Manuscript preparation guidelines
1. Please submit your article together with:
— An abstract in English (200-350 words) and the English title of the article; if the article is written in a language other than English, the English title should correspond to the original title; if relevant, add the name of the translator;
— keywords in Polish and English;
— bibliography;
— alphabetical list of names mentioned in the text and bibliography (the so-called blind index);
— a short biographical note including: the author’s research interests and most important publications;
— the author’s affiliation (full name of the organization and its address);
— email address;
— ORCID;
— a doctoral student should present a letter of recommendation from his or her supervisor.
2. General guidelines for formatting the text:
— font: Times New Roman, size: 12, line spacing: 1.5, fully justified;
— all quotations (both prose and poetry) that are longer than 1.5 line should be blocked; please leave an empty line before and after the quotation and do not change the font size. Please do not use italics or inverted commas for blocked quotes;
— please do not use a non-breaking space (CTRL+SHIFT+SPACE).
3. Footnotes should ONLY be used for additional information; these include:
— comments on the views and ideas presented in the main text (if needed, use parenthetical references);
— references to other fragments of the article;
— polemics, digressions, definitions, etc.
4. In-text references — indicate the source of a given quotation, opinion, statistics, etc. in the main text right after the fragment in question. Use parenthetical references, as in the examples below.
Examples of bibliographical entries and parenthetical references:
A. a book by one, two, or three authors
Last name and first name of the author(s). Year of publication. Title. Edition. Place of publication: Publisher.
Example:
Czaja Jan. 2008. Kulturowe czynniki bezpieczeństwa. Kraków: Krakowskie Towarzystwo Edukacyjne.
In-text references:
(Last name year of publ.: page no(s))
(Last name, last name, last name year of publ.: page no(s))
Example:
(Czaja 2008: 12)
B. a collection of articles (more than three authors)
Title. Year of publication. Ed. editor’s first name and last name. Edition. Place of publication: Publisher.
Examples:
Sztuka tworzenia miejsc. 2007. Ed. Stanisława Hrynia. Kraków: Krakowskie Towarzystwo Edukacyjne.
Słownik chemiczny. 1982. Ed. Jerzy Chodkowski. 6th ed. Warszawa: Wiedza Powszechna.
In-text references:
(Short title — i.e. first 1-2 word(s) — year of publ.: page no(s))
(Sztuka 2007: 45–47)
(Słownik chemiczny 1982: 234)
C. a multivolume publication
Last name and first name of the author(s). Year of publication. Title. Edition. Place of publication: Publisher.
Example:
Dąbrowski Zdzisław. 2006. Pedagogika opiekuńcza w zarysie. Vol. 1. 4th rev. and ext. ed. Olsztyn: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego.
In-text references:
(Last name year of publ.: volume (Roman numerals) page no(s) (Arabic numerals))
(Dąbrowski 2006: I 12)
D. a fragment of a book (e.g. a chapter)
Last name and first name of the author(s). Year of publication. Title of the book. Edition. Place of publication: Publisher. Title of the fragment. Page numbers.
Example:
Malec Jerzy. 2003. Szkice z dziejów federalizmu i myśli federalistycznej w nowożytnej Europie. 2nd rev. and ext. ed. Kraków: Krakowska Szkoła Wyższa. Zmiany w stosunku prawnym Polski i Litwy po unii lubelskiej. Pp. 39–138.
In-text references:
(Last name year of publ.: page no(s))
(Malec 2003: 40)
E. an article in a collection of essays
Last name and first name of the author(s). Year of publication. Title of the article. In: Title of the volume. Ed. editor’s first name and last name. Edition. Place of publication: Publisher. Page numbers.
Example:
Mazińska-Szumska Magdalena. 2006. Polityka Unii Europejskiej w zakresie nauczania języków obcych. In: Oświata polonijna na początku XXI wieku: stan i perspektywy. Ed. Krystyna Gąsowska and Magdalena Mizińska-Szumska. Kraków: Stowarzyszenie “Wspólnota Polska”. Pp. 73–84.
In-text references:
(Last name year of publication: page no(s))
(Mazińska-Szumska 2006: 40)
F. an article in a journal
Last name and first name of the author(s). Year of publication. Title. “Title of the journal”. Page numbers.
Example:
Domański Cezary. 2009. Mistrz z Genewy. “Charaktery” no. 10.
In-text references:
(Last name year of publication: page no(s))
(Domański 2009: 47)
G. electronic documents
Last name and first name of the author(s). Year of publication. Title. (edition) [online]. Publisher (optional). URL/DOI [date of access].
Last name and first name of the author(s). Year of publication. Title. ”Title of the newspaper/magazine” [online], number and/or date, URL/DOI [date of access].
Examples:
Nowak Ludwik.1996. Podręcznik Internauty: podstawowe informacje o sieci [online]. http://www.pagi.pl/pagi.start/PODRECZNIK/podrmenu.htm [20.11.1999].
Grabowska-Woźniak Elżbieta. 2000. Święto euroentuzjastów. “Życie Warszawy” [online]. Monday 15 May 2000. http://www.zw.com.pl/ [15.05.2000].
In-text references:
(Last name year of publication.: page no(s))
(Nowak 1996: 47)
