About the Journal
Focus and Scope
“The Art of Editing” is an academic journal edited at the Faculty of Humanities, Nicolas Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland, which was established in 2011. The journal has been meant to become a forum for an exchange of ideas and experience for the scholars who treat a correct text (in a philological sense) as a seminal condition for further reflection. “The Art of Editing”, as the first academic journal in Poland devoted entirely to scholarly editing, textology and modern forms of working “with” and “on” a text, is distributed in a digital form and available in the open access formula. The journal is a biannual and the periodical presents original and valuable works in the scholarly editing. Each issue of the journal is of monographic character and is edited by specialists dealing with the subject matter of the volume.
Ministry’s score: 40 points.
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Submitting proposals for thematic issues
The editorial board of “The Art of Editing” is awaiting proposals for thematic issues both from scholars from Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń and from all academic communities in Poland and abroad. When submitting theme proposals, please include the following information:
- personal data of the person submitting the theme proposal (name and surname, academic title, degree, position, institution, address, contact information, ORCID ID),
- theme proposal and justification for the choice,
- preliminary list of predicted authors and planned articles,
- declared deadline for submitting ready materials for review.
“Articles, documents, manuscripts” and “Reviews and reports”
Each issue of “The Art of Editing” – apart from scholarly texts included in the “Treatises and articles” section – consists of the “Articles, documents, manuscripts” section (previously called “Editorial section”) and ”Reviews and reports” section. We encourage the publication of source materials (e.g. letters, fragments of works, translations from a foreign language) in the journal, with an appropriate introduction, reviews of scholarly or popular editions of literary classics and books on editing, reports (e.g. from academic conferences on editing), as well as reviews.
Information for authors
Authors submitting articles to "The Art of Editing" written in Polish, English, French, German, Russian, Italian, Spanish are requested to enclose the following additional materials to the text:
- ORCID ID number, brief bio (with affiliation and email address to be made public),
- an abstract of the article in Polish and in English (up to 1500 typographic characters with spaces),
- at least 5 key words in Polish and English that most accurately describe the problem presented in the paper,
- appendices bibliography,
- information about the source of funding for the research presented in the article,
- copyright information related to the illustrative material used in the article
as well as declarations confirming that:
- the work is an original composition in which the legally and ethically permissible use of foreign intellectual property has been clearly defined and clearly marked,
- concepts, assumptions, methods and fragments of texts by other authors were not used in the work without providing their names and titles of their works,
- the paper has not been previously published or submitted to the editors of other journals or collective works,
- the contribution of particular co-authors to the creation of the publication has been revealed in the article (along with the information on the author of the publication’s concept, so-called ghostwriting barrier).
Text proposals should be sent by e-mail to the following address: sztukaedycji@umk.pl, via the APCz platform or in the form of a computer print along with an identical version recorded on CD-ROM/DVD to the Editorial Board’s address: ul. Fosa Staromiejska 3, room 215, 87-100 Toruń.
The average time for preliminary manuscript review is 14 days. The average time it takes to publish an article (after taking into account reviewers' comments) is 127 days. The editors do not charge any fees for article submission/publication. The editors request that the statements listed above be sent by e-mail only (sztukaedycji@umk.pl).
The text of a scientific paper does not exceed the volume of one publisher’s sheet (40 000 typographic characters, including footnotes and spaces), the size of a review or a report – half of a sheet.
The editors reserve the right to make editorial changes in the submitted text of a linguistic, stylistic and compositional nature and to indicate to the author, mainly on the basis of external reviewers' assessments, elements of the text necessary for new authorial substantive elaboration. The author is obliged to respond to the above decisions and guidelines by authorizing and possibly modifying the text delivered to the author in the form of an electronic file. The text sent to the Editorial Office after corrections resulting from external reviews is considered by the Editorial Office as the final version of the article, substantively verified by the author.
Peer Review Process
- Articles are initially assessed by the editor-in-chief and members of the editorial board (and subject editors) with respect to the content of submitted texts and their accordance with the journal’s subject area.
- The editorial board decides in which issue the submitted articles will be published (it does not have to be the one which is currently under preparation). If a given text does not meet the requirements of an academic article, the editorial board may reject it or place in a different section, e.g. “Reviews”.
- Texts should be prepared in accordance with the technical guidelines of the editorial board.
- The texts which receive a recommendation of the editorial board are sent to independent reviewers (experts in a particular subject).
- According to the double-blind review process, if a text is accepted or rejected, the names of reviewers are not revealed to authors. Once a year, the editorial board publishes the list of cooperating reviewers.
- A reviewer signs a declaration confirming the absence of any conflict of interest. A conflict of interest is deemed to occur between a reviewer and an author. It refers to: 1) personal relationships (familial or legal relations, conflicts); 2) professional subordination; 3) direct academic cooperation in the past two years which preceded the review preparation.
- A review shall be in writing (review form) and end with a clear decision referring to the acceptance or rejection of a particular article.
- Please be advised that the peer review procedure is in accordance with the recommendations formulated by The Group on Ethics in Science in a document “Good practice in review procedures in science” (Warsaw 2011).
Open Access Policy
The journal offers access to the contents in the open access system on the principles of non-exclusive license Creative Commons (CC BY-ND 3.0).
Article Processing Charges and Submission Charges
The "Sztuka Edycji. Studia Tekstologiczne i Edytorskie" welcomes article submissions and does not charge a submission or publication fees.