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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 text adheres to all of the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Editorial instructions, which is found in "For Authors".
  • Where available, DOIs for the references have been provided.
  • If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

  • The Author acknowledges that in the event of the text being withdrawn due to his/her fault, he/she will be charged with the costs of review and proofreading.

Author Guidelines

1. An article sent to Journal FLR must be an original work that meets the general criteria of scientific originality and has not been published elsewhere. The Author must ensure that agreement to publish has been obtained from any person(s) who may be deemed to have a stake in its publication. The article must not contain any defamatory or otherwise objectionable material. The Author will be held responsible for any infringement of another person’s rights.
2. The Author must send a complete version of the paper by e-mail according to Copy formatting for FLR. The Author is also asked to provide all information that identifies him/her as Author (name, surname, institutional affiliation and address, e-mail address) with a short biographical and bibliographical notice (maximum 1000 characters spaces included). All those details should be given in a separate Word file.
3. Papers published in successive issues of the FLR will be freely accessible from the University of Łódź Repository.
4. Each Author will receive a copy of his article in PDF format and will retain copyright of the article.

Copy formatting for FLR

1. Generalities:

  • Please use software that will enable you save your files in DOC, DOCX, RTF
  • Article should not as a rule exceed 30000 characters (spaces and footnotes included);
  • Language of article: especially French and Polish; occasionally English, Spain, Italian
  • Margins: top: 2,5; bottom 2,5; left 3; right 3
  • No page of the copy should be numbered.
  • Title of article: bolded, Times New Roman, 11 pt
  • Below: please insert two summaries of the paper preceded by their titles in two languages; the first one must be in English, the second one must be in another language, different from the language of the paper; 1000 characters spaces included, Times New Roman, 9 pt.
  • At the end of each summary please give a list of keywords in the language of this summary.
  • Subtitles: Times New Roman, 11 pt, bolded, numbered consecutively, left aligned text.

2. Main text:

  • Font: Times New Roman, 11 pt
  • Line spacing: 1,5
  • The use of a figure border, coloured background areas, expanded spacing, underlining, bolded texts, should be avoided.
  • Please don’t use the tab key to indent the Fix the first line indent (6 mm) in the format box.
  • Foreign words and phrases should be given in italics.

3. Quotations:

  • Short quotations (up to 3 lines) should be run on with the main text and given within quotation marks, without italics. Please respect quotation marks typical for each language. In verse quotation incorporated into running text, line breaks are indicated by slash (/) ; in the strophe by double slash (//).
  • Longer quotations (more than 3 lines) Times New Roman, 9 pt, should be set off from the main text and presented without quotation marks, without italics, without paragraph breaks, or indents. In quotations paragraphs are to be separated by an em dash (―).

4. Footnotes:

  • In the text, footnote calls should be superscripted and placed at the end of the clause or the sentence that is referred to in the text or is directly relevant to it. A footnote call is always placed before the full stop. At the end of a quotation the footnote call should be placed after the quotation marks.
  • Footnotes should be placed at the bottom of the page, in Times New Roman, size 9 pt. They should be single-spaced, numbered consecutively throughout the text with superscript Arabic numbers. Each footnote finishes with a full stop.
  • Electronic sources should include the URL of the electronic site and the date of consultation.
  • Use of carriage return should by All paragraphs should be separated by an em dash (―). Verses will be separated as a short quotation.
  • Please use all abbreviations in Latin: , op. cit., idem / eadem, cf., vide, etc., et al., in.
  • Examples of bibliographical references in English language article:
    • Pequigney, Such Is My Love: A Study of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1985
    • Coester, “A Bibliography of Spanish-American Literature”, Romanic Review, vol. III, 1912, p. 68-101
    • Levin, “Critical Approaches to Shakespeare from 1660 to 1904”, in The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare Studies, ed. S. Wells, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1986, p. 213-229

5. Bibliography:

  • Please join a separate bibliography at the end of the paper.
  • The Author’s surname should come first followed by his/her first name(s). Give the full name of the Author.
  • Except the rule concerning the order of the surname and the first name(s), please use the same style of bibliographical references as in footnotes. Do not put a full stop at the end of the reference.

6. Illustrations:

  • They should be supplied in separate electronic files, in .jpg or .tiff format at a minimum resolution of 300 dpi, one file for every Their location should be reported in the body text as (Fig. 1). Each illustration should be numbered in order of appearance in the body text. Figure legends should be detailed.
  • It is the responsibility of the author to obtain necessary permissions from the relevant authorities for all illustrations under copyright. Permissions should be sent to the Editorial Aboard of FLR.

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

Privacy Statement

  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.