Intercultural Studies of Central and Eastern Europe
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AUTHOR'S GUIDELINES

GENERAL INFORMATION

  1. Texts submitted for publication must not have been previously published elsewhere, nor be simultaneously submitted to the editorial boards of other journals.
  2. The editorial board accepts texts in Polish, English, Russian, Belarusian, and Ukrainian.
  3. By submitting a text for publication, the author thereby agrees to its online publication on the website of the respective journal volume.
  4. The author submits the text in electronic form to the Editorial Team of 'Intercultural Studies of Central and Eastern Europe'. The electronic file in Word format should be sent in an email titled: SI, Author’s Surname, first word of the article title to the editorial address: jm.kozlowska@uw.edu.pl. 
  5. The author is solely responsible for matters related to copyright and publishing rights (including reprints of illustrations, tables and charts, and quotations from other sources).
  6. Texts that do not meet the editorial requirements may be rejected. The editorial board reserves the right to refuse an article without stating a reason.
  7. Critical editions of sources should be prepared in accordance with appropriate publishing guidelines.
  8. Failure to return author corrections within the given deadline will be considered acceptance of the text in its current form.
  9. Authors do not receive remuneration for articles published in the journal.
  10. No publication fees are charged to authors.

 

Authors are kindly requested to read the information in the sections on Publishing Ethics and Review Guidelines. Submitting the text is equivalent to accepting the ethical guidelines of the journal. The manuscript submitted to the editorial office should be accompanied by a declaration of the originality of the submitted material:

Statement on Compliance with Ethical Principles.docx.

 

HOW TO PREPARE YOUR MANUSCRIPT

We request Authors to accurately provide the following details: first and last name, title/degree, affiliation (also in English), e-mail address, ORCID number, and to accompany the article with a short biographical note (approximately 800 characters) including the most important scientific achievements.

Please include in the text of the article an appendix bibliography, a short (approx. 1000-1200 characters) abstract, title and 5 keywords in English. Please also send a statement that the text has not been published or referred for publication in another journal or collective volume.

The abstract, describing the content of the article, should include information about the aim of the conducted research/analysis, the methodology used in the article, and the main conclusions.

The editors request that scientific articles be prepared in accordance with the Modern Language Association bibliographic template (MLA Style), which is applicable to international databases.

 

TECHNICAL GUIDELINES

Please place the author's first name, surname, affiliation, email address and ORCID in the top left corner of the page.
Title of the article in capital letters, font TIMES NEW ROMAN 14, centred.
Below it the title of the article in English and the word Abstract, font TIMES NEW ROMAN 11, centred.
Bottom, top and side margins 2.5 cm each.
Article text: font TIMES NEW ROMAN 12, spacing 1.5 lines, left and right alignment.
Each paragraph begins with an automatic indentation of 1.25 cm.
Short quotations are enclosed in inverted commas, longer quotations are set out in a separate paragraph in 11. font without inverted commas.

In the main text, standard footnotes apply (numbering at the bottom of the respective page of the article), font TIMES NEW ROMAN 10, spacing 1 line.
Appendix bibliography: at the end of the article, listed in alphabetical order.
In the bibliography (not in footnotes), sources in Cyrillic characters should be provided in transliteration, followed by the original in square brackets. The transliteration is done automatically at: https://www.ushuaia.pl/transliterate/ (check whether the PN-ISO 9:2000 system has been selected).

 

Example of footnote notation

  • Monographs: initial of author's first name, surname, title in italics, place and date of publication, page number:

M. Adamczyk-Garbowska, Polskie tłumaczenia angielskiej literatury dziecięcej, Ossolineum, Wrocław 1990, s.54.

  • Articles in volumes: initial of author's first name, surname, title in italics, [in:] title of publication (in italics), initial of editor's first name and surname, place and date of publication, page number:

A. Witkowska, Dziko – pięknie – groźnie czyli Ukraina romantyków, w: Szkoła ukraińska w romantyzmie polskim. Szkice polsko-ukraińskie, red. S. Makowski, U. Makowska, M. Nesteruk, Warszawa 2012, s. 23–32.

  • Articles in journals: initial of author's first name, surname, title in italics, title of journal in inverted commas, date of issue, journal number, page number:

M. Kuziak, „Anhelli” Słowackiego − efekt lektury mickiewiczo-logicznej, „Prace Filologiczne. Literaturoznawstwo” 2020, nr 10 (13), s. 51–66.

  • Record from websites: author's first name initial, surname, title in italics, website address, [access: date]:

A. Woźniak, Żaba w człowieku, https://www.dwutygodnik.com/artykul/10548-zaba-w-czlowieczku.html [dostęp: 20.02.2023].

The archival data record should include the archive name, reference, title, pages or tabs. The first time it is used, the full name of the archive should be given, followed in square brackets by the abbreviation of the name.

 

GUIDELINES FOR THE PREPARATION OF THE ILLUSTRATION IN THE ELECTRONIC VERSION 

1. Each illustration should be provided in a separate file; file names should match the names (numbers) of the illustrations in the text.

  • Note: illustrations inserted into a text file in Word are not suitable for further use.

2. Acceptable file formats containing illustrations:

  • photos, scanned illustrations: eps, tif, jpg, bmp
  • charts, diagrams, maps: png, cdr, ai, eps

3. The resolution of all illustrations may not be lower than 300 dpi, except for scanned line illustrations whose resolution may not be lower than 600 dpi

4. How to prepare charts, diagrams, maps:

  • line thickness: contour lines with a thickness of 0.5 p .; guide lines – 0.25 p .; graph lines or other highlighted lines 0.7-1 p.
  • degree of writing descriptions: preferably 8-9 points (not less than 7.5 points)
  • black and white drawings: gray intensity not less than 10% Black, not more than 80% Black; gradation of shades of gray every 15-20% (e.g. 10%, 30%, 50%, 70%)
  • color drawings: intended for printing - the colors should be saved in the CMYK model; color drawings for electronic publications - colors saved in the RGB model
  • texts placed on gray background: black texts can be placed on gray background not exceeding 25% Black; white texts (in reverse) should be placed on a gray background darker than 25% Black, for opposite texts we use the following font types: Regular, Medium or Bold (we do not use the Light version)
  • illustration scale: 1:1.
  • texts in illustrations and drawings should not be changed into curves

5. Method of preparing scanned photos and illustrations:

  • illustrations intended for printing - colors recorded in the CMYK model; illustrations for electronic publications - colors recorded in the RGB model
  • scale of illustrations: recommended by min. 25% larger than the target format

6. The way of transmitting the illustration

  • emailing
  • sending via WeTransfer system
  • on a pendrive
  • uploading to UWP FTP (after prior agreement with the managing editor)

 

SCIENTIFIC RELIABILITY GUIDELINES 

The author submitting a manuscript by several authors has to reveal the contribution to the manuscript made by particular authors (including their affiliation address and the level of the contribution, i.e. information on the authors of the concept, assumptions, methods, protocols, etc. used during the preparation of the manuscript).

The Publisher recalls that ghostwriting and guest authorship are treated as scientific misconduct, and that all detected cases shall be disclosed, a notification shall be sent to relevant institutions, such as institutions employing the authors, scientific societies, associations of scientific editors, etc.

The author is obliged to provide information on any funding sources for the publication and any contribution of research and scholarly institutions, associations, and other entities funding the author’s research. The author is fully responsible for the accuracy of the data provided.

Due to the review process, the expected time for a publication decision is up to 4 months.

Unsolicited manuscripts are not returned.