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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 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 text adheres to all of the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Editorial instructions, which is found in "For Authors".
  • If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
  • 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  • The Author acknowledges that in the event of the text being withdrawn due to his/her fault, he/she will be charged with the costs of review and proofreading.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

ARTICLE FORMAT:
- article length (including tables and drawings): maximum one publisher’s sheet (15-20 pages),
- footnotes – at the bottom of the page with consecutive numbering using Arabic numerals (please do not include bibliography in footnotes),
- tables with the author’s numbering and title over the table; with description and data source under the table,
- drawings should be submitted in electronic form and numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals,
- drawings – must be black and white using a hatch pattern,
- the total number of drawings and tables should not be more than half of the number of pages (e.g. if the article has 20 pages then the total number of drawings and tables should not exceed 10 pages),
- scanned elements – 300 dpi resolution.
Attention: we accept articles prepared according to attached outlines: first page, main text.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
- please do not put bibliographic notes in footnotes,
- inserting references to literature in the text use the “Harvard” system: author’s name and year of publication in parentheses without a coma – without initials (e.g. Orlowski 2003),
- bibliography at the end of the article in alphabetical order: author’s name, initials, year, title, publisher, place of publishing (e.g. Orlowski W., 2003, Strategia, PWN, Warszawa).

REQUIREMENTS:
- electronic version of paper (MS Word file),
- title in English – 1 A4 page,
- abstract in English – at the beginning of the article (approx. 5 lines),
- key words,
- total volume of title, abstract and key words less than 1300 characters with spaces,
- author’s data (at the end of each text) – academic degree, full name and place of work (university, faculty, division).

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.