Submissions

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

• The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
• The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
• Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
• The text adheres to all of the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Editorial instructions, which is found in "For Authors".
• If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
• The Author declares that the Work is an original creation and that they hold the copyright to it, both moral and economic rights.
• The Author declares that the Work does not contain any defamatory content or content infringing upon the personal rights of others and that they are not aware of any circumstances that could expose the University to liability toward third parties as a result of publishing or distributing the Work.
• The Author acknowledges that in the event of making false declarations, they will be held liable for any damages incurred by the University of Łódź.
• The Author grants the University of Łódź, represented by the Łódź University Press, a non-exclusive license to use the economic copyrights to the Work in all fields of exploitation specified in Article 50 of the Act of February 4, 1994, on Copyright and Related Rights, as well as in open access, including under the terms of a Creative Commons license. The license also includes the right to grant sublicenses in the specified fields of exploitation.
• The license is unlimited in terms of territory and is granted for a period of 70 (seventy) years.
• In connection with the implementation of the open access policy for scientific publications, the University of Łódź utilizes the Author's authorization to deposit the Work in the University Repository and other distribution platforms, while the Author undertakes not to terminate the license agreement for the entire duration of its term.
• The Author is not entitled to remuneration for the creation of the Work, its submission to the Publisher, or the granting of license rights. The Parties mutually agree that the Author will receive an author’s copy in the form of a PDF file for printing, containing only the part of the Work to which the Author holds moral copyright.