General guidelines:

• the text of the article should contain between 20,000 and 35,000 characters, including spaces and footnotes; in special cases, the Editorial Board may accept for publication texts that do not meet this requirement;
• font: Times New Roman 12, 1.5 line spacing, first line indented by 1.25 centimetres, justified text;
• file format: DOC, DOCX, RTF;
• the text should be divided into parts marked by headings. All headings must be numbered and in bold;
• all notes should be footnotes (Times New Roman 10, 1.0 line spacing);
• in footnotes page(s) should be abbreviated as p. or pp.
• each footnote should end with a full stop;
• hyphenation should be disabled;
• journal names should always be written in full and the use of even well-known abbreviations should be avoided;
• use "See" when your intention is to broaden the information given. Use the abbreviation "" when your intention is to compare or contrast the information given with another source.
• if the author of an article from an Internet source is unknown, omit this information and start the footnote with the title of the source. If it is not possible to identify the title as well, it is sufficient to give the address with the date of access;
• literature written Cyrillic is cited in the footnote in its original spelling [only in the appended reference list should it be transliterated].

 Citation rules

Notes should be prepared in the form of footnotes, according to the guidelines and examples below (Oxford style)

 Reference entries of publications in footnotes should match those in the reference list.

 The reference list should include all references cited in footnotes.

 Basic models of reference entries in footnotes: 

– a book with one author: 

E. Jarosz, Wybrane obszary diagnozowania pedagogicznego, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, Katowice 2001.

– a collective work (in Polish the name of author is given in the nominative case): 

Kultury i krajobrazy pamięci, (eds.) M. Dziewierski, B. Pactwa, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, Katowice 2020. 

– a publication in a collective work (indicate the pages): 

B. Tarnowska, “Dym koloru ochry”. Jerozolima Andrzeja Buszy, in: Kontynenty, Studia i szkice o twórczości Andrzeja Buszy, (eds.) M. Kisiel, J. Pasterski, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, Katowice–Rzeszów 2019, pp. 83–104.

– a publication in a journal (indicate the pages): 

A. Więcek-Gigla, Rewolucje Mieczysława Szczuki, “Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne” 2020, no. 2 (16), pp. 1–10, https://doi.org/10.31261/SSP.2020.16.01.

 K. Trzeciak, Materialistyczna krytyka literacka – niedokończony projekt, “Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne” 2018, no. 2 (12), pp. 167–180. 

–  a text published on a website (if the text has a date of publication, this date must be given; a hyperlink and the date of access – in square brackets – are mandatory): 

B. Piątkowska-Borek, Czarna dziura jest naprawdę bardzo blisko Ziemi. Nowe odkrycie naukowców Europejskiego Obserwatorium Południowego (EOS), Wirtualna Polska, 8 May 2020, https://wiadomosci.wp.pl/czarna-dziura-jest-naprawde-bardzo-blisko-ziemi-nowe-odkrycie-naukowcow-europejskiego-obserwatorium-poludniowego-eos-6508412819375745a [accessed 17 February 2021].

Do not mark surnames with a different typeface (no small caps or letter spacing).

Names of publishers should be given in full.

If a DOI has been assigned to a publication, it should be given as a hyperlink (at the end of the reference entry, after a comma).

A publication in a foreign language should be described its original language (e.g. “ed.”, “Hrsg.”, “vol.”, “Teil”, „Bd.”, “no.”, “Nr.”), except for the abbreviations “p.” and “pp”

A. Cristià, Phonetic enhancement of sibilants in infant-directed speech, “The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America” 2010, vol. 128, no. 1, pp. 424–434.

Latin abbreviations should be consistently used: 

– a reference to the publication cited in the previous footnote:

G. Simmel, Most i drzwi. Wybór esejów, translated by M. Łukasiewicz, Oficyna Naukowa, Warszawa 2006, p. 34.

Ibidem, p. 35. 

– a reference to a publication by the same author within one footnote: 

D. Czaja, Wprowadzenie. Kłopoty z duszą, in: Idem, Anatomia duszy. Figury wyobraźni i gry językowe, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, [Kraków 2005]; Idem, Lekcje ciemności, Wydawnictwo Czarne, Wołowiec 2009. 

– a reference to a publication by the same female author within one footnote: 

E. Kosowska, Kultura, literatura, antropologia, in: Eadem, Antropologia literatury. Teksty, konteksty, interpretacje, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, Katowice 2003; Eadem, Stąd do Teksasu: impresje amerykańskie, Wydawnictwo Naukowe „Śląsk”, Katowice 2006. 

or: 

E. Kosowska, Kultura, literatura, antropologia, in: Taż, Antropologia literatury. Teksty, konteksty, interpretacje, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, Katowice 2003; Taż, Stąd do Teksasu: impresje amerykańskie, Wydawnictwo Naukowe „Śląsk”, Katowice 2006.  

