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Author Guidelines

Guidelines for authors of articles submitted to Annales UMCS Sectio N – Educatio Nova

I. General requirements:

  1. Include the Author’s first name and last name, as well as the academic degree, affiliation, and ORCID number (example).
  2. Texts should be 15-20 pages long (30-40,000 characters with spaces).
  3. Use standard margins and the Times New Roman font, size 12, line spacing 1.5, and justify the text.
  4. In-text quotations should be put in quotation marks without italics, while quotations longer than 40 words should be formatted as block quotations with font size 10 and line spacing 1.5.
  5. Provide the title of the article in Polish and English.
  6. Include an abstract of the article in Polish and English (up to 600 characters with spaces).
  7. Abstracts should include information on 1) subject, purpose and the research problem of the article; 2) theoretical background and research method(s); 3) material analysis 4) results interpretation; 5) conclusions. Key words (5-7) listed under the abstract must appear in the text of the abstract.
  8. Provide five keywords in Polish and English.
  9. Include a short biographical note about the Author in Polish and English (ca 400 characters with spaces, listing the Author’s academic degree, affiliation, research interests, and most notable publications).
  10. Items in the bibliography should be listed beginning with the last name; insert a blank line in between each entry.
  11. The bibliography should use English transliteration of non-Latin alphabets, following norms outlined by the Library of Congress:

           http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman.html.

  1. Page and date ranges should use the en dash (–), e.g. pp. 10–20, 1990–1999.
  2. Tables and graphs (in JPG format, 300 dpi) should be marked in the text and sent separately as attachments.
  3. All illustrations should be accompanied by information about their source and copyright.

II. Harvard-style references:

  1. If the name of the author is provided in the sentence, the date of publication should be given right after it, e.g.: “Dorota Klus-Stańska (2006) demonstrates that…”
  2. When citing a single-author work, their name should be provided in parentheses after the quotation, along with date of publication and page number after a colon, e.g.: “The process of acquiring language by a child depends on social interactions” (Żytko 2010: 11).
  3. When citing or referencing a source using a different source, provide information about both the original source and the quoted one, e.g.: (Kowalski 2001: 12, quoted in Nowak 1999: 66).
  4. When citing or referencing several works published by the same author in the same year, small letters should follow the date alphabetically, e.g.: (Melosik 2006a: 21; Melosik 2006b: 34).
  5. When referencing several publications by the same author published in different years, without providing page numbers, they should be separated with commas, e.g.: (Melosik 2006, 2007).
  6. When citing or referencing works by different authors who have the same last name, published in the same year, provide the first letter of their first name, e.g.: (A. Nowak 1990: 12; J. Nowak 1990: 34–36).
  7. When referencing several publications, they should be listed, first, alphabetically and  second, chronologically, separated with a semicolon, e.g.: (Patrzałek 1992; Melosik 2006; Spitzer 2006, 2015).
  8. When referencing a single publication multiple times without interweaving these references with ones to other works, use the word “ibidem” instead of providing the name of the author and date of publication.
  9. When a publication has two authors, both names should be listed, joined by “and.” In the case of three authors follow this example: (Jaworski, Bernacki and Pawlus 2008: 107).
  10. If the text uses a motto, the reference should be made same as in the main text, e.g. (Kowalski 2014: 15), while the motto should be formatted using font size 10.
  11. When citing or referencing an edited source (e.g. dictionaries) provide the editor’s name, date of publication, and page number, e.g.: (Kowalski 2014: 12).
  12. When a publication has more than three authors, provide only the name of the first one followed by “et al.” – e.g.: (Nurczyńska-Fidelska et al. 2009: 39).
  13. Footnotes should be used solely for the purpose of providing additional clarification regarding complex terms or arguments. References in footnotes should be formatted exactly like in the main text.
  14. When referencing online materials, provide the name of the author (or an abbreviated title of the article if the name is unknown) and the date of publication (if known). If none of these are available, provide the full link to the website (without inserting spaces, commas, etc.).

