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Author Guidelines

Author fees
The journal does not charge for submission and processing or publication of the manuscript.

The initial manuscript evaluation process takes 1-2 months, the peer-review process takes about 2-3 months (excluding holiday and holiday periods). If it is necessary to appoint a third reviewer, the review process is extended by another 2-3 months.

Authors interested in publishing in Annales UMC Sectio FF are kindly requested to format their submissions according to the following guidelines. Completion of the technical requirements as detailed below is the pre-requisite for further steps of the reviewing procedure.

PLEASE NOTE: The main text with the list of references, summaries in Polish and English, keywords in Polish and English should be between 20,000 and 30,000 characters (with spaces and footnotes).

Submissions should be prepared in .doc and PDF format. The text (including references, footnotes and appendices) should not exceed 30 000 characters with spaces (for articles) or 15 000 characters with spaces (for reviews and reports). Editors reserve the right to shorten the submitted texts.

The submission must be accompanied by a title in English, a list of references, a short summary (approx. 250 words) in Polish and English, as well as keywords in Polish and English.

Texts need to meet the following criteria:

  • contain the Author’s first name and the family name, affiliation, ORCID;
  • title in Polish and English
  • tekst
  • bibliography: layout from name, each bibliographic item should be separated by an empty line;
  • abstract in Polish and in English (up to 600 characters with spaces);
  • around 5 keywords in Polish and in English;

Drawings, photographs, charts, maps, diagrams, etc. should be inserted in the main text and captions should be provided. These figures must also be attached as separate files in JPG or TIFF format. Their resolution (whether scanned or vector graphics) should be at least 300 dpi.

Short citations given in the main text should be highlighted by quotation marks (not italicised). Quotations longer than one sentence should be highlighted by the use of 10 pts font size and single spacing.

Italics should be used for the titles of books, poems, articles, films, television and radio broadcasts. Quotation marks are to be used for the titles of journals, exhibitions, conferences and scientific sessions.

Author’s comments should be provided in square brackets along with  the author’s initials, e.g. “he rendered great service to it [the Bank – added by W.R.] and other various national institutions”.

Reduced or omitted text fragments in citations should be acknowledged by the use of points of ellipsis in square brackets: [...].

The full name of a person/author should be provided upon their first mention in the text.

Foreign words should be written in italics, e.g. sui generis.

For time intervals and page ranges an en dash without spaces should be used (e.g. in the years 1904-1914, pp. 123-127).

Numbers should be typed in words (not applicable to dates and statistical data).

Dates should be written in the following format: 12 May 2011.

Non-standard fonts, characters and symbols should be attached as a separate file upon article submission.

Foreign language quotes should be translated into the language of the article. The translation is to be placed directly below the source text or in a footnote.

REFERENCES

Individual entries in the list of references should be given in alphabetical order, works by the same author should be ordered from the oldest to the most recent. The list of references does not include sources. References in the Eastern alphabets should be transcribed into Latin. The full list of referenced works following the main body of the article must conform to APA style, full names of authors should be given. See examples below.

a) For single-authored books:

Finney, J. (1970). Time and again. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster.

b) For books by two or more authors:

Bazylow, L. & Wieczorkiewicz, P. (2005). Historia Rosji. Wrocław: Ossolineum.

c) For chapters in a book:

Jurkowski, R. (2001). “W epoce defensywy narodowej”. Działalność i poglądy społeczno-polityczne Edwarda Woyniłłowicza w latach 1878-1909. {In:] M. Mroczko (ed.), Polska i Polacy. Studia z dziejów polskiej myśli i kultury politycznej XIX i XX wieku (pp. 67-89).  Gdańsk: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego.

d) For edited volumes:

Roszkowski, W. & Kofman, J. (eds.). (2004). Słownik biograficzny Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej XX wieku. Warszawa: Oficyna Wydawnicza RYTM.

e) For articles in journals:

Castles, F.G., Curtin, J. C. & Vowles, J. (2006). Public policy in Australia and New Zealand: The new global context. Australian Journal of Political Science, 41(2), 131–143.

f) For articles with DOI numer:

Gelkopf, M., Ryan, P., Cotton, S. & Berger, R. (2008). The impact of “training the trainers” for helping tsunami-survivor children on Sri Lankan disaster volunteer workers. International Journal of Stress Management, 15(2), 117–135. Https://doi.org/10.1037/1072-5245.15.2.117

g) For unpublished works:

Radzikowski, R. (in press). Wizje przeszłości. Studia Białorutenistyczne, 26.

h) For online articles:

Benson, A. & Kipp, R. M. (2012). Potamopyrgus antipodarum. Retrieved from http://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/FactSheet.asp?SpeciesID=1008

i) For works with no author:

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. (1993). Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster.

