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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.
  • All not-Latin references have been transliterated into Latin script

Author Guidelines

PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

  1. FORMAT
    • All manuscripts must be submitted as a Word for Windows .doc .docx or .rtf file.
    • The essays should generally be no longer than 40.000 characters with spaces (including References and Appendices).
  2. PROOFREADING
    • The manuscripts must be carefully proof-read, ideally by a native speaker of English. 
    • It is highly recommended to do a follow-up machine-assisted check for spelling, grammar and style, e.g. using the MS Word “spelling and grammar” check, see:
      Checking spelling and grammar (PL version)  Ways to check spelling and grammar (EN version)
  3. DATA
    • provide the names, affiliations, and email addresses of all the authors,
    • provide a short (ca. 150 words) abstract,
    • provide 5-10 keywords. Include both specialised and general-interest keywords.
  4. STYLESHEET
    • follow standard APA guidelines for text formatting as well as references, see:
      basic APA Guidelines at Purdue Writing Lab and also the APA Tutorial.
      If the manuscript contains references to sources in non-Latin script, they should be placed in their original form in the main text, and in the final bibliography they should be transliterated in the BGN/PCGN system.
    • Please use the stylesheet template.
  5. Submissions that do not follow the guidelines will not be processed.

Manuscripts are submitted electronically via Open Journal System (OJS). Firstly, please go through a short registration process and then log-in and follow the steps to submit your manuscript.

We accept manuscripts in English and Russian. As part of support for Ukrainian researchers during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the possibility of submitting texts in Ukrainian was also introduced.

Should you encounter any problems with your submission please contact the Editor:

Michał Głuszkowski
Department of Slavic Languages
Nicolaus Copernicus University
Fosa Staromiejska 3
87-100 Toruń, POLAND
e-mail: micglu[at]umk.pl

 

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