Information For Authors
ARTICLE PROCESSING CHARGES
The journal follows the diamond open access model. This means that:
- publishing in the journal is free of charge for authors,
- the journal does not charge submission fees, peer-review or editorial fees, nor article processing charges (APC),
- all published content is freely accessible to readers worldwide.
The costs of running the journal (including the maintenance of the OJS publishing system, editorial services, DOI assignment, and digital archiving) are covered by:
- the Łódź Scientific Society as the publisher,
- ministerial grants and programmes supporting scholarly and publishing activities,
- partner institutions – primarily the University of Łódź and other academic centres that support the development and dissemination of the journal.
PLAGIARISM CHECKING
Manuscripts are subject to plagiarism checking. Journal editors use Crossref Similarity Check (powered by iThenticate) to ensure the originality of submissions.
SUBMISSIONS
In view of the monographic character of each issue of the journal, please contact the Assistant Editor (Paulina Sztabińska, p_sztabinska@op.pl) for information on the theme of the currently prepared volume.
The theme of each issue is determined in January of each year. Only manuscripts written in English are considered for publication. Each submission must include keywords, abstracts in both Polish and English, and a biographical note in English. Manuscripts are accepted until 31 July. We kindly ask authors to notify us in advance of their intention to submit a paper by sending its title and a short abstract, which will serve as the basis for the preliminary selection of articles.
Please ensure that all footnotes and bibliographical references conform to the guidelines set out in The Chicago Manual of Style (see the online citation guide: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html).
