Author Guidelines
Authors are kindly requested to submit articles via MCSU online platform. To do that, go to https://journals.umcs.pl/lsmll, click Register, set up an account checking the Register as author and reader boxes. Then log in to your account and submit the article by filling the boxes with required data (incl. ORCID ID, affiliation incl. address, Bio Statement in English).
Editing guidelines:
1. WORD PROCESSING ENVIRONMENT: Texts need to be submitted as Microsoft Word for Windows files.
2. MAIN FONT STYLE: Times New Roman 11 pts.
3. LINE SPACING: 1 throughout the whole article.
4. ARTICLE LENGTH: The recommended article length, together with abstracts, references, footnotes and appendices, should not exceed 30000 signs including spaces. Texts exceeding this length will be sent back for shortening or rejected.
5. TITLE PAGE: Please do not include personal information about the author; provide only:
– the title in the language of the article (Times New Roman 13, in bold, centred)
– below, the title in English (Times New Roman, 11, in bold, centred)
– the summary in the language of the article, preceded by the word ZUSAMMENFASSUNG or RÉSUMÉ, 100 words maximum, with the key words below, preceded by the word: SCHLÜSSELWÖRTER or MOTS-CLES, 3 words minimum (Times New Roman 10)
– skip a line, put the summary in English, preceded by the word: SUMMARY, 100 words maximum, with the key words below, preceded by the word: KEYWORDS, 3 words minimum (Times New Roman 10)
6. INDENTATION: 0.5 cm. Use first line indentation for all new paragraphs except for the paragraphs that immediately follow the section headline.
7. SUBCHAPTER TITLES: Use a blank line, give a section title with numbering, 11 pts, bold.
8. CITATIONS: Short quotes in the main body of text are to be highlighted by quotation marks (not italicised), longer than 40 words as block quotes are to be highlighted by the use of 9 pts font size, 0.5 indentation on the left side and single spacing without quotation marks. The period at the end of a short quotation appears after the closing parenthesis of the bibliographic reference, while after a block quotation it appears before the parenthesis with the bibliographic reference. Citations need to be carefully proofread.
9. QUOTATION MARKS: Uniform throughout the text, depending on the conventions adopted in a given language.
10. FOOTNOTES: 9 pts font size.
11. HIGHLIGHTING: All in-text highlighting is to be done using italics rather than a bold or underlined font. We do not use double highlighting (e.g., italics within the quotation marks).
12. EXAMPLES: Short examples (single words/phrases) are to be given in the main body of text, in italics, without quotation marks. Long examples (sentences) are to be put in quotation marks.
13. FIGURES: Drawings, graphs, pictures need to fit a properly formatted page. Figures are to be given a caption „Figure 1: title” (9 pts font size) underneath.
14. TABLES: Tables must fit a properly formatted page. Tables are to be given a caption „Table 1. title” (9 pts font size) above the table.
15. NON-STANDARD FONTS: In the case of sources in a different alphabet than Latin, please trans-letter references.
16. BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES in the main text and in footnotes are to follow the following format: (James, 2020, p. 73); (James, 2020, pp. 73–75); (James & Smith, 2022). When citing several works of the same author published in the same year, use (Viart, 1990a, p. 34) and (Viart, 1990b, p. 43).
17. BIBLIOGRAPHY should include only works directly referenced in the main text, in the alphabetic order, 9 pts font size, and follow APA Citation Style 7th ed. Sample entries for major types of publications:
– books:
Perry, R. (2007). Race and Racism. Palgrave Mcmillan.
Rutherford, J. (Ed.). (1999). Identity: Community, Culture, Difference. Lawrence & Wishart.
Goodwin, J., & Jasper, J. M. (Eds). (2012). Contention in context: Political opportunities and the emergence of protest. Stanford University Press.
– chapters in edited books:
Hall, S. (1990). Cultural identity and diaspora. In J. Rutherford (Ed.), Identity: Community, Culture, Difference (pp. 222–238). Lawrence & Wishart.
– articles:
Latorre, G. (2008). Icons of love and devotion: Alma López’s art. Feminist Studies, 34(1/2), 131–150.
– Internet articles:
Stratten, N. (2009). The Virgin of Guadalupe: an Image of a Superhero for Chicana Artists. http://kookitasthoughts.blogspot.com/p/virgin-of-guadalupe.html
– please provide DOIs for all references:
Orban, A.-M. (2007). La blog’attitude: rester dans le vent! Pensée plurielle, 1(14), 45–51. https://doi.org/10.3917/pp.014.0045
