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Author Guidelines

Important

All correspondence with the editors of the journal should be made via this editorial and publishing system (the e-journal platform of the Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences). The system enables sending emails at different stages of the publishing process.

All users of the platform are requested to check their spam folder regularly for misplaced important messages sent by the system or the editors of the journal.

The manuscript will be checked for plagiarism using Similarity Check, a service screening published and submitted content for originality. As a publisher, the Institute uses the iThenticate software to detect instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted manuscripts.

General Requirements

The manuscript should be submitted as a single file formatted in accordance with the following guidelines:

  • The file should be in MS Word (doc, docx) / OpenOffice Writer (odt) format;
  • The length of the article (including bibliography) should not exceed 40,000 characters (including spaces); in exceptional cases, longer articles will be allowed, if accepted by the editors of the journal;
  • The manuscript and the metadata of the manuscript file should not include any information identifying the author(s), e.g. name(s), affiliation(s), ORCID number(s); this information should be provided in the submission on the platform;
  • All fonts should be embedded in the document;
  • In the case of any copyright graphics and illustrations (photographs, drawings, maps, tables, graphs, etc.), the source of the material must be provided; the form of the acknowledgement must be agreed with the owner of the material; furthermore, the copyright holder must be acknowledged; as part of the article, graphics and illustrations will be published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0);
  • The costs related to obtaining copyrights for the reproduction of graphics and illustrations are the sole responsibility of the author and the institution with which they are affiliated;
  • The file size should not exceed 50 MB.

The manuscript file and the submission on the platform should contain:

  • The title in the language of the manuscript and in English;
  • An abstract in the language of the manuscript and in English (maximum 1,000 characters including spaces); the abstract should not contain any in-text citations;
  • Keywords in the language of the manuscript and in English (maximum of 8).

In the case of manuscripts in languages other than Polish, the authors are welcome to include the above metadata also in Polish; if required, it can be translated by the editors.

If it is not possible to include metadata in the language of the manuscript on the platform, it should be provided only in the file.

Text Formatting

  • Titles of sections and subsections: boldface;
  • Page numbering: inside the footer;
  • Footnotes: continuous numbering;
  • Tables and graphics should be inserted in the manuscript file; the resolution for the graphics should be 300 ppi.

Quotations

Quotations integrated in the main text should appear in quotation marks.

Quotations longer than forty words should appear as separate paragraphs (block quotations) written in smaller size font, and with a space above and below; references should appear in parentheses, e.g. (Wilson, 1987, p. 22).

To indicate content omitted from a quotation – use an ellipsis in square brackets: […].

Citations and References

Citations and references should follow APA 7 style; for more detailed guidelines see PDF.

Titles

Titles of works and journals which appear in the text of the article should be written in italic or in quotation marks as appropriate for the language of the text.

  • In the case of works which have not been translated into the language of the article:
    • The first occurrence in the text – the original title followed by its translation into the language of the article in square brackets;
    • Subsequent occurrence(s) in the text – the original title in full or in a shortened form.
  • In the case of works which have been translated into the language of the article:
    • The first occurrence in the text – the original title of the work followed by the title of its published translation in round brackets;
    • Subsequent occurrence(s) in the text – the original title of the work or the title of its published translation in full or in a shortened form.

Bibliography

The bibliography should follow APA 7 style; for more detailed guidelines see PDF.

Bibliographic entries should include the digital object identifier (DOI) if one is assigned (DOIs can be found at https://www.crossref.org/guestquery/).

In the case of submissions in Polish, the authors should use Polish abbreviations:

  • redaktor: Red.
  • strona/strony: s./ss.
  • w dokumencie macierzystym, po kropce: W
  • tom: T.
  • i inni: i in.
  • wydanie: Wyd.

In the case of submissions in other languages, the authors should use English abbreviations:

  • editor: Ed.;
  • page/pages: p./pp.
  • in an edited volume: In
  • volume: Vol.
  • and others: et al.
  • edition: Ed.

Authors submit manuscripts in English to the following sections:

  • Thematic Section
  • Materials
  • Discussion. Presentations. Book Reviews

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • The work has not been published or submitted for publication with another publisher. The work has not been made available as a preprint, post-print (author accepted manuscript), translation, etc. in print or electronic form (or an explanation has been provided to the editors of the journal).
  • Each author hereby confirms that they have approved the submitted version of the manuscript and agree to its publication.
  • None of the material included in the work infringes the rights of a third party, or existing copyrights; particularly, the work shall not contain illegal appropriations of other persons’ work. It is the sole responsibility of the authors to obtain the copyright holders’ permission to include copyrighted material (e.g. graphics) in the submitted work on Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.
  • Each author declares that they have acquainted themselves with and accept the editorial rules, and that the submission fulfills the requirements stipulated in the guidelines for authors.
  • Each author declares whether they have a potential conflict of interest. If so, they should describe it and report it to the editors of the journal using the field: Comments for the Editor. Information about competing interests can be found in the section About the Journal.

Thematic Section

Every issue is devoted to one leading subject. We propose a question important from the perspective of contemporary research in human sciences, which enables us to invite scholars from different disciplines to contribute to better understanding of the given problem. For this section we accept papers related to the main subject, and never published before.

Materials

In the section “Materials”, we present literary and historical inedita, as well as texts translated into Polish for the first time. Scholars can present their original contributions concerning different aspects of research in the human sciences, such as translations of important cultural texts, presentations and interpretation of sources.

Discussion. Presentations. Book Reviews

Although this section is not a regular part of the journal, we would like to maintain its continuity. Whether the section appears in a given issue of the journal will depend on the number of presentations and publications worth reviewing.

Copyright Notice

The authors, by giving the Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences (ISS PAS), as the publisher of the journal, the consent to the publication of their work, grant the ISS PAS a non-exclusive licence under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0), which allows the work to be copied and redistributed in any medium or format, as well as to be remixed, transformed and made into derivative works, also for commercial purposes, provided that the attribution is kept, which means that appropriate credit is given, a link to the licence is provided, and changes, if any, are indicated.

The licensee does not have the right to restrict others by legal or technological measures from using the work under the terms of the licence granted.

The authors indicate that the attribution includes the provision of the following details of the author: name and surname, academic title or degree, affiliation, email address for public contact, and ORCID number (if they have it).

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