Instructions for Authors

The editors of L’Europe Unie/United Europe invite submission of articles based on original research as well as reflections on conceptual, theoretical, and methodological issues in European Studies. The Journal is available in both print and online PDF formats.

Guidelines for contributions

  • Languages in use: English, French, Italian
  • One-sided pages, TNR 12, single-spaced throughout, including quoted material. Footnotes: single-spaced at the bottom of the page, using Arabic numerals. See the style sheet below.
  • Title: in the original language of the manuscript, centred, bold, TNR 14
  • Abstract: in English, sums up the argument, not to exceed 130-150 words
  • Keywords: in English; up to 5 keywords, bold, separated by commas, in alphabetical order
  • Author’s name and institutional affiliation: on a separate page at the end of the document to facilitate anonymous review, ORCID ID, WoS ID, Scopus ID and Google Scholar ID are compulsory

Style sheet:
Title: TNR 12, centred
Abstract: TNR 12
Article (body): TNR 12
Footnotes: TNR 10
Bibliography: at the end of the article, TNR 12

  • Contributions are to be sent to the editorial office in electronic, word.doc or word.docx form; if tables, charts, and other graphics are needed, please submit in a separate file (in. xls. tiff. jpeg).
  • Submission deadline: July 1st of each year via email:
  • Prof. Dr. Habil. Simion COSTEA, editorialteam@leuropeunie.com
  • Prof. Dr. Habil. Mihaela Daciana NATEA, leuropeunie2025@gmail.com 

Manuscripts that do not follow the recommendations will be returned to the authors, resulting in a delay in publication until the criteria are met.

L’Europe Unie applies a footnote-based referencing model with full bibliography, inspired by the Chicago Manual of Style – Notes & Bibliography system, adapted for multilingual, interdisciplinary research in European Studies, Law, History, and International Relations.

✅ Citation Standards:
 References are included in numbered footnotes at the bottom of each page.
 Each footnote contains complete citation details (author, title, source, year, page).
 A full bibliography is added at the end of each article, grouped by type: academic books, journal articles, EU publications, legal texts, policy papers, online sources.
 DOIs and URLs will be included whenever available, especially for academic and institutional sources.
 Multilingual sources (in English, French, Romanian, etc.) are accepted in original language.
 Authors are required to insert at least one footnote per paragraph as a rule, to document the origin of information.
 ORCID iDs are encouraged for all authors and integrated via Zenodo and ResearchGate.
 Self-plagiarism is not permitted; authors must cite all reused content from their prior work.

  • Footnotes (first occurrence) – please consult the citation and bibliography style here

Conflict of interest:
Authors must disclose all relationship or interest that could influence or bias their work. Such conflicts of interest include but are not limited to: financial interests (e.g. employments, consultancies, honoraria, grants) and non-financial interests (e.g. professional relationships, personal benefits)
The authors can disclose potential conflicts of interest via separate statement or in the manuscript, below the bibliography, in a separate section called Conflict of Interest Statement

E.g.
Conflict of Interest
The authors declare no conflicts of interest

Financing and acknowledgement 

Authors should declare is their research was financed by any granting authority by providing the full name of the granting authority and the project identifiers. 

Ethical statement 

If your work involves live subjects (human or animal) you must provide an appropriate ethical statement when submitting your paper. The most suitable location for this is normally the methods section of the manuscript. However, to preserve anonymity in double-anonymous journals please do not add the ethical statement to the manuscript, insteadsent the declaration in a separat document along with the article. 

Our editorial team checks all ethical statements are appropriate for the study being reported. 

The author must provide a brief academic bio (max. 100 words) and a photograph for editorial use

Authors are not requested to pay any fee for the article publication.