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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.
  • The Author declares that the Work is an original creation and that they have the appropriate copyrights to the Work, including moral as well as economic rights. If the applicant is not the sole author, he/she undertakes to indicate the percentage share of all co-authors in the preparation of the text. This information should be entered in the field "Rights - percentage share of authors".
  • The author assures of no violations of publication ethics and takes full responsibility for the content of the publication. The Author acknowledges and accepts that, in the event of the Author making a false statement, they shall be liable for any damages incurred by the University of Lodz. 
  • The Author hereby declares that they did not use generative artificial intelligence tools during the preparation of the manuscript.  If otherwise, the author undertakes to indicate the name of the tool, the purpose and the exact reason for use and confirms that he/she has carried out a thorough, critical verification of the text, especially in terms of the possibility of generating false, incomplete or biased information, the occurrence of plagiarism or lack of/incorrect attribution of authorship, and edited it accordingly. The information should be entered in the "Comments for the Editor" field.
  • The author undertakes to inform about any possible conflicts of interest in the "Comments for the Editor" field.
  • Where available, DOIs for the references have been provided.
  • The Author acknowledges that in the event of the text being withdrawn due to his/her fault, he/she will be charged with the costs of review and proofreading.

Author Guidelines

Please send us papers of the length of up to 20 000 characters in .doc or .rtf format. The text should be accompanied by a summary in Polish (800-1000 characters with spaces) and a bibliographical note prepared in accordance with the model. Please make sure to give us your contact details, including the correspondence address.

 

Principles for text preparation

  1. Font size and type: 12 pt. / Times New Roman.
  2. Main text line spacing: 1,5.
  3. Quotations: indentation on both sides, font size 11 pt., distance to the main text (before and after it) – 1,5 line spacing.
  4. Annotations: font size 11 pt., 1 line spacing.
  5. Page numbering: in right bottom corner.
  6. Principles for making annotations:
    1. Terminology in Polish: Tenże, Taż, Tamże. [idem/id., ibid p.]
    2. Abbreviations in Polish: Zob., Por., Oprac., Red., Przeł., Tłum. [, ed., transl.]
    3. Punctuation: “the comma system”.
      – Example of non-serial publication description
      S. Brzozowski, Legenda Młodej Polski, Kraków–Wrocław 1983.
      – Example of text description in a non-serial publication:
      Cz. Miłosz, Teodor Bujnicki, [in:] ibid, Zaczynając od moich ulic, Paryż 1985, p. 153.
      – Example of text description a book written by many authors:
      Kulawik, Ars versificandi Teodora Bujnickiego, [in:] Poezja i poeci w Wilnie lat 1920–1940. Studia, ed. T. Bujnicki, K. Biedrzycki, Kraków 2003, p. 137.
      – Example of text description in a multi-volume publication edited by one person:
      K. Brodziński, O satyrze, [in:] ibid, Pisma estetyczno-krytyczne, ed. Z. J. Nowak, vol. 1. Wrocław 1964, p. 223.
      – Example of text description in a multi-volume publication in which each volume is edited by a different person:
      Promieniści czyli Przyjaciele Pożytecznej Zabawy, [in:] Materiały do historii Towarzystwa Filomatów, vol. 3, ed. S. Pietraszkiewiczówna, Kraków 1934, p. 184.
      – Example of text description in a serial publication:
      P. Winczer, Element zabawowy w poezji awangardowej. (Na przykładzie czeskiego poetyzmu), „Teksty” 1976, no. 1, pp. 13–34.
    1. Notation of annotations if the referenced title is separated by other sources (the example is in bold):
      Cz. Miłosz, Teodor Bujnicki, [in:] ibid, Zaczynając od moich ulic, Paris 1985, pp. 153–175. P. Winczer, Element zabawowy w poezji awangardowej, „Teksty” 1976, no. 1, p. 13. Cz. Miłosz, Teodor Bujnicki…, p. 88.
  1. Foreign words, unassimilated — in italics, without quotation marks.
  2. The order of quotation marks: “Lalalalala «quotation in a quotation»”. It is necessary to insert quotation marks using symbols rather than use the keyboard.
  3. The conjunctions at the end of the line are not moved to the following line.
  4. No hard spaces (ctrl+shift+space) or soft returns (shift+enter) should be used in the text.
  5. If there is a new surname in the text, it should be accompanied by the first name.
  6. Double spaces should be removed.
  7. Paragraph indentation (1 cm) is set in the Paragraph tab and not by means of tabs.
  8. Insert the ellipsis symbol (shortcut: Ctrl + Alt + . or from symbols) rather than three full stops from the keyboard.

Czytanie Literatury – the Author’s biographical note

  1. Name and surname of the Author.
  2. The name of the institution which the Author is (or was) affiliated with professionally (research or creative contribution).
  3. The Author’s main fields of scientific interest.
  4. The Author’s most important publications (title, year of publication).
  5. E-mail address (if the Author gives consent to the publication of this address together with the bibliographical note).

Copyright Notice

  1. The Author grants the University of Lodz, represented by the Lodz University Press, a non-exclusive license to exercise economic copyrights to the Work in all fields of exploitation, as stipulated in the Copyright and Related Rights Act of February 4th, 1994, and open access, including the regulations of the Creative Commons license. The granted licence also includes the right to grant sublicenses within the stipulated fields of exploitation.  
  2. The licence is unlimited in territory and granted for a period of 70 years.  
  3. Due to the implementations of the policy of open access to scientific publications, the University of Lodz will use the Author’s authorisation to deposit the Work in the University of Lodz Repository and other distribution platforms, while the Author undertakes not to use the termination of the license agreement throughout its entire term.  
  4. The Author is not entitled to remuneration for creating the Work, its delivery to the Press, and for granting the rights license. 

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  2. The Personal Data Protection Supervision at the University of Lodz can be contacted via the following e-mail address: iod@uni.lodz.pl.
  3. The data will be used to publish and disseminate the Work.
  4. The data shall be processed in order to complete the publishing and disseminating the text, pursuant to the provisions within Art. 6. Section 1 (b) of the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016.
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  6. The Author has the right to demand access to their personal data, to request their personal data be corrected, to restrict or limit the processing of their personal data, and to demand their personal data be deleted if permissible by law.
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