Submission Process:

editable texts (.doc , .docx) have to be submitted to:

— https://www.journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/WSN/about/submissions

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,

— the text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal (for Authors),

— in your additional documentation all licenses and copyright-related permits are included in writing. 

Submitting a text to „Wieki Stare i Nowe”, the Author accepts that if accepted, their contribution will be distributed in the Open Access formula under the provisions of the license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en

Each text must be appended with:

Author’s Name and Surname, University or Institute, e-mail, ORCID.

Author’s declaration: https://wydawnictwo.us.edu.pl/sites/wydawnictwo.us.edu.pl/files/authors_statement-article_in_journal-cc.pdf

The Editors reserve the right to introduce modifications that would not affect the merit of the study to the texts submitted to “Wieki Stare i Nowe”.

Correspondance:

Redakcja „Wieki Stare i Nowe”

Instytut Historii

Wydział Humanistyczny

Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach

Ul. Bankowa 11

40-007 Katowice

e-mail: wsn@us.edu.pl

Author Guidelines:

The general principles of the formatting of texts

Text format:

— the required file format: .doc or .docx

— font, text: Times New Roman, 12 pt; footnotes: 10 pt

— line spacing, text: 1,5; footnotes, bibliography: 1

— margins: standard 2,5 cm

— article: maximum 30 000 characters counted with footnotes and spaces

— review: maximum 10 000 characters counted with footnotes and spaces

— graphic material (format: .jpg lub .tiff, minimum resolution 300 dpi) in a separate file and additional documentation all licenses and copyright-related permits are included in writing

Each text must be appended with:

— Name and Surname

— Contact details (University / Institute, e-mail)

— ORCID

— Title (in Polish and English)

— Summary (in Polish or English), maximum 1000 characters counted with spaces

— Abstract (in Polish), maximum 600 characters counted spaces

— Keywords (5-6 keywords in Polish and English)

— Bibliography

— Author’s declaration: https://wydawnictwo.us.edu.pl/sites/wydawnictwo.us.edu.pl/files/authors_statement-article_in_journal-cc.pdf

Footnotes:

— book: Name Surname of the author, Title, Place of publication and year of publication, page/s.

e.g.

• J. Kowalski, Historia Górnego Śląska, Warszawa 2008, s. 35.

— chapter (collective volume): Name Surname of the author, Title of the chapter, In: Title of the collection, Ed. by Name Surname of the editor(s), Place of publication and year of publication, page/s.

e.g.

• J. Kowalski, Historia Górnego Śląska, w: Górny Śląsk – wczoraj i dziś, red. J. Nowak, B. Malinowska-Kern, Warszawa 2008, s. 35–48.

— article (journal): Name Surname of the author, Title of the article, "Title of the periodical" and year, volume, issue, page/s.

e.g.

• J. Kowalski, Historia Górnego Śląska, „Górny Śląsk – wczoraj i dziś” 2008, 4, 120, s. 35–45.

Bibliography:

— book: Surname Name of the author, Title, Place of publication and year of publication.

e.g.

• Kowalski J., Historia Górnego Śląska, Warszawa 2008.

— chapter (collective volume): Surname Name of the author, Title of the chapter, In: Title of the collection, Ed. by Name Surname of the editor(s), Place of publication and year of publication, pages.

e.g.

• Kowalski J., Historia Górnego Śląska, w: Górny Śląsk – wczoraj i dziś, red. J. Nowak, B. Malinowska-Kern, Warszawa 2008, s. 35–48.

— article (journal): Surname Name of the author, Title of the article, "Title of the periodical" and year, volume, issue, pages.

e.g.

• Kowalski J., Historia Górnego Śląska, „Górny Śląsk – wczoraj i dziś” 2008, 4, 120, s. 35–45.

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.

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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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Confidentiality: Until the moment of the admission of the article for publication, the editor and any editorial team shall not disclose any information about the submitted manuscript to any third party other than: corresponding Author, Peer Review team members, members of the editorial team, the publisher, copyeditors, proofreaders, typesetters involved in the production of the journal appropriate.