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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.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is is one and a half-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.

Author Guidelines

Articles and texts are to be posted to the email address of the journal’s secretaries Monika Kiszka PhD or Natalia Gałązka M.A.: psnova@amu.edu.pl or to the following address: “Pedagogika społeczna Nova”, ul. Szamarzewskiego 89, 60-568 Poznań

The editorial board is asking the authors to conform to the following rules:

  • font: Times New Roman, font size 12, line 12, line spacing 1,5;
  •  footnotes: Oxford-style, Times New Roman, font size 10, line spacing 1,0;
  • alignment: justify (block);
  • pages numbered with Arabic numbers on bottom right corner;
  • bibliography that includes all used resources;
  • according to editorial guidelines, the article should be 12–15 pages long.

The manuscript should begin with the following information:

  • name and surname;
  • ORCID number;
  • e-mail address;
  • affiliation;
  • title of the article;
  • abstract (700–1200 characters);
  • keywords (3–5).

Moreover continuous numbering system of the footnotes should be used throughout the text. In the situations when sources are repeated in footnotes, Latin abbreviations should be used, such as: ibidem, op cit., ibidem etc.

The bibliography should be prepared according to the following format:

● books:

e.g.Hofstede G., Hofstede G.J., Minkov M., Cultures and organizations: soft-ware of the mind, New York 1997.

● articles published in journals:

e.g. Ivakhiv A., Green film criticism and its futures, “Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment” 2008, 15(2), pp. 1–28.

● texts in periodicals of the nature of collective publications: identical as the article in the journal;

● texts contained in collective works:

e.g. Postan L., Some aspects of monitoring the functionality of non- formal adult learning and education, [in:] E. Coropceanu (ed.), Integration through research and innovation Social sciences, Chisinau 2021, pp. 107–110.

● Internet sources:

e.g. Grimot N., Okpan Arhibo: A traditional kind of disco music, https://grimontnanezine.com/2019/10/01/okpan-arhibo-a-traditional-kind-of-disco-music/ [accessed: 17.03.2021].

Note! The appended bibliography must include the page range for articles and chapters in collective works, given at the end of the bibliographic item.

The following information should be included after the main text:

● Author Contributions (the contributions of individual authors should be clearly described). We recommend using the CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) standard. In the case of a single-authored work, individual contributions should be declared. Sample entry:

Author Contributions

 Please specify the percentage contribution of each author to the preparation of the manuscript:
Author 1: _____ %
Author 2: _____ %

Author Contributions

The author declares their individual contributions to the work.

● Conflict of Interest. Sample entry:

The author declares that there is no conflict of interest in connection with the published work.

The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest in connection with the published work.

● Declaration of the use of Artificial Intelligence. Sample entry:

I/We did not use Artficial Intelligence tools at any stage of the work related to the creation of the submitted article

I used/we used artificial intelligence tools during the work on creating the reported article.

Such a sentence should be supplemented with information about which tool was used and to what extent of activities.

● Funding (if applicable).

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