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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  • The Author acknowledges that in the event of the text being withdrawn due to his/her fault, he/she will be charged with the costs of review and proofreading.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Editorial Instructions , which is found in About the Journal.
  • The reported text follows the principles of „blind review”.

Author Guidelines

Each article should be typed in Word according to the following rules:

  • name and surname of the author(s) – at the top left corner, in bold Times New Roman font (size – 12); affiliation, ORCID, e-mail address – at the top left corner, Times New Roman font (size – 12),
  • title: centered, typed in bold Times New Roman font (size – 12);
  • summary in Polish - 10 pts (preceded by the word Streszczenie in bold); there should be no footnotes in the abstract – neither numerical nor Harvard footnotes;
  • keywords in Polish in alphabetical order – 10 pts;
  • title in English - centered, in bold 10 pts;
  • summary in English - 10 pts (preceded by the word Summary in bold); there should be no footnotes in the abstract – neither numerical nor Harvard footnotes;
  • - keywords in English in the order of their Polish equivalents – 10 pts;
  • margins: 2.5 cm;
  • indentation in the text: 1.25 cm;
  • text of the article and footnotes aligned to the left margin, without hyphenation;
  • font:
    • main text – size: 12, Times New Roman, line spacing – 1.5,
    • footnotes – size: 10, Times New Roman, line spacing – 1;
  • each graphical element (chart, photo, graphic etc.) in the text should be provided with a title and information on the source (centered, placed under the graphic element);
  • please include alternative descriptions for all illustrations in the journals: what should an alternative text look like?;
  • the title of the table is placed above the table, while the source is placed below the table;
  • quotes:
    • integrated in the text (no more than 4 lines) – between quotation marks;
    • longer quotes (more than 4 lines) – font size: 10, indented from the left – 0.5, line spacing – 1;
  • expressions in foreign languages in between the Polish text – to be typed in italics;
  • analyzed expressions – to be typed in italics;
  • meanings of the analyzed words – to be typed in between ‘ ’;
  • highlights – in bold;
  • sub-headings – bold font, size:12;
  • author’s notes (including omissions in quotes): in square brackets;
  • in the text of the article we use abbreviations (such as: r., w., m.in., 1. os. lm.);
  • when citing an author for the first time, we give the first and last name; second and subsequent citation: initial + last name.

Bibliography:

  • in the main text – in round brackets in the following order: name of the author, publishing year, number of the page following the colon, e.g. (Wierzbicka 1999: 13);
  • references in the main text to web sources in the following order (compare to the bibliography description models): name of the author, year of online publishing, e.g. (Bauer 2009), name of the author e.g. (Wierzbicka b.r.), title of the article or its shortened title and year of online publishing if known, e.g. (Celebrycitrafią na uniwersytety? 2013), address or shortened address of the website, e.g. (http://filolog.uni.lodz.pl).
  • Below the text – full bibliographic citations in the following order:
  • header: Literature (size: 12, bold);
  • titles of books, chapters, articles – in italics;
  • titles of journals – between quotation marks.

Models of a bibliographical description (including those of online sources):

If the article is written in a language other than Polish, quotation marks and abbreviations in the bibliography should be in the language of the article.

Abbreviations:

  • Below the text, before the literature;
  • header: list of abbreviations (size: 12, bold).

Due to the double-blind review procedure used please submit two versions of the text: full and anonymized.

Full version – in accordance with the above guidelines.

Anonymized version:

  • omit the heading, i.e. author's name, affiliation, ORCID number;
  • in footnotes and bibliography – instead of the author's name and the title of the work we use the forms Nomen Auctoris and Opus;
  • the file name can’t contain the author's surname; the author's name and all identifiable data must be removed from the file properties.

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. The parties mutually agree that the Author will receive an author’s copy in the form of a pre-press PDF file, containing exclusively the part of the Work to which the Author has moral rights. 

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.