Submissions

Author Guidelines

You are kindly requested to meet the following requirements concerning format, footnotes, endnotes and graphic materials or photographs and information added to the files sent to the editorial staff.

Text format

The volume of the papers should not exceed 1 author’s sheet ( 40,000 characters counted with footnotes and spaces, i.e. approx. 18-20 pages) typed in Times New Roman 12 pt, line spacing 1.5;
The review should not exceed 25,000 characters, calculated as above ( 9-10 pages);
The text should be justified, indentation: 25;
Footnotes should be also typed in Times New Roman 10 pt, line spacing 1;
If the paper contains graphic material (pictures, diagrams, photos), please attach them in a separate file, while in the main text – please mark the place where they belong to with a numeral footnote. The author is responsible for obtaining permission to print a picture.
In the title of the file, please type your name and the first words of the title;
The required file format: rtf or doc (texts written in other formats are not accepted)

The first page

Please include the following information on the first page:

Title (centered) in Polish and English
Name and surname (centered)
Contact details (centered): orcid, university, e-mail;
Centered: filing date (left-hand side) and the date of review and acceptance (right-hand side);
Abstract (5–6 lines) in English with 5 keywords (above the text of the paper, justified).

At the end of the paper

Summary in a Slavic language ( 500 characters with spaces) about the literature the paper deals with along with keywords in that language;
Summary in English ( 500 characters with spaces);
Indexes: separately authors and translators;
Short biographical note: type of degree, name and surname, date and place of birth, place of employment, research interests, the latest publications.

Please submit your papers by Open Journal System:

https://www.journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/PLS

Reference guidelines have been specified by Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego.

Basic reference, endnotes are in Oxford style:

https://wydawnictwo.us.edu.pl/sites/wydawnictwo.us.edu.pl/files/instrukcja_wydawnicza_3-10-2021.pdf

but papers in English are in Chicago Manual Style (https://wydawnictwo.us.edu.pl/sites/wydawnictwo.us.edu.pl/files/1._wytyczne_dla_autorow_-_monografie_i_czasopisma_-_nauki_humanistyczne.pdf).

Texts which fail to follow the aforementioned formatting requirements, or do not include all the information will not be accepted.

Materials that have not been ordered will not be returned by the editorial staff.

Copyright Notice

The Copyright Owners of the submitted texts grant the Reader the right to use the pdf documents under the provisions of the Creative Commons 4.0 International License: Attribution-Share-Alike (CC BY-SA). The user can copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose.

1. License

The University of Silesia Press provides immediate open access to journal’s content under the Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Authors who publish with this journal retain all copyrights and agree to the terms of the above-mentioned CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

2. Author’s Warranties

The author warrants that the article is original, written by stated author/s, has not been published before, contains no unlawful statements, does not infringe the rights of others, is subject to copyright that is vested exclusively in the author and free of any third party rights, and that any necessary written permissions to quote from other sources have been obtained by the author/s.

If the article contains illustrative material (drawings, photos, graphs, maps), the author declares that the said works are of his authorship, they do not infringe the rights of the third party (including personal rights, i.a. the authorization to reproduce physical likeness) and the author holds exclusive proprietary copyrights. The author publishes the above works as part of the article under the licence "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International".

ATTENTION! When the legal situation of the illustrative material has not been determined and the necessary consent has not been granted by the proprietary copyrights holders, the submitted material will not be accepted for editorial process. At the same time the author takes full responsibility for providing false data (this also regards covering the costs incurred by the University of Silesia Press and financial claims of the third party).

3. User Rights

Under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, the users are free to share (copy, distribute and transmit the contribution) and adapt (remix, transform, and build upon the material) the article for any purpose, provided they attribute the contribution in the manner specified by the author or licensor.

4. Co-Authorship

If the article was prepared jointly with other authors, the signatory of this form warrants that he/she has been authorized by all co-authors to sign this agreement on their behalf, and agrees to inform his/her co-authors of the terms of this agreement.

I hereby declare that in the event of withdrawal of the text from the publishing process or submitting it to another publisher without agreement from the editorial office, I agree to cover all costs incurred by the University of Silesia in connection with my application.

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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.

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