Submissions

Author Guidelines

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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

• The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
• The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
• Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.

Author Guidelines

Basic publishing rules  

Each issue is divided according to the following structure: scientific articles (which should ultimately constitute no less than 2/3 of the entire issue), glosses, reviews, reports (on scientific events, symposia, and conferences; reports are not subject to the requirements of peer review). Texts submitted are subject to initial editorial assessment (in terms of their content, theme of the issue, and meeting the editorial requirements of the journal), and to initial selection. The editor issues a recommendation on the transfer for further works, according to the points of a standardized review form. At this stage, the manuscript may be sent back to the author to correct within one month. The manuscripts are reviewed by two independent, anonymous, double-blind, peer reviewers (primarily from outside the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, only in the absence of such a possibility from the members of the scientific committee, or professors of the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn; list of the co-operating reviewers is published yearly). The deadline for the reviewers is one month. Reviews are prepared on the form and sent via e-mail. They should contain a clear recommendation about the admission (or non-admission) of the reviewed material for publishing. Both reviews are sent to the author with a request to respond, and possibly incorporate amendments consistent with the reviewers’ recommendations. One negative opinion of the reviewer rejects the submitted material. The disqualified material may, however, be submitted by the author in the next publishing cycle, and is subject to a new assessment, especially in terms of expurgation of the defects indicated by the reviewers). Within one month after the correction by the recommendations (controlled by the editor-in-chief), the manuscript is sent to the publishing house, together with the author statement. Before being submitted for review, article texts are checked for similarity using the iThenticate anti-plagiarism software. After the publication of the issue, the author receives PDF files as an author’s printout.

Guidelines for Authors

Editorial requirements        

In the quarterly journal entitled Studia Prawnoustrojowe scientific original articles, glosses, reviews, and reports on legal studies (civil, penal, administrative substantive and procedural law, company, commercial, family, labour, environmental, constitutional, European, and international law, as well as historical issues, sociology, philosophy, and theory of law) are published.

Submission of a manuscript is synonymous with a statement that the article has not been previously published, nor has been submitted for publication elsewhere, its publication has been approved by all co-authors, and has been approved by the competent authorities (incl. in a silent way) at the scientific institute or university where the work was carried out.

The publisher will not be legally responsible for any claims for damages.

The condition for publication is the submission of an author statement (download: in the ‘Forms’ tab), containing information about: the originality of the text, observing the principles of ghostwriting and guest authorship, maintaining ethical standards, declarations of interest, as well as consent to the personal data processing (see: ‘Ghostwriting, ethical standards, conflicts of interest’ and ‘Personal data processing’ tabs), 

acknowledgement of the ethical use of artificial intelligence tools in article creation - no part of this work has been fully generated by an artificial intelligence (AI) tool unless it is methodologically justified. In such cases, the AI-generated sections must be clearly marked in the text, along with an explanation of the purpose of their use. No illustrations included in the article have been generated by AI.

Author statement

Manuscript submission

The manuscripts should be submitted via Platforma Czasopism Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego. The following files should be attached to submit the article for publication: 1. Title page with Author data, 2. The article without Author data and 3. Author Statement. Any questions should be directed to the following e-mail address: redakcja.wpia@uwm.edu.pl.

Text

The text of the article should be prepared according to the following manner:

- MS Word, Times New Roman font, justified.

- Main body: font size 12, 1.5 spacing.

- Footnotes: font size 10, 1.0 spacing, numbered consecutively.

For Polish citations see the Polish version.

- The text should not contain double spaces, hard spaces, or double indentation.

- The volume should not exceed 40,000 characters for scientific articles, 20,000 for glosses, and 7,500 for reports and reviews.

- Authors are free to prepare manuscripts in Polish or English.

- Article structure:

1. Author’s first and last name, academic degree, affiliation, postal and e-mail address, ORCID number
2. Title, in the same language as the main body.
3. Main body.
4. Bibliography - In the case of a bibliography containing Cyrillic symbols, the Author should be transliterated according to ISO 9 and the title translated into English [in square brackets]. It is possible to provide only the English translation of the title than the Author provides the original language of the cited publication in square brackets, e.g. [in Russian].
5. Title, in English (in Polish only for English articles).
6. Keywords (4-6), in English and Polish.
7. Structural summary with elements: Introduction - Aim of this article - Conclusions up to 200 words, prepared in English (abstracts in Polish only for English articles).

References

The description of the cited item should include author(s), title, editors, journal data (title, year and issue), publishing house, place and year of publication, and pagination (In the case of a bibliography containing Cyrillic symbols, the Author should be transliterated according to ISO 9 and the title translated into English [in square brackets]). It is possible to provide only the English translation of the title than the Author provides the original language of the cited publication in square brackets, e.g. [in Russian]. Examples of citations:

1. Monographs: J. Smith, Legal aspects of humanities, Wolters Kluwer, London 2007, p. 308.
2. Journal articles: M. Olszewska, Anonymous as a forensic trace, „State and Law” 2014, No. 11-12, p. 143.
3. Chapter in an edited book: Pikulski, Prawo do bezpieczeństwa osobistego – stan i potrzeba doskonalenia jego ochrony w Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej, [in:] R. Sztychmiler (ed.), Nauki prawne wobec przemian, Olsztyn 2000, p. 23. 

   Law:

   Criminal Code of 6 June of 1997 (consolidated text Law Journal of 2024, item 17 as amended).

   Case law:

   Judgment of the Constitutional Tribunal dated October 22, 2020, case no. K 1/20

   Internet sources:

   Z. Biskupski, Praca zdalna 2024. Biura nie pójdą do likwidacji, bo tylko co piąty pracownik chce pracować zdalnie, https://kadry.infor.pl/wiadomosci/6436116,praca-zdalna-2024-biura--nie-pojda-do-likwidacji-bo-tylko-co-piaty-pra.html (accessed: 8.07.2024).

The editorial board reserve the right to adjust the text to the journal standards. Unsolicited materials are not returned.

Principles of the reviewing

The preliminary assessment of the material intended for publication in the quarterly Studia Prawnoustrojowe is made by the editor, who makes the initial selection of the submitted texts - min. in terms of the importance and method of presentation of issues and meeting the editorial requirements of the journal.

In the next stage, two independent reviewers are appointed, first from outside the Faculty of Law and Administration of the UWM in Olsztyn, only in the absence of such a possibility, the reviewer is selected from among members of the scientific council of the journal or people with the title of professor or the degree of dr hab. employed at the Faculty of Law and Administration of UWM. Authors and reviewers do not know each other's identities (so-called blind reviews, double-blind). The deadline for the review is 1 (one) month. Reviews are prepared on a form and sent to the editorial office's e-mail address: redakcja.wpia@uwm.edu.pl, and contain a clear recommendation on whether to allow the reviewed material to be printed.

The list of reviewers cooperating with the quarterly is published once a year.