EDITORIAL GUIDELINES

1. Technical requirements

In the text submitted for publication (maximum 15 pages), prepared in Microsoft Word, please observe the following rules:

• Times New Roman font, 12 pt,
• 1.5 line spacing.

2. Article title

The title of the article should be centred and written in a standard font.

3. Versions of the article

Scholarly articles should be submitted in two versions:

a) full version, i.e. the version intended for publication; in this case, in the upper left-hand corner, above the title of the article, please provide the author’s first name and surname together with the affiliation, according to the following scheme: name of the university, name of the faculty, name of the department (or division), address of the academic unit (including postal code), author’s e-mail address, and ORCID number (in the case of multi-author works, affiliations of all authors should be provided);

b) anonymised version, i.e. a version deprived of all indications of authorship (first name, surname, and other author data), as well as any information that could facilitate identification of the author (e.g. data on sources of funding); the author’s data should also be removed from the file properties.

4. Bibliographical references in the text

Instead of bibliographical footnotes, bibliographical references should be provided in square brackets, containing the author’s surname, year of publication, and page number(s), e.g. [Klemensiewicz, Lehr-Spławiński, Urbańczyk, 1964; Dejna, 1989, pp. 19–68].

5. Bibliography

The bibliography placed at the end of the text should be prepared according to the following rules:

• Heading: Bibliography.
• The bibliography should include only those items to which references are made in the main text.
• Each bibliographical entry should provide the full reference, i.e. surname of the author or editor, full first name, year of publication, title, publisher’s name (for every book publication, also when the bibliographical item is an article in an edited volume), place of publication, and page numbers (if the item is a journal article or part of a collective work), e.g.:

Additional rules

• In the case of bibliographical items written in Cyrillic, both the original form and the transliteration should be provided, according to the following model:

• When describing electronic documents, in addition to the elements typical of texts available in print, the website address and the date of access in round brackets should be provided, e.g.:

• If a document has a DOI number, it should be provided instead of the website address and access date, e.g.:

• In the case of documents stored on electronic media, in addition to the bibliographical description prepared as for printed documents, information on the type of medium should be provided, e.g.:

6. List of abbreviations

• If abbreviations requiring explanation are used in the main text, they should be placed before the bibliography in a section entitled List of abbreviations. In the case of an extensive list of abbreviations, internal subdivisions should be introduced, e.g. Conventional abbreviations, Dictionaries, Sources, etc.
• Abbreviations referring to bibliographical items or sources should be explained according to the following model:

• Explanations of conventional abbreviations, e.g. cz. – Czech, fr. – French, gw. – dialectal, książk. – literary, łac. – Latin, stp. – Old Polish, etc.

7. Mandatory elements

Regardless of the language in which the text is prepared, please attach:

• keywords (from 3 to 5) in Polish and in English;
• an abstract of the article in Polish and in English (up to half a page each); the abstract in English should be accompanied by the author’s first name and surname and by the translated title corresponding to the original title.

8. Illustrations

Maps and figures should be prepared in greyscale, at a scale of 1:1, using computer techniques (minimum resolution 300 dpi), and saved in PDF format.

9. Submission of the text

The text for publication should be submitted electronically to: rozprawyltn@uni.lodz.pl

10. Special characters

If special characters not supported by Microsoft Word are used, please send them to the e-mail address given above.

11. Ghostwriting and guest authorship

In accordance with the recommendations aimed at preventing phenomena referred to as ghostwriting and guest authorship, which are connected with a lack of scholarly reliability and integrity, the author is obliged to provide information on persons who contributed to the creation of the article. If third parties or institutions assisted in the preparation of the text, this information should be given in a footnote.

12. Contribution of co-authors

In the case of a multi-author work, the publishing agreement sent to the authors for signature should clearly specify the contribution of each co-author, i.e. who is the author of the concept, assumptions, methods, etc.

13. Funding information

In articles related to research financed by a scientific grant, the author is obliged to provide this information in a footnote.