Author Guidelines
1. Text volume (text and additional materials: bibliography, summaries, key words, biography): scientific article - up to 40,000. characters with spaces, review article - up to 25 thousand. characters with spaces, review - up to 15 thousand. characters with spaces.
2. Editorial composition of the article
a) name and surname of the author(s)
b) affiliation (full name of the university)
c) ORCID
d) the title of the article (written in plain text, not in capital letters)
e) text (if there is a division into parts, all should be titled and numbered - multi-stage numbering is used using Arabic numerals, e.g. 1., 1.1., 1.1.1., 1.1.2., 1.2. etc.)
f) bibliography - we use, if justified, the following division:
• Sources (including abbreviations used)
• Glossaries (including the abbreviations used) - see. point 5j, e.g.
L – Linde Samuel Bogumił (1854–1860), Dictionary of the Polish language, vol. 1–6, ed. 2, Lviv.
SJPDun – Dunaj Bogusław, ed. (1996), Dictionary of the contemporary Polish language, Warsaw.
• Bibliography
g) abstract: name and surname of the author, title, abstract in Polish and English (up to 1000 characters), keywords in Polish and English (up to 7)
h) information about the author according to the following scheme: <academic title> <name and surname> – <scientific unit [department, institute or faculty and university]>; <research interests [indicating several thematic fields]>.
3. Editorial composition of the review
a) name and surname of the author(s) of the review
b) affiliation (full name of the university)
c) ORCID
d) a detailed bibliographic description of the reviewed publication (author, title, name of the publisher, place of publication, year of publication, number of pages)
e) text
f) information about the author according to the following scheme: <academic title> <name and surname> – <[department, institute or faculty and university]>; <research interests [indicating several thematic fields]>.
4. Editorial composition of the review article
g) name and surname of the author(s) of the review article
h) affiliation (full name of the university)
i) ORCID
j) title (written in plain text, not in capital letters)
k) in the footnote to which the reference is placed after the title, after the sentence "The work was based on the publication:" an exact bibliographic description of the reviewed book (author, title, name of the publishing house, place of publication, year of publication, number of pages)
i) text
m) bibliography
n) information about the author according to the following scheme: <academic title> <name and surname> – <[department, institute or faculty and university]>; <research interests [indicating several thematic fields]>.
5. Quotations from literature and sources
a) up to three lines are written in straight letters in quotation marks in the main text (also foreign language quotations)
b) more than three lines are written in plain type, distinguished by a one-line space above and below and indentation (do not put quotation marks in this case)
c) poems are composed as longer quotations
d) the omission of a fragment in the text is marked with an ellipsis in square brackets: [...]
e) a quote within a quote is marked with French quotation marks: «quote»
f) distinctions from the author of the text are marked in bold; an abbreviation should be given in square brackets: highlight. and initials (composed without spaces), e.g. "Just as you feel when you look at the river and the sky, so did I [emphasize – M.S.]”; if all the distinctions come from the author, a footnote should be added next to the first highlighting: All distinctions in quotations - <author's initials>
g) the author's note in the quote should be placed in square brackets, followed by a dash and the author's initials with dots without spaces.
6. Detailed rules:
a) lexemes are written in italics (separating commas - in plain script)
b) the meaning is written in quotation marks ' '
c) variants are separated by two slashes (with spaces on both sides): //
d) titles (excluding journal titles) and foreign language expressions are written in italics; in the text written in italics, the titles are written in quotation marks (e.g. About "Dziady" by Adam Mickiewicz)
e) abbreviations are used such as: e.g., among others, etc., etc., i.e.
