Principles for Authors

1. Scientific Reliability Principle: The Authors of works submitted for publication shall be obliged to prepare a reliable description of the performed research works and an unbiased interpretation of results. The works shall contain enough information allowing for the identification of data resources as well as for a repetition of tests. Presentation and interpretation of data and research results which is unreliable or incompatible with ethical norms shall be unacceptable and may result in withdrawing the paper.
   
   
2. Work originality principle: Only original works written by Authors on their own may be submitted. If studies and/or words of other Authors are used, appropriate marks of quotation should be applied. Plagiarism or fabrication of data are unacceptable.
   
   
3. Data disclosure principle: Authors may be requested to present unprocessed research results, therefore they should be prepared to provide access to these data, even after some time following the publication of the work.
   
   
4. Preventing the conflict of interest between authors principle: Authors should not publish works describing the same research in more than one journal. Submission of one work to more than one journal is rendered unethical.
   
   
5. Authorship principle: The contribution of all persons enumerated as authors or co-authors into the creation of a submitted work (project, idea, planning, execution, interpretation of results) shall be factual and significant. Also, all the persons who influenced the work in its final form should be enumerated as authors. An Author submitting a work for publication is obliged to make sure that the persons who contributed to the work accept its final form.
   
   
6. Resources reliability principle: The Authors of submitted works shall be obliged to always indicate publications they referred to while preparing the paper.
   
   
7. Rules on errors in published works: If an Author(s) discovered significant errors or inaccuracies in their papers, they should immediately inform the editorial board of the journal in order to withdraw the paper, prepare an erratum or correct the errors. 

 

Informations for Authors

1. The Editorial Team accepts only original manuscripts that have not been published previously
   
   
2. Papers in Polish and English language are accepted.
   
   
3. Submissions should be made via email only: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
   
   
4. Submissions to the "Articles and Editions" section are subject to a double-blind peer review process involving two independent reviewers. 
   
   
5. The maximum length of a submitted research article is 60,000 characters (including spaces).
   
   
6. If the manuscript contains figures, tables, or other illustrative materials, they must be appropriately captioned and a list of all illustrations should be provided at the end of the manuscript.
   
   
7. Each submission must include an abstract (up to 1,000 characters), five keywords, and a bibliography containing all cited works.
   
   
8. The Editorial Board may accept for publication only those research articles that have successfully passed the initial editorial assessment, meet all editorial requirements, fall within the journal's scope, and receive two positive peer reviews.
   
   
9. Each author and co-author is required to submit a signed licence agreement to the Editorial Team (available for download below)..

 

Guidelines for Authors

Structure of the Text:

Author
Affiliation
ORCID
Title

 

Abstract (up to 1000 characters)
Keywords  (5 words)

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Bibliography

 

Formatting:

• Abstract, keywords: Times New Roman 10 pt font, line spacing 1.0.
  
  
• Main text, bibliography: Times New Roman 12 pt font, line spacing 1.5.
  
  
• Footnotes: bottom of the page, Times New Roman 10 pt font, line spacing 1.0.
  
  
• Foreign-language terms: italicized.
  
  
• Personal names in the text: first occurrence – full first name and surname; subsequent occurrences – initial and surname.
  
  
• Quotations: italicized.
  
  
• Illustrations: embedded in the text and submitted as separate files; minimum resolution 300 dpi.
  
  
• Captions for illustrations (including source information).
  
  
• Margins: 2.5 cm.

 

Footnote and Bibliography Format:

Footnotes:

• Book:
  Initial. Surname, title, place of publication year of publication, p. .
  A. Kowalska, Piszę o rękopisach, Kraków 2005, p. 25.
  
  
• Chapter in an edited volume:
  Initial. Surname, chapter title, [in:] publication title, ed. first name and surname, place of publication year of publication, pp.
  A. Kowalska, Rękopisy z kolekcji polskich królów, [w:] Wielkie kolekcje rękopisów, red. Jan Nowak, Warszawa 2018, pp. 123–154.
  
  
• Journal article:
  Initial. Surname, article title, „journal title”, year, no./vol. , pp..
  A. Kowalska, Kaligrafia w szkole, „O pięknie pisma” 2015, t. 34, pp. 17–25.
  
  
• Website:
  Website title, [online] URL, [accessed: date].
  Słownik języka polskiego PWN, [online] https://sjp.pwn.pl/, [accessed: 24.10.2020].
  
  
• Online text:
  Initial. Surname, title, [online] URL, [accessed: date].
  A. Kowalska, Zmierzch rękopiśmiennictwa, [online] www.pioremiatramentem.pl, [accessed: 24.10.2020].
  
  
• Manuscript:
  Repository, manuscript reference number, title, p. or fol.
  Biblioteka Naukowa PAU i PAN w Krakowie [dalej: Bibl. Nauk. PAU i PAN], sygn. rkps
  9876, p. 234.

Bibliography:

Same format as footnotes; however, the surname should be given first, followed by the full first name.

Illustrations:

• Maximum number: 10.
• Permission for use from the owner/institution is required and must be obtained by the Author.
• Captions (Times New Roman 10 pt):
  Fig. 1. Title of the illustration
  [Source: …………………. ]

 

Ghostwriting and Guest Authorship Prevention

The editorial board of the “Annual of the Scientific Library of the PAAS and the PAS in Cracow” uses procedures aiming at preventing abuses such as ghost-writing and guest authorship.

 

Reliability is one of the qualitative foundations of science. Readers should be certain that the authors of publications present the results of their work in a clear, reliable and genuine manner, notwithstanding their being in-person authors or they use the assistance of specialised entities (natural or legal persons).

 

Openness of information about the entities contributing to the work (substantive, material, financial input etc.) should be a proof of a researcher’s ethical approach and highest editorial standards, which not only indicate good manners but also social responsibility.

 

Examples of the contrary are “ghost-writing” and “guest authorship”.

• “Ghost-writing” is when someone has contributed significantly to the work without exposing his participation as one of the authors or not being mentioned in the acknowledgements section of the publication.
  
  
• “Guest authorship” (“honorary authorship”) is when the author’s contribution to the work is minimal or non-existing at all, however they remain the author/co-author of the publication.

In order to counteract the instances of “ghost-writing” and “guest authorship”, the journal editorial board implements the following procedures:

• The editorial board requests authors to reveal the input of individual authors into the publication (together with their affiliation and contribution, that is the information who is the author of the concept, assumptions, methods, protocol etc. used while preparing the publication) whereas the author submitting the manuscript bears main responsibility.
  
  
• The editorial board explains in the “Instructions for Authors” section that “ghost-writing” and “guest authorship” are indicative of scientific unreliability and any found instances shall be revealed, including informing relevant subjects (institutions employing the authors, scientific societies, academic editors associations etc.).
  
  
• The editorial board demands information on the sources of the publication financing, the contribution of  research institutions, associations and other subjects (financial disclosure).
  
  
• The editorial board documents any instances of scientific unreliability, especially violation and infringing of scientific ethics.

 

No publishing fees

Journal does not request any article subsmission, review, publication and processing charges.

 

Article Processing Time

Average  Initial Editorial Assessment time: 14 days

Average Peer Review time: 30 days

Average time to publication: 100 days from completion of the peer-review process

We invite you to submit scholarly papers to our journal. Submissions are accepted each year until 31 May.

 

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