Author Guidelines
Technical requirements:
1) Times New Roman 12 pt. font, 1.5 line spacing.
2) Standard margins, i.e. 2.5 cm from each edge.
3) Please remove the spacing after the paragraph (by default, Word has the spacing set to 10 pt. - should be set to 0 pt.).
4) The text should be justified.Do not move single characters from the end of the line to the next line in the text.
5) Dates should be written in the form: June 4, 1989, decades should be written in the form: 1980s.Names in the main text: J. Derrida, with the first occurrence of a given name to be written in full, e.g. Jacques Derrida.
8) Note the different use of the hyphen sign, e.g., two-part surnames should be written with a hyphen: T. Łoś-Nowak, while when separating parts of a sentence - use a hyphen (space on both sides).
9) Quotations should be written in a typeface and be in quotation marks each time.
10) Short foreign language phrases should be written in italics (de facto, ad rem).
11) Titles of books, monographs, scientific papers, etc. should be written in italics, without quotation marks, e.g. Philosophy of Social Sciences.
12) Titles of press publications and scholarly journals should be written in a typeface in quotation marks, e.g., “Political Criticism.”
13) Tables, diagrams, charts, etc. - centered, with the number and title at the top (font 12, TNR) and a footnote at the bottom indicating the source (centered, font 10, TNR). Spacing before and after - 0 points.
Editorial requirements:
In the journal "Refleksje" we use Harvard footnotes, which consist of citing sources directly in the text, in the form of semicircular brackets containing the author's name, year of publication and page. E.g. (Nowak, 2019, p. 55)
They are also called mid-text footnotes because, unlike Oxford footnotes, footnotes are never source footnotes. They only take the form of polemical and digressive footnotes.
Example entries:
- (Nowak, 2019, p. 55) - a book or scientific article by a single author.
- (Nowak, Kowalski, Zalewski, 2018, pp. 44-45) - a book or article by several authors.
- (Politologia..., 2016) - a source whose author we are unable to identify - we then provide only the first word of the title in italics and, if possible, the date of publication.
- (Amnesty International, 2017) - reports and studies published by organizations, companies, international institutions, etc.
- (Law of January 2, 2005), (Prime Minister's Order of December 5, 2017) - legal acts.
When using the same work in two consecutive footnotes, we use Latin ibidem or “ibid”. These abbreviations allow us to indicate the most recently cited item in a simplified way, when it is important, for example, due to a change in the page of the cited work.
The Harvard footnotes are complemented by an appendix bibliography, which must be included at the end of the article. Thanks to it, the reader of the article has the opportunity to find details as to the work that the author of the text used in the passage.
Annex bibliography:
Items must be arranged in alphabetical order. In the case of repeated publication dates of the same author, chronological order should be used by adding lowercase letters, e.g. (2003a, 2003b, 2003c).
Please follow the APA rule adaptation.