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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 submitted text must be original text that has not been previously published. It should also not be submitted to the editorial office of another journal with a request for its review and possible publication.
  • The submitted text should take into account the above-mentioned guidelines regarding text editing rules.
  • Submitted texts, after being approved by the Editorial Board, will be sent to reviewers (double-blind review).

Author Guidelines

Guidance for authors

The University of Lodz journals publish scientific articles only after double-blind review, language, and technical editing. We do not share our articles before publication.

Editorial instruction

The preferred length of papers is between 32 thousand and 40 thousand characters, together with graphics or/and tables, and references. The first title page, below the author’s name, should include academic affiliations.

Please use Times New Roman font, size 12, 1.5 spacing.

Margins: left and right 2.5 cm; top and bottom 2 cm.

Source references in the text: please put the references in parentheses according to the scheme: author’s name, publication year: page number. Examples:

(Mazur 2002:78)

(Dahrendorf 1999, as cited in Judt 2011:108)

Author’s annotations may be formed as footnotes.

References: please prepare the bibliography according to the following example: author’s last name, initial of the first name, publication year (in parentheses), title (in italics), publishing house, place of publication; e.g.:

Bauman Z. (1993), Postmodern ethics, Blackwell publishing, Oxford

Clarke, Peter B. (ed.) (2009), The Oxford Handbook of Sociology of Religion, Oxford University Press, Oxford/New York

Jonston R.J. (1976), Residential Area Characteristics [in:] Herbert D.T., Jonston R.J. (eds.), Social Areas in Cities, vol. 1, Wiley, New York

Grant D.S., Wallace M. (1991), Why Do Stokes Turn Violent?, American Journal of Sociology, vol. 96, No.5

 Illustrations, graphics, figures, etc.: Please name and number them continuously (above the illustration, graphics), and below, please note source references.

Manuscript layout: please note the order of sections:

  • Author’s full name
  • Affiliations
  • e-mail
  • ORCID 
  • Title (aligned to center)
  • Abstract
  • Keywords
  • Article (possibly divided into sections: introduction, main chapters and subchapters, conclusions, etc.)
  • References

Please submit manuscript files in Word (as doc.), RTF, or ODT, as these formats can only be used during production.

 

After registering in the OJS system, please submit two versions of the text in your submission. One file should contain the original version of the article. The second file should contain an anonymised version of the article that makes it impossible to identify the Author. In this form, it can be sent for review.

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, table or chart. The assistive software will read graphic elements without an alternative description 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 an 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. 

Citations and references
We check the citations and references in the paper, keen to ensure that they are from reputable sources. We encourage authors to cite relevant, high-quality research, enhancing published work's credibility and scientific rigour. The emphasis on citing reliable literature reinforces maintaining academic integrity and intellectual responsibility in the journal Folia Sociologica.

 

 

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.