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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.
  • This text has not been previously published and/or submitted in another publishing house.
  • The file is saved in Microsoft Word (doc) or RTF format.
  • The text of the publication is in Times New Roman (12-point font size), spacing 1,5 (for long block quotations: Times New Roman 11 and spacing 1,0).
  • Possible sources of the work funding are listed in the publication in a place required by editorial rules. In the submitted work there appear no ghostwriting, guest-authorship and/or conflict of interest. The author is acquainted with the current procedures of texts’ reviewing in the journal.
  • The author agrees to the terms and conditions of the License Agreement with Nicolaus Copernicus University. The content of the agreement is available HERE. With regard to the joint publication, the author submitting an article for publication fills in a statement concerning the percentage contribution, in which the contributions of particular co-authors in the submitted text are given. The content of the work is known to all its authors who give permission for it to be published. The completed statement must be uploaded as an additional file along with the article.
  • The author agrees that the text of his/her authorship published in the Andragogy Yearbook (with personal data) will be available free and as a whole  on the journal's website: www.ata.edu.pl, in the scientific digital library, on the Internet Platform ICM (Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling University of Warsaw) and in the database of scientific journals Index: Copernicus Journal Master List.
  • The author agrees that his / her personal data: first name, surname, name and mailing address of the workplace, e-mail address and a summary of the article in English have been made available and then subsequently published on the online journals' database of the Polish, Slovak, Hungarian and Czech Republic Academy of Sciences: THE CENTRAL EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES (CEJSH).

Author Guidelines

I. The ethical principles regarding publications

in "Andragogy Yearbook"

Editorial staff of "Andragogy Yearbook " cares about maintaining ethical standards in scientific publications and takes all the necessary measures to discourage negligence and possible omissions.

The responsibilities of the Editorial Board encompass:

Decisions regarding publication

In decisions on publication of particular articles the Editorial Board is obliged to take into account currently applicable legal regulations, including copyrights.

Prohibition of discrimination

The laws regarding prevention of discrimination are the laws effective in the Republic of Poland.

Confidentiality/disclosure and conflict of interest
Members of the editorial staff are prohibited from disclosing information concerning articles prepared for publication (including review content) to third persons (i.e. persons not involved in the publication process). The Editorial Board shall not disclose the information on authors to reviewers nor the reviewer information to authors. The Editorial Board shall not appoint as reviewers persons directly subordinate to the authors or remaining in other direct personal relations (if the Board has knowledge of such relations).

In their publications/public appearances the members of the Editorial Board shall not make references to, quote or in any other manner relate to the content of articles that have not yet been published without their authors' consent.

The responsibilities of reviewers include:

Editorial decisions
Reviewers are required to support the Editorial Board in taking decisions concerning article publication.

Deadlines
Reviewers are required to declare whether they are able to perform the assigned work within the specified deadline. Should they recognise that preparation of a review within the said deadline is not possible, they must notify of this fact the Editorial Board.

Standards of objectivity
Reviews should be objective. Personal critique of the author is deemed inappropriate. Reviewers should make their opinions clear and support them with proper arguments. Comments expressed by reviewers should be constructive and substantial in nature.

Confidentiality/disclosure and conflict of interest
All reviewed works are confidential. It is prohibited to present or discuss them with persons other than the members of the Editorial Board. Any doubts, critical and polemic comments are to be included in the review. The content of reviews is also to be treated as a confidential document. Information obtained in the course of the reviewing process is not to be used for personal benefit.

Anonymity
All reviews are prepared anonymously, and the Editorial Board does not provide the reviewers with author data.

Confirmation of sources
Reviewers should inform the Editorial Board on any suspicions of copyright violation in the reviewed texts and pay special attention to lacking or erroneous footnotes.

The responsibilities of authors include:

Proper marking of authorship/disclosure of sources of funding/ conflict of interest
Authorship is to be limited to persons who had a significant impact on article content. The remaining persons involved in the works on an article are to be enlisted in a footnote as co-operators, e.g. field studies performers.

The author's responsibilities include disclosure of any sources of funding of the projects related to their works, the contribution of scientific-research institutions, associations and other entities (affiliation and/or relevant reference note) as well as any significant conflicts of interest which may affect their results or interpretation.

Ghostwriting/guest authorship are seen by the Editorial Board as scientific misconduct and any such cases shall be exposed, including the notification of proper entities (institutions employing the authors, scientific societies, scientific editor associations, etc.).

'Ghostwriting' is the situation in which a person makes a significant contribution to the preparation of a publication without disclosing their share as one of the authors or without being named in the acknowledgements included in the publication.

'Guest authorship' is when the participation of a given author is minute or non-existent while his/her name figures in an article heading.


Authors are required to submit a declaration aimed to prevent ghostwriting/guest authorship practices.

Access to data and data storage
Authors may be requested to deliver unprocessed data concerning work submitted to publication.

Multiple, competitive publications
Simultaneous submission of the same work to more than one Editorial Board of the magazine is deemed unethical and therefore is prohibited.

Substantial errors in published works
Should an author discover a substantial error or imprecision in his/her work, he/she is required to inform of it the Editorial Board as soon as possible. Also the Editorial Board should take the necessary steps to introduce proper corrections in the case of learning of any significant errors from third persons.

Originality and plagiarism/source confirmation
Authors are required to submit to the Editorial Board only original works. Moreover, they are required to disclose sources which had an influence on the preparation of an article for publication by using footnotes and quotations. Authors should make sure than the names of authors quoted in their works and/or the extracts of cited works are properly marked. Authors must not refer to privately obtained information without explicit consent of particular sources. Furthermore, they are prohibited from using confidential information without the consent of proper authorities.

It is the Editorial Office's responsibility to document any scientific misconduct, in particular any violation or breach of ethical rules applicable in science.

* Prepared on the basis of: COPE's Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors, www.publicationethics.org. accessed on: 29/12/2014

 

II. Author Guidelines

1. Texts should be sent via user account on the journal’s Scientific Publishing Platform NCU, in exceptional cases to the mailing address of editors: ra@umk.pl.


2. Please, follow the editorial notes enclosed below


Editiorial requirements (DOC)

3. The author submits at the stage of sending the text to the Academic Platform of Magazines:

- Possible sources of the work funding are listed in the publication in a place required by editorial rules. In the submitted work there appear no ghostwriting, guest-authorship and/or conflict of interest. The author is acquainted with the current procedures of texts’ reviewing in the journal.

- The author agrees to the terms and conditions of the License Agreement with Nicolaus Copernicus University. The content of the agreement is available HERE. With regard to the joint publication, the author submitting an article for publication fills in a statement concerning the percentage contribution, in which the contributions of particular co-authors in the submitted text are given. The content of the work is known to all its authors who give permission for it to be published. The completed statement must be uploaded as an additional file along with the article.

- The author agrees that the text of his/her authorship published in the Andragogy Yearbook (with personal data) will be available free and as a whole  on the journal's website: www.ata.edu.pl, in the scientific digital library, on the Internet Platform ICM (Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling University of Warsaw) and in the database of scientific journals Index: Copernicus Journal Master List.

- The author agrees that his / her personal data: first name, surname, name and mailing address of the workplace, e-mail address and a summary of the article in English have been made available and then subsequently published on the online journals' database of the Polish, Slovak, Hungarian and Czech Republic Academy of Sciences: THE CENTRAL EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES (CEJSH).

 

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