III. Harvard-style references:

  1. Items should be listed alphabetically without numbering. A full stop should be placed at the end of every entry.
  2. Bibliographical information regarding a book of one to three authors should include: last name of the author, first letter of their first name(s), year of publication in round parentheses, title (in italics), edition number (only if it is not the first edition), place of publication and name of the publishing house, e.g.: Spitzer, M. (2007). Jak uczy się mózg. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN.
  3. Bibliographical information regarding a book of more than three authors (edited) is the same as in point 2, the only difference being that the word “ed.” or “eds.” (“Hrsg.” in German) should be provided after the first letter of the first name in round parentheses, e.g.: Weiler, J.H.H., Belg, I., Peterson, B. (eds.). (2003). Integrating in an Expanding European Union. Reassessing the Fundamentals. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
  4. Bibliographical information regarding a book whose author is unknown include: the title (in italics), date of publication in round parentheses, edition number (only if it is not the first edition), place of publication and name of the publishing house, e.g.: The Oxford English Dictionary. (1989). Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  5. A chapter in an edited volume should be referenced using the following information: the author’s last name, first letter of their first name(s), date of publication in round parentheses, title of the chapter or article (without italics), followed by “In:” and the first letter of the editor’s first name, the editor’s last name, the abbreviation “ed.” or “eds.” in round parentheses (or “Hrsg.”), title of the book (in italics), page numbers (“pp.”), edition number (only if it is not the first edition), place of publication and name of the publishing house, e.g.: Rejter, A. (2014). Odsłony i dyskurs(y) ciała w kulturze (nie tylko) popularnej. Na przykładzie Marilyn Mansona. In: M. Karwatowska, R. Litwiński, A. Siwiec (eds.), O płci, ciele i seksualności w kulturze i historii (pp. 107–125). Lublin: Wydawnictwo UMCS.
  6. Articles in journals should be referenced using the following information: the author’s last name, first letter of their first name(s), date of publication in round parentheses, title of the article (without italics), name of the journal (in italics, no quotation marks), number or volume, page numbers, e.g.: Jasiewicz, Z. (2006). Etnologia polska. Między etnografią a antropologią kulturową. Nauka, no. 3, 33–38.
  7. Electronic documents should be referenced using the following information: the author’s last name, first letter of their first name(s), date of publication in round parentheses, title (in italics), name of the journal (if applicable), number, page numbers (if known), followed by web address and access date in square brackets [accessed: 00-00-0000], e.g.: Rożak, T. (2018). Robimy krzywdę naszym dzieciom. www.naukatolubie.pl/robimy-krzywde-naszym-dzieciom [accessed 23.10.2018].
  8. Legal acts should be referenced following this example: Act of 6 December 2008 amending the act on railway transportation, and the act on the protection of arable and forest land (Journal of Laws 2009, no. 1, item 3).
  9. Entries referring to articles listed in the references should also contain the DOI (if the article was assigned one), e.g.: Stratton, T.D., Elam, C.L., McGrath, M.G. (2003). A liberal arts education as preparation for medical school. Academic Medicine, vol. 78(10), 59–61, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1097/00001888-200310001-00019.

IV. Verifying the text prior to sending

Authors are requested to verify whether the submission meets all the above-mentioned criteria. Texts that have not been properly formatted may be rejected.

  1. The submitted text must be original and cannot infringe upon others’ copyright, in particular it should not have been published elsewhere.
  2. The text should be drafted using Microsoft Word (LibreOffice) and saved in one of the following formats: doc, docx, or odt.
  3. The text should be typeset using the Times New Roman font (12 points), line spacing 1.5 (10-point font size and 1.0 line spacing for longer quotations).
  4. Visual objects such as diagrams or charts should be provided in separate files, while their place in the text should be properly marked (e.g. figure 1, table 2, etc.). All illustrations should be accompanied by information about their source and copyright.
  5. The formatting of bibliography and footnotes must follow the stylesheet provided by the Editorial team.
  6. The Author should be familiar with the journal’s current procedure of reviewing submissions.
  7. As an author submitting my paper to publication in Annales UMCS Sectio N Educatio Nova, I agree to accept the Ethical Policy of the journal.

The journal does not charge any fees for the publication of articles.

 

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.

  1. The submission is the result of one’s own creativity and does not infringe upon others’ copyright, in particular, the submission has not been published elsewhere before.
  2. The submission is prepared in Microsoft Word (LibreOffice) word processor and saved as doc., docx., odt.
  3. The text proper uses Times New Roman 12 pt, line spacing 1.5. Longer quotes use Times New Roman 10 and spacing of 10 points.

  4. Graphic objects (diagrams, charts) need to be placed in separate files, with a clear indication of place in the text. Graphic objects go with the data on source and copyright holder.

  5. The text meets the bibiographical requirements specified by the Editorial team.
  6. The author is aware of the current procedure of reviewing submissions.
 

Copyright Notice

The author transfers unconditional and free of charge copyright to the Publisher as regards the right to multiply and distribute the work in all forms and all areas of use, and, in particular, the right to record, duplicate the work (in print and in electronic format) in all possible forms (computer-based, electronic and publishing) and in all information systems (most notably the Internet), place the work in computer memory, distribute the work and its copies, give licences for public performances, borrow or hire the work and its copies, make it available and distribute via information technologies, most notably the Internet.