f) year, age are written in full word, not in abbreviation
g) 17th century, no: 17th century; the 1970s, no: the 1970s
h) we write the calculations in a sequence in the text or from new lines with the designation: a); b); c)
i) when a person appears for the first time in the text, his full name is given, on subsequent references - only his name
j) the following abbreviations of the titles of major dictionaries and other works should be used (in the list of sources and dictionaries in the bibliography, full bibliographic descriptions should be provided - see example in point 2f):
ESXVII – Elektroniczny słownik jezyka polskiego XVII I XVIII wieku
ISJP – Inny słownik języka polskiego
L – Linde Samuel Bogumił, Słownik języka polskiego
PSWP – Praktyczny słownik języka polskiego
SJPDor – Słownik języka polskiego, ed. Witold Doroszewski
SJPDun – Słownik współczesnego języka polskiego, ed. Bogusław Dunaj
SJPSzym – Słownik języka polskiego, ed. Mieczysław Szymczak
SPXVI – Słownik polszczyzny XVI wieku
SStp – Słownik staropolski
SW - so-called Słownik warszawski
SWil - so-called Słownik wileński
USJP – Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego
WSJP PAN – Wielki słownik języka polskiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk
WSO PWN – Wielki słownik ortograficzny PWN
WSPP PWN – Wielki słownik poprawnej polszczyzny PWN
7. Footnotes
a) in the journal, we use the so-called the Harvard system ("author-year"); for substantive information, traditional footnotes at the bottom of the page with a link in the main text
b) a reference to the bibliography contained in the text has the following form: author's surname, year of publication and page number or range of pages; footnotes are placed in square brackets; a colon is placed before the page number, e.g.
[Kowalski, ed. 1994: 5]
c) if more publications by one author from a given year are cited in the text, the letters "a", "b", etc. are added to the year, e.g.
[Nowak 1995a: 7]
[Nowak 1995b: 9]
[Nowak 1995c: 6]
d) if the author is not given in the document placed on the Internet, the first element of the description should be the title (if it is longer than three words, it is shortened), and if it is missing - the incipit, e.g.
[New forms of cooperation… 2011: 7]
e) if no date is given in the online document, the year of use of the materials is entered, e.g.
[Kowalski, accessed 2010: 9]
f) cross-reference footnotes cf. (= see), cf. (= compare) are also composed in the same way, e.g.
[see Kowalski 1996: 3].
g) bibliographic data of several simultaneously discussed publications are separated by semicolons, e.g.
[see Kowalski 1994: 5; Nowak 2009: 7]
h) a footnote is always placed after the quoted text, e.g.
"They are frequent phenomena, although difficult to explain" [Nowak 1998: 32]
i) when the quotation is indirect, the abbreviation is used: cit. for: (= citation for:), e.g.
[quote after: Nowak 1995: 6]
j) references to sources or dictionaries are included as references to literature, e.g.
[SPXVI]
[USJP, Vol. 2: 230]
[SW: 320]
k) records of sources given in Cyrillic in references in the text and in the attached bibliography should be written in transliteration.
8. Attached bibliography (list of literature referenced in the text)
a) the attached bibliography is placed after the text
b) in the bibliography, the alphabetical order is used - according to the surnames of the authors; when more works by the same author appear, chronological order is used; publications by one author from the same year should be distinguished by consecutive letters (a, b, c, etc.), in accordance with the alphabetical order determined by the titles, cf.
Nowak Anna (1993), Tekst. Próba syntezy, Warsaw.
Nowak Anna (1996a), Tekst – kategoria stara i nowa, Warsaw.
Nowak Anna (1996b), Tekst – w perspektywie stylistycznej, Warsaw.
c) in the attached bibliography, the comma rule is used (individual elements are separated by commas)
d) elements of bibliographic description
• the title and subtitle are given in the form adopted from the described document (ie punctuation, spelling, etc. are not changed)
• the year of publication is given in parentheses, after the author's name, e.g.
Nowak Anna (1999), Poetyka, Warsaw.
• the first element of the description of the entire collective work is the name of the editor; the following abbreviations are used to designate multi-volume publications or periodicals: p. (= part), No. (= number), vol. (= volume), iss. (= issue); after the designation of the volume or part, the title (if any) is given, e.g.
Jerzy Bartmiński, ed. (1993), Encyklopedia kultury polskiej XX wieku, vol. 2: Współczesny język polski, Wrocław.
