RULES OF PREPARING TEXTS FOR PRINT

1. The Editorial Board reserves the right to verify the texts before starting the review process.
2. The texts are to be sent to the Editorial Board in a text file (.doc, .docx)

The text is to be formatted following this scheme:

a) Times New Roman font, size 12, in footnotes - size 10,
b) margins 2.5cm,
c) space between line 1.5,
d) justified text (aligned equally along the left and right margin)
e) pages enumerated in the top right corner in Arabic numeration
f) black font
g) spacing between lines - standard, paragraphs - indented 1.25cm

3. The article size should not exceed one publishing sheet (about 40 000 signs with spaces). In case of longer texts please contact adrian.szopa@up.krakow.pl

4. The text sent should include:

a) abstract in English covering a maximum of half the print page;
b) title and keywords in English;
c) current address for correspondence, phone number and e-mail address, as well as author's affiliation.

5. Scientific apparatus.

Footnotes:
a) bottom footnotes with continuous numeration are to be used throughout the text .
b) sources and literature used in the article should appear in bottom footnotes according to the pattern presented below: the first name initial and full surname of the author, title [italic], publishing house, place of publication, year of publication and page numbers, e.g.:

A. D. Lee, War in Late Antiquity. A Social History, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford 2007, p. 24.

c) Please do not use op. cit. when re-quoting; instead: the first name initial and full surname of the author, title [italic] with "..." and page numbers. Latin phrases and abbreviations are to be used in the footnotes: ibidem, idem., eadem, e.g.:

A. D. Lee, War in Late Antiquity..., Oxford 2007, p. 154-159.
Ibidem, p. 163.
Av. Cameron, The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity AD 395-600, Routledge, London 1993, p. 43.
Eadem, p. 45.

d) the footnotes referring to unpublished archive sources should include the name of the archive, name of the archival collection, signature, document title, card, everything in simplified form, e.g.: National Archive in Krakow, Okręgowy Urząd Górniczy w Krakowie, sign. 29/300/1, document title, card.

e) the chapter in monograph of the same author should appear in bottom footnotes according to pattern presented below: the first name initial and full surname of the author, title of the chapter [italic], [in:], titel of the book [italic] publishing house, place of publication, number of pages, e. g.:

A. D. Lee, The Infrastructure of War, [in:] War in Late Antiquity. A Social History, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford 2007, p. 85.

f) the edited volume should appear in bottom footnotes according to pattern presented below: title [italic], the first name initial and full surname of editor(s), publishing house, place of publication, number of pages, e. g.:

A Companion to Late Antiquity, ed. Philip Rousseau, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford 2012, p. 45.

g) the chapter in the edited volume should appear in bottom footnotes according to pattern presented below: an initial of the name and full surname, title of the chapter [italic], [in:], the title of the collective publiction, the first name initial and full surname of editor(s), publishing house, place of publication, number of pages, e. g.:

D. Cook, Syria and the Arabs, [in:] A Companion to Late Antiquity, ed. Philip Rousseau, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford 2012, pp. 467-478.

h) the article in a printed journal should appear in bottom footnotes according to pattern presented below: the first name initial and full surname of the author, title [italic], name of the journal in quotes, year, number of the volume (number if necessary), number of pages, e.g.:

W. Goffart, The Technique of Barbarian Settlement in the Fifth Century: A Personal, Streamlined Account with Ten Additional Comments, "Journal of Late Antiquity", vol. 3, 1, 2010, pp. 65-98.

i) article from the Internet should appear in bottom footnotes according to pattern presented below: the first name initial and full surname of the author, title [italic], url, acces date in parenthesis

K. Domaradzki, Władcy elektryczności – Tesla kontra Edison, http://www.forbes.pl/wladcy-elektrycznosci-tesla-kontra-edison,artykuly,209537,1,1.h (access: 2.01.2017).

Bibliography

A list of sources and literature including a full bibliographical description should be included at the end of the text in the same file in the same pattern as it was in the footnotes with the difference that the author's name should be placed before the first full name.

Elements of text proper:

a) quotes:
- sources are to be quoted translated, and the original needs to be included in a footnote,
- should be put in quotation marks,
- quotes are to be put within the main text,
- no ellipsis should be put before the quotation,
- omissions in the quote should be marked with an ellipsis in square brackets [...],
- should the need arise to include a missing word, a phrase equivalent etc., they should be put in square brackets,
- in case of a typographic distinction, an author needs to be pointed out, form of distinction: italics,
- in case of nested quotes (quotes in quotes) French quotes are to be used « » for the "lower grade quote",
b) names, surnames and other expressions describing persons:
- original writing of the names and surnames needs to be kept in the language of origin of the people mentioned in the text; using the Polish form of names, surnames, or descriptions of persons is permitted in case of: rulers, saints, Polonized foreigners, or people widely known
- names of people mentioned for the first time in the base text of a footnote are to be given as initials, later on in the text only surnames should be used,
c) abbreviations, dates and other expressions of time, numerals:
- using digits with abbreviations: ths., mln, bln - 2 ths., 5 mln, 10 bln,
- commonly accepted abbreviations can be used in texts: etc., inter allia, consequently in the entire text; if the abbreviations used are unclear, can raise doubts, accepted especially for the sent text, they need to be explained with their first use in the footnote, and if their specification requires special knowledge - in the proper text,
- when using different calendar styles, both dates need to be given,
- dates included in brackets are not to include the r. abbreviation at the end (3 March 1953),
- if the day is not included in the date, the month always needs to be written in words, e.g. in March 1953
- if only century or year is given, both full writing (in 20th century, in the year 1953) and abbreviated writing can be used (in 20th c., in 1953),
- in expressions like "in the second half of the twentieth century" or "in the fifties" no numbers are to be included.
d) Charts and tables:
- charts and tables included in articles should be pasted in the text file in the pace where they should appear in the publication,
- the number and title are to be placed above the chart or table, the source - beneath the table, in simple writing, with the Times New Roman font, size 10,
e) illustrations (only in shades of grey):
- drawings, photographs, photocopies, maps, charts, structural formulas should be delivered in the form of graphic files (min. 300dpi), in the running text there should only be an indication where they are to be placed,
- all illustrations need to include the name of the author, source from where they come, name of the institution which publicised them,
- the illustration description (drawing number, title, source) should be in simple writing, with the Times New Roman font, size 10.
f) distinctions in the text:
- only distinctions for titles brought up in the main text of the publishing, for foreign language expressions, all in italics are to be used in the base text.

Sending texts:
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