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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. The author(s) declare that the work is original and does not infringe upon the rights of third parties.
  • The author(s) agree to the terms and conditions of the License Agreement with the Provincial Public Library - the Copernicus Library in Toruń. By checking this box, the author(s) agree to publish the article under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0) license upon acceptance.
  • Pursuant to Art. 13 of the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 (GDPR), we inform that:

    1. Data Administrator: The administrator of your personal data is the Provincial Public Library - the Copernicus Library in Toruń (Wojewódzka Biblioteka Publiczna – Książnica Kopernikańska w Toruniu), with its registered office at ul. Słowackiego 8, 87-100 Toruń, Poland.
    2. Contact: You can contact the Data Protection Officer via email at: iodo@ksiaznica.torun.pl.
    3. Purpose and Legal Basis: Your personal data (including name, surname, email, affiliation, ORCID ID, and address) will be processed for the purpose of conducting the editorial process, peer-review, and publication of the article in the journal "Folia Toruniensia" (legal basis: Art. 6(1)(b) of the GDPR - processing is necessary for the performance of the license agreement, and Art. 6(1)(a) - your voluntary consent expressed by submitting the manuscript and checking the submission checklist).
    4. Data Recipients: Your data will be made public on the journal's website (via the Nicolaus Copernicus University Press platform - Akademicka Platforma Czasopisma Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika) upon publication of the article. It may also be transferred to academic indexing databases (e.g., DOAJ, CEJSH, BazHum) and external reviewers.
    5. Data Retention Period: Your personal data processed in the OJS system will be stored for the period necessary to maintain the archival continuity of the scientific journal or until you withdraw your consent (which, however, prevents further editorial works on an unpublished paper).
    6. Your Rights: You have the right to access your data, rectify it, request its erasure, or restrict its processing, as well as the right to withdraw your consent at any time. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the President of the Personal Data Protection Office (UODO) in Poland.
    7. Voluntariness: Providing data is voluntary but necessary to submit, review, and publish your article in the journal.
  • The submission file is in Microsoft Word document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is 1.5-spaced; uses a 12-point font (Times New Roman); and all 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, which are found in About the Journal.
  • The text was prepared without using AI tools for content generation, data analysis and interpretation, conclusion writing, or reference creation (except for language editing or data formatting as permitted in the Author Guidelines).

