Submissions

Author Guidelines

Editors’ instructions for authors of  articles submitted to  Slavia Antiqua

Starting with volume 57 of Slavia Antiqua annals, we have introduced strict rules of submitting texts for publication.
You are kindly requested to submit texts written exclusively in Word processor and saved as a file in the .doc, .docx or .rtf format:
· where the pages are not numbered;
· the text is not formatted;
· tables created in Excel are not pasted into Word; tables are best sent in separate files (Excel or Word);
· figures are not pasted into the text file but rather, each figure should be saved in a separate file.

Figures must be provided on a good technical and editorial level, preferably saved as “cdr” (Corel) files, “ai” (Illustrator) files, “tiff” or, least preferably, “jpg” files. The name of the file is the number of the figure (e.g. Figure 7.tiff). Please do not provide comments on the figures in the graphic files. A list of figures needs to be sent in a separate text file. All the figures need to have references in the text. Please observe the sequence of quoting figures in the text.

A text should contain:
· an abstract of up to 1,000 characters and 3-5 key words or phrases (translated or for translation into English) in a separate text file;
· the author’s full affiliation: ORCID, academic degree/title, institution, country, postal address, email address.

The system of regulations applying to the articles published in Slavia Antiqua have been standardised  together with the bibliography:
· the Harvard referencing style has been adopted for in-text citations  where the authors' last name and the year of publication are provided in round brackets placed within the text, the page number(s) after a coma, the number of a table or figure after another coma, e.g.:
(Kowalski 1999, p. 23, Fig. 4:1);
· if two works of one author from the same year are cited, they should be marked with letters “a”, “b” (in alphabetical order of the titles), e.g.:
(Kowalski 1999a, p. 23; 1999b, pp. 54-57);
· when a work has two authors, both names are cited, connected by "and"; if there are three authors, they are presented in the following way: (Kwiatkowski, Kowalski and Nowak 1999, pp. 340, 341);
· when works are cited of different authors who have the same name, published in the same year, the initials of the authors’ given names are used to differentiate them:
(J. Kowalski 1999, p. 23, Fig. 4:1)
(Z. Kowalski 1999, pp. 30, 44);
· the reference list should contain  all the works cited in an article;
· the reference description should follow this pattern:
the author’s name and the initial of the  given name, year
monograph: the title in italics, place of publication: publisher.
journal: title in italics, number (issue, volume), page numbers.
article in a collective work: title, in: the initial of the editor’s given name and the name. title of collective work in italics. place of publication. page numbers.
Example:

Kowalski J.
1999a Archeologia, Poznań: Wydawnictwo PTPN.
1999b Świat Słowian, “Slavia Antiqua”, 3, p. 67-72.
1999c Słowianie, in: T. Nowak (ed.), Archeologia Słowian, Poznań: Wydawnictwo PTPN. p. 75-85.

· the titles should be provided in their full form, without abbreviations

· all bibliographic descriptions in Cyrillic characters must be transliterated; otherwise such transliteration is done by the publisher.

Should the author(s) fail to follow the above rules, the editors reserve the right to send the text back to the author.

Major guidelines for the authors

1. The articles to be published need to be in compliance with the subject presented in SA or the subjects adopted by the editors for a specific volume. An academic article and a review article must not exceed 60,000 characters. On the other hand, a reporting review and a text for the Chronicle section should not exceed 20,000 characters.

2. The articles submitted for publication need to be adjusted to the rules provided in the Editorial Instructions; failure to follow these rules will result in returning an article for corrections and, consequently, the article may not be published until the next volume.

3. Publication of an article in a subsequent volume of SA is valid on the first come first serve basis.

4. The editors decide in favour of publishing an article following positive reviews.

5. An article is returned to the author after negative reviews and such text cannot be resubmitted to the journal. The editors  will give the grounds for the decision.

6. Each subsequent volume of SA is published before the end of a calendar year.

Information for the authors

Call for texts continues throughout the year, although each volume is closed in April of the respective calendar year. Publication of the volume in its electronic and printed versions takes place in November of the year in question.

Upon receipt of the text, the Editorial Board performs a preliminary assessment of the text and verifies it with Crossref Similarity Check Powered by iThenticate anti-plagiarism tool. This is done within two weeks of receiving the paper. Subsequently, the text is submitted anonymously to the publishing reviewers. The texts are reviewed confidentially and anonymously (double-blind review), within a maximum of two weeks of being verified by the anti-plagiarism software. In the event of one positive and one negative review, a third reviewer is selected. The review process may then be extended by a further two weeks. Only after the editorial assessment, verification with the anti-plagiarism software and the reviewer's assessment, is the author notified about publication or rejection of the submitted text.