Preparation of text for publication
- Material for publication should be prepared in accordance with the rules set out by the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University Press in Warsaw.
- Articles submitted for publication in Studia nad Rodziną (Family Studies) may not have been previously published in paper or electronic form, nor may they be submitted to other journals at the same time.
- Texts (articles, reports, reviews, and announcements) in Polish and in the languages of the conference are accepted for publication, provided they are of high substantive and linguistic quality, consistent with the subject matter of the journal, with correct methodology, properly used footnotes, bibliography, and other requirements applicable to “Studia nad Rodziną” (Family Studies). The adaptation of footnotes and the preservation of the proper structure of the manuscript are conditions for the acceptance of the text by the editorial office for publication in “Studia nad Rodziną” (Family Studies).
- The article should be submitted via the text submission system on the journal platform of Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw: https://czasopisma.uksw.edu.pl/index.php/snr/index. The author should create an individual account there, then upload the text file and all metadata (abstract, keywords, attached bibliography). In case of technical problems, please contact the editorial office.
- The preferred text length should not exceed 1 publishing sheet, i.e. approximately 40,000 characters with spaces; the length of reviews and reports should be 0.5 publishing sheets, i.e. approximately 20,000 characters with spaces.
- The text should be prepared in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF format in a .doc or .docx file according to the following guidelines:
- 2.5 cm margins;
- Times New Roman 12 pt font;
- 1.5 pt line spacing;
- pages numbered in the footer;
- any foreign fonts attached to the file.
- Quotations should be included in the text in quotation marks. Only italics should be used to highlight a word or phrase. Omissions in quotations should be marked with three dots in square brackets: […].
- Journal titles should be written in plain font and in quotation marks, foreign terms and titles in italics, and footnote numbers at the end of a sentence always before the period (the period ends the sentence).
- Photos, drawings, tables, or other graphic forms should be placed in the text in appropriate places and captioned, keeping in mind copyright laws. If materials from other authors are used, the author's statement of consent to publish the photo, reproduction of a work of art, etc. should be added.
- In order to ensure an anonymous review process (double blind review) , the author's name should not be included in the manuscript header, and no abbreviations or references that could help identify the author(s) of the article should be used in the text.
- The manuscript should have the following structure:
- Article title in Polish.
- Article title in English.
- Abstract in Polish (in the case of reviews or reports, no abstract is required).
- Keywords in Polish (4-5 words).
- Abstract in English.
- Keywords in English (4-5 words).
- Main text.
- Bibliography (containing only publications cited in the article).
- Authors of articles and reviews receive one author's copy of the journal. No fees are paid for the publication of texts.
- The editorial board does not charge authors for publishing their texts in the journal Studia nad Rodziną. Access to the journal's content online is free of charge.