Author Guidelines

  1. The editorial office informs that ghostwriting and guest authorship are a manifestation of scientific misconduct and all their detected cases will be exposed by notifying the appropriate entities: institutions employing the authors, scientific societies, associations of editors, etc.
  2. Authors can use AI tools as writing assistants, e.g., for language editing and data formatting.
  3. Authors cannot use AI tools for content generation, data analysis and interpretation, conclusion writing, or reference creation.
  4. Texts should be sent to the editorial office in the format: .doc, or .docx.
  5. The editorial office accepts proposals for texts with a volume not exceeding two author's sheets (80,000 characters with spaces and footnotes).
  6. Each text should be accompanied by keywords and, if citation occurs,  an end-of-work bibliography.
  7. All texts should be accompanied by: information about the author with a volume of 500-800 characters with spaces, a summary with keywords with a volume of about 1-2 thousand characters and a bibliography in APA 7th edition style (in an alphabetical order).
  8. We recommend the use of bibliography managers, e.g. Zotero.
  9. The abstract should consist of such elements as: thesis/purpose of the article, method of research, and results conclusions.
  10. Formatting:
  • Author's first and last name in Times New Roman; font size: 12; bold; spacing: 1.5; alignment: paragraph on the left.
  • Information about affiliation (full name of the institution), e-mail address and ORCID ID of the author: Times New Roman font; font size: 12; spacing: 1.5; alignment: paragraph on the left.
  • Title: Times New Roman font; font size: 12; bold; spacing: 1.5; margins: 2.5 cm; alignment: left.
  • Information about the author of the article: Times New Roman font; font size: 10; spacing: 1; paragraph indentation: 1.5 cm; margins: 2.5 cm; alignment: double-sided.
  • Keywords and abstract: Times New Roman font; font size: 10; spacing: 1; margins: 2.5 cm; alignment: double-sided (only "Keywords" and "Abstract": font: Times New Roman; font size: 10; bold).
  • Text: Times New Roman font; font size: 12; spacing: 1.5; paragraph indentation: 1.5 cm; margins: 2.5 cm; alignment: double-sided.
  • Footnotes: Times New Roman font; font size: 10; spacing: 1; margins: 2.5 cm; alignment: double-sided.
  • End-of-work bibliography – title: Times New Roman font; font size: 12; bold; no paragraph indentation; spacing: 1.5; margins: 2.5 cm; alignment: double-sided.
  • End-of-work bibliography – text: Times New Roman font; font size: 12; spacing: 1.5; paragraph indentation: 1.5 cm; margins: 2.5 cm; alignment: double-sided.
  1. Illustrative material should be sent to the editorial office in the following format: .jpg/.jpeg, .tif/.tiff or .png.
  2. In the case of a review, in the header, there should be in that order: the first and last name of the author of the publication, its full title (in the case of a multi-volume work also the number of volumes), the name of the publishing house (in the case of the next edition its number), the place and year of publication, the number of pages, and the ISBN number.
  3. The titles of published works are written in the text in italic font.
  4. Magazine titles in the text should be offset with quotation marks.
  5. Frequently cited names of institutions, journals or source editions should be abbreviated after their first use.
  6. All quotes in the text are signalised with quotation marks.
  7. Dates in the text are written according to the principle: day date in numbers, month in words and year in numbers (in Arabic numerals). However, in the case of dates in footnotes, we write everything in numbers (day and year with Arabic numerals, and the month with Roman numerals).
  8. Bibliographic footnotes are replaced by a reference to the end-of-work bibliography, which should be developed in accordance with the principles of the APA Style. The reference in the text shall be enclosed in a circular bracket according to the following rules.

(Oldenburg, 1989)

[surname in text] Oldenburg (1989)

(Michalak et al., 2016, p. 44)

(Fernández-Ardèvol et al., 2018)

(Jaskulski, 1864, pp. 1-2)

[surname in text] Jaskulski (1864, pp. 1-2)

  1. In the case of Cyrillic alphabets, the original spelling should be kept in the text, while transliteration should be used in the end-of-work bibliography.
  2. At the end of the text, an end-of-work bibliography in the APA 7th edition style and in alphabetical order should be provided without a division into categories.

Below is an example of bibliography in the APA 7th edition style:

References

Book:

Oldenburg, R. (1989). The Great Good Place. Cafes, Coffee Shops, Community Centers, General Stores, Bars, Hangouts, and How They Get You through the Day. Paragon House.

Ladewig, P. (2016). Katechizm biblioteki (Z. Gębołyś (ed.); Z. Gębołyś & B. Kwoka (translation)). Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Kazimierza Wielkiego.

Michalak, D., Koryś, I., & Kopeś, J. (2016). Stan czytelnictwa w Polsce 2015 roku. Biblioteka Narodowa.

Artykuł:

Zybert, E. B. (2016). Bezdomni w bibliotekach - doświadczenia zagraniczne. Przegląd Biblioteczny, 84(1), 27–45.

Fernández-Ardèvol, M., Ferran-Ferrer, N., Nieto-Arroyo, J., & Fenoll, C. (2018). The public library as seen by the non-users. El Profesional de La Informacion, 27(3).

Sopyło, T. (2018). Fatnomatyka. Rzeczywistość wirtualna w bibliotece. Bibliotekarz, 5, 24–33.

Article in press:

Chociszewski, J. (1863, May 20). Kronika. Nadwiślanin, 3.

Jaskulski, S. (1864, July 8). Berlin, 6 lipca. Dziennik Poznański, 1–2.

