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For authors - manuscript requirements

Manuscript requirements:

Submissions should be written in English, formatted in Microsoft Word and should not exceed 20 pages of regularly formatted type, or 6,500 words (including notes and citations).

  • Materials should include a summery in English, one page in length of regularly formatted type.
  • Reviews, write-ups, polemics, and other non-article information should not exceed 11 pages of regularly formatted type.
  • Citations should be in the form of footnotes and formatted uniformly in the following manner: in the instance of stand-alone print publications (books), citations should run: author(s) surname(s), first name initial(s), title, place and date of publishing, page(s). In the instance of on-going print publications (journals), citations should run: author(s) surname(s), first name initial(s), title of article, title of journal, year, volume number and page(s).
  • With exceptions of corrections suggested by the editors of FE, the author will not to have an opportunity to make changes to his or her text while it is process of being published. We ask that all materials be sent in their final form.
  • The authors are asked to include:
    • his or her full name and surname,
    • academic degree and title,
    • name of institution where he or she is employed,
    • exact address and telephone number, fax, e-mail,
    • short biographical information (100-200 words)
  • Every article submitted to the editor are reviewed by two people. Reviewers are experts in issues related article selected in the editor in chief.

Manuscripts should be sent by e-mail attachment to one of the addresses:

dariusz.niedzwiedzki@uj.edu.pl
pawel.kubicki@uj.edu.pl
jacek.kolodziej@uj.edu.pl

The rules of reviewing an article:

  1. For the evaluation of each publication there will be appointed at least two independent reviewers from outside the unit. In other situations, the reviewer must sign a declaration of non-existence of a conflict of interest, a conflict of interest shall be considered to exist between the reviewer and the author if there's:
    • a) direct personal relationships (kinship, legal relationships, conflict),
    • b) professional reporting relationship,
    • c) direct scientific cooperation in the past two years prior to preparing the review.
  2. In the case of text created in a foreign language, at least one of the reviewers must be affiliated in a foreign institution other than the nationality of the author.
  3. Author(s) and reviewers do not know their identity (the so-called "double-blind review process").
  4. Review shall be in writing and concludes to reject, to allow under certain conditions (for example, incorporate the amendments specified by the author), or to allow the article to be published.
  5. Rules on eligibility or rejection of publication as well as th reviewing form available are published on the journal's website or in any issue of the journal.
  6. The names of the reviewers of the particular articles are not revealed, while in each journal is being published a list of reviewers contained in the issue.