The following requirements apply to the submission of dissertations in the form of articles:

• Minimum four articles, three of which, at the time of submission of the PhD dissertation, must be accepted for publication in recognised peer-reviewed journals; minimum one article must be accepted for publication in an international journal in one of the principal European languages. The total size of the articles must not exceed 80 - 120 standard pages (of maximum 2,400 characters including spaces, annotations and literature sources, etc).
  Dispensations being granted for exceptional circumstances.
  
• The articles must be organised in a well-thought out order and begin with a summary report of between 30 and 50 standard pages.

Upon submission of the final project description, the PhD student must inform how he or she will submit the dissertation. 

At the halfway evaluation, at the latest, a complete publication plan (including names of journals) must be submitted.

See also Regulations for the PhD degree programme.