Kobierska-Maciuszko, E. (2015, February 4). Najwyższy czas dla BUW-u, by rozstać się z Hulakulą [LIST DO REDAKCJI]. Gazeta Wyborcza. Warszawa. http://warszawa.wyborcza.pl/warszawa/1,34862,17359733,Najwyzszy_czas_dla_BUW_u__by_rozstac_sie_z_Hulakula.html?disableRedirects=true

Article in an encyclopaedia:

Comparison of reference management software. (2018). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Comparison_of_reference_management_software&oldid=827336464

Chapter:

Ciesielska-Kruczek, R. (2013). Przestrzeń biblioteczna – miejscem nauki, działalności społeczno-kulturalnej, pracy. W M. Wojciechowska (Ed.), Fizyczna przestrzeń bibliotek (s. 40–52). Oficyna Wydawnicza Edward Mitek.

Jeż, R., Konieczko, A., & Kwiatkowska, M. (2016). Jakość usług informacyjnych biblioteki akademickiej jako ważny element gospodarki opartej na wiedzy. W T. Piestrzyński & J. Jerzyk-Wojtecka (Ed.), Biblioteka w społeczeństwie wiedzy (pp. 33–44). Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego. https://doi.org/10.18778/8088-191-4.03

Webpage:

Grodecka, M. (2017, January 20). Czytanie z klockami LEGO. Biblioteka zaprasza na warsztaty. PetroNews. http://petronews.pl/czytanie-z-klockami-lego-biblioteka-zaprasza-na-warsztaty/

ORCID. (n.d.). About. Retrieved on 7 March 2018, from https://orcid.org/

Blogs:

Morawiec, B. M. (2017, January 16). Biblioteka w Oleśnie wie jak to się robi! Lustro Biblioteki. http://lustrobiblioteki.pl/2017/01/biblioteka-olesnie-wie-sie-robi/

E-Mail:

Żurawińska, Z. (2017, January 26). DOI w zapisie bibliograficznym [Letter to Mariusz Balcerek].

Dissertation:

Khoir, S. (2016). An information behaviour perspective into Asian immigrants’ settlement in urban South Australia: Investigating their everyday life information seeking and the value of public library services [University of South Australia]. https://find.library.unisa.edu.au/discovery/fulldisplay/alma9916131699901831/61USOUTHAUS_INST:ROR

Manuscript:

Piotr Konaszewicz-Sahajdaczny do Krzysztofa Radziwiłła Styczeń 13, 1622, Kijów (Archiwum Radziwiłłów, Section II, file no. 804). (1622). Archiwum Główne Akt Dawnych w Warszawie, Polska.

Jarochowski, C. (1863). X. Cypriana Jarochowskiego pamiątka z więzienia (Towarzystwo Naukowe w Toruniu, Rps 189). Wojewódzka Biblioteka Publiczna – Książnica Kopernikańska w Toruniu, Polska.

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Pursuant to Art. 13 of the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 (GDPR), we inform that:

1. Data Administrator: The administrator of your personal data is the Provincial Public Library - the Copernicus Library in Toruń (Wojewódzka Biblioteka Publiczna – Książnica Kopernikańska w Toruniu), with its registered office at ul. Słowackiego 8, 87-100 Toruń, Poland.
2. Contact: You can contact the Data Protection Officer via email at: iodo@ksiaznica.torun.pl].
3. Purpose and Legal Basis: Your personal data (including name, surname, email, affiliation, ORCID ID, and address) will be processed for the purpose of conducting the editorial process, peer-review, and publication of the article in the journal "Folia Toruniensia" (legal basis: Art. 6(1)(b) of the GDPR - processing is necessary for the performance of the license agreement, and Art. 6(1)(a) - your voluntary consent expressed by submitting the manuscript and checking the submission checklist).
4. Data Recipients: Your data will be made public on the journal's website (via the Nicolaus Copernicus University Press platform - APCZ UMK) upon publication of the article. It may also be transferred to academic indexing databases (e.g., DOAJ, CEJSH, BazHum) and external reviewers.
5. Data Retention Period: Your personal data processed in the OJS system will be stored for the period necessary to maintain the archival continuity of the scientific journal or until you withdraw your consent (which, however, prevents further editorial works on an unpublished paper).
6. Your Rights: You have the right to access your data, rectify it, request its erasure, or restrict its processing, as well as the right to withdraw your consent at any time. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the President of the Personal Data Protection Office (UODO) in Poland.
7. Voluntariness: Providing data is voluntary but necessary to submit, review, and publish your article in the journal.