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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 Author declares that the Work is an original creation and that they have the appropriate copyrights to the Work, including moral as well as economic rights. If the applicant is not the sole author, he/she undertakes to indicate the percentage share of all co-authors in the preparation of the text. This information should be entered in the field "Rights - percentage share of authors".
  • The Author hereby declares that they did not use generative artificial intelligence tools during the preparation of the manuscript.  If otherwise, the author undertakes to indicate the name of the tool, the purpose and the exact reason for use and confirms that he/she has carried out a thorough, critical verification of the text, especially in terms of the possibility of generating false, incomplete or biased information, the occurrence of plagiarism or lack of/incorrect attribution of authorship, and edited it accordingly. The information should be entered in the "Comments for the Editor" field.
  • The Author assures of no violations of publication ethics and takes full responsibility for the content of the publication. The Author acknowledges and accepts that, in the event of the Author making a false statement, they shall be liable for any damages incurred by the University of Lodz. 
  • The author undertakes to inform about any possible conflicts of interest in the "Comments for the Editor" field.
  • 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 text fulfills the stylistic and bibliographic conditions stated in the Guidelines for the Author.
  • When submitting the text for peer review, the instructions found in Ensuring a Blind Peer Review should be followed.
  • The paper has not been previously published nor has it been under consideration by another journal (unless an explanation in the Comments to the Editor has been provided).
  • The submitted file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF or WordPerfect format.

Author Guidelines

Authors of the articles are requested to respect the following indications:

Writing languages: Spanish, French or Italian.

Length: The text in Word should have between 20,000 and 45,000 characters (spaces included).

Format: Times New Roman 12 (10 for footnotes), spacing 1.5.

– Bold: general title and subtitles
– Italics: titles of works and magazines, examples, words and expressions in a foreign language
– Avoid underlining
– Do not forget to emphasize the capital letters
– Margins: 3 cm.

The article should include the name and surname of its author and his academic affiliation.

The text of the article should be aligned to the left and right margin.

A brief summary (400-600 characters, spaces included) written in two languages should be placed before the article. The abstract should be in English and in the language of the article as well as 5 keywords written without capital letters and without the period at the end of the list.

Copyright Notice

  1. The Author grants the University of Lodz, represented by the Lodz University Press, a non-exclusive license to exercise economic copyrights to the Work in all fields of exploitation, as stipulated in the Copyright and Related Rights Act of February 4th, 1994, and open access, including the regulations of the Creative Commons license. The granted licence also includes the right to grant sublicenses within the stipulated fields of exploitation. 
  2. The licence is unlimited in territory and granted for a period of 70 years. 
  3. Due to the implementations of the policy of open access to scientific publications, the University of Lodz will use the Author’s authorisation to deposit the Work in the University of Lodz Repository and other distribution platforms, while the Author undertakes not to use the termination of the license agreement throughout its entire term. 
  4. The Author is not entitled to remuneration for creating the Work, its delivery to the Press, and for granting the rights license.

 

Hereby, I acknowledge that: 

  1. The Administrator of the personal data of the Author is the University of Lodz (address: ul. Narutowicza 68, 90-136 Lodz). 
  2. The Personal Data Protection Supervision at the University of Lodz can be contacted via the following e-mail address: iod@uni.lodz.pl.  
  3. The data will be used to publish and disseminate the Work.
  4. The data shall be processed in order to complete the publishing and disseminating the text, pursuant to the provisions within Art. 6 Section 1 (b) of the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016. 
  5. The obtained data shall be processed and stored for the period necessary to perform the purpose, including the periods of data storage indicated by generally applicable laws and regulations. 
  6. The Author has the right to demand access to their personal data, to request their personal data be corrected, to restrict or limit the processing of their personal data, and to demand their personal data be deleted if permissible by law. 
  7. The Author has the right to file a complaint to a data protection authority on suspected violations of the law related to the processing of personal data. 
  8. The provision of personal data is necessary to conclude and complete the publishing and disseminating the text, and it arises from legal regulations.