Ministry for Primary Industries. (2012). Rural communities. Retrieved from http://www.mpi.govt.nz/agriculture/rural-communities

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES

For in-text references the author’s name and date of publication should be given if the entire work is referenced, when only a fragment of the work is referenced the page (or page range) should also be provided. For detailed guidelines, see examples below.  

A.  For single-authored works:

The name of the author and the date of publication of the work should always be provided, no matter how many times the work is referred to. If more than one work by the same author published in the same year has been referenced, consecutive letters of the alphabet should be added to the publication year (e.g. 2001a).

As claimed by Nowak (2001)...
The recent study results show that ... (Tomaszewski, 2001a).

For references to a particular fragment of a work, the page (or page range) should be given after the publication date followed by a colon. 

As it is argued by Nowak (2001:15)...
It can be concluded that … (Tomaszewski, 2001:15-21).

If more than one author with the same last name is referenced, the first name initial should be added for clarification.

He claimed that … (Smith, A., 2001) … However, following the most recent theoretical proposal (Smith, B., 2005) …

B. For works by two authors:

The names of both authors and the date of publication of the work should always be provided, no matter how many times the work is referred to. If more than one work by the same authors was published in the same year, consecutive letters of the alphabet should be added to the entry. Authors’ names should always be linked with the conjunction “and” (or its equivalent, accordingly to the language of the submitted text).

Smith and Nowak (1999) claim that ...
The researchers’ previous works (Smith and Nowak, 1999) point to …

For references to a particular fragment of a work, the page (or page range) should be given after the publication date followed by a colon. 

Smith and Nowak (1999:15) claim that ...
The researchers’ previous works (Smith and Nowak, 1999:15-21) point to …

C. For works by three or more authors:

When referenced for the first time, the names of all authors should be listed, separated with commas and using the conjunction “and” between the two last names. For subsequent mentions of the same work, the name of the first author should followed by “et al.

For works with more than 6 authors, only the name of the first author should be mentioned, both when the work is cited for the first time and in subsequent references, while the remaining authors are indicated by et al.

For the first mention:

As Nowak, Smith and Tomaszewski (2003) notice ...
The study (Nowak, Smith and Tomaszewski, 2003) demonstrates that ...

For subsequent mentions:

The study conducted by Nowak et al.  (2003) shows that ...
This study (Nowak et al., 2003) ...

For references to a particular fragment of a work, the page (or page range) should be given after the publication date followed by a colon.

D. For referencing simultaneously multiple works:

Multiple works should be listed alphabetically (and chronologically), according to the name of the first author. References to subsequent works must be separated by a semicolon and placed in brackets. The years of publication of works by the same author/authors must be separated by a comma.

(Lakoff, 2001; Nowak and Smith, 1998)
(Lakoff, 1990, 1995, 2001a, 2001b; Nowak and Smith, 1998)

For references to a particular fragment of a work, the page (or page range) should be given after the publication date followed by a colon.

E. For citing after another author:

Taylor suggested that … (1988; as cited in Langacker, 2000)
The research suggests that ... (Taylor, 1988; as cited in Langacker, 2000).

For references to a particular fragment of a work, the page (or page range) should be given after the publication date followed by a colon.

F. For works with no author – the title of the work is only provided (books, dictionaries - in italics; articles, chapters, websites in quotation marks). If the title is very long, only its beginning (3-4 first words) can be given. For other data (year, pages, etc.) the same rules apply as in the previous cases, e.g.:

Similar results were obtained by the American researchers (“Beehive updating job…” 2007).

FOOTNOTES

Footnotes have an expanding, not a referencing function. Footnotes should be used for additional content the inclusion of which in the main text would disturb it, although it significantly broadens the research context. Quotations in the footnotes should be used analogously to those in the main text.

 

Submission Preparation Checklist

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.

  1. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  2. The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
  3. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  4. The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal. Additionally, you have ready to attach with your article signed percentage of author`s work declaration.
  6. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
  7. As an author I’m familiar with the journal’s current procedure of reviewing submissions.
  8. As an author submitting my paper to publication in „Annales UMCS. Sec. FF”, I agree to accept the Ethical Policy of the journal.
  9. Please note! Dear Author, here you will find a hint how to properly upload your article.

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