Editorial instructions
Stylesheet
Hybris publishes the following types of texts:
- original papers (up to 40.000 characters - footnotes included);
- book reviews, opinions, comments (up to 20.000 characters - footnotes included);
- interviews (up to 30.000 characters).
Hybris publishes texts in Polish, English and German.
Manuscripts sent should contain:
- author's name, afiliation and e-mail;
- abstract in Polish and English (up to 200 words);
- list of keywords (up to 6);
- English translation of the title if text is written in Polish or German;
- original text not published elsewhere or peer-reviewed simultaneously in other journal;
- text written according to guidelines provided in the stylesheet below;
- alphabetical list of references (bibliography) composed according to the guidelines below.
All manuscripts shoul be sent in .doc, .docx or .rtf format.
Font: 12pt, line spacing = 1,5 (footnotes: font = 10pt, line spacing = 1,5).
Citations: parenthetical within the text, e.g. (Roberts, 2009, p. 124); (Roberts, 2003, p. 43; Evans, 2005, p. 43).
Longer quotations (over 40 words): separate paragraph, font = 10pt.
References list should be alphabetical and provided at the end of the text in the following format:
For books:
Roberts, J. (1988). The Meaning of Truth. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
For book chapters:
Roberts, J. (1988). The Meaning of Truth. In M. Evans (ed.), About Truth (34-57). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
For journal articles:
Roberts, J. (1988). The Meaning of Truth. Mind, 34, 98-123.
Other elements of the text composition should be constructed according to APA rules.
Digital accessibility - alternative texts
Please include alternative descriptions for all illustrations in the journals
An alternative text is textual information about what you see in a graphic element that is relevant to the text or topic that the element illustrates. Alternative texts are read by a screen reader and allow people with blindness or vision impairment to see what is, for example, in a given graphic, photo or chart. Graphic elements without an alternative description will be read by the assistive software for visually impaired people as the word ‘graphic’, so they will not get any other information that this ‘graphic’ is supposed to convey.
What should an alternative text look like?
- Above all, the description should be concise and succinct – try to describe the graphic as accurately as possible, doing so in the shortest possible way (the optimum length of an alternative text should not exceed 250 characters)
- It should describe the meaning and content of the graphic element in question
- It should contain key information for the viewer (e.g. a repetition of the content written on the graphic, or in the case of photos, a description of the most important elements building the message: “Rector presenting the habilitation diploma to Dr Anna Kowalska”)
- When creating alternative texts for charts and infographics, remember to include, in addition to the title, a summary and description of the trends resulting from the graphic. Often, due to the length and level of complexity of the data being described, it is worth including the chart description in the proper body of the text, below the graphic itself
- You do not need to use alternative descriptions for graphics that are purely decorative (in which case mark them as decorative by selecting the “Mark as decorative” option). Function of adding alternative description in Microsoft Word
- • To add alternative text for graphics/charts added into a Microsoft Word document, right-click on the object and select “Format image” -> “Accessibility” -> “Alternative text”; • or “Review” -> “Check accessibility “-> “Alternative text”
- For graphic elements that only have a decorative function in the document, also fill in the alternative text field – instead of the content in the “Alternative text” field, tick the “Mark as decorative” option.
Another possible solution could be to provide a complete set of descriptions for the entire notebook in an Excel table.
