Submission of texts

1. The Journal publishes dissertations on the history of science and technology, summaries and descriptions of status quaestionis, presentations and editions of source texts, polemical papers, review essays and reviews, and information about scientific and scholarly events. The Journal publishes original and unpublished texts that fit in with the aims and scopes of the Journal.
   
   
2. After the text is submitted, the authors are asked to submit the author’s declaration. After the text is accepted for publication, the authors are obliged to sign the editorial contract. The declaration and contract specimens are available on the Journal’s website.
   
   
3. By submitting their text to the Journal, the authors ipso facto ensure that they acquainted themselves with the description of the principles of the publication ethics and other practices applied by the Journal, published on the Journal’s website and that they agree to their provisions.
   
   
4. By submitting their text to the Journal, the authors ipso facto ensure that they acquainted themselves with the data protection clause published on the Journal’s website and that they agree to its provisions.
   
   
5. The editors reserve the right to edit texts before publication.
   
   
6. The texts should be submitted by e-mail to the address given on the Journal’s website. Texts which do not meet the principles of these instructions will not be considered for publication. The editors do not correspond with authors in ways other than electronic.

Principles of preparing texts

1. Texts should be submitted in doc, docx, or odt formats.
   
   
2. The text should be preceded by: the names of the authors together with their affiliations or places of residence and ORCID, a summary in English (not longer than 1500 characters), and keywords (including the place of the subject within the history of science) in English. The text should be followed by: an alphabetically arranged list of works cited in the text prepared according to the following principles of bibliographical notation, information about the research funding (if applicable), acknowledgments (if applicable), and information about the authors (not longer than 500 characters per author) with their e-mail addresses. Book reviews and texts for the chronicle should not include additional elements except for the authors’ data and the title of the text.
   
   
3. Quotations in the article should be written in the language of the article (translated by the authors or quoted after a published translation). In particular cases, when it is necessary for the intelligibility of the article, it is allowed to give the original text in the footnotes as a supplement to the translation.
   
   
4. The quotations should be marked with a single quotation mark (‘’). The start and the end of the quotation should not be marked with ellipses. Longer quotations should be written as an indented paragraph without the quotation mark. Omissions in quotations should be marked with [...] (except for the omission at the beginning and at the end of the quotations). In order to distinguish a part of the text inside the quotation, a double quotation mark (“”) should be used. Additions in quotations by the authors of the article should be marked with square brackets, e.g. [underlined – A.T.].
   
   
5. Texts written in alphabets other than Latin: (in the main text) should be transcribed; (in the footnotes and bibliographical notations) should be transliterated according to ISO regulations.
   
   
6. Names and family names should be written in their original forms unless the name in question has a well-established English form.
   
   
7. Years and ages should be written as follows: 1862, 19^th c. Months should be indicated: (in the main text) with complete words, e.g. 15 March 1862; (in the footnotes) as follows: 15.03.1862 (dd.mm.yyyy). The names of decades should be written as follows: 1950s. Calendar eras should be consistently indicated as CE/BCE or BC/AD.
   
   
8. Units of the SI system should be indicated with symbols.

Form of footnotes and bibliographical notation

1. Texts should use footnotes.
   
   
2. The bibliographical entries should conform to the following rules:
   
   
   1. Books: E. Grant, Planets, Stars, and Orbs. The Medieval Cosmos, 1200–1687, vol. 1, Cambridge 1994, p. 103–104; Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo, transl. by S. Drake, New York 1957, p. vii–viii.
      
      
   2. Chapters in books: M. Feingold, Joseph Scaliger in England, [in:] For the Sake of Learning. Essays in Honor of Anthony Grafton, vol. 1, ed. by A. Blair, A.-S. Goeing, Leiden, Boston 2016, p. 63.
      
      
   3. Articles in journals: K. Ryszewska, Józef Żurowski’s (1892–1936) Activity as the Conservator of Archeological Artefacts in the Lesser Poland Region, “Quarterly Journal of the History of Science and Technology” 2022, vol. 67, no 3, p. 93–94.
      
      
   4. Publications in series: Johannes Hevelius and His World. Astronomer, Cartographer, Philosopher and Correspondent, ed. by R.L. Kremer, J. Włodarczyk, Warsaw 2013 (Studia Copernicana, vol. 44), p. 1–17.
      
      
   5. Entries in dictionaries and encyclopedias: (entries with given author) G.J. Toomer, Astronomy, [in:] The Oxford Classical Dictionary, ed. by S. Hornblower, A. Spawforth, Oxford 2003, p. 196–198; (entries without given author) Oxford Latin Dictionary, ed. by P.G.W. Glare, Oxford 1996, s.v. astronomia.
      
      
   6. Press articles with a day date: A. Beevor, History? No! Why the Spanish Left Welcomed the Prospect of Civil War, “Times Literary Supplement” 11.03.2005, no. 5319, p. 3–4. If a press article does not have an author and/or a title, all other elements should be given.
      
      
   7. Archival and unpublished materials: Archiv der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften [ABBAW], Preußische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1700–1811) [PAW (1700–1811)], I-XIV-26 Acta betr. das Observatorium und den Astronomen, 1713–1746, f. 17r. The subsequent quotations should use the introduced abbreviations and omit the repetition of the names of units, referring to their numbers only: ABBAW, PAW (1700–1811), I-XIV-26, f. 17r.
      
      
   8. Websites: M. Lewis, Clusters, Continued Collaborations, and the Correspondence of Isaac Casaubon, culturesofknowledge.history.ox.ac.uk/?p=11905 [accessed 4.12.2022]. Whenever an electronic version of a book or a journal is used, the principles of the notation of printed publications should be applied, and the website address should not be given.
      
      
3. The subsequent quotations should use the beginning of the title without the ellipsis, e.g. E. Grant, Planets, Stars, and Orbs, vol. 1, p. 103–104. The ‘op. cit.’ abbreviation should not be used. Whenever the adjacent footnotes refer to the same author of work, ‘idem’, ‘eadem’, ‘iidem’, ‘eaedem’, and ‘ibidem’ should be used.
   
   
4. The following abbreviations and phrases should be used in the footnotes: p.; f.; ed. by; cf.; see; transl. by; vol.; no.
   
   
5. In the bibliography following the article, critical literature and sources should be distinguished.
   
   
6. In the bibliography, initials of the authors’ first names should follow their family names, full page ranges of chapters and articles and DOI numbers of the publications should be given, e.g. Bienias B., Identification of Thomas Bretnor’s Adversary in his Prognostication for 1614, “Notes and Queries” 2021, vol. 68, no. 4, p. 410–413, DOI 10.1093/notesj/gjab158.

Illustrations and tables

1. The illustrations should not be inserted into the text of the article but submitted in separate files in a resolution of at least 300 dpi in jpg, tif, or bmp format. The files should be named with consecutive numbers which refer to clearly indicated places in the text. In the text, the labels of the illustrations should include information about their author or source and should be inserted in places where the illustrations should be printed. The index of the illustrations should not be provided separately. The authors are obliged to obtain the written permission from the copyright owners for each of the illustrations to use it in the article.
   
   
2. The tables should be inserted in the text of the articles. The tables should not be submitted in separate files. The tables should be labelled with consecutive numbers and information about their source or author.