Author Guidelines
Text structure elements:
- name and surname of the author, affiliation, (if applicable: donor, supporting institution, etc.);
– ORCID of the author;
- email address, residence address (data to be sent to the editorial office);
- the title of the submitted article;
- text category [Article categories];
- the relevant content of the Article;
– attached bibliography (depending on the subject of the article also: filmography, list of television programmes, etc.); NOTE: the bibliography shall be transcribed into the Latin alphabet;
– keywords in Polish (up to five keywords, keywords not longer than three words – please check the text for functionality of the proposed keywords; keywords should contain all relevant terms from the title of the article and the summary);
– keywords in English (up to five keywords, keywords not longer than three words; as above);
– abstract in Polish (no more than 600 characters; in case of a review, the abstract is only the bibliographic address of the reviewed item);
– the title in English;
– abstract (= summary in English, not more than 600 characters);
- for articles in congress languages, please add title, abstract and keywords in Polish, as well as the abstract in the original language and in Polish;
- memo about the author (up to 800 characters, degree/title, workplace, position, area of interest, latest publications);
- copyright note (if the article is a translation from a foreign language).
Title, abstract, keywords - these are important elements of the structure of the text, which allow for quick identification of the content and issues raised by the paper.
The title should be unambiguous.
The abstract should be written in an impersonal form, in a material style, synthetically.
It should include the thesis of the paper, a description of the methodology used, the most important content of the text, and a reference to the context of other research. It is very important that the keywords, abstract, and title of the paper coincide. The abstract should contain phrases identifying the paper.
The function of the abstract is to give a synthetic presentation of the content of the paper. In addition, the abstract can convince the reader that it is worth reading the whole paper (or ordering a translation).
Keywords should enable easy and precise searching of articles in Internet databases.
The name of the file:
In the title of the file, please give your name and the first words of the title, written with underscores: Kowalski_Title.doc(x).
TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS:
Format
Texts should be prepared in MS-Word and written in Times New Roman font; the font size should be 12 points for the main text and 10 points for the footnotes, the line spacing should be 1.5 lines in the main text. Margin 2.5 cm, paragraph 1.0 cm.
Alignment of main text and footnotes – to the left (Word Editor tool).
Please disable macros, do not make up the text (do not align rows with spaces), do not use soft enter (Shift+Ctrl+Enter) and non-separating space (Shift+Ctrl+Space).
Please do not use automatic enumeration lists, point lists, autoformatting.
Please save the text in doc. or docx format.
The volume of articles should not exceed 1 publishing sheet (40,000 characters including spaces and footnotes).
Citation
Quoted fragments of other papers, documents or source editions are written in simple font, taking the whole thing in quotation marks. Quotation marks should be Polish (lower and upper). Text quoted in a text should be in guillemets (« »).
Titles of works
Titles of literary, musical, film, television, painting, books, articles, etc. works are written in italics.
Abbreviations and dates
We use generally accepted abbreviations: cent. – century(ies); also, eg., etc..
Dates are digitally recorded, using Arabic numerals, e.g. 4.12.1952 We use the verbal name of the months when the annual date is not given, e.g. 6 August.
Materials included
Each graph, iconographic material, etc. must be described and have its own number and title and source; it must be described in the form of a list after the bibliography. Tables, drawings, etc. should have the header above and the source below the table (e.g. own work, if from the Internet, then the URL, if from a book, then the author, title, etc. + page number).
Footnotes and annex bibliography
We remind you of the application of the convention of footnotes within the text. The configuration of the Anglo-Saxon footnote is as follows:
• Footnote inside the article text in round brackets, giving the name of the author of the invoked text and the date of publication, and after the colon the page(s) from which it is quoted.
Example (Frydryczak 2013: 232)
• If there are two (or more) author's publications from a given year, we write them down, also in the bibliography, adding subsequent letters of the alphabet to the year of publication.
Example (Frydryczak 2013b: 232)
Attached bibliography (alphabetical order) is prepared in the following style (full names of authors, editors, translators; separating dots; no italics; date of access):
For non-serial publications (e.g. books) translated:
Andrić Ivo. 1985. Most na Drinie. Halina Kalita (transl). Warsaw.
For a chapter in a non-serial publication (e.g. in a book):
Ciaputa Ewelina, Król Agnieszka, Warat Marta. 2014. The gender dimension of disability. Situation of women with visual, motor and hearing impairments. In: Polish people with disabilities: from comprehensive diagnosis to a new model of social policy. Barbara Gąciarz, Seweryn Rudnicki (ed.). Kraków. 153–174.
For publication on the Internet:
Cieślikowska Dominika, Sarata Natalia. 2012. Multiple discrimination – history, theories, research review. Warsaw. http://www.tea.org.pl/userfiles/file/Wielokrotna.pdf (access: 17.03.2017).
For a journal article:
Jerzakowska Monika. 2007. "Nature has created one sex for dominion and another sex for subjection. The place of women in a traditional Serbian family based on selected examples of oral lyrical folk art". Balkan United no. 1. 2–7.
For a journal article downloaded from the Internet:
Traustadóttir Rannveig, Sigurjónsdóttir Hanna Björg. 2008. “The Mother behind the Mother: Three Generations of Mothers with Intellectual Disabilities and Their Family Support Networks”. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities no. 21(4). 331–340. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-3148.2008.00450.x. (access: 1.02.2017).
