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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 uses single spacing between words, Times New Roman font size 12 pt. The headlines in the text have been marked in bold. Illustrations and graphs have been provided in separate files.
  • 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 footnotes include the current URLs of the referenced websites and the date of access to the page.
  • The article is accompanied by the following metadata: ORCID number, short biography (with information about the affiliation and e-mail address, which will be made public), abstract of the article in Polish and in English (up to 1500 typographic characters with spaces), at least 5 key words in Polish and in English that most accurately describe the issues presented in the article, and appendices bibliography.
  • Concepts, assumptions, methods, and excerpts from other authors' texts have not been used in this paper without mentioning their names and titles of their works.
  • 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.

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