• the following abbreviations are used with the names of co-authors: ed. (= editor),trans. (= translated); surnames of co-authors are preceded by first names (not initials)
• the issue number is marked with Arabic numerals after the title of the work; abbreviations are used: am. (= amended) and supp. (= supplemented)
• if more than one place of publication is listed in the publication, the first place name should be given in the description; if the document does not specify the place of issue, the abbreviation should be given in square brackets:
[n.p.] (= no place)
• the preposition "in" is not placed before the title of a newspaper or magazine, eg.
Buttler Danuta (1997), Polskie słownictwo potoczne, "Poradnik Językowy", iss. 3–4.
• the year number is not recorded
• in the description of an article from a magazine or collective work, the range of pages on which the text is located should be provided
• when a document from a book by the same person is given, the following notation is used: idem, eadem, eg.
Wilkoń Aleksander (1999), Typologia współczesnych stylów literackich. Style poetyckie, in: idem, Język artystyczny. Studia i szkice, Katowice, pp. 111–132.
• the bibliographic description of the electronic document should include the following elements: surname and first name of the author, year of publication (if any), title, place of publication (if any), date of update/amendment (in the case of dictionaries or legal acts - if any), source of the document ( in the case of documents placed online, the address is provided), date of access (obligatory in online documents, placed in square brackets [access: September 20, 2020]). Difficult to perceive website addresses (e.g. longer than 30 characters and/or containing long sequences of alphanumeric characters that do not form words) should be shortened each time via the service available at https://tinyurl.com. In this case, the access date is not updated, because it is only a redirection - the original address will be shown in the address bar of the browser.
Henryk Sienkiewicz (1922), Z podróży do Kolonii, Ostendy i Paryża, Lviv, https://tinyurl.com/y3nzor7u Lviv, https://tinyurl.com/y3nzor7u [retrived: March 4, 2019].
• Attention! If the publication has a DOI number, this number should be provided, regardless of whether the electronic or paper version was used. If an electronic version was used, the DOI number is given instead of the web address and date of access. The DOI number should be saved as a link, i.e. precede it with the prefix https://doi.org/ (e.g. https://doi.org/10.14746/pspsj.2019.26.2.4).
9. Uploading illustrative material
If you want to include in the article any graphic work that is not in the public domain, you must obtain a signature from its author (or heirs) under the consent located at this link).
For a public domain work, the following information is needed:
• name and surname of the author
• date of his death
• the title of the work
• year of its creation.
Please also provide the source of the obtained reproduction.
Please note that although the work itself (e.g. a painting) may be in the public domain, its photograph is a separate work and is also subject to copyright. For this reason, museums, for example, may sell licenses for reproductions of works in their collections, as they may have exclusivity to photograph them.
Please do not take photos of graphics printed in other printed publications in order to reproduce them. If there are no alternatives, scan at a resolution of at least 300 dpi. However, there is a risk of the so-called moiré effect - a printing disorder resulting from the overlapping of two rasters - the original and the secondary.
Iconographic material should be sent in separate files (JPG or TIFF), with a resolution of at least 1600 × 1200 px. Files with pictures should be given sequential names (il_01, il_02, etc.). Please do not include illustrations in the DOC file. In places of the text where they are to be placed, enter the name of the file in chevron brackets <il_01>, <il_02>, etc. The list of illustrations should contain captions for illustrations and sources.
Captions for illustrations, tables and charts should be placed in the place of the article where a given graphic element is to be placed. They should start with:
• Illustrations: Fig. 1, Fig. 2 etc.
• Graphs: Graph 1, Graph 2 etc.
• Tables: Table 1, Table 2 etc.
10. Text formatting rules
a) the text is typefaced Times New Roman with a size of 12; 1.5 line spacing and 2.5 cm margins are used
b) paragraphs should be distinguished by indentation; when using this type of emphasis, do not set additional interparagraph spacing (blank lines between equivalent paragraphs); paragraphs should be indented not with tabs, but with the use of paragraph options or by setting the appropriate value on the sliders located in the text editor above the page view
c) subheadings should be numbered, bold and preceded by a single line space
d) do not set spacing with multiple spaces
e) do not use the so-called forced line breaks (shift + enter) - when you finish a paragraph, go to the next one by pressing the enter button
f) glossary and factual footnotes should be automatic and footnotes; endnotes should not be created.