Information For Authors

ARTICLE PROCESSING CHARGES (APCs)

The journal follows the diamond open access model. This means that:

  • publishing in the journal is free of charge for authors,
  • the journal does not charge submission fees, peer-review or editorial fees, nor article processing charges (APC),
  • all published content is freely accessible to readers worldwide.

The costs of running the journal (including the maintenance of the OJS publishing system, editorial services, DOI assignment, and digital archiving) are covered by:

  • the Łódź Scientific Society as the publisher,
  • ministerial grants and programmes supporting scholarly and publishing activities,
  • partner institutions – primarily the University of Łódź and other academic centres that support the development and dissemination of the journal.

LICENSING AND COPYRIGHT

Starting from 2022, all articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. In previous years, articles were published under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. Information about the applicable license is provided with each individual article.

Authors retain full copyright to their works. By submitting a manuscript, authors grant the publisher a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to publish, archive, and disseminate the accepted version. Authors may deposit the publisher’s final version (Version of Record) in institutional and subject repositories without embargo, in accordance with the CC BY 4.0 license.

ARTICLE PROCESSING TIME

The processing time for articles from the submission of the manuscript by the author to the online publication of the article is 8–9 months.

PLAGIARISM SCREENING

All submitted manuscripts are subject to plagiarism checking. Journal editors use Crossref Similarity Check (powered by iThenticate) to ensure the originality of submissions.

 

GUIDELINES FOR PREPARING A MANUSCRIPT FOR PUBLICATION
IN “PRZEGLĄD SOCJOLOGICZNY” (“SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW”)

Papers should be submitted in the electronic version in Microsoft Office Word document (.doc format) to the following e-mail address: przegladsocjologiczny@gmail.com.

Please provide two files: a manuscript with author information and a manuscript without author information (anonymised, including bibliographic data).

1. Author ’s name should be given at the top left corner of the front page, along with affiliation, academic degree or title, email address and ORCID.

2. Title of the paper should be centred, uppercase, bolded, 12-point type, Times New Roman.

3. Headings should be bolded, 12-point type, Times New Roman.

4. Body of the text: 12-point type, Times New Roman.

5. Comments should be inserted as footnotes, numbered sequentially, 10-point type, Times New Roman.

6. References in the text should follow the Harvard style: Name(s) Year published: page(s) number after a colon e.g. [Boltanski, Chiapello 1999: 35, 45]

Information should be given in square brackets. If the same publication is being referenced again, do not use Ibidem; author(s) name(s)/publication title and page number should be used instead.

7. Bibliography should be placed at the end of the text, in alphabetical order, 10-point type, Times New Roman, using the following formatting convention:

Chapter in a book:

Last name First name, First name Last name. Year published. Chapter title. In: Book title. Editor(s). pages. City of publication: Publisher.

Wojciszke Bogdan, Janusz Grzelak. 1995. Poczucie krzywdy Polaków: Wzorce przeżywania, determinanty i konsekwencje. In: Społeczne, eksperymentalne i metodologiczne konteksty procesów poznawczych człowieka. A. Biela, T. Marek (eds.). 153–180. Poznań: Wydawnictwo Fundacji Humaniora.

Scientific article:

Last name First name, First name Last name. Year published. “Scientific article title”. Journal Title volume(issue): pages.

Jepperson Roland, John W. Meyer. 2011. “Multiple levels of analysis and the limitations of methodological individualism”. Sociological Theory 29(1): 54–73.

Book:
Last name First name, First name Last name. Year published. Book title. City of publication: Publisher.
Parsons Talcott, Neil J. Smelser. 1956. Economy and society: A study in the integration of economic and social theory. Glencoe: The Free Press.

Edited volume:

Last name First name, First name Last name. (eds.). Year published. Book title. City of publication: Publisher.

Gordon Chad, Kenneth J. Gergen. (eds). 1968. The self in social interaction. New York: John Wiley.

Internet sources:

Last name First name (or institution name). Year published. Title of the publication. https://address.pl [access: dd.mm.yy].

Dutkiewicz Rafał. 2015. Partycypacja obywateli w rządzeniu to wyzwanie, z jakim muszę się zmierzyć. Blogi Wrocław. http://blogi.wroclaw.pl [access: 30.06.2016]. Access date in square brackets.

Eurostat. 2022. EU survey on gender-based violence against women and other forms of inter-personal violence (EU-GBV) – first results – 2022 edition. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-statistical-reports/w/ks-ft-22-005 [access: 16.02.2023].

In the English titles please use upper double quotation marks “…”. If it is necessary to use a second quotation marks within the first one, please use the French quotation marks « ».

Please use lowercases in the English titles (apart from the first word in the title, proper names, and the word after a colon etc.).

8. Please add DOI numbers where possible. DOI numbers should be added at the end of the bibliographic position after a full stop, please use the format: https://doi.org/NUMERDOI.

9. Drawings, diagrams and graphs should be submitted in grayscale. It is advisable to include source files so that it corrections can be applied after the paper editing process is completed. Formulas, tables, and diagrams must not be scanned. Figures and tables should be placed in the appropriate places in the text (as close as possible to the reference). For each cited table, diagram or drawing the source or information “own work” should be provided. Bitmaps should be provided in 300–600 dpi resolution.

10. Papers should be submitted to the publisher along with abstracts (approx. 200 words) and key words in English. In addition, Polish authors are requested to submit abstracts, keywords and titles in Polish as well.

11. Submitted paper should be ca. 40 000 characters with spaces, including abstracts; the maximum length is 60 000 characters (with spaces). The abstracts are not calculated towards the character count, but the bibliography is included in the maximum length of the paper. The book review cannot exceed 15 000 characters (with spaces).

12. The articles which are above the character limit and/or do not follow the bibliographic guidelines will be sent back to the Authors for necessary corrections.