Editorial Instructions

Article’s size – no more than 14 pages of standardized typescript (about 25,000 characters, spaces included), review’s size – no more than 5 pages

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); the surname should be accompanied with a reference to a footnote identified with an asterisk; the footnote must include: e-mail address, scientific degree/title and author’s (s) affiliation along with the detailed mailing address of the institution represented by the author;
  • title: centered, typed in bold Times New Roman font (size – 12);
  • 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 (table, chart, photo etc.) in the text should be provided with a title and information on the source;
  • 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.

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):

Abbreviations:

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

Each article must be accompanied with a summary (no exceeding half a page) in English, with key words in English as well.

 

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.