Author Guidelines

The articles are to be submitted no later than 15th of January in the year of upcoming issue publication, or until another date – if one has been established in a given year (see 'announcements').

The editorial office only accepts texts that were not previously published in any part or as a whole.

The author undertakes to follow the rules of ethics (see: Publication ethics).

The articles are to be edited in conformity with the editorial standards of the „Paidia and Literature” scientific journal.

Failure to comply with these standards may result in rejecting the article.

Article submission is an unequivocal act of transferring publishing rights (both in print and in electronic version) to the publisher.

The editorial office does not return unordered materials.

The article may be published if it obtains the approval of the journal's editors and a positive review by two reviewers.

After passing the review procedure, the Author undertakes to complete the declaration regarding the submission of the article in the journal published under the WUŚ under the Creative Commons license

The Editorial Board does not charge the Authors with any fees for accepting and publishing the text.

Author Guidelines

Editing rules

The texts sent to us should not exceed 25,000 characters.

The submission contains ALL of the elements below:
- the title of the article in English and in Polish
- bibliography (see instructions below),
- abstracts in English and in Polish,
- key words in English and in Polish (max. 7 words),
- author’s bio in English and in Polish,
- author’s ORCID number,
- author’s affiliation,
- written permissions and licenses for copyrighted material (e.g.: images) - as an additional file,
- in the case of open-license or owned materials, a declaration concerning the type of the license and the source of the graphic as an additional file.

Formatting rules

• MS Word,
• Times New Roman 12pt font,
• line spacing – 1.5pts,
• margins – 2.5cm: left, right, top and bottom,
• left alignment,
• quotations (longer than 3 lines) distinguished in the main body – 10pts.

Basic patterns of bibliographic descriptions:

• Papuzińska J., 2007, Jak czytać książki dla dzieci?, w: tejże, Dziecięce spotkania z literaturą, Warszawa.
• Adamczykowa Z., 2008, Literatura „czwarta” – w kręgu zagadnień teoretycznych, w: Heska-Kwaśniewicz K., red., Literatura dla dzieci i młodzieży (po roku 1980), Katowice.
• Olszewska B., 2012, Kalewala – fiński epos w adaptacji Janiny Porazińskiej, „Filoteknos”, nr 3.
• Papuzińska J., 2007, Dziecięce spotkania z literaturą, Warszawa.
• Heska-Kwaśniewicz K., red., 2008, Literatura dla dzieci i młodzieży (po roku 1980), Katowice.
• Baker S., 2001, „Where the Wild Things Are”: An Interview With Steve Baker, www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/4/steve-baker.php [dostęp: 17.11.2012].

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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