– a reference to publications by the same authors within one footnote, when at least one of the authors is a man: 

A. Czyż, S. Kubas, Doświadczenia węgierskiej transformacji ustrojowej – od Jánosa Kádára do Viktora Orbána, Remar, Katowice 2011; Eidem, Państwa Grupy Wyszehradzkiej: pomiędzy przeszłością a teraźniejszością. Wybrane aspekty polityki wewnętrznej i zagranicznej, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, Katowice 2014.  

or: 

A. Czyż, S. Kubas, Doświadczenia węgierskiej transformacji ustrojowej – od Jánosa Kádára do Viktora Orbána, Remar, Katowice 2011; Ciż, Państwa Grupy Wyszehradzkiej: pomiędzy przeszłością a teraźniejszością. Wybrane aspekty polityki wewnętrznej i zagranicznej, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, Katowice 2014.  

– a reference to publications by the same female authors within one footnote: 

M. Bąk, L. Romaniszyn-Ziomek, Spacerkiem po Lizbonie, in: Eaedem, „Gdzie ziemia się kończy, a morze zaczyna”. Szkice polsko-portugalskie, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, Katowice 2016.

or: 

M. Bąk, L. Romaniszyn-Ziomek, Spacerkiem po Lizbonie, in: Też, „Gdzie ziemia się kończy, a morze zaczyna”. Szkice polsko-portugalskie, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, Katowice 2016.  

– if there are more than three surnames belonging to one category in a reference entry:

 M. Heidegger, Nietzsche, przeł. A. Gniazdowski et al., prepared by C. Wodziński, Vol.. 2, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warszawa 1999. 

or:

 M. Heidegger, Nietzsche, przeł. A. Gniazdowski i in., oprac. C. Wodziński, T. 2, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warszawa 1999.  

– if no information on the publisher, place of publication or year of publication is given in the publication, the abbreviations should be used as appropriate: “s.n.”, “s.l.” or “s.a.”

The repeated citation of a publication already cited in a given chapter requires the use of an abbreviated description (do not use the abbreviation “ cit.”)

B. Malinowski, Szkice z teorii kultury, Książka i Wiedza, Warszawa 1958, p. 78. 

E.. Kosowska, Antropologia literatury. Teksty, konteksty, interpretacje, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, Katowice 2003, p. 167.

B. Malinowski, Szkice z teorii kultury…, pp. 80–81.

 II.A. Sources of law and court rulings should be cited in footnotes, without repeating them in the appended reference list, according to the models.

• official publications – of legal acts and rulings – are always introduced in a footnote, never in the main body of the text. If the full name of an act appears in the text (together with the date of its adoption), do not repeat it in the footnote and only indicate the relevant official publication;
• for each of the rulings the relevant official publication should be indicated. If a ruling comes from a database that numbers rulings (e.g. Lex), it is necessary to give that number;
• the Editorial Board uses within the journal an established list of abbreviations for the most frequently appearing acts. Please use the abbreviations below. In the case of other laws not listed below, the Author should introduce his or her own abbreviations by use it consistently within the text.

SOURCES OF LAW

Constitution
The Constitution of the Republic of Poland of 2 April 1997 (Journal of Laws of 1997, No. 78, item 483, as amended).

Acts
The Act of 27 April 2011 - Environmental Protection Law (Journal of Laws of 2020, item 1219, as amended).

Regulations
The Regulation of the Minister of Climate of 30 May 2020 on the manner of determining the value of the noise indicator L_DWN (Journal of Laws of 2020, item1018).

Conventions
The Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime (Journal of Laws of 2015, item 728).

Others

Directive 2014/65/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014 on markets in financial instruments and amending Directive 2002/92/EC and Directive 2011/61/EU (recast) (OJ L 173, 12 June 2014, p. 349).

Regulation (EU) 2023/956 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 May 2023 establishing a carbon border adjustment mechanism (OJ L 130, 16 May 2023, pp. 52–104).

COURT RULINGS

Rulings of  the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg
The judgment of CJEU of 25 February 2018, case C-336/16, ECLI:EU:C:2018:586.

Rulings of the Constitutional Tribunal

The judgment of the Constitutional Court of 26 June 2019, File No. SK 2/17, OTK-A 2019/36.

Rulings of the Supreme Court

The judgment of the Supreme Court of 8 August 2007, File No. I CSK 125/07, "OSP" of 2008. No. 7-8, item 72.

Rulings of the Supreme Administrative Court

The judgment of the Supreme Administrative Court of 7 March 2018, File No. I OSK 1073/17, LEX No. 12120.

Rulings of ordinary courts

The judgment of the Court of Appeal in Kraków of 10 January 2020, File No. IV AUa 1991/19.

Rulings of Administrative Courts

The judgment of the Voivodeship Administrative Court in Gliwice of 30 May 2020, SAB/Gl 69/19, LEX No. 151510.

 Tables and illustrations

Tables and illustrations should be placed as close as possible to the text to which they refer. Caption a table with "Table" and give the table number. On a separate line below it, write its title. Place the source of the table below it.

Other types of visual material (illustrations) are introduced with the caption "Figure" (abbreviated to "Fig.") with an Arabic numeral and a heading (description) in the same line.

 Rules for compiling the appended reference list

The texts should also include a reference listing all the sources used (with the exception of legal acts) with a separate, concluding section detailing electronic sources.

Please arrange the sources alphabetically.

Reference entries in Cyrillic characters should be transliterated. Please use the following website: https://www.ushuaia.pl/transliterate and choose the transliteration option: Russian BGN-PCGN. The original Cyrillic version should be indicated in square brackets.

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