For non-serial publications (e.g. books):
Wołowicz-Ruszkowska Agnieszka. 2013. Zanikanie? Trajektorie tożsamości kobiet z niepełnosprawnością. Warsaw.
Please classify your text in one of the following categories.
• Original academic paper – an academic paper presenting the results of original research of empirical, theoretical, technical, or analytical character. This type also includes monographic papers, conference papers, and academic essays.
• Review paper – an academic paper summarising the current state of knowledge in a given research area. A review paper integrates and interprets the previous results of original academic research, but does not have to contain the original results of the research.
• Communication on research results – a short (usually 1 to 3 pages) academic paper describing preliminary results of empirical research of special significance, course and preliminary results of original experimental research, or original technical solutions.
• Gloss or legal commentary – a legal paper containing the original results of analytical research.
• Review paper (academic review) – An academic paper containing a critical analysis and evaluation of a scientific publication, literary work or work of art, may be published as part of a polemical discussion.
• Case study – a publication that is an analysis of a given case (usually a real one) giving the possibility to draw conclusions concerning the causes and results of the described case, description of the event. A typical publication for medical and social science journals.
• Guidelines – a review publication which is a description of recommendations for action in specific cases, a publication characteristic primarily for journals in the field of medical sciences.
• Popular science article – a publication popularising scientific issues among readers who are not specialists in a given field.
• Other citable – publications in academic journals not listed above, which have the potential to be quoted, i.e. they are generally quoted in academic journals, have bibliographic references and are subject to review process.
• Other non-citable sources – publications in an academic journal not listed above, e.g. errata, biographical notes, reports, prefaces, postscripts, editorials, obituaries, announcements, letters to the editor, reviews (non-academic) and other articles of non-citable character, i.e. in principle are not quoted by authors of other publications, do not have bibliographic references, and are usually not subject to review.
Anonymisation of the text:
Due to the double-blind review procedure, please send us two versions of the text: full and anonymous.
Anonymised version:
- in the header - instead of the name of the Author, affiliate, ORCID number – "Author";
- do not include the Author's academic biography;
- in footnotes and bibliographies, instead of the Author's name and title of the work, "Nomen Auctoris" and "Opus".
Example:
Ogonowska Agnieszka. 2018. Psychologia mediów i komunikowania. Wprowadzenie. Kraków.
Ogonowska Agnieszka, Ptaszek Grzegorz (ed.). 2013. Współczesna psychologia mediów. Nowe problemy i perspektywy badawcze. Kraków.
write as:
Nomen Auctoris (2018). Opus 1.
Nomen Auctoris (2013). Opus 2
Privacy Statement
The members of the editorial board of the academic journal "Studia de Cultura" respect the principle of confidentiality, which means that they do not disclose any information about the authors, reviewers or persons who have registered on the webpages of the journal in order to use the newsletter service. The persons authorised to possess the above information are the editors and the Publisher.
Information on the processing of personal data of the Author(s)
Based on Article 13 (and/or) 14 of the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) (OJ EU L.2016.119.1 of 04.05.2016 – hereinafter: GDPR or the Regulation), we would like to inform you that:
I. Administrator of Personal Data:
The administrator of the Personal Data of the Author(s)/Reviewer(s) is the Pedagogical University in Kraków (address: ul. Podchorążych 2, 30-084 Kraków, website: www.up.krakow.pl). You can contact the Personal Data Administrator by e-mail: info@up.krakow.pl or in writing to the correspondence address indicated in the first sentence.
II. Data Protection Inspector:
Author(s)/Reviewer(s) may contact the Data Protection Inspector appointed by the Administrator in matters concerning: personal data processing, exercising the rights concerning personal data processing by writing to the e-mail address iod@up.krakow.pl, or the address of the Data Controller indicated in point I.
III. Purposes of the processing of personal data:
A higher education institution shall process personal data in order to prepare and execute a publishing agreement in accordance with Article 6, section 1, letter b) of the Regulation (EU), and in particular:
• response to the information sent to the Publisher using the contact form/e-mail,
• implementation of the publishing process related to the publication of the paper by the Author(s),
• publishing the name, surname, degree or title and affiliation of the Author(s),
• making data available to other entities connected with the publishing process, databases and other information, promotional and scientific portals,
• sending author’s copies of printed works.
Providing personal data by you is a condition of contract performance, order, publication of your work or where you acted as a Reviewer, Editor or Member of the Academic Council. You are obliged to provide them, and the consequence of not providing personal data will be a refusal to publish or accept the article/review by the Publisher.
IV. Recipients of personal data:
Collected personal data may be made available to entities and public bodies authorised to process personal data on the basis of generally applicable law and entities processing personal data at the request of the controller in connection with the performance of the task entrusted to them.
V. The period of storage of personal data of the Author(s):
Personal data collected on the basis of Article 6(1)(b) of the Regulation (EU), i.e. will be processed for a maximum period of 50 years from the date of signature of the agreement.
VI. Rights of data subjects:
The Author(s) have the right to:
• access their data (information about the data processed by the Administrator), including obtaining a copy of the data. The law will be implemented to the extent technically and legally possible,
• rectification (correction of data when they are not in line with the actual state),
• erasure or restriction of data processing in cases provided for by law.
The personal data collected are not subject to automated decision-making, including profiling.
VII. Supervisory authority in the field of personal data:
The supervisory authority for personal data is the President of the Office for the Protection of Personal Data. The Author(s), in the event that they consider that the processing of personal data violates the provisions of the Regulation, have the right to lodge a complaint to the aforementioned supervisory authority.
