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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).
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Author Guidelines
Papers should be sent only electronically in doc, docx format:
information about the author (affiliation, address, e-mail, ORCID);
title, abstract, keywords, appropriate content (which can be divided into subsections) with information about main sources and methodology included in the introductory part
references;
The abstract (minimum numbers of words: 200)should contain the following four parts:
Purpose
Methodology/approach
Findings
Originality/value
Review of the study should include:
in the title: name of the author of the review
then shortcut: (rev.), colon, name (s) and surname of the author of publications, comma, title of publication, comma, name of publisher, comma, year and place of publication, comma, the number of total pages of a publication, a dot; appropriate content;
Formal requirements
The text should take the form of a normalized: font Times New Roman 12 point with a gap of 1.5 row, justified;
Article should not exceed 18 pages; review article of 10 pages;
in the articles do not use any formatting or graphics distinctions;
in order to quotations use only quotation marks;
foreign language expressions should be distinguish by italics;
the body of text should not include any special formatting or highlights of any kind;
TIS uses the APA formatting style for in-text citations
“In-text citation” style.
For one author: (Nowak, 2010), Nowak (2010) or (Nowak, 2010) and Nowak (2010).
For two authors: (Nowak & Kowalski, 2005) or Nowak and Kowalski (2005).
For more than three authors: (Nowak et al., 1998) or Nowak and others (1998).
Multiple works should be should be separated with a semicolon: (Nowak, 2010; Kowalski, 2012; Lewandowski et al., 1998).
Examples References:
The minimum number of sources in references: 30
for book
Sternberg, R. J. (1993). The psychologist's companion. Cambridge University Press.
Smith, F. J., & Jones, E. (1948). A scheme of qualitative organic analysis. Blackie.
for edited book
Hartman, G. H. E. (Ed.). (1994). Holocaust remembrance: The shapes of memory. Blackwell.
for chapter in edited book
Bjork, R. A. (1989). Retrieval inhibition as an adaptive mechanism in human memory. In H. L. Roediger, & F.I.M. Craik (Eds.), Varieties of memory and consciousness (pp. 309-330). Erlbaum.
for journal article:
Kornack, D., & Rakic, P. (2001). Cell Proliferation Without Neurogenesis in Adult Primate Neocortex. Science, 294 (5549), 2127-2130. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1065467
for newspaper or magazine (online version)
Rodriguez, C. (2001, January 9). Amid, dispute, plight of illegal workers revisited. Boston Globe. http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/010/nation/Amid_dispute_plight_of_illegal_workers_revisted+.shtml
for web pages
Benton Foundation. (1998, July 7). Barriers to closing the gap. In Losing ground bit by bit: Low-income communities in the information age (chap. 2). http://www.benton.org/library?low-Income/two.html
Siemiatkowski, P. (2015). International investments. http://siemiatkowski.pl
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