Author’s responsibilities and obligations

Authors are required to comply with the collaboration rules and technical requirements.

Upon submitting a text, authors attach an appropriate statement of the originality of the text and disclose all organisations that contributed to its creation (statement of financial and institutional support). In order for a submission to be considered, the author(s) must also consent to the processing of personal data, necessary for publication by the journal's Editor and the Publisher (name, affiliation, ORCID, email address). All data are provided voluntarily by authors; authors have the right to edit and delete their data from the system.

Authors provide one-time consent for the publication and placement of the text on the journal's website and in collaborating databases.

Submission of texts is equivalent to accepting the ethical principles described above.

Text submissions

All authors are required to check off their submission’ compliance with the following criteria. Submissions which do not adhere to the following guidelines might be rejected or returned to their authors.

• The submission is original and does not violate any rights (including copyright and intellectual property);
• The submission has not been previously published, and is not under consideration by any other journal or publishing house;
• The file is in Microsoft Word format (*.doc, *.docx), RTF or Open Office;
• The text has been prepared in accordance with the guidelines set under FOR AUTHORS → Text formatting section;
• The submission should include the following metadata:
• Title of the article in Polish, English, and Russian;
• Abstract of up to 1 000 characters with spaces in Polish, English, and Russian;
• Key words in Polish, English, and Russian;
• Author’s ORCID number and affiliation. Multi-author article should include ORCID numbers and affiliations of all authors;
• Bibliography prepared in accordance with the following guidelines.

The submissions are made online through OJS Platform. Please read the OJS manual before submitting your text.

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Text formatting

Rules for preparing text for publication:

1. Margins – standard (2.5 cm on each side);
2. Font in main text – Times New Roman 12, leading 1.5;
3. Font in footnotes – Times New Roman 10, leading 1.0;
4. Name(s) and surname(s) of the author(s), ORCID: http:/0000-0000-000-0000 – in the upper left corner;
5. Title – bold font, centre alignment;
6. Main text and footnotes – justified;
7. Text should be without double spaces;
8. Names of authors cited in the main text for the first time should be provided in full version;
9. According to Polish editing norms, initials should not be separated by space;
10. In the main text, titles of monographs, dictionaries and other works should be written in italics; titles of journals and series should be written in normal print in inverted commas;
11. Quotation marks: in Polish texts: „tekst”; in English texts: “text”; in Russian – «текст»;
12. Long quotations (longer than three lines) should be quoted without inverted commas, in normal print, separated from the main text with an additional leading on both sides;
13. Three-line and shorter quotations should be quoted without inverted commas, in normal print, separated from the main text with an additional leading on both sides;
14. Omitting a passage in the inserted quotation should be indicated by […];
15. Footnotes: consecutive numbering;
16. All manuscripts should include abstracts with the title of the article and key words (between 4 and 5) in English, Polish and Russian;
17. Reference list should be placed after the main text and should be ordered in alphabetical order of authors’ names. Please, do not provide numerical order in the reference list.

Style Guide for Authors: Footnotes and Reference List

For texts in Polish or Russian follow Oxford Referencing System, according to the instruction provided by University of Silesia Press.

For texts in English follow Chicago Manual Style, according to the instruction provided by University of Silesia Press.

Articles: size

Manuscripts should not exceed 40,000 characters (with spaces) inclusive of footnotes and references.

Reviews should not exceed 20,000 characters (with spaces) inclusive of footnotes and references.

Texts for Varia section (e.g. conference reports, information about books) should not exceed 3 typewritten pages.

Texts: formatting and structure

Word file docx formatting .

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 (CC BY). 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 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  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 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 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.

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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