul” National Intelligence Academy, Bucharest;
• Lecturer Adrian POPA, PhD, “Vasile Goldiș” Western University of Arad;
• Lecturer Ileana-Cinziana SURDU, PhD, “Mihai Viteazul” National Intelligence Academy, Bucharest;
• Assistant professor Cătălina FRĂȚILĂ, PhD, “Mihai Viteazul” National Intelligence Academy, Bucharest;
• Junior intelligence instructor Ana-Maria TRIFAN, PhD candidate, “Mihai Viteazul” National Intelligence Academy, Bucharest;

• Editor in chief: Advanced intelligence instructor Ana-Maria SURUGIU, PhD candidate, “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;

• Intelligence instructor Elena NOVĂCESCU, PhD, “Mihai Viteazul” National Intelligence Academy, Bucharest;
• Viorel POPESCU, PhD, “Mihai Viteazul” National Intelligence Academy, Bucharest;
• Research assistant Ionuț NICULESCU, PhD candidate, “Mihai Viteazul” National Intelligence Academy, Bucharest;
• Advanced intelligence instructor Ionuț GÂNDAC, “Mihai Viteazul” National Intelligence Academy, Bucharest;
• Advanced intelligence instructor Răzvan MARFIEVICI, “Mihai Viteazul” National Intelligence Academy, Bucharest;
• Intelligence instructor Anda COSTEA, “Mihai Viteazul” National Intelligence Academy, Bucharest;

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. Each submission for BSLI is peer-reviewed by 2 external reviewers.

• 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.

• 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.

• • 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.

• 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.