Editorial Instructions

Call for papers

The Chair of the History of Art of the University of Lodz invites authors to send their texts to the reviewed half-yearly journal TECHNE. New Series. The thematic scope of the periodical includes issues from the field of history of art (from ancient times to this day), the theory of monument conservation and protection of cultural heritage, literary criticism and museology. All published papers are available under the Open Access license CC BY-NC-ND. The half-yearly journal is published in accordance with the principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Principles of accepting texts for print:

  1. Authors may send papers for publication (of approx. 40,000 characters with spaces) as well as reports from conferences and reviews of exhibitions (of approx. 10,000-15,000 characters with spaces)
  2. The editorial board accepts for print only those texts which have not been published before either in full or in part (also in other language versions or on internet websites), are a result of the author’s independent research and do not infringe upon the copyrights of any third party. Papers submitted to the journal should represent a major contribution to the research into the topic dealt with by the Author.
  3. The call for papers takes place in two stages. Firstly, abstracts of future texts should be submitted (of 4,000-8,000 characters with spaces). Upon selection and acceptance of proposals, potential Authors should submit finished papers written in accordance with the “Editorial guidelines”.
  4. The final decision about approving the text for print is taken by the Editor-in-Chief after consulting the Editorial Board. Each article accepted by the Editorial Board is assessed by two independent reviewers from outside the affiliated entity by the Author (observing the principle of double anonymity). Only those papers may be published whose reviews contain an unambiguous conclusion about approval for printing.
  5. The Editorial Board and Lodz University Press sign an agreement with the Author. Authors of papers, reviews and reports are also obliged to submit Author Statement.

 

Author Guidelines

Please adjust your papers to the following formal guidelines:

Main principles:

  1. The paper should be submitted in the digital form, in the DOC format (the main text written in Times New Roman, size 12, 1,5 line spacing).
  2. The length of the text should not exceed 40, 000 characters with spaces and annotations.
  3. The author’s name and surname, as well as the affiliation, should be inserted on page 1.

Quotations:

  1. Quotations of up to 3 lines should be placed in the text in italics.
  2. Quotations of more than 3 lines, placed as a block quote, should be inserted in the text without quotation marks and italics.

Titles:

  1. Titles of manuscripts, publications, works of art. should be written in italics.
  2. Names of scientific conferences should be given in quotation marks, without italics.

Dates and numerals:

  1. The words such as “year”, “century”, “month” should be written in full (without abbreviations).
  2. In day dates the names of months should be given in words (e.g. 15 August 1534).
  3. Centuries should be written in Arabic numerals (in the 18th century, in the second part of the 17th century).
  4. Numbers from 1 to 9 should be written as words (they may be written in figures if several values are enumerated or compared).
  5. Numbers larger than 9 should be expressed in figures.

Annotations:

In published texts, authors should use the abbreviated version of reference texts and full references after the text of the paper. All references should be written in Times New Roman, size 10, single line spacing, justified;

footnote text

footnotes should include the author’s name written in CAPITAL LETTERS, the year date and reference to the page of the publication:

KRASSOWSKI 1987, p. 12.

If the given work was written by more than one author, individual names should be separated by a slash:

CHRZANOWSKI/KORNECKI 1984, p. 356.

In the text of annotations referring to archive and document materials it is necessary to use abbreviations developed in the full text of the references:

ADW, AAG, Wiz. 45, pho. 3.

If the text of the submitted paper contains references to more works of one author from the same year, they should be marked consecutively with small letters:

KORPYSZ 2010a, pp. 12–17; KORPYSZ 2010b, p. 79.

Forms of entry in endnotes

All items mentioned in references should be preceded by a publication entry used in the text of annotations, which is followed by the proper bibliographic entry:

– Full name of the author of the cited work followed by the surname.

e.g.: KRASSOWSKI 1987 – Witold Krassowski

– The title of a book publication – in italics. The place of publication in the original version.

The year of publication – in Arabic numerals.

e.g.: SUCKALE 2008 – Robert Suckale, Stil und Funktion, München 2008.

– The title of a paper in a journal or joint publication – in italics

– The title of a paper – “in inverted commas”. The journal’s issue number – in Arabic numerals and after a space, year of publication in brackets, the possible issue number after a comma, in Arabic numerals.

e.g.: KARPOWICZ 2010 – Mariusz Karpowicz, O niektórych figurach w polskich nagrobkach XVI–XVII wieku, “Biuletyn Historii Sztuki”, vol. 72 (2010), no. 1–2, pp. 31–60.

– Title of a joint publication (collection of articles, post-conference and encyclopedic publications or exhibition catalogues) – in italics. The editor or publisher of a joint publication – full name and surname written as indicated above in the case of authors and preceded by the abbreviation “ed.” or “eds.” In the text of annotations titles of such publications may be abbreviated, and in such a case the size of letters is the same as in the original title.

e.g.: Studia nad sztuką 2010 – Studia nad sztuką Renesansu i Baroku. Programy ideowe w przedsięwzięciach artystycznych w XVI–XVIII wieku, vol. 10, ed. Irena Rolska-Boruch, Lublin 2010.

– The title of a chapter or a paper in a joint publication – in italics. After a comma, in square brackets “in:” followed by the title of the publication in accordance with the principles listed above

e.g.: KĘDER 2013 – Wojciech Kęder, Kardynał Angelo Maria Durini – dyplomata, poeta i mecenas. Między Italią, Polską i Francją, [in:] Europejski wiek osiemnasty: uniwersalizm myśli, różnorodność dróg, ed. Marek Dębowski, Kraków 2013, pp. 33–40.

– Printed source editions – in chronological order on the title page. The title – in italics.

The publisher’s name and surname in accordance with the principles given above referring to authors and preceded by the abbreviation “ed.”

– Archive materials and documentation, first the name and location of the institution which keeps the document, the name of the complex after a comma, followed by the potential call mark and document title written in italics. The name of the institution and complexes in footnotes may be replaced by abbreviations

e.g.: AKK, Aa7 – The Archives of the Cracow Cathedral Chapter, Aa 7, Acta Capitularia Ecclesiae Cracoviensis aa. 1577–1587.

WKZ Piotrków – Provincial Monument Conservator, Division in Piotrków Trybunalski, Dokumentacja kościoła parafialnego w Kamieńsku, prep. Janusz Bilski, Warszawa 1957.

References to internet websites

References to the content presented on Internet websites both in annotations and endnotes should be written in accordance with the following pattern:

Name, website address [access: date]

e.g. Wykaz zabytków wpisanych do rejestru zabytków nieruchomych woj. łódzkiego, http://www.wuoz.bip.lodz pl/page/12,zabytki.html [access 2.12.2016].

Foreign words:

  1. Words and phrases in a foreign language should be written in italics.

Iconographic materials

It is possible to publish a maximum of 10 illustrations. Captions to photographs should be sent in a separate Word document. Architectural illustrations should be accompanied by a linear scale and orientation.

The list of illustrations should account for the proposed text of captions, the end of the description should include information about the source of the illustration, author and title, the year when the work was made or photographs taken, e.g.:

a) Kraków, St. Barbara Church. View from the east, photo, author, 2007.
b) Z. Hendel, Złoty Potok. Pałac Raczyńskich – facade quadruple window with foundation supported by a decorative console, 1903, the National Museum in Krakow (MNK III-PL.-975).

 

Additional information:

The article should be accompanied by:

– a brief summary (about 4,000 characters) to be translated into English