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Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej w Lublinie

Prepare your manuscript for Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Skłodowska. Sectio N, Educatio Nova.

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Article types

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Readiness requirements

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Abstract length

  • Key words (5-7) listed under the abstract must appear in the text of the abstract.

Keywords

  • Provide 5-7 keywords chosen by the author.

Reference style

  • Articlo formats your supplied references in Harvard style and checks that citations match the reference list; source validity is not verified.
  • Harvard-style references: If the name of the author is provided in the sentence, the date of publication should be given right after it, e.g.: “Dorota Klus-Stańska (2006) demonstrates that…”.
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  • Harvard-style references: When citing a single-author work, their name should be provided in parentheses after the quotation, along with date of publication and page number after a colon, e.g.: “The process of acquiring language by a child depends on social interactions” (Żytko 2010: 11).
  • Harvard-style references: When citing or referencing several works published by the same author in the same year, small letters should follow the date alphabetically, e.g.: (Melosik 2006a: 21; Melosik 2006b: 34).
  • Harvard-style references: When referencing several publications by the same author published in different years, without providing page numbers, they should be separated with commas, e.g.: (Melosik 2006, 2007).
  • Harvard-style references: When referencing several publications, they should be listed, first, alphabetically and second, chronologically, separated with a semicolon, e.g.: (Patrzałek 1992; Melosik 2006; Spitzer 2006, 2015).
  • Harvard-style references: When a publication has two authors, both names should be listed, joined by “and.” In the case of three authors follow this example: (Jaworski, Bernacki and Pawlus 2008: 107).
  • Letter: Harvard-style references: Bibliographical information regarding a book of one to three authors should include: last name of the author, first letter of their first name(s), year of publication in round parentheses, title (in italics), edition number (only if it is not the first edition), place of publication and name of the publishing house, e.g.: Spitzer, M. (2007).
  • Letter: Harvard-style references: Bibliographical information regarding a book of more than three authors (edited) is the same as in point 2, the only difference being that the word “ed.” or “eds.” (“Hrsg.” in German) should be provided after the first letter of the first name in round parentheses, e.g.: Weiler, J.H.H., Belg, I., Peterson, B. (eds.). (2003).
  • Harvard-style references: Entries referring to articles listed in the references should also contain the DOI (if the article was assigned one), e.g.: Stratton, T.D., Elam, C.L., McGrath, M.G. (2003).
  • General requirements: Items in the bibliography should be listed beginning with the last name; insert a blank line in between each entry.
  • Harvard-style references: Footnotes should be used solely for the purpose of providing additional clarification regarding complex terms or arguments.
  • Harvard-style references: Items should be listed alphabetically without numbering.
  • The formatting of bibliography and footnotes must follow the stylesheet provided by the Editorial team.
  • Letter: Harvard-style references: A chapter in an edited volume should be referenced using the following information: the author’s last name, first letter of their first name(s), date of publication in round parentheses, title of the chapter or article (without italics), followed by “In:” and the first letter of the editor’s first name, the editor’s last name, the abbreviation “ed.” or “eds.” in round parentheses (or “Hrsg.”), title of the book (in italics), page numbers (“pp.”), edition number (only if it is not the first edition), place of publication and name of the publishing house, e.g.: Rejter, A. (2014).
  • Letter: Harvard-style references: Articles in journals should be referenced using the following information: the author’s last name, first letter of their first name(s), date of publication in round parentheses, title of the article (without italics), name of the journal (in italics, no quotation marks), number or volume, page numbers, e.g.: Jasiewicz, Z. (2006).
  • Letter: Harvard-style references: Electronic documents should be referenced using the following information: the author’s last name, first letter of their first name(s), date of publication in round parentheses, title (in italics), name of the journal (if applicable), number, page numbers (if known), followed by web address and access date in square brackets [accessed: 00-00-0000], e.g.: Rożak, T. (2018).
  • Harvard-style references: Legal acts should be referenced following this example: Act of 6 December 2008 amending the act on railway transportation, and the act on the protection of arable and forest land (Journal of Laws 2009, no. 1, item 3).
  • General requirements: The bibliography should use English transliteration of non-Latin alphabets, following norms outlined by the Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman.html.

Figure and table rules

  • Keep every figure and table numbered, captioned, and cited in the manuscript.
  • General requirements: Tables and graphs (in JPG format, 300 dpi) should be marked in the text and sent separately as attachments.
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  • Visual objects such as diagrams or charts should be provided in separate files, while their place in the text should be properly marked (e.g. figure 1, table 2, etc.).
  • General requirements: All illustrations should be accompanied by information about their source and copyright.

Competing interests

  • Include or confirm the competing interests required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Ethics statement

  • Include or confirm the ethics statement required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Title page and author information

  • Include or confirm the title page and author information required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Other submission requirements

  • General requirements: Texts should be 15-20 pages long (30-40,000 characters with spaces).
  • General requirements: Page and date ranges should use the en dash (–), e.g. pp. 10–20, 1990–1999.
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  • The text should be typeset using the Times New Roman font (12 points), line spacing 1.5 (10-point font size and 1.0 line spacing for longer quotations).
  • Registration and login are required to submit items online and to check the status of current submissions.
  • A full stop should be placed at the end of every entry.
  • The Author should be familiar with the journal’s current procedure of reviewing submissions.
  • The completed declaration should be uploaded as an additional file along with the article.
  • The text should be drafted using Microsoft Word (LibreOffice) and saved in one of the following formats: doc, docx, or odt.
  • Submission Preparation Checklist As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

Language and text style

  • General requirements: In-text quotations should be put in quotation marks without italics, while quotations longer than 40 words should be formatted as block quotations with font size 10 and line spacing 1.5.

Manuscript structure

  • General requirements: Abstracts should include information on 1 subject, purpose and the research problem of the article; 2 theoretical background and research method(s); 3 material analysis 4 results interpretation; 5 conclusions.

Article type and manuscript length

  • Harvard-style references: If the text uses a motto, the reference should be made same as in the main text, e.g. (Kowalski 2014: 15), while the motto should be formatted using font size 10.
  • References in footnotes should be formatted exactly like in the main text.

Submission forms and permissions

  • The submitted text must be original and cannot infringe upon others’ copyright, in particular it should not have been published elsewhere.
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Keywords: 5-7 keywords
References: Harvard

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