1. Please submit your articles in doc or .rtf (not .docx) files, with interline spacing of 1.5 and 12 point Times New Roman font, the text has to be justified. The font used for all tables and graphs should be 10 point Times New Roman, with single line spacing. For the titles of tables and graphs use 10 point bold Times New Roman font, with single line spacing.
   
   
2. We expect the articles to be between 20 and 40 thousand characters.
   
   
3. Footnotes, references and bibliography
   At Teoria Polityki Harvard referencing system is used, according to the following instructions :
   
   
   • Brackets in the text containing the name of the author, year of publication and page position (Dahl 2004, p. 102); 
     
     
   • Where there are cited two or more publications of one author published in the same year, please use the records (Nye 2004a, p. 15), (Nye 2004b, p. 402), etc. - in the order of publication as present in the references list.
     
     
   • References
     References should be placed at the end of the paper (as a separate section) and should include only those items which were cited in the text. They should be organized in alphabetical order and contain: name of author, title, volume, issue, publisher, place of publication, page numbers, according to the following:
     
     
     • Article:
       Bernard, J. (1950). “The Validation of Normative Social Theory”. The Journal of Philosophy, 47 (17), pp. 481-493.
       
       
     • Book
       Skinner, Q. (1978). Foundations of Modern Political Thought, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
       
       
     • Chapter in a joint publication
       Walker, S., Schafer, M., Beieler, J. (2016). „Belief Systems and Foreign Policy Roles: Role contestation in U.S. Foreign policy decision”. In:Domestic Role Contestation, Foreign Policy, and International Relations, C. Cantir, J. Kaarbo (eds.). New York: Routledge.
       
       
     • Articles published online
       Radecki, M., Gherghina, S. (2015). “Objective and Subjective Party Leadership Selection: Regulations, Activists, and Voters in Poland”.European Politics and Society, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2374118.2015.1072342 (accessed: 16.10.2015).
       
       
4. Furthermore, the following guidelines must be observed:
   
   
   1. 1. In the main body of the article the titles of articles, books, names of radio and TV programmes should be written in a roman type in quotation marks.
         
         
      2. The titles of newspapers and magazines and the abbreviations used to refer to them are written in italics, without quotation marks.
         
         
      3. With a string of name initials there should be no space between them, e.g. W.M. Kajtoch
         
         
      4. The abbreviation for “volume” is vol., for “page”: p.
         
         
      5. Please remember to use page numbers in footnotes, and to include in the bibliography the numbers of pages the article was printed on in a journal/magazine or a joint publication.
         
         
      6. When omitting words from a direct quote use [...].
         
         
      7. All shorter quotes - in a roman type in quotation marks. The same applies to shorter and longer quotes in reviews.
         
         
      8. Longer quotes (exceeding the length of two sentences) should be block formatted, written in a roman type, paragraphs in the block, no indentations.
         
         
      9. Foreign words should be written in italics, the same applies when we are writing about individual lexemes or phrases (e.g. river, mouse, birch are nouns). Whereas writing about the meaning the following punctuation marks are used – ‘…’.
         
         
      10. A quote within a quote „«...»”.
          
          
      11. Tables, charts and pictures are to be numbered individually. Each table, each graph or a picture should be listed as, e.g.
          Table 1. List of abbreviations
          
          
      12. References to tables or graphs should be marked in the tables by asterisks. Footnotes or notes regarding a given table (graph) should be placed directly at the bottom of the table or graph. The numbers of tables and graphs quoted in the main body of the article should not be followed by periods (e.g. Table 1 shows)
          
          
5. Manuscripts should be accompanied by:
   • author affiliations;
   • concise abstract in English (the translation of the title should also be provided - abstract up to one thousand characters);
   • English keywords (at least five).
     
     
6. Illustrations
   Should the need to print illustrations arise, please enclose a special formal permission granting you the right to publish the work, issued by the copyright holder(s). If it is impossible to get the permission, the description of the illustration should be used instead, and a reference to a website where this specific picture can be found should be provided, having taken into consideration the stability and prospective longevity of the quoted website.
   
   
7. Additional notes
   Submission of a manuscript implies that you express your consent to publish the submitted work both in traditional form (in paper) and in electronic form (on the website). For a paper to be published favourable reviews are required and an appropriate agreement with the Publishing House of the Jagiellonian University must be signed. The editorial board reserves the right to make any necessary changes in the papers, editing them for content, length or style.

Ghostwriting and Guest Authorship
We speak of the phenomenon of “ghostwriting” when a person contributes significantly to a publication and is not disclosed as one of the authors or named in the acknowledgments. “Guest authorship” (“honorary authorship”) is a situation when the author's contribution is insignificant or non existent and they are still listed as the author/co-author of the publication.

To prevent the cases of “ghostwriting” and “guest authorship” the editorial board decided to implement the following procedures;

• The authors are required to disclose the contribution of individual authors to the article (including the list of their affiliations and the extent of their contribution, i.e. specifying the names of the author of the concept, premises, methods, protocol etc. that were used while preparing the paper), and the main responsibility lies with the author who has submitted the manuscript.
  
  
• Both "ghostwriting" and "guest authorship" are indications of scientific dishonesty, thus all discovered cases will be exposed and adequate institutions will be informed (employers, scientific societies, scientific editors associations, etc.).
  
  
• The editorial board requires the authors to disclose relevant sources of financial support for the publication, participation of research institutions, associations and other parties (“financial disclosure”).
  
  
• The editorial board keeps record of all indications of scientific dishonesty, with a particular emphasis on breaches of ethical principles in scientific research.