Submissions

Submissions

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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.
  • 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).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • URL addresses of quoted websites are updated and placed in footnotes and references
  • 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.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines (https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/cl/about/submissions#authorGuidelines)
  • ORCID number of the author should be provided.

Author Guidelines

We know that you, as an author, care deeply about your work. You want your article to be accessible, cited and used by the widest possible audience. Every year, we accept and publish more than 20 journal articles. We publish four volumes of the journal per year.

Articles are published free of charge.

The journal is designed to publish scholarly works of researchers and practitioners specializing in linguistics and law.

Preparing your manuscript

We welcome submissions in English, French and German. Guest edited volumes at the request of the guest editor may be published in Italian, Polish, Russian and Chinese.

Here you can download: Formatting standards and references as well as a sample article with a style sheet.  Authors should make sure that where available, URLs for the references have been provided. 

 Your paper should be logically structured.

 The following structures may be followed: 

1. The research paper should have the following structure:
- Abstract
- Key words
- Purpose of the research
- Scope of the research
- Methods used/Methodology/Approach/Design
- Findings
- Research limitations/implications
- Practical implications
- Originality/value
- Recommendations (if applicable)

2. The descriptive paper (summarizing the state of the art in the field) should have the following structure:
- Abstract
- Key words
- Purpose of the research
- Scope of the research
- Methods used
- State-of-the-art findings
- Recommendations (if applicable) 

Submissions

It is necessary for the author to create the author’s profile and submit the paper onto the journal platform: https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/cl.

The authors are required to submit papers that have not been previously published, nor are submitted before another journal for consideration.

The submission file must be in Microsoft Word or RTF document file format.

Length: Articles should be between 30,000 and 50,000 characters with spaces in length.

Publishing process

  1. The publishing process on average takes about a year from the moment of article submission. We publish only articles with two positive peer reviews. Reviewers are appointed by the journal editor. The editors reserve the right to appoint a third reviewer in case of doubts. The editorial board reserves the right to publish selected articles without two reviews. We reserve a right to have one review in cases where the topic of the paper is very niche and it is not possible to find two competent reviewers. The information about negative reviews is passed to the author immediately upon receiving the second review. If the article requires corrections, it will be sent back to the author with a deadline for introducing necessary changes. If the author delays with returning the article, the editors reserve the right to reject it or publish it in the next journal volume.
  2. The status of your paper will change during the peer-review process from (i) paper submitted  successfully (ii) under review (iii) editor decision : accepted; revising required; resubmit to review; (iv) decline submission.

Copyright Notice

When submitting a paper the author agrees to the following publishing agreement and processing personal data.

PUBLICATION AGREEMENT, COPYRIGHT LICENSE, PERSONAL DATA PROCESSING CONSENT

This is a publication agreement and copyright license (“Agreement”) regarding a written manuscript currently submitted via Pressto platform

(“Article”) to be published in Comparative Legilinguistics International Journal for Legal Communication (“Journal”).

The parties to this Agreement are:

the Author or Authors of the submitted article (individually, or if more than one author, collectively, “Author”) and Comparative Legilinguistics International Journal for Legal Communication (“Publisher”), address al. Niepodległości 4, 61-874 Poznań, represented by its editor in chief Aleksandra Matulewska.

§1. LICENSE OF COPYRIGHT

a) The Author and the Publisher agree that the Author grants a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which is incorporated herein by reference and is further specified at Creative Commons — Attribution 4.0 International — CC BY 4.0 copyright license in the Article to the general public.

b) The Author grants to the Publisher a royalty-free, worldwide nonexclusive license to publish, reproduce, display, distribute, translate and use the Article in any form, either separately or as part of a collective work, including but not limited to a nonexclusive license to publish the Article in an issue of the Journal, copy and distribute individual reprints of the Article, authorize reproduction of the entire Article in another publication, and authorize reproduction and distribution of the Article or an abstract thereof by means of computerized retrieval systems (such as Westlaw, Lexis and SSRN). The Author retains ownership of all rights under copyright in the Article, and all rights not expressly granted in this Agreement.

c) The Author grants to the Publisher the power to assign, sublicense or otherwise transfer any and all licenses expressly granted to the Publisher under this Agreement.

d) Republication. The Author agrees to require that the Publisher be given credit as the original publisher in any republication of the Article authorized by the Author. If the Publisher authorizes any other party to republish the Article under the terms of paragraphs 1c and 1 of this Agreement, the Publisher shall require such party to ensure that the Author is credited as the Author.

§2. EDITING OF THE ARTICLE

a) The Author agrees that the Publisher may edit the Article as suitable for publication in the Journal. To the extent that the Publisher’s edits amount to copyrightable works of authorship, the Publisher hereby assigns all right, title, and interest in such edits to the Author.

§3.  WARRANTIES

a) The Author represents and warrants that to the best of the Author’s knowledge the Article does not defame any person, does not invade the privacy of any person, and does not in any other manner infringe upon the rights of any person. The Author agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Publisher against all such claims.

b) The Author represents and warrants that the Author has full power and authority to enter into this Agreement and to grant the licenses granted in this Agreement.

c) The Author represents and warrants that the Article furnished to the Publisher has not been published previously. For purposes of this paragraph, making a copy of the Article accessible over the Internet, including, but not limited to, posting the Article to a database accessible over the Internet, does not constitute prior publication so long as the as such copy indicates that the Article is not in final form, such as by designating such copy to be a “draft,” a “working paper,” or “work-in-progress”. The Author agrees to hold harmless the Publisher, its licensees and distributees, from any claim, action, or proceeding alleging facts that constitute a breach of any warranty enumerated in this paragraph.

§4. TERM

a)  The agreement was concluded for an unspecified time.

§5. PAYMENT

a) The Author agrees and acknowledges that the Author will receive no payment from the Publisher for use of the Article or the licenses granted in this Agreement.

b)  The Publisher agrees and acknowledges that the Publisher will not receive any payment from the Author for publication by the Publisher.

§6. ENTIRE AGREEMENT

a) This Agreement supersedes any and all other agreements, either oral or in writing, between the Author and the Publisher with respect to the subject of this Agreement. This Agreement contains all of the warranties and agreements between the parties with respect to the Article, and each party acknowledges that no representations, inducements, promises, or agreements have been made by or on behalf of any party except those warranties and agreements embodied in this Agreement.

b) In all cases not regulated by this Agreement, legal provisions of Polish Copyright Act and Polish Civil Code shall apply. 

c)  Any disputes arising from the enforcement of obligations connected with this Agreement shall be resolved by a court competent for the headquarters of the Publisher.

d) Any amendments or additions to the Agreement must be made in writing and signed by authorised representative of both parties, otherwise being ineffective. 

e) This Agreement is signed electronically and the submission of the article via the PRESSto platform is considered as the conclusion of the Agreement by the Author and the Publisher.

f)  Clause for consent to the processing of personal data - general

g)  The Author shall give his or her consent to the processing of their personal data in accordance with the Act of 10 May 2018 on the protection of personal data and Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of persons physical in connection with the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46 / EC (General Data Protection Regulation) for the purpose and in connection with making publications available on the PRESSto scientific journals platform and PRESSTO platform, guaranteeing the security of services rendered, and improving them.

I HAVE READ AND AGREE FULLY WITH THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT.

          The Author                                                                                                                  The Publisher

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