Preliminary guidelines

1. If English is not the Author's first language, we strongly recommend that the submission be revised by a professional proofreader who is a native speaker of English.
   
   
2. Submissions should be sent in .docx or RTF format.
   
   
3. Submissions should not exceed 9000 words.
   
   
4. Each submission should contain the following: author’s name, affiliation, e-mail, ORCID number, abstract (ca. 300 words), list of references (bibliography), information about funding (e.g. grant name, institution etc.), author’s short bio-note (max. 150 words). 
   
   
5. In situations not covered in detail by the following short instructions, for example, the use of source abbreviations, the giving of shelf mark references, etc., consistency should be the primary rule.

1. Use single quotation marks to emphasise individual words or short phrases.
   
   
2. Enclose direct quotations of less than 25 words within single quotation marks (‘ ’).
   
   
3. Quotations exceeding two lines should be formatted as block quotations in a separate indented paragraph, without quotation marks.
   
   
4. Omissions within quotations should be indicated with […]

Footnotes

1. Use notes and bibliography system, not author and date system.
   
   
2. Full notes should be used for the first entry, then short notes, as in the examples below:
   
   
   • Books
     Anthony Grafton, Bring out Your Dead: The Past as Revelation, Cambridge 2001, pp. 227–243.
     A. Grafton, Bring out Your Dead, p. 267.
     
     
   • Journal article
     Otto A. Dieter, “Arbor Picta. The medieval tree of preaching”, Quarterly Journal of Speech 51 (1965), pp. 123–144.
     O.A. Dieter, “Arbor Picta”, p. 147.
     
     
   • Chapter or part of an edited book
     E.H.T. Levi, “The relationship of stoicism and scepticism: Justus Lipsius”, in: Humanism and Early Modern Philosophy, ed. J. Krye and M.W.F. Stone, London 2000, pp. 103–104.
     E.H.T. Levi, “The relationship of stoicism and scepticism”, p. 97.
     
     
   • Edited book
     Belgia w relacjach Polaków: Antologia (XVI–XX w.), ed. M.B. Styk, Lublin 1999, pp. 33–35.
     Belgia w relacjach Polaków, p. 46.
     
     
   • Translated book
     Justus Lipsius, Principles of Letter-Writing. A Bilingual Text of Justi Lipsi Epistolica In stitutio, ed. and transl. R. V. Young and M. T. Hester, Carbondale 1996, s. 231.
     J. Lipsius, Principles of Letter-Writing, pp. 123–125.

Bibliography

Bibliography entries should be listed alphabetically and then chronologically, e.g.:

• Belgia w relacjach Polaków: Antologia (XVI–XX w.), ed. M.B. Styk, Lublin 1999.
• Dieter Otto A., “Arbor Picta. The medieval tree of preaching”, Quarterly Journal of Speech 51 (1965), pp. 123–144.
• Grafton Anthony, Bring out Your Dead: The Past as Revelation, Cambridge 2001.
• Levi E.H.T., “The relationship of stoicism and scepticism: Justus Lipsius”, in: Humanism and Early Modern Philosophy, ed. J. Krye and M.W.F. Stone, London 2000, pp. 97–121.
• Lipsius Justus, Principles of Letter-Writing. A Bilingual Text of Justi Lipsi Epistolica In stitutio, ed. and transl. R. V. Young and M. T. Hester, Carbondale 1996.

Illustrations

1. If the article contains illustrations, permissions have to be obtained from their copyright holders prior to the submission.
   
   
2. Figures and illustrations should be submitted as separate files and labelled accordingly.
   
   
3. The position of illustrations and diagrams shall be indicated in a separate line with:
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4. Please list captions for illustrations at the end of your submission with sources and acknowledgements according to copyright holders’ guidelines.

Abstracts

Abstracts should be sent in English. Please follow the instructions below:

Bio-notes

• Name:
• Employment and position:
• Research interest:
• Main/recent publications: