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Author Guidelines

1. The Editorial Board accepts for publication glosses commenting the court rulings issued in cases within the broad scope of commercial law, which address issues of significance to judicial practice and scholarship, reviews of court case law in this field, as well as scholarly articles. In exceptional, substantively justified circumstances, the Editorial Board may decide to accept for publication a commentary or article presenting a high scientific level and addressing issues from across the entire scope of legal sciences.
2. The gloss which is submitted for publication shall include description of the legal problem addressed in the ruling and an analysis of the court’s reasoning. Moreover, the gloss shall include an unequivocal conclusion and assessment of the court’s reasoning. The gloss may contain a detailed description of the course of the proceedings, but only to the extent as necessary to demonstrate the legal problem.
3. The case law review which is submitted for publication shall include the presentation of theses from the most important judgments from period selected by the author, in which the legal issue analyzed by the author was presented. The case law review also shall include the conclusions from the author’s analysis of judicature.
4. The glosses and case law reviews will be published in the journal in Polish and English. Scientific articles will be published in the journal in English, Spanish, Italian, German, French and Russian.
5. The journal does not charge any payment for submitting a text for publication.
6. Tha author shall attach to the submitting text 3 to 6 keywords in Polish and English.
7. The author shall attach to the submitting text an abstract in English and Polish, which should have 100 to 250 words.
8. The abstract attached to the gloss should specify, in particular the nature of the submitting gloss (disapproving, partially approving, partially disapproving, approving), the legal problem addressed in the ruling, main theses from the analysis and cognitive value for science or practice.
9. The abstract attached to the case law review shall specify the legal problem addressed in the analyzed judgments, main theses from the analysis and cognitive value for science or practice.
10. The gloss submitted for publication should be provided with a title prepared according to the following sample template:

     “Claim for compensation for damage caused by violation of an employment obligation – a gloss to the Supreme Court’s judgment of 8 March 2020, II PN 21/18”,i.e. a title consisting of two parts separated by a hyphen, containing the following:

    - description of the issue presented in gloss,
    - designation and signature of the commented judicial decision.

11. Texts for publication should be submitted electronically, in the Microsoft Word format via the website: https://journals.umcs.pl/glosa/index
12. When submitting a text for publication, the Author shall specify his/her first and last name, degree or title, affiliation, e-mail address, ORCID number, and attaches a scan of the statement of authorship and percentage contribution to the publication (in accordance with the rules of publishing ethics and the statement of irregularities in the publication of the journal), which is an additional PDF or JPG file as well as the acceptance of all journal’s rules and regulations.
13. Texts submitted for publication by: graduates of law faculties, PhD students, assistants (eg. MA, BA), and legal trainees should be accompanied by a scan of the recommendation of the scientific supervisor, which is a supplementary PDF or JPG file. In exceptional cases, the Editorial Board may allow an opinion issued by a person with a doctoral degree in a discipline of legal sciences.
14. The volume of the text submitted for publication should have the size of not less than 20 thousand characters (with spaces and footnotes, the abstract, keywords and references) and not more than 30 thousand characters (with spaces and footnotes, the abstract, keywords and references).
15. All texts submitted for publication are verified using the plagiarism checker programme. The report from the verification is made available to reviewers by the Editorial Board, without revealing the identity of the author.
16. Teksty przesyłane do publikacji powinny być napisane czcionką Times New Roman o wielkości 12 pkt, z wykorzystaniem interlinii 1,5 oraz marginesów 2,5 x 2,5 cm.
17. The manuscript should be prepared in accordance with the regulations contained in: Editorial Guidelines and Rules for Preparing Footnotes and Bibliography
18. It is mandatory to provide all required information when submitting a manuscript to the online system. This applies in particular to completing the information concerning the manuscript title, keywords, abstract, author(s), affiliation(s), and bibliography. This information must be provided in two language versions – Polish and English.

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 Microsoft Word.
3. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
4. The separate files attached contain editable (vector graphics) pictures and charts, of 300 DPI resolution at a minimum, in the JPEG, PDF and TIF formats. If the charts are made in MS Excel, please attach also .xlsx files.
5. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
6. You have attached author`s work declaration to your submmission. Declaration can be submitted in particular in form of scan or electronically authenticated document.
7. Dear Author, here you will find a hint how to properly upload your article.

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