Editorial Instructions

The NOWIS editorial team invites authors to send articles within the following deadlines:

- articles planned for publication in the first issues – until September of the year preceding publication;
- articles planned for publication in the second issues – until February of the current year.

To submit a new manuscript, click here.

Educational Sciences. Interdisciplinary Studies does not charge any fees at any stage of cooperation with the Authors (submission, initial evaluation, reviews, proofreading, re-review, editing, typesetting, translation nor publication).

• The semi-annual journal accepts for printing works presenting the results of original research of empirical, theoretical, analytic, monographic, polemic, and review nature or the so-called case studies, reviews and reports on scientific life;
• The author submits his/her article on the Index Copernicus platform, which is equivalent to sending it formally to the NOWIS Editorial Office;
• The author places on the IC platform two versions of the manuscript: 1. proper version of the article, 2. version of the article prepared for review (blinded), and two documents ("declaration" and "Author's info"), the forms of which are made available during the manuscript submission process;
• The "declaration" is available here;

• The double-blind review process requires that the author's name should not be present in the text (also in footnotes and in the references). Therefore, we kindly ask you to remove your name from the manuscript following the instructions:

  1. in the text: "As Jan Kowalski claims (2018) ..." replace with: "As [anonymous author] claims ..."

  2. in the footnote: "(Jan Kowalski 2018, p. 10)" replace with: "([anonymous Author])"

  3. in the references: instead of the Author's items, a note AT THE END of the references (not alphabetically): "plus 2 items of the anonymised Author".

• The article should be supplemented with the following elements: title, abstract (about 150 words), and from 3 to 5 keywords.
• All incoming papers, a fter a preliminary evaluation of the Editorial Board, are reviewed;

 

  Editing principles 

• The volume should not exceed 20 standard pages of computer printout (40 thousand characters with spaces);
• The text should be written in DOC format (Word document), font Times New Roman, size 12, 1.5 line spacing;
• On the first page, before the main text, the author's name and surname, the scientific degree (title), and affiliation should be included;
• The title, subtitles and intertitles should be in bold and diversified with the font size - respectively: 16, 14 and 12, without caps, leaving a blank line before and after the title;
• The text should be deprived of headings and footers;
• Page numbering - bottom of the page, centered;
• It is recommended that minimum text formatting should be used – text justification, paragraphs marked with a tab, without characters hindering the formatting process ;
• Tables, diagrams, and figures should be formatted in the simplest way possible; sent to the NOWIS Editorial Team in two formats: editable and non-editable (e.g. PDF) ; must have a consecutive number, title, and source;
• Next to the surnames of authors cited in the text for the first time, there should be included the first name in its full wording;

 

  Standard of footnotes and bibliography of works cited in the text 

• Citations up to three lines should be in quotation marks and should be accompanied by bibliographical information in the text; quotes of more than three lines should be distinguished from the main text in a separate paragraph, adding a blank line before and after the quote ;
• Source footnotes should be placed in the main text and drawn up according to the pattern - the author's last name, year of publication and page(s) of the quoted text separated by a colon:

(Kowalski 2002: 15); (Kowalski 1990: 15; 2014: 176); (Kowalski 2002a: 15; 2002b: 37); (Kowalski, Nowak 2001: 15-16); (Kowalski 2001: 10; Nowak 2009: 48);

• If there is no author in the publication, a short title should be inserted (the first word or two), then a colon and the page number, e.g. (Report ...: 45)
• Expanding footnotes should be placed at the bottom of the page and numbered consecutively (option: insert - reference - a footnote);
• Summary of the literature cited should be placed at the end of the main text;
• Cited publications should be ordered alphabetically and recorded according to the pattern:

Kowalski J. (2002) Title, Łódź, Wydawnictwo UŁ.

Kowalski J. (2002) Title, in: Title, A. Nowak (ed.), transl. E. Wojciechowski, Łódź, Wydawnictwo UŁ, pp. 1-23.

Kowalski J. (2001) Title, “Journal” No. 3/4, pp. 3-23.
https://doi.org/12.3456/78.9012345

• The DOI numbers of the referenced publications should be put on a new line in accordance with the example above;
• Websites should be specified at the end of the bibliography.