Book structure

When composing the text of your future book, please pay good attention to proper proportionality of its individual sections. The introduction and conclusion should be approximately the same length. The same applies to the length of sections and subsections on the same level. The opposite could make an impression that the work has not been designed in a thorough, well thought-out way. Remember that the reader of scientific literature generally expects moderation and professional text clarity. The author’s attempts to compile the book in a novel or creative way may be disturbing.

The manuscript of a monograph or other professional book typically includes:

• title page,
• table of contents (automatically generated),
• preface / introduction which should clearly formulate the topic and objectives of the book,
• the body of text broken into chapters (and subchapters if need be),

• For numbering and heading styles, use multi-level lists or automatic styles. The structure of subchapters should not exceed three levels (Chapter 1.1.1): Excessive segmentation of the text raises suspicions that the author has not been able to develop the topic in a systematic way. The work included in the RIV must use in-text citations in brackets.

• conclusion which summarizes and evaluates the facts from the book and refrains from adding new facts,
• summary in a foreign language (for books included in the RIV),
• notes – either as footnotes (at the end of a page) or endnotes (at the end of a chapter / book),
• supplements (optional),
• list of references,

• Use the ČSN ISO 690 citation norm; semi-automatic online reference generators such as citace.com may be used. All citations and references within the publication must observe one citation style, must include the same range of details of the work cited and must be graphically uniform.

• registers,
• list of supplements (optional).